northwest flight 253 from amsterdam to detroit at detroit airport.arlier heard might have been fire krakers. he was subdued, taken into custody, treated for burns. he's a nigerian national and claims to have links with an extremist group which is why we're talking to nic robertson right now about al qaeda's influence in africa. we don't know whether this extremist group he claims to be linked to is al qaeda or connected to al qaeda. but the reality is this is a nigerian national. we don't know whether he's acting on his own -- this is the point you were just making. whether he was acting on his own or acting as part of a larger operation. >> reporter: this is something that terror analysts have seen more and more of, the use of the internet by al qaeda and others to get their message out but also to recruit, also to sort of screen and filter people. so al qaeda sort of, if you will, maybe may have people that are watching the internet, watching chat rooms and they may find people try and reach out to them electronically and say, we'd like to join, we

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how it got from yemen to lagos to amsterdam and to detroit. at detroit, reporter frank holland.rank, what do you know? >> reporter: you can feel the tension here at detroit metro as people get dropped off and are waiting for holiday flight, a lot of people hearing about this incident a short time ago or hearing about it when they arrive here. what's being called an attempted terror attack happened at noon eastern time here in detroit. for about six hours, the 278 people on that plane were held here, interviewed by the fbi, the tsa and other federal agencies about what they saw, what they heard, what they might knowment we actually spoke to a number of those people. i spoke to one family from amsterdam myself. they say it was very terrifying. for minutes, first all they heard was a loud bang. then they saw flames. then they saw smoke. they say the man who is now the suspect, a 23-year-old nigerian man, actually lit himself on fire. they say they believe he hit his leg on fire. here's more firsthand accounts of what happened inside the cabin. >> right at the end of the flight when

same flight number from amsterdam to detroit. disrupted by a nigerian passenger, two days after an attempted terror attack on christmas day. what sparked the security alert this time? then, controversial remarks from the homeland security secretary about a man charged with trying to bring down a commercial jet. >> the system worked. everybody played an important role. >> larry: we'll get reaction, plus, we'll show you what it's like to be traveling today, if you get past security. next on a special edition of "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. hard to believe, but the same detroit-bound northwest airlines flight that was the target of a terrorist attack on christmas day faced another security scare today. let's go to martin savage at detroit metropolitan airport for the latest. what happened? >> reporter: it was just dramatic deja vu, almost jaw-dropping. it began like it did on christmas day. shortly after noon there's word of an inbound international flight coming to detroit where on board the pilots have declared there

they had an article not long ago hear about detroit. detroit is constantly getting badgered.hat is my comment. one guy who had a feeling for security. that is a profiling, to preveno. if you have suspicions, you pull people over. this is designed. host: officials describe the device as incendiary rather than explosive, pending tests by forensic experts at the fbi. incendiary devices usually deliver less impact than explosive devices. the remains of the device are being sent to an fbi expos of ladd in quantico for analysis. -- explosive lab in quantico for analysis. back to the phones -- orlando, fla., an airline for democrats. -- on our line for democrats. should we real bed -- reevaluate our watch list? caller: my problem is that i cannot understand how he got anything that was explosive, incendiary or whatever on the plane. i travel a lot. last month by came from jamaica and they confiscated a repellent. host: do you think they took that as a result of some kind of profiling? caller: there is a list of stuff you cannot take on airplanes. repellent? host: did they tell you w

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they had an article not long ago hear about detroit. detroit is constantly getting badgered.hat is my comment. one guy who had a feeling for security. that is a profiling, to preveno. if you have suspicions, you pull people over. this is designed. host: officials describe the device as incendiary rather than explosive, pending tests by forensic experts at the fbi. incendiary devices usually deliver less impact than explosive devices. the remains of the device are being sent to an fbi expos of ladd in quantico for analysis. -- explosive lab in quantico for analysis. back to the phones -- orlando, fla., an airline for democrats. -- on our line for democrats. should we real bed -- reevaluate our watch list? caller: my problem is that i cannot understand how he got anything that was explosive, incendiary or whatever on the plane. i travel a lot. last month by came from jamaica and they confiscated a repellent. host: do you think they took that as a result of some kind of profiling? caller: there is a list of stuff you cannot take on airplanes. repellent? host: did they tell you w

