is it tsa, dhs, or the white house?>> the request is pending in the ultimate decision would be blind or the secretaries to make. under the regulation, we're the two officials to make the decision to release them. >> speaking for the republican side of this committee, i would really request that we get a date certain for the document. we received thousands of pages of sensitive information and it has never been an issue but this one seems to be. i understand the issue that you and i have talked about with the travel season being upon us but certainly, it would be reasonable to have a date certain earlier in the year. >> i will get back to you, sir. >> after the tsa as the general services administration about the website, they removed it within two hours but it was posted on other web sites. you have a mechanism to keep other individuals from re- posting this information ellipse? >> no, we don't have any authority to ask non-government or of non-dhs entities to take it down. >> what actions are you planning to take on th

tsa, dhs, the white house?ght now the request is pending and the ultimate decision would be mine or the secretary's to make. those are under the regulation. we are that two officials to make the decision to release them. >> speaking for the republican side of this committee, i would really request that we get a date certain for that document. we've seen thousands of pages of security -- sensitive security information, and there's never been an issue. this one, it seems to be. i understand the issue and we've talked about the traveling season being upon us. i thought it would be reasonable to have some, given a date certain, sometime early in the year. >> i will get back to you, sir. >> finally, after the tsa as the general services administration to review the document from its web site, they removed and two hours but not before being captured and riposted by various web sites. to the current regulations provide to a mechanism to keep individuals from the posting disinformation on the other web sites? >> no, si

. -- with tsa and airports.ome of your callers said we should beat up internal security and secure ourselves in the united states instead of sending many of our troops to other countries to fight the battle offshore. i was a vietnam veteran. i see both sides of it. host: specifically, what kind of work to do for tsa? caller: i was a screener at the gate in utah, a screening bags with x-ray. host: without breaking confidentiality, what kind of things do they tell you to look for that might tip you off that something bad will happen? caller: i cannot really say. i cite a piece of paper say i cannot divulge the things i learned on how we are supposed to profile people and see people as they come through. you looked inside the bag with x-ray and you could tell that normal things in a bag or a suitcase just do not belong. you can tell there is something different. host: is there something that says if this person is wearing x or has x in their bag, that person is to be pulled over and questioned in depth? caller: tha

here is an example, in my opinion, about the tsa. after 9/11, the transportation security administration was established to inspect it -- to ensure the security of air travel. how would you rate the tsa? was it designed and implemented effectively, in your opinion? >> sometimes you mentioned tsa in polite company, and everyone has a story to tell. charitably, it was not exactly known for its customer service in its first few years. it is interesting, we talk about tsa in the book, because there is a positive story. a new director came in several years after it had been in operation named kip hawley. with 55,000 screeners there, there have to be a lot of them with really good ideas for how to make things easier for all of you when you go through the screening process, while keeping us say. right now, there is no way for him to get through all the layers of management. he was trying to find a way to reach down and get the ideas from individual screeners, which is a wonderful thing to do. he came up with something called the idea factor

i'm not sure all this information was in the hands of tsa at the time. >> larry: should the president have spoken sooner? >> well, i think those decisions -- i'm going to leave that to the white house. he had secretary napolitano out there speaking, and i think she clarified that one -- the statement she made yesterday. i understood it. i understood what she was talking about. i don't think any right-thinking person unless you're very, very partisan actually believe that secretary napolitano thought the system worked. obviously, it was flawed. i think what she was referring to was that after the incident occurred there are certain procedures and protocols put in place. that worked smoothly. obviously, someone on a watch list who has bought a one-way ticket and paid cash and his father, his father shows up at the counselor office, a reputable businessman and says, i think my son has gone radical, all these pieces, all these warning signals portray, create a puzzle, a picture that is very threatening and nobody did anything about it. it reminds me of what happened in the hassan case six

