programs or the t.s.a. has programs so in neither case is it very likely that any thing much has been substantially. stopped and harvey you point out your book that there are some other glaring security risks that we're not paying attention to that could be even more serious and you mentioned this both in airports and other places can you elaborate on that well they're just trivial ones are mean they seem trivial but they're consequential things should go wrong so for example airport security. the great thing that's happening there is that the security gate is acting as something that assembles the actual target in other words there are more people waiting to go through security. often than will ever be on a plane and none of those people have it have been checked the same thing happens of course at check in there are various places along the trail in which the targets are have been created by the airport itself and the most remarkable one is an ironic is the security gate itself. do you think that the t.s.

do you think that the t.s.a. is just security theater at this point. i think the t.s.a. a i think some people within the t.s.a. understand all of this i was able to spend hours actually talking to a high ranking people in the t.s.a. who had formerly been in the t.s.a. but have left the agency they are very intelligent people and they understand quite a lot of these things in part they just don't know what to do about it that is if they don't go through all of this this way then what are they left with and some political leaders in the united states and some other countries to debate end that something be done so at the airport as well as other places there's a kind of conspicuous security that must be done and being conspicuous is is part of the recipe it's part of what is necessary in order to demonstrate that these agencies are indeed doing something to protect us well one thing that they can do harvey is a lemon at the body scanners which we know don't work other countries don't use them because they don't work what do you think about those. again i think the body sca

on t.s.a. than we're spending on renewable energy for example and then you have republicans oh you know say well let's go back to privatizing which isn't necessarily the best idea either because i mean essentially you're doing away with regulation but also you're just going back and you know having to do it would end up costing more money to do that so i think the basic solution would just be to make the system more efficient or just to scale it back to what it was free nine eleven levels i mean as we've seen every single like thwarted terrorist plot i mean for example the liquid terror explosive plot they hyped up in the media it's the new nine eleven blah blah but i tell you what i wanted to say that i mean it came out later that this whole scenario was actually a fictional account creating liquid explosives highly dangerous and sophisticated task i mean british authorities came out and said that this simply couldn't have happened the way the media presented it but of course what do they do n

fifty thousand plus t.s.a. agents it's kind of hard to keep track of everybody if this is anything the amount of people that have been. suspended or fired shows how the crackdown of t.s.a. against its own employees that are violating policies is very effective the problem is that we're missing the point the point is that you know there is widespread abuse of power widespread negligence of when it comes to the actual screening process lots of weapons explosives explosives and other things do get past the screeners and you know what we're missing is that there needs to be a system that's more efficient than the one that we have right i mean just yet the fiery and i guess you could say is good that they're actually letting these people go but i mean at the same time we saw from john corbett the blogger going to expose the scanners as being a faulty and totally meaningless. we saw that he had interviewed interviewed multiple t.s.a. employees he said that they aren't trained properly that they are told you know don'

and t.s.a. madness they've bought those very expensive very invasive body scanners and now some of them are going into storage so what can travelers look forward to the next time they head to the airport we'll tell you coming up. it's friday november sixteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm vegan lopez and you're watching our t.v. all right all week here at r t we've been telling you about the rolling jubilee real world debt solutions with the occupy movements unique brand last night the rolling jubilee hosted a telethon a variety show in order to raise money they plan on taking that money and buying up consumer debt for pennies on the dollar and the racing that debt forever or as the organizers describe it a bailout of the ninety nine percent of the ninety nine percent are to correspondent on a stasia churkin it was at last night's telethon and brings us this report. oh and . the ruling fund raising project to a race of huge burden on american society debt thanks to the evil genius of. our eve

t.s.a. precheck. t.s.a. precheck is one of the most visible enabling t.s.a. to move away from that one-size-fits all model after 9/11. today t.s.a. has screened more than four million passengers through t.s.a. precheck lanes across the country. t.s.a. precheck is currently available in 29 airports, including here at d.c.a., in operation with five u.s. airlines including alaska, american, delta, united and u.s. airways, we anticipate the t.s.a. precheck will be in 35 airports by the end of the year with b.w.i., san francisco, and orlando airports all coming online this week. an additional airlines will be coming onboard >> all of this briefing in our c-span networks. we'll take you live to the white house for the briefing with jay carney. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. thanks for being here. i have a brief statement to read at the top which is that today the president was able to continue returning messages of congratulations from his counterparts around the world. each call he thad