now from there to detroit.what we're talking about is a possibility now, i'm saying a possibility, that the only screening this guy had was lagos, nigeria. give me a break, okay. if he did, in fact, get screened in -- >> larry: not screened in amsterdam? >> if he was screened in amsterdam, the screening was typical to what we do today. certainly he did not have what we call whole body image screening which is the only answer to this problem. >> larry: back with more after this. this is a honda pilot. and this is the chevy traverse. it has more cargo space than pilot. and traverse beats honda on highway gas mileage too. more fuel efficient and 30% more room. maybe traverse can carry that stuff too. now during the chevy red tag event, get an '09 traverse with 0 percent apr for 72 months. see red and save green. now at your local chevy dealer. >>> we were in the back of the plane and all of a sudden heard some screams. flight attendants ran up and down the aisles and i think we knew at the point when we saw the fe

i'm just about 10 miles from detroit.he is fully aware how decrepit and have run down all the manufacturing and industry has vanished from our area. new like to speak about reinventing manufacturing. it is more or less reprogramming for this green agenda and everything that is going on for the global government, which is only going to make everything so much worse. if people would look what is in that copenhagen treaty, and if obama signs on to that, it will damage the country more because there's not a enough money that will be there. the only money that will go to anybody will be the liars like al gore. people will not win on this. you can go on the internet and see how decrepit the industriay is. guest: there's no question we are ground zero of the economy. a lot of those manufacturing jobs will not come back. i will use michigan as an example. our governor is very focused in the new energy space. when you have empty factories, very often light industry follows heavy industry. it's not a pretty picture in the short ter

now from there to detroit. so what we're talking about is a possibility now, i'm saying a possibility, that the only screening this guy had was lagos, nigeria. give me a break. okay? if he did, in fact, get screened in a -- >> larry: not screened in amsterdam? >> well, if he was screened in amsterdam, the screening was typical to what we do today. certainly he did not have what we call whole-body image screening which of course is the only answer to this problem. >> larry: back with more after this. >>> we were in the back of the plane and all of a sudden heard some screams. flight attendants ran up and down the aisles and i think we knew at the point when we saw the fear in the flight attendants' eyes and grabbed the fire extinguishers and we smelled a bunch of smoke. >> larry: peter bergen, were we lucky here? >> very lucky. you know, if the device had gone off, i'm not a mechanical engineer, but, you know, in previous kinds of cases where this type of activity has been prosecuted, for instance in the case in

first, however, i'd also like t recognize two women whom i met when we came to detroit. were here last summer, summer of 2008, niki dobi, who's sitting right there in the red, and shar v#xgoolsby who came to listen to the concerns of working families and small businesses and patients who were worried about whether they could afford healthcare or might be denied access to it. that they d and their experiences reminded us of how important health reform is. and how important it is that health reform provides peace of mind along with affordable coverage and quality of healthcare. our outreach campaign convinced us that the united states had arrived at a crossroads. in the health reform debate. the measure of whether we succeed now to accomplish what hasn't been accomplished for a century, of false starts is whether -- not whether a bill gets passed but, in fact, whether it generally provides that health security. and i was reminded by that -- i know i'm italian i use my hands and my head. it's very bad for microphone coverage. i'll try to focus on the mics as well as the wor

they go in a room for five minutes, the two of them in detroit, and they come out and reagan tells the guys -- tells peter and lynn and dick allen and others, i can't tell you what's going on but it's not going to work. and so they sit there 11:30 at night and reagan is looking at the aids and he says, well, fellows, what do we do now? he's got no running mate. and finally after a few moments, peter hanford said, i think it's time to call george bush. and he calls george bush is just blown away. had no idea. he was convinced like everybody else in america that gerald ford was going to go on the ticket with reagan. >> so let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions they may have and it directly follows on that and it goes back to jack kemp. why did his star not rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice president? >> there was a lot of affection

guest: first of all, as far as detroit. detroit has been a population center for arab-americans for decades, generations, and that's not a recent phenom. and of course let me quickly underscore the vast majority of arab americans and muslim americans are like the rest of us, they have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism and are as appalled by these incidents as anyone else but both the subject of the borders the mexican border and the northern border, both of them are -- there's a possibility for terror illses to exploit our border defenses and there's been considerable tightening along the southern border continued by the obama administration. relatively the efforts to intensify the northern borders as well. the north erin border is likely less well-defended, in 1999 the turn of the millennium, october med, a syrian attempted to blow up lax and was coming from across the border of canada. host: on the front page of "the new york times", cash flows where the u.s. and mexico meet and they are awe talking about clamping d