what's the latest travel guidance from the tsa with heightened security measures in place. we'll give you tips on our blog and we'll show you what's happening at airports around the country. we'll do that next. >> larry: let's discuss airport security. we'll check in with detroit. let's go to the l.a. international airport at the tom bradley international terminal at l.a.x. he was making a connection through detroit and allowed to continue through an unspecified destination. what's the latest travel guidance from tsa? give me some tips at our blog at cnn.com/larryking. we'll show what you is happening around airports around the country and we'll do that next. ? does your phone do searches for "human" on the web, then google maps for places named "human," your contacts for any friends named "human," which would be weird if you had one. even your music for songs you forgot you downloaded ? droid does. search all digital creation. in a world of doesn't... (announcer) some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes be

you spoke earlier about the tsa breach and i applaud you for having an ig review. could i also make another recommendation and that is that when preaches like this occur in the intelligence community, the cia for example they do they damage example by somebody not within the agency itself to determine what advantage a potential enemy could have gotten from the information and then usually make recommendations about what procedures or other actions are necessary to ameliorate that damage. if you haven't decided to do that already can i recommend that you do that, and when it is done provide the committee with a classified version of the report and by the way it ordinarily these things are best done really quickly. any comment? >> senator, i guess. that is something we have been looking at. my first question has been what exactly was put there that was not otherwise available either by observation of airport checkpoint or the like? but indeed if it is ascertained that there was some series of information not otherwise available that was put out, i think the red teami

what's the latest travel guidance from the tsa with heightened security measures in place. we'll give you tips on our blog and we'll show you what's happening at airports around the country. we'll do that next. 'm wearing my older sister's jeans that she ruined with bbq sauce... or so i thought. see, my mom washed them p)with this tide stain release in-wash booster stuff. she's all, "you use it with your detergent to help get stains out the first time." are you kidding me? so now the stains are magically gone. and my sister passes on her jeans to me. what a life. [ female announcer ] tide stain release. stains out. no doubt. i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure, decaf or regular? - regular. - cake or pie? - pie. - apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream... please. when other toppings are made with hydrogenated oil, the real dairy cream in reddi-wip's sure an easy choice. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. fork or... spoon? >> larry: let's discuss airport security. we'll check in with detroit. let's go to the l.a. international airport at

. -- with tsa and airports.ome of your callers said we should beat up internal security and secure ourselves in the united states instead of sending many of our troops to other countries to fight the battle offshore. i was a vietnam veteran. i see both sides of it. host: specifically, what kind of work to do for tsa? caller: i was a screener at the gate in utah, a screening bags with x-ray. host: without breaking confidentiality, what kind of things do they tell you to look for that might tip you off that something bad will happen? caller: i cannot really say. i cite a piece of paper say i cannot divulge the things i learned on how we are supposed to profile people and see people as they come through. you looked inside the bag with x-ray and you could tell that normal things in a bag or a suitcase just do not belong. you can tell there is something different. host: is there something that says if this person is wearing x or has x in their bag, that person is to be pulled over and questioned in depth? caller: tha

another thing on the sides of the aircraft, a couple of years ago, i went out to a tsa testing ground where they were working with liquid explosives and computer modeling and trying to figure out exactly how much liquid it would take to bring down an airliner. and it is possible if this was a small enough quantity of whatever it was he was dealing with, it would not have done grave injury to that plane or to the systems on the plane. but that clearly is another thing they're trying to get a handle on. how much did he have and how much damage could he have done. i have a friend who always says the biggest improvement to aviation security since 9/11 is the empowerment of the passengers and the crew. if they see something suspicious on an airplane, they act to stop it. >> from the reports we've been hearing, that's what happened, that passengers and crew got involved very early to subdue the suspect. thanks very much. you've been working the story and we'll continue to come back to you with every new piece of information you have, jeanne meserve in washington. >>> here's the situation we