i go through security at t.s.a. and they hop, a hotel desk employee, a politician, they go like this. economy of movement. that's their deal. traffic cop. been on the force a long time. new guy. the old veteran is going, dude, you'll wear out. it will take about two years and you'll want to retire. that's what happens. this t.s.a. kid, he's new, he goes like this. it's my turn to come through the metal detector, he's doing this. my first thought is that's a little overdone. this works. that's fine. i come through and i'm giggling, first thought wrong. it's quarter to 6:00 in the morning. something's funny? yeah. about i can't tell you what it is. he said, you've been selected for a special screening. i said, i've been chosen! you ever watch a homophobe's eyes roll back into his skull? that mental reset of the computer just blinks. i need male assist on two, please. i need a male assist on two. i don't care. this disease doesn't care, the criminal justice system doesn't care. g.o.d. doesn't care, heterosexual, you're

if you've been to an airport lately you're not going to be people who they're happy with what the t.s.a. is doing from the public facing side of it so it might be really interesting to see now is that that now that t.s.a. employees can actually come out and talk about abuse and misuse happening within the agency itself what actually is going to service are they going to go to congress and start complaining or are they going to go to their superiors and start putting in reports we can hope but there was one major group that we're going to start seeing ideally a little bit of phone response from items that they think are going to need a little bit of media attention public said of course not everyone is covered i know the senate had tried to include provisions to protect people with national security clearances yeah this is very interesting the house republicans not only didn't include it they flat out blocked these two parts of the legislation and what you just said which is the national security intelligence workers. but so what's their reasoning here well i'm just a good question i'm n

. >> if you're looking for a faster way to get through security at the airport t.s.a. offers security express check infor passengers who fly certain arltse. it's available to u.s. citizens and members of u.s. customs and border protection who provide personal information online trtth to the t.s.a. before their departure. >> we're able to provide them with an online screening procession so it's for the customers who are willing to share information about them fments themselves an opportunity to receive expedited security screening. >> for more you can go to our website www.wbaltv.com and be sure to click on news. >>> tonight is i team takes to task vablet of a life saving drug for overdose victims. >> now with drug overdose the second leading cause of accidental death in the us, why can't everyone who needs this anti-dote get it? >> 24-year-old dan was a die harpped ravens fan, seen here outside hines e field in pittsburgh trying to cover stadium signs. that was his public face. privately he was a heroine addict who struggled four times times in rehab to get clean until

t.s.a. head talked about things t.s.a. is making. we'll show you as much as we can. a portion at reagan national airport in washington. >> well, good morning and, again, t.s.a. administrator, thanks for being here at ronald reagan international airport. as we look at the holiday fast approaching, thanksgiving next week, we are anticipating a busy travel seasons once again and the men and women of t.s.a. are standing at the ready to provide the most effective security in the most efficient way. this year we're anticipating over 24 million passengers traveling during the thanksgiving holiday period, and as you know, that can create both challenges and opportunities for the traveling public especially those that travel infrequently. so part of the reason of being here today is to ask those infrequent travelers to visit the t.s.a. website to understand the screening process in a way that will help all those others in line to deal with the longer lines that we usually see. this has been a busy and productive year for t.s.a. as we've focused on developing and testing and i

h.r. 6328 directs the t.s.a. administrator to make every reasonable effort to donate this unclaimed clothing to local organizations that serve homeless or needy veterans. i urge members to support this legislation, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. hochul: i rise in support of this act and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. hochul: i was at the airport and there was a dust of snow on the ground, i'm hour my colleagues from florida didn't have the same experience, but it does not bode well for the veterans who will be sleeping on the ground outside tonight. it's upsetting to know that 20,000 recently returning rhett rans from iraq and afghanistan will find themselves homeless tonight. that is a national disgrace. and as all of us rush through airports every week, along with thousands of americans, it's not uncommon for scarves and hats and other articles of clothing to be left be

from amsterdam to detroit well whom our story made international headlines the guy pleaded guilty t.s.a. beefed up security with body scanners nobody died case closed right actually not so much you see with omar's case there's been a number of instances where government operatives for oil terrorist plots the entrapment so could there be more to this case as well that we're not being told about. yes a trial date has been sad but it was actually more interesting to hear from a couple of the passengers who showed up here at court today who have a very interesting theory about what really happened the u.s. government scored him through security without a passport and we believe gave him an intentionally defective bomb. so my guest today was a passenger on board flight two fifty three joining me now is attorney and also u.s. congressional candidate for the seventh district in michigan kurt haskell. thank you and i'm good thank you so much for coming on journal so kurt i just wanted to get into the story as i think you know a lot of people don't realize you're part of the story we've heard so

