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For exchange. we will get reaction from oliver north. the president repeated the promise over a over again if you wanted to keep your healthcare plan, you could. you will hear a story from a couple among millions of americans dropped from their plan. all this and the rest of your top stories coming up at the top of the hour. hope to see you then. stay with us. first, it was the n.s.a., and now the c.i.a. the intelligence agency reportedly paying at&t $10 million taxpayer bucks every year for your phone records. they say to help fight terror. but you still have a problem. why is that? >> n....

Plane, i might have wondered if her new short hair had anything to do with wanting to avoid her sister's experience of the tsa searching her hair last year. she took it all in good stride when she joked on twitter that she was a victim of discrim-fro-nation. but john, i understand the tsa's screening procedures are no laughing matters for you and you've got considerable, sensible reforms, trying to make tsa screening more security, and less security theater. so all i'm asking is that while you're rewriting that script, please consider who the tsa has been casting as potential villains, because...

Does this activity actually make us safer? i have had the creeping suspicion it was like theater providing the illusion of security more than actual security. too simple to say there's been no attacks, so the system must be working. our next guest isn't so sure. harvey mollak is the of sociology, the offer of "against security." sir, did i get your name right? i think i got it wrong. >> mollotch. >> are we really making people safer with the security theater we have going on? or are we not really doing that? >> i think at best it's very ambiguous. i'm glad you showed footage of people waiting ...

Isn't making us safer, if there's a problem with this, what are those of you with oversight doing about it? what can you do about it? >> we have done incredible oversight. unfortunately, tsa was taken from the transportation committee after we created it, put in homeland security. so it's in an agency that gin combines 22 other agencies and they have an army that's built to 65,000 people, bigger than cabinet agencies. you have a lot of bureaucrats trying to justify their existence, not wanting to reform the system and make it risk-based. i'd love to tell you and i can tell you that classified ...

Terminal "d" completely, even boarding flights that had already loaded. they finally found their passenger. a 65-year-old woman on an american airlines jet bound for houston. it had already pulled from the gate and had to be called back. the woman, identified as judith kenny, her bag and a .38-caliber pistol were taken off the jet. she reportedly told agents she had forgotten she had it. every other passenger was rescreened. that flight took off over an hour late. ten other flights were also delayed. >> most of airport security is security theater. and that's unfortunate. weapons and other ite...