now we have professionals in tsa and security check points.before we were using the equivalent of mcdonalds workers. we now check, all checked baggages gets subjected to an investigation by ct technology that can detect explosives. but doug is right, when it comes to the kinds of components that ramsyiousev took on a plane in 1994, you could do that today. you could put in the quart bags you are allowed to take on which can have 3 ounces. six of those in a quart bag, you can put a 1.3 pound of liquid explosive on that bag. take if in board. the detonater yousef used was gun cotton, he used a little light bulb from a dashboard and a d cell battery, that was enough. sparked it, detonated it, it blew up. that could be done today. and unfortunately did not deploy the type of -- there are two types of explosive detection systems, trace and bulk. they have not been deployed with systemic purpose to prevent these kinds of accidents, so it is possible. >> ifill: so nothing has changed since the previous two attempts. >> correct, not on that. we have h

should heads roll at the cia, tsa, department of homeland security? we're going to talk about that with the chairman of the 9/11 commission, tom keen. three americans that lost loved ones to terrorist. ambassador paul bremer will be here. what did the u.s. really learn from september 11th? and is the country safer now than then? >>> plus a shocking 911 call on christmas day from actor charlie sheen's wife. brooke mueller, why she is now asking a judge to modify a restraining order on her husband. we have an exclusive with her attorney next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. i want to thank candy crowley for sitting in so ably last night hosting this program. with begin things with ambassador paul bremer. he was served as presidential envoy to iraq from 2003 to 2004. he was chairman of the national commission on terrorism from '99 to 2000. thanks being with us. the president says that human and systemic failures resulted in the terrorist incident on christmas day. what's your assessment? >> i think looking back, there are groups of technical

and not just the gsa -- tsa, but all of the components.in that we are being rigorous, and very disciplined on what is posted. guest: the most important thing that she said there, i thought, was that this was out of date. there have been some changes that have been made. this is in the ordinary course and i believe that there will be more. precisely because this makes it more difficult for people to be able to count on policies in the old manual. obviously, this did not meet the standards for publication. he did not publish things containing sensitive information. i am confident that there will be a careful training of anyone who is against the material about the problems with the electronic blackout. she is in a difficult spot. nobody can blame her or the management, or the obama nistration, for this mistake. this is the kind of mistake that anybody can make. and so, i have some sympathy for her situation, and she is probably taking about all the action that you can to make certain that this does not happen again. host: if the information

this was before the tsa, well before 9/11.e have maybe a two-day seminar on how to learn to screen and find bombs on people's luggage and stuff. we had people who were falling asleep, coming to work drunk, just like the past lady said. but hopefully that issue will be taken care of. the problem is, this happened over in amsterdam and nigeria. the problem is not the united states right now other than we are not getting all of the information from our cia and it is not being passed on. the problem started overseas. these people should not be allowed to come to the united states unless they are fairly vetted, before they even get on the airplanes. that is the problem. thank you, pedro, and i hope you do have a happy new year. host: two perspectives on imaging machines. it says full body imaging machines can show potential weapons underneath but it is also -- concerns over privacy over renewed debate over airport security. one quote comes from stored baker who says we need to begin looking more carefully and more nuanced, not just

should heads roll at the tsa? we are going to talk about that with the chairman of the 9/11 commission, tom keen. three americans that lost loved whens and what did you u.s. really learn from september 11th? and is the country safer now than then? and plus a shocking 911 call on christmas day from charlie sheen's wife. brooke mueller, why he is asking a july to modify a restraining order. we have an exclusive with her attorney next on "larry king live." >>> good evening. wasn't to thank candy crowley for last night sitting in. we begin with paul bremer, he was served on presidential encoy voi in eric and chairman on the national commission on terrorism from '99 to 2000. thanks being with us. the president says that humanen and systemic failures on the christmas day bombing. what is your say assessment? >> i think tech kalg problems and tech kalg problems involve massive data bases and how they are handled or not handle. and thirdly, the incident showed there is a massive failure of the screening system. both the p

you spoke earlier about the tsa breach and i applaud you for having an ig review.could i also make another recommendation and that is that when preaches like this occur in the intelligence community, the cia for example they do they damage example by somebody not within the agency itself to determine what advantage a potential enemy could have gotten from the information and then usually make recommendations about what procedures or other actions are necessary to ameliorate that damage. if you haven't decided to do that already can i recommend that you do that, and when it is done provide the committee with a classified version of the report and by the way it ordinarily these things are best done really quickly. any comment? >> senator, i guess. that is something we have been looking at. my first question has been what exactly was put there that was not otherwise available either by observation of airport checkpoint or the like? but indeed if it is ascertained that there was some series of information not otherwise available that was put out, i think the red teamin