this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket where, you know, he had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford it off serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

baseball, kell returned to the detroit tigers organization as their tv announcer, a position he held for almost 40 years. his broadcasting career allowed him to connect with generations of new fans who were too young to ever see him play the game despite all of his accomplishments in baseball, george kell was simply a good friend and neighbor to those who knew him best. throughout his life he kept returning to his hometown of swifton, a place he loved like no other. he was an active and respected member of the community, serving on the arkansas highway commission for 10 years and his career gave him the opportunity to see it all. but he knew there was no place like home. kell died in swifton in march of this year at the age of 86. it was a tremendous loss that was felt by his friends and family and the state of arkansas. george kell's enduring popularity is evidence by the fan mail he continued to receive long after his retirement.

>> henry kissinger was negotiating the treaty of detroit on the part -- on behalf of gerald ford.and kissinger was a pretty tough negotiator. of course, he had negotiated the peace with honor, the withdrawal from vietnam. and after these tough negotiations in detroit that day, one of the reagan aides says is that -- is that, you know, for the first time, you know, after dealing with kissinger all day for the first time in my life i felt sorry for the north vietnamese. [laughter] >> yes, sir. >> i know this is a bit unusual but when you ask your question if you could come up to the front and ask us because we want to make sure we're able to record it on the microphone. >> in the early days, was he well served by his advisors? and it seems to me when he made serious error is when he did not go with his intuition. >> absolutely. when reagan was at his best when he was relied on his own judgment and own temperament. i think also it comes through in the book and what -- and it came through at the time was that reagan was best when he -- when he was mad. he really -- dick worth said he

by the time you get to detroit really on paper if you look at it, the guy who made the most sense wasrge bush because he was somewhat more moderate. he had a proven vote-getting ability in the primaries in the northeast. he'd won the pennsylvania primary and the michigan primary and massachusetts and others. he had more foreign policy experience. and he was the guy who was going to be the one who would best unify the convention because as you know as we all know, unified conventions tend to win in the fall and divided conventions tend to lose in the fall. and there's a part on governor reagan and mrs. reagan taking george bush because of these lingering issues being left unaddressed. this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket where, you know, he had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford it off serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and for

it was a bit of a deja vu in detroit. in fact, that's the headline this morning in the "detroit free press," flight 253, deja vu, it does feel surreal. this is the story about the second concern over a new year jan passenger that flew into detroit yesterday, same flight, and it turns out that everything was ok. he was simply ill, having spent a long amount of time in the bathroom, but it was not a terrorist incident. pittsburgh is next. john on our g.o.p. line. go ahead, john. caller: good morning. bill, i just have been watching, you know, bits and pieces of all this stuff. i saw the homeland security, napolitano is her name? host: yes. caller: make some remarks that just baffled me. i can't believe she'd come out and say that the system actually worked. and if you kind of connect the dots with not only her comments, but, you know, eric made a remark that, you know, simply stated the facts, didn't say anything more, you know? it's what he's not saying that skerns me. but concern seems to me like these top officials, even

th, on december 16, a round tripicket from lagos, nigeria to detroit is purchased in ana, for $2,800 in cash. gerian officials say abdulmallab returns to lagos for one y, on christmas eve, to boa the flight. he checks no bags, and pses through security. he aives in amsterdaon christmas y. the dutch inrior minister says nothing seems iss before he boards northwest flight 25for detroit. >> ( translated the suspect did not leave the customs ar schiphol during his transfe hepent the usual transfer timea couple of hours as per the norm, in the airport's internationalounge. as p protocol, he had to pass a curity gate within the customs areat schiphol, a metal detector, and this presented no irregularitie >> reporter: hours ler, abdulmutallab's flight was on final proach to detroit, when he allegedly tried to set f the bomb and was overpowered now, as he sits in a feral prison in michan, his ties to yemen and its gring al-qaeda presen have come under intense new scrutiny today, security forcestormed an al-qaida de-out along yemen's weern coast, and arrested at let one suspect. and the deput