like i'm not saying it doesn't come with a cost that maybe you are i don't know but i go through the t.s.a. body scanners where you have the ways in which isn't saying i never go through those body scanners right but i have more patients than i do i'm probably most of our viewers i'm sure they don't either but let's move on because this is the age old question how much money does it take for people to be happy what would you say well a study was conducted by scandia international shows the overall price of happiness in u.s. dollars is one hundred sixty one thousand dollars now some countries put that number higher in dubai was two hundred seventy six thousand two hundred twenty seven thousand hong kong close to two hundred thousand bucks overall one hundred sixty one thousand dollars to make sure what you think about that number without salary make you happy sounds about right i mean look at the pentagon are or. i don't. care i think. if you give me one hundred thousand dollars after taxes here in d.c. i mean look i mean well it's good to do. or are you some recent close j. crew of a reall

department of homeland security i think it's incredibly redundant i would have never established the t.s.a. the airport security it's the constitution free zone that so many of us find ourselves in all the time i would have left airport security to the airlines to the airports to states and municipalities i would have as i said never never established the department of homeland security the a.c.l.u. last december came out with a report card on all of the presidential candidates and i'm afraid jule styne wasn't in that report but they came out with a report card on all the presidential candidates a.c.l.u. a group dedicated to civil liberties a group dedicated to the constitution a group dedicated to the first ten amendments of the constitution the bill of rights twenty four liberty torches was a perfect score mitt romney and rick santorum had zero liberty torches out of twenty four newt gingrich had four liberty torches out of twenty four barack obama had sixteen liberty torches out of twenty four ron paul had eighteen liberty torches out of twenty four and gary johnson had twenty one liber

and t.s.a. as his reasoning but i would wager to say that he's a minority these are the states filing you for the session more than half of them are southern states does it look familiar or good this map of the historic felt. interestingly enough with the exception of virginia is every single state that was in the confederacy is now on board with this petition and ironically these are the some of the very same states plagued with institutionalized racism to this very day i can't just help but wonder if this effort is not just about obama's policies because if it were why didn't we see this kind of initiative during the bush administration i mean after all the policies are pretty much still the same look obviously i'm no fan of obama but the most vocal criticisms about him are based in bigotry and racism and unfortunately that's what the media gives the most credence to and frankly i'm sick of it you are too afraid to set. the tone where you are going to be like the. last wednesday's hazy post-el

victims of t.s.a. excesses never consented to this abuse. this attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to do quood as well. -- good as well. war to prevent war for other purposes is justified. is similar to what we were once told that quote, destroying a village to save a village, close quote, was justified. it was said by u.s. secretary of state that the loss of 500,000 iraqis, mostly children, in the 1990's as a result of american bombs and sanctions was worth it to aieve the good we brought to the people of iran. look at the mess iraq is in today. government use of force the most social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms. the fact that violence by government is seen as morally justified is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis hits and becomes a political crisis as well. first, we recognize that individuals shouldn't initiate violence. then we give the authority to the government. the use of government violence when things go badly will b

audit our own goals why can't americans decide which type of lightbulbs they can buy why is it the t.s.a. permitted to abuse the rights of any american traveling by air why should there be mandatory sentences even up to life for crimes without victims as our drug laws require why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize a pack while a whole lot of questions coming from ron paul and i want to talk more about the man and his legacy with brian already senior editor at reason turning brian at the end of an era here. oh my god yeah i think all americans should miss wrongful whether or not agree with the entire mess if you present because you there is no politician on the scene that we can imagine who is going to be best in that wider ranging in defending american rights to live their own lives make their own choices keep their own money and not only that i did a very interesting thing for the right wing conservative. he laid out this vision virtue and morality it's not about policing people. but about recogniz

victims of t.s.a. excesses never consented to this abuse. this attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to do quood as well. -- good as well. war to prevent war for other purposes is justified. is similar to what we were once told that quote, destroying a village to save a village, close quote, was justified. it was said by u.s. secretary of state that the loss of 500,000 iraqis, mostly children, in the 1990's as a result of american bombs and sanctions was worth it to achieve the good we brought to the people of iran. look at the mess iraq is in today. government use of force the most social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms. the fact that violence by gornment is seen as morally justified is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis hits and becomes a political crisis as well. first, we recognize that individuals shouldn't initiate violence. then we give the authority to the government. the use of government violence when things go badly will b

victims of t.s.a. excesses never consented to this abuse. this attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to do quood as well. -- good as well. war to prevent war for other purposes is justified. is similar to what we were once told that quote, destroying a village to save a village, close quote, was justified. it was said by u.s. secretary of state that the loss of 500,000 iraqis, mostly children, in the 1990's as a result of american bombs and sanctions was worth it to achieve the good we brought to the people of iran. look at the mess iraq is in today. government use of force the most social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms. the fact that violence by government is seen as morally justified is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis hits and becomes a political crisis as well. first, we recognize that individuals shouldn't initiate violence. then we give the authority to the government. the use of government violence when things go badly will