some of the supervisors ultimately work in tsa. i shall also say with respect to this particular incident we've also asked the inspector general to do his own independent review to supplement and complement what we are doing. >> thank you. >> these terrorism charges for filing in the cases of david headley coming u.s. citizen of originally arrested for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in denmark but now he's been charged with helping plan the deadly mumbai attacks in india last year and there's been a number of arrests within the united states, a person charged with plotting attacks. i'm not asking to given to the individual cases but you can imagine this raises a great deal of concern among americans we have people plotting attacks from the united states even though they may be conducted outside the united states because it is easy to apply such attacks and plot them inside the united states. how does the dhs plan to contribute to confronting the problem of homegrown terrorists when the target effective manner? how much coor

you spoke earlier about the tsa breach and i applaud you for having an ig review.ould i also make another recommendation and that is that when preaches like this occur in the intelligence community, the cia for example they do they damage example by somebody not within the agency itself to determine what advantage a potential enemy could have gotten from the information and then usually make recommendations about what procedures or other actions are necessary to ameliorate that damage. if you haven't decided to do that already can i recommend that you do that, and when it is done provide the committee with a classified version of the report and by the way it ordinarily these things are best done really quickly. any comment? >> senator, i guess. that is something we have been looking at. my first question has been what exactly was put there that was not otherwise available either by observation of airport checkpoint or the like? but indeed if it is ascertained that there was some series of information not otherwise available that was put out, i think the red teaming

one thing recommended is the tsa to take charge andntegrate it on thlist. no fly list is a excluve list of 400 the is a shrebt list of 14,000 to 15,000. >> jfrey: then a bigger list. >> half a million inviduals with some connection to terrism. now, i think, th review may increase theist for selecty or secondary screening. for individus who pop up. this man's name s added to the larger000 list we are told. the technology should ext to matcthose names quickly even though there areroblems in terms of spelling and soorth. tuing to privacy. there has to ba balance of civil libeies, privacy and curity. here i think the position is extre in terms of the ritancal view of the human body. people go to doctors. doctors look at their bodies. people skr- to balce on the one hand what individuals e trying to doo kill them while they go through thmundane process of goi from one place to anoth by airplane, and certain kindof technologies as jim hamentioned that enable screers t to detecthings hiddenn the human body. >> jfrey: just in the short time left i want to ask gover

i'm sure the tsa is doing everything possible now. one thing i should undercore score is what undersecretary napolitano underscored and that's that it is incumbent upon passengers to do what they can. one of the lessons we learned from 9/11 is that passengers can be and ultimately must be their own last line of defense. we know in this instant yesterday that once passengers noticed that something was going wrong with this passenger, he was jumped immediately by a number of passengers. we need to take our own defense into our hands and beef up security force that is may or may not be present on the flight. one thoft things that wasn't reported is whether there were air marshals on the flight. i gather there wasn't one. we won't know whether there is -- whether they are or not, passengers need to be their own security by taking steps against someone who is perceived to be a threat. that's exactly what happened with this flight yesterday. host: is there reports of air marshals flying on international plights? guest: one of the things we

and not just the gsa -- tsa, but all of the components.make certain that we are being rigorous, and very disciplined on what is posted. guest: the most important thing that she said there, i thought, was that this was out of date. there have been some changes that have been made. this is in the ordinary course and i believe that there will be more. precisely because this makes it more difficult for people to be able to count on policies in the old manual. obviously, this did not meet the standards for publication. he did not publish things containing sensitive information. i am confident that there will be a careful training of anyone who is against the material about the problems with the electronic blackout. she is in a difficult spot. nobody can blame her or the management, or the obama nistration, for this mistake. this is the kind of mistake that anybody can make. and so, i have some sympathy for her situation, and she is probably taking about all the action that you can to make certain that this does not happen again. host: if the in