the dutch interior minister says nothing seems amiss before he boards northwest flight 253 for detroit. >> ( translated ): the suspect did not leave the customs area at schiphol during his transfer. he spent the usual transfer time, a couple of hours as per the norm, in the airport's international lounge. as per protocol, he had to pass a security gate within the customs area at schiphol, a metal detector, and this presented no irregularities. >> reporter: hours later, abdulmutallab's flight was on final approach to detroit, when he allegedly tried to set off the bomb and was overpowered. now, as he sits in a federal prison in michigan, his ties to yemen and its growing al-qaeda presence have come under intense new scrutiny. today, security forces stormed an al-qaida hide-out along yemen's western coast, and arrested at least one suspect. and the deputy interior minister declared his government "will continue its strikes against the group until it is totally eliminated." and officials in somalia reported a somali national tried to board a commercial airliner there last month with a bom

got breaking news about this christmas day incident which was almost catastrophic in the skies over detroit. with me right now, frances townsend the cnn national security contributor who also served as chief antiterrorism and homeland security adviser for president george bush. also jack rice, former cia officer, journalist, syndicated talk show radio. we're kind of colleagues. okay. what is your take on what happened here? you've worked inside the cia. i have to tell you that right off the bat i don't understand why on sunday the homeland security secretary didn't seem to know that this man's name had popped up in a cia report and the president didn't really allude to it until today. is it possible they didn't learn until last night or this morning that there's a report in langley? >> yes. i think that's really the problem here. i think that's the case. if we look back at what we have done over the last eight years we turned this world upside down deciding we're going to reorganize the government. we're going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars. we're going to do amazing things. yet t

. >> warner: the path that led to this christmas day scene at detroit metro airport came more clearly into view today. authorities in yemen reported that the nigerian suspect, umar farouk abdul mutallab, had spent extended periods in yemen. but they said there was no indication he might be trouble and they were never told he was on any kind of u.s. watch list. >> ( translated ): we haven't received any further information concerning this person, that is to say, he is not on the yemeni list of most wanted suspected terrorists. he only visited yemen twice, his first visit was in 2004 and it lasted till 2005 and the second visit was last august and he left during the last week of december. he came under the pretense of studying the arabic language. security system. he said u.s. officials failed to act on a warning from abdulmutallab's own father. >> had this critical information was shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged. the warning signs would have triggered red flags and the suspect would have never b

almost immediately after the detroit incident, authorities in the u.s. and abroad stepped up security during the busy holiday travel season. >> definitely a little bit more stressful flying today than i thought it was going to be. >> ifill: in its u.s. the transportation security administration began requiring passengers on flights from overseas to be screened a second time at the gate. >> rather be safe than sorry any time, yeah. >> have you gotten in -- you shouldn't have any problem with it. >> yeah. >> ifill: and during the final hour of some flights, passengers were instructed to stay seated with no personal items on their laps. >> when we were on the plane we couldn't have blankets or pillows in our laps. >> ifill: for domestic travelers random security checks have been increased and air marshalls added. >> every single item was examined. they took it out and used their sniffer tester, whatever they were runing along, inside. they wanted everything out of the bag and examining the interior of the bag. >> ifill: by today some of those procedures wer

at the fact that he bought a ticket going one way with cash with no luggage, and you're going to detroit in december without a winter coat? that immediately ten years ago would have forced the airline to pull him aside and say, okay, what's up? and start looking at him and maybe subjected him to very specific screening with trace detectors. that could have been done. it wasn't. so yes, it's unfortunate that the information hadn't become instantaneous. but what's going to happen, if we go this route with the criticism that says you didn't connect the dots, it will create from the analyst standpoint a reaction where everything will come to the top. you'll have such a blizzard of information that nobody will be able to actually see the real threats from -- there are hundreds of bogus threats that come through every day. and sometimes only after the fact when this guy was identified firmly as having said, you know, i'm going to blow up a plane, then everyone started going through the files. if his father had gone to the embassy and said, look, my son's got exploding underwear. he's going to

sreenivasan: a passenger allegedly tried to bloup a deltairlines flight as it landed in detroit. happened as the airbus 330 was coming in from amsrdam, the nethernds. a nior counterterrorism official quoted as sing the suspect tried to s off a bomb but it failed. itial reports said passenger set off firecracrs before being subdued. there were minor injurs reported. police in kistan say they plan to charge five american musls th violating their antiterro laws. the men were taken to a mastrate today after being detained earlier thimonth. theyllegedly had maps of a pakistani air force base and power plantsplus emails linking them to militants. the pakistan case cod hamper efforts to return e men to the u.s.o face charges of aiding a terrorist group. a christmaeve bus crash in the andes mountas of peru killed at least 42 pele, most farmers and merchants on the way home from t holidays. the bus plunged 250 feet inta ravine. thperu accidents often blamed on poorly maintaed mountain roads anunderregulated bus companies. at least 40,000 filipinospent christmas day shelters to escape the

