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world? i'll tell you. then the politics of outer space. america won the race to the moon, but that was 40 years ago. the u.s. is essentially sitting on the bench in the current space race. will that hurt it back here on earth? and is america coming apart? that's what the author of a controversial new book says. i'll ask him about it. first, here's my take. something caught my eye the other day. pat robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling things to say about drugs. i really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol, mr. robertson...

That has been the reason for the success and the historic violence reduction. when you get caught with a weapon, you become an icr inmate. that stands for intended contraband recipient. we identify you and you get searched extra. so you don't want to be having no weapons on you, or we make you a red i.d. it puts a flag on you. we know that you've been involved with using weapons, that you had a weapon on you, that you were -- intended to carry a weapon, so they don't want to have anything to do with that. >> weapons aren't only found through cell searches. inmates are regularly scanned for con...

Of that, the tsa could say screw you. >> you're going through an x-ray. >> and it's aviation-- >> you're going through an x-ray and this is something about which i'm quite familiar. you're going through an x-ray machine and our guys doing it thousands of times a week, you know, if there's research out there to indicate that you know, once or twice or authorize in a week is exceeding the norm. what's wrong with saying you might want to consider dagen's patdown for future. >> get a patdown, i'm more worried about crossing street here in manhattan. >> so you should be after this show. and we're g...

Rick leventhal has more live from new york. rick? >> reporter: jon, this began with a routine screening at 11:30 yesterday morning. a man's bags go through an x-ray machine and a tsa agent is started to see two items that look like pipe bombs. another screener steps in. they see a two pipes, one gold and silver with springs inside. supervisor is called. the passenger says they're for homeopathic medicine. they are swabbed and cleaned. he is allowed to board but without the pipes and set set aside in a screening area until 3:00 p.m. until another supervisor that was not there earlier sees the p...

Is not over, not by a long shot. we are taking your thoughts on it at kelly@foxnews.com. new controversy for the tsa over a major safety scare that one u.s. airport. agents find what looks like two pipe bombs during an x-ray scan. about it's what they did or did not do with those objects that has many people concerned. rick? >> this story sounds worse than it might be. agents followed protocol. but when there is a shift change it turns out the term crew should let the late crew know about the suspicious pipes in the bin. a man's bag goes through the x-ray machine but tsa agents spot these. wha...