is about the tsa.1, the transportation security administration was established to ensure the security of air travel. how would you rate the tsa? was it designed and implemented effectively? >> you mention tsa sometimes in polite company and everyone has a story to tell. charitably, it was not known for its customer service in its first few years. we talk about tsa in the book because there is a positive story. a new director came in several years it had been in operation, and kip hawley. he said that, with 55,000 screens, there have to be some that have good ideas for how to make this easier while keeping us safe. for now, there was no way for him to get to those ideas because there were all these layers of management. it is trendy find ways to get these ideas from individual screeners. that is a wonderful idea. he came up with the idea factor. using collaboration technology, they put something up that allows any tsa employee to submit ideas for a proven tsa operation and improving customer service and

here is an example, in my opinion, about the tsa. transportation security administration was established to inspect it -- to ensure the security of air travel. how would you rate the tsa? was it designed and implemented effectively, in your opinion? >> sometimes you mentioned tsa in polite company, and everyone has a story to tell. charitably, it was not exactly known for its customer service in its first few years. it is interesting, we talk about tsa in the book, because there is a positive story. a new director came in several years after it had been in operation named kip hawley. with 55,000 screeners there, there have to be a lot of them with really good ideas for how to make things easier for all of you when you go through the screening process, while keeping us say. right now, there is no way for him to get through all the layers of management. he was trying to find a way to reach down and get the ideas from individual screeners, which is a wonderful thing to do. he came up with something called the idea factory. using collabo

i used to work for the tsa and i was trained by the tsa. and i was also in the military in special forces. and, i tried to send letters and e-mails to the president, giving him my service, and that's just part of problem. communication doesn't get through. >> host: so when you say needs help, where specifically is that help needed? >> caller: well in understanding how to communicate. the government right now has no lines of communications when it comes to information going in, and follow-up of that information in things that are going to help stop terrorists. now i'm serious about this. i have hope that the president is serious about it because i'm inviting him to come to my ranch in wyoming and discuss these thing that i know will help the united states. i'm a veteran and i, took an oath to observe the constitution of the united states, and to uphold and defend it. and i hope the president is the serious. and i've given some clues who i am and where i am. if he can follow clues, and find me, then he will know that i'm serious and that will

and that has got to be very, very troubling, specifically for tsa officials today. >> larry: do we know, drew, why he was in amsterdam? >> we know he was flying from nigeria to amsterdam on a connecting flight. he had about a three-hour layover there. one of the passengers said they did notice this man pacing. didn't say pacing oddly, but pacing during that layover in amsterdam but that wasn't enough to alert authorities to do any further screening. >> larry: we'll pick up with this panel in a few moments. what is president obama's reaction to this yesterday and today? ed henry will tell us right after the break. >> larry: right back with the panel. president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what briefing has he being getting? ed henry joins us. what is he saying and getting? >> reporter: larry, behind the scenes this president is getting a lot of information. it started early this morning, 6:20 hawaii time, five hours back from the east coast. the president got a secured briefing from his top aides, giving him the latest of the investigation, a lot of the inside information. authorities

and that has got to be very, very troubling, specifically for tsa officials today. >> larry: do we know, drew, why he was in amsterdam? >> we just know he was flying from lagos, nigeria, to amsterdam on a connecting flight. so he had about a three-hour layover there, larry. one of the passengers said that they did notice this man peaaci. didn't say pacing oddly but pacing during that layover in amsterdam. but that wasn't enough to alert authorities to do any further screening. >> larry: we'll pick up with this panel in a few moments. what is president obama's reaction to this yesterday and today? ed henry will tell us right after the break. (announcer) nothing matches that dentist level of clean. but you can take home that dentist smooth clean feeling with oral-b rechargeable brushes. dentist inspired cupping action sweeps away up to twice as much plaque as a regular manual brush. oral-b rechargeable brushes. starting at $22. >> larry: we'll be right back with the panel. president obama is in vacation in hawaii. what kind of briefings has he gotten about the terror incident and what is

the head of the transportation security administration will testify about an incident where tsa officialsedure manuals on the internet. that is live on c-span 3. you can also watch the hearings live or anytime on our website, c-span.org. coming up next on c-span, "washington journal," live with your phone calls. after that, the house of representatives who will work on the spending bill.