>> caller: i flew yesterday from detroit, actually, to baltimore. saw no increased security at all. >> host: none? really? >> caller: none. it took no time at all to get through security, there was nothing extra. >> host: what's, what's the secret, deborah? it sounds like everybody else encountering it this weekend, at least -- [laughter] >> caller: no, we got through in record time as far as i could tell, so there was absolutely no difference. i wonder about the, the attention paid to africa for one thing and whether -- and i, i believe that the state department needs to put more attention into africa. and i think it's always a question of too little, too late. there's a lot of attention, obviously, paid to the middle east, and this, this is maybe a middle eastern issue, but i do think that africa gets underrepresented in terms of the amount of attention the state department pays. and also consular training and how much, how much more work consular officers might need in terms of screening. there's a lot of attention paid to families coming over he

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but if you put $500,000 cap in place, how good with the detroit lions. -- would the detroit lions be? it is a competitive field, just like everything else, part of capitalism. and i think using the detroit lions is an example. if you did not have anybody on that team you could pay more than $500,000 how competitive the baby in the nfl? host: we learned the president will be meeting with a dozen big bank chiefs. the washington post reporting on that. pledging to do more for the economy even as many of the firm's struggling to get out from under the governments of some. host: next call is from kalamazoo, michigan. caller: let me start over. japan when they had what they called the last decade, they instituted i think seven or eight stimulus packages before they found out that lowering the rate of pay for executives down to i think 1 million for the top company and a lower than that for the other ones, that is what got them back on track and brought them outç of the recession and got everybody back working. when you lower the money down to where you need money, then the money is going t

maybe they supported it in detroit but also polls should not drive policy. principal and the constitution should constrain what you do. i don't think the bailout was constitutional or buying in general motors was constitutional regardless of the people supported that. i am very happy to take the anti-bailout side against any politician that thanksgiving that money to goldman sachs are bankamerica was popular at the time when they helped to create the collapse. this is why i am not a politician. i would probably get the two doubt very quickly for opposing of the measures. i want to put tolls on every highway and that would not be very popular because right now all transportation is subsidizing this trucks and make them pay for the road. i am not a politician because i do not set policy by what is most popular but will do best and moral principles brokerages wrong to take money from regular people to give it to big corporations. that should be enough to settle a fact not to do the bailouts. thank you very much for your time. i appreciate it. >> >> whether some

his retreat so that he can handle situations like this situation with the airliner that landed in detroitesterday? guest: there's always a senior national security adviser traveling with the president. there's also a senior domestic adviser the troubles with the president and a press person par there are communications at the white house where he could have a secure communications connection. they have to re-do they get away house to be able to stay in touch produces, and now. i do not have any doubt that he will be able to communicate with whomever he needs to, including his own staff, from hawaii. host: we are talking areken walshwith ken walsh. you wrote in the article we referred to earlier about the retreat of various presidents. you wrote about washington and jefferson, saying they got away to their virginia plantation's four weeks at a time. abraham lincoln lived at the soldiers home, a resident for injured union troops during the civil war and four 1/4 of his presidency, committed 3 miles to the white house. every summer from 1902-1908, theodore roosevelt moved the functions of th

that is from "the detroit free press."dline from "the washington post" is "general motors and chrysler saying that they plan to revisit their decisions this spring to close more than 2000 dealerships, indicating that some of them could be allowed to stay open. it appears to be an effort to stave off intervention by lawmakers on capitol hill." yesterday, david icher joined us on "washington journal." he joins us on the phone now from texas. yesterday you said you wanted to meet everyone and anyone. who did you manage to meet yesterday? did you learn anything new? caller: i met a wide variety of small business owners. from the standpoint of the summit, it was very enlightening and educational. i hope it will be educational back to the administration. host: the president indicated that he wanted to take the ideas from this summit. he is going to give a speech next tuesday to outline more details to try to improve jobs in the u.s.. what do you think that president and congress need to do? caller: first of all, there was a broa

