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The maintenance people and the housekeeping people. you know, hundreds and hundreds of people have access to an airplane on the ground before it even takes off and could introduce, you know, something harmful. we just had a guy fall out of the wheel well dead on a plane landing at dulles airport here in washington about a month ago. how did he get in the wheel well and ride on that aircraft as it flew across the ocean. so, you have many questions about the airport security, the ground security and then the personnel and people security in the plane. >> bob, back to this pilot for just a second...

Presumably? >> i would think so, jake. they are going to be searching for every little radar that they can find because they need a heading on that plane and an altitude. so you draw that arc and you look at countries like pakistan and you get into your superman novels and see the plane landing somewhere and repurposing it for some deed down the road. that's not beyond the realm of realism. i mean, that could happen. why else would you do that? why would you take a plane off your normal route, shut off your transponders so that every other radar return looks about the same to a radar intercept...

Point which is adding more weapons to weapons -- >> no. >> dumping more military hardware into a situation like this is likely to backfire. we've already done this before, aren't you afraid of blowback and backlash? we've done this with the afghanistan with the russians before. >> saying we've done this before doesn't make it a bad idea. arming the people who we vet who are the better guys on the ground will enable us to see the balanced attempt. we need to see better guys take the sides against al qaeda. we need to see assad out of power. i'm less worried about arms in the wrong hands than i ...

I know i can play great football. and judge me on the merits. >> as you heard there, the first lady, michelle obama, also vice president biden have legended their support to michael sam, as well. pretty clear from this and other steps the administration has taken, they're seeing the fight for acceptance in the gay community as a defining issue. wolf? >> all right, joe, thanks very much. we're going to have more of the interview, charles barkley's interview with president obama airing later today this hour. also, by the way, at 5:00 p.m. eastern, "the situation room" charles will join us live. ...

Route, but why are some under fire for praising mandela? a "new day" live exclusive, the man everyone is talking about, how did he sleep through his plane landing and all the passengers departing only to awake stranded on the tarmac and why did no one wake him? he joins us live. >> your "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: what you need to know -- >> how can we live without mandela? i'm so sad. >> announcer: what you just have to see. >> i woke up, the lights were out, i was like what's going on? everybody falls asleep on a plane. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kat...