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Thank you, ben bernanke. well well whether you're resting at home or traveling, we have it covered. an estimated 3 million flying. perhaps where our concerns are the most serious right now. not just in the short term from stowaways to controversial pat-downs, to even being stung by a scorpion in flight. the intolerable experience of dealing with the tsa and at the same time no apparent real ability to intervene in critical situations has all of us frustrated. ron paul calls it evidence of the military industrial complex run amuck. kate, founder of fliersrights.org. kate, do you share congressm...
For explosives, inside their bodies. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: renewed interest for invading airport security. recently intercepted intelligence indicates al qaeda terrorists in yemen may attempt to surgically implant components or explosive components to carry out suicide attacks. >> we see this as the evolution of how they can try to defeat us, to get around those layers of security we have now. >> under one scenario the terrorist onborn the plain would inject a chemical detonator in the part of the body where it was implanted or it could be a cell p...
So a couple weeks ago, we told you about a bill considered by texas lawmakers that would make intrusive pat-downs illegal. the texas senator dan patrick has them. they have now killed it after the tsa and the u.s. attorney's office threatened to can sell all flights. the tsa cited the constitution's prep ma see clause that prevents states from regulating the federal government. and they wrote a letter to the texas legislature agreeing with that position. and they said if texas were to pass the bill, they would shut it down. he is not happy about it. . ther is a time in our history when we stoo...
Passenger during pat downs. >> happen a leprechaun day. >> that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow contains only valtrax. >> those leprechauns spread more than joy. >> see you later. let's become our guests. she is hotter than a sauna on the sun filled with fire. i'm here with lawrence, so sweet she gives sugar to cavity. and pat, i do him in a skating rink, and you can catch him hosting a ring worm. bill schulz, and sitting next to me, our first-time guest, republican strategist, she knows