>> she is a woman who owns a couple of dealerships around the detroit area.f brunt of the down turn starting last year and is pressured by chrysler to boost their sales. they target both of her franchises for closure. she gets the news that she is going to shutdown in a matter of days. the next day, she gets a letter from chrysler that they will take the dealership as well. >> it's unusual that dealers would have dealers from both sides. it's an activity that has gone on before. a bill attached to the spending allowed dealers to go back to the companies and petition for the binding arbitration over how the companies chose which dealer to close. >> our first call comes from river falls, wisconsin. paul on the line for republicans. a retired auto industry worker. >> you know right now, there are more auto industry jobs than previously. down south, there are a lot of plants all over. during the negotiations with the union. they did great. the thing is when they take a vote for a strike, the company would say we'll give them what we want now and worry about it la

he then went on to become a detroit tigers broadcaster for nearly 40 years.in 1983, he joined the baseball greats when he was nominated for national baseball hall of fame by the veterans committee. during his career, george always kept arkansas close to his heart. during his time in the majors, he bought farmland in swifton, which he worked on in the offseasons and continued farming after he retired from playing baseball. even when he was broadcasting for the detroit tigers, he still called swifton home, commuting 1,000 miles from arkansas for games. george remained committed to his home in arkansas and helped his community. in 1962 he bought a car dealership in newport, arkansas, and later became sole owner of the budding business. after hearing dale bumper speak, george jumped on the campaign trail helping the little known candidate to win the fworchor's race. george was then appointed to the state highway commission where he served for 10 years, four of which as chairman. george was an arkansan through and through and certainly a favorite son. and so it co

. >> craig: pretty big catch from or would be from behind the bench, former detroit red wing. nice catch of the puck as it hit the bench. the caps starting off well in this game. a lot of the guys had a meeting this morning, joe, a few of them taking the ice of the loss last night in vancouver. >> joe: the game in which the 2- 1 lead evaporated. here, the fans are packed in to see the washington capitals. the one and only get together with the two interconference rivals. washington has note won here in -- has not won here in an awful long time. >> craig: 1996? >> seven straight times in 1996. >> craig: they are all around canada. any time they come up here, a festival for the caps. people hanging out at the hotel to see some of the guys, and obviously the great atransportation is the -- great attraction is the great eight. >> joe: squaring off with another northwest division foe in the basement of the basket as the puck leaves the rink. >> craig: a lot of whistles in the hockey game even though there's been quality scoring chances. >> joe: we have played entirely at even stren

he was a detroit player who played hard on and off the field.ith him and tried to address this. he puts in front of him two glasses. he fills one half full of water and one half full of gen. he says i wanted to watch carefully. he takes a brown paper bag and a as an earthworm in the background he puts it in the glass half full of water and the earth warm swims around. he fishes out of the class and puts it in the glass half full of gin. the earth warm diaspodies. he says to you understand this? he says he thinks he understands if i drink gin i won't get worms. [laughter] ty cobb missed the point of that demonstration dramatically. here's the point of this presentation in the political environment -- the political environment, you think you can overcome the political and barman in an individual campaign? it is difficult to do. that is what you have toçó do in mostñrçóÑi campaigns "'$eÑ as a republican, i have been spirited dtrying. you need to factor that in. when you go through this in class in the next two weeks of what does this mean for a pol

and you are going to detroit in december without a winter coat? that ten years ago would have forced the airline to pull him aside and say, what's up? and suggest specific training with trace detectors. it's unfortunate that the informs hadn't become instantaneous. who is going to happen, if we say you don't connect the dots, it is going to get a reaction where everything is going to come from the top. you are going to have a blizzard of information and nobody will be able to see the real threats. there are hundreds of bogus threats to come through throughout the day. after the fact,some guy was identified as saying, i'm going to blow up a plane, and everyone started going through the files. if his father had gone to the embassy said he has exploding underwear and he is going to try to blow all plane, yeah, they would have done that but they did not have that information. >> larry: we are going to have you back soon. thank you and happy new year. >> thank you. >> larry: where does the united states learned about security since the attacks of 9/11?