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part of it is incompetence and part of it is the lack of leadership in the tsa and cia and state department right now on this issue. >> let me play for you all a little bit of the president. he came out today with a wholly different tone really than yesterday and i want to play just a little bit and get your reaction. >> there were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have and should have been pieced together. we've achieved much since 9/11 in terms of collecting information that relates to terrorists and potential terrorist attacks but it's becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have. >> ben, let me quote you back to you. last night you said about the president's statement yesterday, and thafs the statement from today, but yesterday when you heard his statement you said, it was as if someone said after pearl harbor, okay. we've all got to be gigi lesyrit against the japanese and germans. did he do better today? >> he did

thirdly, we are going back to our own procedures at the tsa for what gets posted and how. and also making sure that the employees throughout the department have their training and memories refreshed as do the necessity or when redaction needs to occur, how that properly is to be done. >> very good. and thank you and we'll look forward to hearing the results as we move forward. i know we talked before about the border enforcement security task force in the southwest corner of our country. i wanted to get an update on that. i don't think you talked to anyone else about that here. and have you seen any change in the drug cartel tactic in mexico since the coordinated efforts began? and the second question would be, how would you assess mexico's state and local law enforcement officials work in rooting out corruption, going out after the cartels and being more vigilant? >> we've increased the number of border enforcement security teams, the best teams across the border. they've been very effective, collaborative efforts to make sure that whatever violence is occurring on the me

when those programs are going on, how many people were being harassed at tsa, how many people were not getting visas, things that we are trying to encourage. >> we are all being harassed at tsa. >> but every time i come back from saudi arabia, this is an issue. this is part of it. it is popular to talk about the policies that feed into these grievances. i think we can engage on some of those issues and say why these policies happen and correct misunderstandings. >> could you talked briefly about the department of defense minerva program, which was talking about growing the academic and intellectuals. is that effective or not? >> my response to minerva is it attempted to address one of the foremost -- and i quote one of the foremost experts on soviet policy, in the united states, in my testimony. i had the chance to talk to him about this. the problem with minerva is it is the same academics who are already being funded by the u.s. government, whereas in the cold war we had expanded it to hundreds of thousands of academic students. minerva identified a small group of people who are alre

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they could also obviously beef up the more tsa officials who are at these checkpoints. they can add more of them, beef it up and make sure they're on top of the situation. if you take a step back, this administration has been skeptical of the color-coded system instituted by the bush administration and have been doing a review as to whether the woel system should be scrapped. it's not important necessarily what color it's at. it's what they're doing specifically. and we can expect a lot of specific measures on the ground in these airports rather than just some sort of a blanket color coding or announcement on the ground specific measures like that. >> specifically that's good information for people out there traveling over the christmas holiday. our experts have certainly said expect travel over the next couple of days might get a little more complicated because of added security. ed henry will continue to work his sources over there. kate bolduan is in d.c. now. on the phone, this is a passenger that was on the flight along with 257 other passengers. sayyid, you were s

catherine herridge is with us until host: talk a little bit about the current status of the head of tsa and customs and border patrol. a lot of calls about senator jim demint's role. guest: those positions have been hung up. one could certainly argue that without real leadership at the tsa is hard to make any type of systematic changes in terms of how that is run. what i heard from people privately is, if you will, the leadership vacuum has been very difficult for morale. i think we all understand is within these intelligence community's or even within the airline screening community, morale is a very important part. host: by extension, talk a little bit about what this whole incident does about the future of guantanamo? guest: early this week before even we have the specific connection between the suspect and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the al qaeda branch in yemen, an official familiar with the process said it was a disconnection -- maybe the final nail in the coffin on clothes in guantanamo bay, and if not, it would at least lead to some strategic pause to stop and take a brea

