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Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intellig...

And anguish that was caused. >> i couldn't find this. can you give me another example other than saving money why the tsa would want to do this? >> no. this is pure risk. they are looking at the risk calculation and saying how much risk is in the smaller airports. these are the smaller airports that go to connecting flights. it's just looking at risks and saying there is a great reduction of risk there. let's reallocate that money and that staffing to higher risk airports. >> how would that not be telegraphing to the terrorists what airports would be vulnerable? last question. >> it would abso...

What the wake-up call was for airport screeners. >> the big concern is from al qaeda in yemen. this group has had isis when it comes to the sophisticated devices. there is an expert bombmaker experimenting with shoe bombs and underwear bombs and surgi l surgically implanting bombs on humans. he has been sharing that intelligence. al qaeda in syria in 2014, were planning a similar laptop bomb. that group in yemen is richer now. better than 2009 and 2010 when it put together the printer bomb plot and underwear bomb throplo.

Sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electronics. they have a master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, a saudi who's very good at building these kind of devices. and for years has been developing underwear bombs, shoe bombs, even the group has experimented with surgically implanting devices inside people so that they can get them on planes. there's intelligence that's come out on that. and this is a group which is believed to have shared this technology with a number of other al qaeda affiliates in the region, including al qaeda's affiliate in syria, the so-called khorasan group, a group ...

Coming up with more sophisticated devices. he's been experimenting, it is believed, with new generations of shoe bombs and new generations of underwear bombs. >> and brian todd joins us. now, what more are you learning about the airbus' tail? >> anderson, in the course of reporting on this incident over the past couple of days, we've learned that this very same aircraft in november of 2001 had what's called a tail strike. in that incident, it was landing in cairo. it was operated by another airline at the time. it was landing in cairo and the nose was too high. so, the tail struck the tarmac a...