here to question her brian bennett of the "l.a. times" and eric lipton of "the new york times." " first question do eric lipton of "the new york times". >> when you are going to sleep at night, what are one or two of the things that you worry about the most in terms of threats to homeland security and what specifically are you doing to try to make sure that those concerns don't ever come true? >> well, we're always concerned about the threat of terrorism. it westbound somebody trying to sneak explosives on a plane. it can be somebody trying to sneak bombs on a plane or a cargo shiphold. it can be biological, raid logical as well as more traditional explosives. we are always concerned about terrorism. the jurisdiction of this department is huge, so it can be whatever the event -- threat of the day is or whatever event we need to make secure. or it can even be the weather. so this week we had a huge storm, ultimately covered about 100,000 people. the worst storm of the season, we hope. it runs the gamut. >> in terms of terrorism thre

with us is a correspondent from the "the los angeles times," brian bennett, and a correspondent for a "the new york times," eric lipton. >> the department says you're hoping to have 1000 of these new technologies in by the end of the year. does the budget allow you to meet that target? >> i think we will be able to meet that target. we are already pirating the next wave of software, and we are always moving to try to address the concerns that were raised. the reason we do pat-downs is because of the intelligence and the threats. there is evidence of the fact that our adversaries understand that explosives hidden in certain areas can be found because they know of our sensitivities, quite frankly, and we recognize that and respect that, and so, what we have done is with the new technologies, we have a much better way of finding nonmetallic substances. magnetometers, obviously, cannot find those. there is a very small number of passengers. what we found through thanksgiving and christmas and the holiday travel period is that the passengers themselves, they did not like it, but once they

. >> brian bennett writes for "the and eric lipton, who writes for "the new york times," thanks to both of you for joining us on "newsmakers." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the whole environment had come apart. it had become violent. >> "q&a" tonight on hubert h. humphrey. the art of the possible. " everyone just remembers you become free as someone who was looking lyndon johnson's boots of the time -- licking them. >> "q&a" tonight at 8:00 here on c-span. >> former alaska governor and 2008 republican vice- presidential nominee sarah palin spoke friday evening at a banquet in california honoring former president ronald reagan. this was one of several events being hosted this weekend by the young america's foundation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the former president's birth. this 35-minute event took place at the reagan ranch in santa barbara. >> ladies and gentlemen, oh, thank you, marc. you are lovely. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seat. now, before i get started, i just