we have led the -- she has led the tsa during a very difficult year. let me be very clear.understand the constitutional dealing and we know that they are engaged in a positive and one-sighted approach, and we need action on the nomination immediately. i hope that all the stakeholders will call for a swift confirmation. homeland security can no longer afford a delay. i have already mentioned the passing of a family member, but once again, let me acknowledged that he managed the cargo training program and kept -- and he testified before this security -- before this committee last march. he was very -- he was there much -- he was there working on the homeland security efforts. some say that he reformed the industry, and he made outstanding contributions to the security of america. on behalf of the subcommittee members, my condolences to his family and his colleagues. finally, i would like to say that the subcommittee understands the importance of the dedication of the employees. after the exposure and the other incidents, i think we can all agree that we can do better. that is

tsa is a part of the department of common security. respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from r"⌞r >> i understand that the mtsb is up for reauthorization this year. do you have any recommendations? >> it is my pleasure to support these people. they are looking -- they are deployed to jamaica this weekend. thank you for the complement. i will pass it back to them. we have reauthorization coming up this year. year. i don't foresee any specific challenges. içó think that our responsibiliy is to be responsive to the congress and the american public that we serve. if there are changes that need to be made to improve the way that we do our jobs, i think we are happy to receive that guidance. host: the ntsb was created during the johnson administration. how to fit into the larger picture of the dep

the head of the transportation security administration will testify about an incident where tsa officialsmistakenly put procedural manuals on the internet. that is live on c-span3. you can also watch the hearings live anytime on our website at c-span.org. "booktv" this weekend, obama is really a champion of wall street. his book is "obamanomics." an interview by california congresswoman mary bono. >> and author was our guest on "washington journal" recently. this is 40 minutes. host: barbra let's talk aboutt the recession today and it's -- and its impact on the lower and middle class. your book is called "nickel and dime." if you were to take care of a family could you find -- guest: i did the work at a time of very low unemployment. now you know, now you can't just walk in off the street and fill out an application form and expect to be offered a job every now and then. it just doesn't happen and the word i'm getting is some people who have been for a long time in the low-wage job market. now you go down to get a job say at best buy or something -- they are you'll be competing with peopl

after that, a hearing on how security leaks at the tsa.hington journal," drew armstrong updates on the continuing health care debate. our political roundtable on the news of the week with jill lawrence and chris stirewalt. the vice president of the american foreign policy council on iran discusses iran's nuclear program. "washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> he was not an imposing figure. he was not a giant of his time. yet he emerged as an nominee at a time when his party was populated by big figures. >> his mark on history includes manifest destiny. and in his new biography of paul, robert merry looks at the life and times of our 11th president, james polk. next a discussion on the book, "a good coral." speakers include legal times editor, and several others. the each wrote an essay on the case for the book. at the georgetown law center hosted this discussion in washington, d.c., earlier this year. >> welcome and thank you for coming today for our discussion of the book recently released by the university of michigan pre

tsa is a part of the department of common security. respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from alexandria, virginia. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. this will sound corny, but i want to thank ms. hersman for her service to the american people. every time there is an accident, we see ntsb there, and i think it is something we should say thank you for. i understand that ntsb is up for reauthorization this year. d.c. special challenges? gues -- to use the special challenges? guest: patty, thank you for your comment. it is an honor to represent all the employees of the safety board. we are going to jamaica and san diego and looking at a collision between two ships. they worked very hard. thank you for that complementary i will pass it back to them. we have -- thank you for

guest: certainly the hassle factor of the first couple of years of tsa was very disturbing and i thinkto the trains are canceled their trips. but i have noticed over the last year or 18 months that it has become quite a bit better. the airport i have been flying out of, waiting has been anywhere from five minutes to 6 minutes, and i noticed the professionalism of the officers who are doing the searching. i think it is just a matter of experience. if you have not flown for a while, i think you will find it is much better. certainly it can always been disproved. we would like to knock down the hassle factor but in the end we guarantee the safety and security of the system, and that is part of the process. host: "the wall street journal" today, faa rejects boeing 777 ice warnings. what is your reaction? guest: it is a rare occurrence, but once in awhile, injuns fail. double engine failure like the triple 7 in london or the airbus that landed in the hudson, which is a very, very rare event. but pilots, again, are trained to do everything depended engines restarted, flying the airplane the

