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neil: attention, passengers. this is your captain speaking. we re not going system it s the damn sequester. today passengers came but before any of you buy that, you better hear this. sequestration isn t why you re waiting in those long lines. something else is. the former inspector general of the transportation department with me now. what that something keels else could be? pray tell what. politics in usual in washington, dc. for the faa the numbers don t add up. their work load has been decreasing and yet they didn t make the necessary changes to prepare for the sequestration. which they ve known since last fall was coming. that s why it s just politics as usual in d.c. neil: so these cuts that the white house was referring to that took effect formally yesterday, aren t real? the cuts are real all right but the problem for the federal ....
So people who are organizing the major events, whether they be sporting events or some other event like a parade or times square, new year s celebration, it has to be looked at in the context this could be the sites where someone wants to carry out an act because of its large scale impact on the psyche, because more people are gathered and resulting in costs and planning going into protecting these events. neil: thank you very much. in the meantime, 9/11, not on boston streets, not on wall street. folks there weren t a whole lot different than folks here. they kept their cool. actually the whole country did. why no cash dash in this later terror clash? after this. [ male announcer ] straight from red lobster s chefs to your table for a limited time! it s our seafood dinner for two for just 25 dollars! a handcrafted seafood feast made to share. first you each get salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits. then choose two from a wide variety ....
To be waiting. right? you are you may be. what they need to do is get a happen on what the traffic is going to be like, and what is going to happen now is the passenger protection rule of the two-hour tarmac delay and three-hour tower delay, two hours and three hours you get off the plane. that s going to run into this. so major airports will probably see the delays. the airports the towers they said they were going to close and not closing yet, those people won t even notice it. and by the way, the ground stops are the saving grace. they keep you save. we don t want planes stacked and holding over new york and they ll give a measure of distance and separation for the planes. neil: all right. sequestration, the gift that keeps giving. thank you very much. in the meantime, pat is fired up and. this is what this this is ....
Details come out i m increasingly disappointed because there were a number of serious lapses with this guy. 20-20 retrospect is always perfect neil: hundreds of thousands of tips. they have done an extraordinary job since 9/11. all of that said there were enough red flags with this particular guy that there should have been a more proper and intense focus on him. remember, 2009, he is arrested on a domestic battery charge. we could have deported him then. we did not. different agency. did delay his citizenship. remember the timeline, neil. 2011, the russian government, the russian government of all people, right? asks the u.s. government, the fbi to take a closer look at this guy because they suspect he has very intense islamic radical ties. fbi opens a file on him. goes and talks to him, interviews him, closes the file, says there s no evidence. neil: what can they do? ....
Cannot trust the congress to create a workable plan. so the worst thing we can do right now is say, okay, those who are here illegally, you re legal, you got to pass the citizen path to citizenship and then trust us to do the rest. there s some good things in this bill that everyone should agree on that we could pull out and vote on, on a step-by-step way so americans know what we re doing and who we re going visas to toe and what are we doing on our borders. the way this bill works, the same thing we had in 2007. people get almost immediate legal status and then we have to hope that the president and congress actually carry through on fixing our immigration system. neil: you doubt that the enforcement part will be realized. that republicans risk being hood winked like it was charged reagan was when he offer a investigation of this in 1986. ronald reagan said that s the ....