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I'm joined by evi pomporas, former secret service agent. nice to have you with me. especially as we talk about the history of what we know for our country, especially with modern day politics. president obama requested extra protection more than a year before the election. he was the earliest candidate to do so. and also get that protection to be approved. how unusual is it for these requests to come in and then how unusual is it for them to be sidelined to be evaluated later? >> i think that we are starting to get these requests in much sooner and you think about it, even from a political sta...

The region. how do you, though, and you touched on the security aspect, because for those other republican candidates and those in the national security business, there is a legitimate concern about the vetting. how do you process and police effectively? i know you talked about the augmented system that's in place, but this is something different if you're bringing in such a large number. if you reach your 65,000 or 75,000 folks coming in. how do you see that process, addressing that? >> i think we know that will not happen all at once. it's going to be over a period of years and we would real...

The hill on legislation that is all but complete. >> let me go back to pete. i know that he's been reporting on this. this sort of alphabet soup aspect of this of who in the government -- which agency is point when it comes to this issue of just making sure that the country's technology is working correctly versus the security aspect. there really isn't one agency or one entity that is the point. >> reporter: perfectly fair question. back to square one for a moment. there's no -- there doesn't seem to be any cyber security aspect to what's happened here today. these are internal equipment or s...

Allowed to fly over. this video is from the tampa bay times showing doug hughes getting ready for his illegal fight. he talked about the plans and livestreamed the stunt even. >> i thought about walking away from this whole thing because it is crazy. and i thought about being 75 years old and watching the collapse of this country and thinking i had an idea that might have rested the fall and i didn't do it. and i will tell you, completely honestly i would rather die in the flight than live to be 80 and see this country fall. >> see what i mean? he's got interesting point. pete is here. good mo...

Member leaves that's a good policy because you now have somebody. but the problem is is that if i'm intent on doing some harm and i have a flight attendant sitting there, i may be able to get up disable, or render them incapacitated and still accomplish the mission. it may be difficult but i think that you know that part of the security aspect is going to have to be looked at and scrutinized. >> what would you do? >> what's the option? >> what is the way to make us safe? >> i think the only way is to have multiple people in the cockpit. that is -- years ago we used to have flight engineers on ...