tsa is a part of the department of common security.respect to the overflight of minneapolis, the safety board is investigating that incident, and the pilots when they were interviewed indicated they were on their laptops at the time. the safety board is looking at distractions at all modes of transportation. host: patty is joining us from alexandria, virginia. caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. this will sound corny, but i want to thank ms. hersman for her service to the american people. every time there is an accident, we see ntsb there, and i think it is something we should say thank you for. i understand that ntsb is up for reauthorization this year. d.c. special challenges? gues -- to use the special challenges? guest: patty, thank you for your comment. it is an honor to represent all the employees of the safety board. we are going to jamaica and san diego and looking at a collision between two ships. they worked very hard. thank you for that complementary i will pass it back to them. we have -- thank you for t

then a look at the tsa procedural manual. then keith harper discusses a settlement between the u.s.overnment and u.s. native american groups. tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. this weekend on "but tv." 0 look at climate change with for vice-president al gore on reducing the effects of greenhouse gallantgasses. then a bio of incidents kellyanne and ken auletta on how google became a media giant. >> now a senate hearing on transportation safety. we will hear the plans to play a bigger role on subway and light rail systems. witnesses include senator barbara mikulski. this is an hour-and-a-half. >> good morning. the hearing will come to order. i would like to thank chairman dodd and ranking member shall be for putting together today's hearing.

we have multiple agencies that work at the terrorist training center from the tsa,, and security -- > say all of those agencies are working there -- homeland's security. >> he say all those agencies are there right on site. >> all of these components are the terrorists screening center. so the screen process occurs right there. it comes in and winning counters occur, you have all the subject matter experts to work the process and identify the individual and make sure it gets out to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for the proper response. >> i see that my time has expired, but i want to know if i could take a couple more minutes. if it is ok. i have a couple friends have been on a list and they cannot get their names off the list. who handles this list? but they give to the airport? the names are on the list and they turn around and take as this process every time they travel. it has not happened in the last few months, but i have talked to one of the leas is a tall, very good-looking blonde. she is american as apple pie, but her name is a name that is not common. i will not c

airport security, i think airport security right now is fine if we had properly-trained tsa inspectorsho knew exactly what their job was. but i think the biggest breakdown in this case was the same breakdown that we had in 9/11, that everybody had information and there was no coordination, no way to coordinate that information to avert any type of terrorist activity. and then the second comment i wanted to make refers to a caller a couple calls ago who stated that she felt the state department hadn't been paying enough attention to africa. >> host: yes. >> caller: if we remember correctly, hillary clinton's first major trip was to africa, she was reaching out to the african nation. she was there, i think, for ten days, and it was fabulously noted and chroniclized on the web site as she went on the trip the, but the only thing i think people took away from that trip was the comment that she made when she was with the press and they asked her who was really making the decisions -- >> host: right. >> caller: her or bill clinton, and that was what people took away from it. they don't reali

fliers say tsa has gone plain insane.es of people that were traveling. >> different rules for different airports. depending on where you are coming from in the country. let's go to the next caller, calling from manhattan. mark is on the republican like. >> caller: good morning. how are you? >> host: good morning. thank you. >> caller: i wanted to say that people should be searched. if their x-ray machine is possible, if the sniffing machines that sniffs out bombs is possible. we live in a country where other people just want to kill us. they want to make a point. they want to bring us down. they want to terrorize us. other people do. i do not feel as a republican or really a conservative that this is uncalled for. that we should be searched when we're getting on a aircraft in particular international flights coming into this country also. just because i oppose president obama does not make me a racist. i am very sorry that many people feel this way. but i have the right to disagree with someone no matter what the color of