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Be extra vigilant it's going to mean for them to not only remove toothpastes from carry-ons but from checked luggage. >> obviously we're talking act people smuggling in explosives in toothpaste tubes. would that be that difficult to do? hide an explosive, not a device, i suppose, but an explosive powder, an explosive liquid in a toothpaste tube, put it in your checked baggage and take it anywhere you want to take it? >> no, it would not. the threats over the years, the terrorists were going to insert explosives in shaving cream or ore other liquids, baby formula, you name it, and that's caused...

Sending terrorists with bombs in toothpaste tubes and vladimir putin sits with his leopard harboring edward snowden and mocking us. >> except for maybe the snowden part, i kind of fairly agree with you there. it's not like russia was rolling out the red carpet for us gays. >> that's right. >> and now all of these mounting threats, you know, is just deeply unsettling, why we're even supporting these olympics. >> i agree. in the "crossfire" tonight, lawrence kor and michael reagan who is a critic. larry, let me start with you. today we heard congressman peter king say he would not go to the olym...

These olympics or undermining russia and iltsz leadership for whom these olympics are, you know, a big issue. at the same time, though, he certainly did talk more about all the things that we're doing to cooperate, to make the secure as good as it can be. he didn't talk as much about the threat. i agree with what mark said. there's always a threat at these kind of gatherings, but they're very specific threats this time, and that does make it, you know, a little more scary. >> this is a specific threat. for department of homeland security to tell airlines, knowing that the news would come to us...

Getting under way on friday, they're very concerned about airliners that are flying into russia and the concern is about the possibility of explosives being hidden inside toothpaste tubes and cosmetic tubes and about whether or not that could be used to detonate a bomb on board airliners. now, this is obviously something that has been a concern with law enforcement and with airline security experts for some time. as you know, every time we travel, we now have to put our liquids into small containers before we put them on board. but this is a very extraordinary thing to be issuing this very big...

Let's check in with nick paton walsh. he's live in sochi with the very latest. what is the very latest, nick? >> reporter: wolf, we know that this threat, as you said, are about potentially explosive being put on aircraft in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes. we do know that russia has instituted a ban on liquids in hand luggage for quite some time now. when i flew from moscow to sochi, that was particularly of concern certainly. it's not clear how universal the supplies are across russia, but this is something that's definitely put in place when it comes to the games here. we do know also russia h...