as the plane made its final approach to detroit metropolitan airport a passenger alleged tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire. thanks to the quick, heroic actions of passengers and crew, the passenger was immediately subdued, the fire put out and the plane landed safely. the suspect is now in custody charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rempt until we find all who are involved and hold them accountable. this was a serious reminder of the nature of the danger we face and of those who threaten our homeland. had the suspect succeeded in bringing down that plane it could have killed nearly 300 passengers and crew, innocent civilians preparing to celebrate the holidays with their families and friends. the american people should be assured we are doing everything in our power to keep you and your families safe and secure during this busy holiday season the since i was first notified of this incident i have order the following actions to be taken to protect the a

detroit and other places are almost at 50% unemployment.st side of the state, we do not see a lot of the auto industry is suffering. host: from the business section of the "new york times" is a story of fannie and freddie. 10 more minutes on your favorite political stories of the year. and the heat from los angeles, good morning on the independent line. -- betty from los angeles. caller: the health care situation is ridiculous. in 1940, there was a hill -- a bill called the hill burton bill. it was a single payer bill and it went into effect immediately. you might be a little young, but we had community hospitals, clinics everywhere. it was single payer. and for those who do not want abortion, look at planned parenthood. planned parenthood has finan -- has been federalized of 25 $400,000 to kill black babies. this is ridiculous. americans need to learn their policies. people, wake up. host: lots of calls this morning about health care, the health care debate being the political story of the year. inside the "new york post -- correct the, "n

that the job of this vice president and the folks who work with him, it's to communicate detroit's viewso lawmakers and at the same time, the people here, they communicate with what's going on on the hill to those folks in detroit. two-way process each dependent on the other. second kind of lobbying group, organization or entity would be the associations that i already mentioned. in terms of the telephone directory. big ones we all know, afl-cio, chamber of commerce, national association of manufacturers, american medical association, the american political scientists association. all of those and more. and if you are a small businessman or woman, you probably belong to the national independent federation of small business. i forget the exact title, but that's roughly it. what happens then? maybe you are running a small hardware store or barber shop, four, five employees and whatever the do's may be for you in that racket. what do you get? maybe some lit tur explaining what is happening on the hill and maybe they'll send you some information owe a convention in las vegas. and then we hav

on christmas day, northwest airlines flight 253 was on route from amsterdam to detroit.as the plane made its final approach to detroit, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire. thanks to the quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew, the suspect was immediately subdued and the fire was put out in the plane landed safely. the suspect is in custody and has been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. this was a serious reminder of the dangers we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland. the suspect succeeded in bringing down that plane. it could have killed -- if the suspect succeeded it could have killed passengers and crew, innocent civilians preparing to celebrate the holidays. the american people should be assured we are doing everything in our power to keep you and your family is safe and secure during this busy holiday season. since

. >>> detroit struggling on offense. stevens the steal going the other way. how about this?able to convert the wide open dunk and simon taking on the fast break. simon doesn't know he has a man behind him. novak, a big block. titans having a tough time hanging with the wolverines. later on harris outlet pass, not going to get this. harris had 27. michigan wins is-t by 11. >>> illinois hosting western michigan. first half, illini on the break. the give and go. lays it in. 2 of his 11 points on the day. later, same guy showing hustle, making the steal. going to leave some offensive production. bucket on the other end. illinois got 23 at the break. in the second, gordon, son of michael. looking like michael a little bit there, using the window. 88-53 the final, illinois a winner. >>> we're not done here on "the final score," more football. patriots look to keep their lead in the afc east. ♪ energetic music geico powersports. insurance for your car and the other stuff that moves you. >>> welcome back. titans hosting the 1-11 rams. nfl leading returner chris johnson doing his thi

detroit in particular. as high as 25%. those are numbers that really do come close to the level that we saw during the great depression. and confronted with that, as a journalist, i'm the editor of a website called big money which is a financial news and analysis site that had the fortune to launch on september of last year. lehman brothers declared bankruptcy, and it made for a quiet week. as a journalist confronting what we saw last fall, it forces you to ask some fundamental questions. why did this happen? why did we have this tremendous meltdown of the stock market meltdown of our financial sector? how could this happen? given all that regulatory framework that was put together during the great depression, wasn't that supposed to protect us? wasn't that a cushion? again, this was the exact extent that benjamin roth lived through. we were supposed to have figured everything out. i don't know if you read "the new york times" magazine with any regularity, but paul krugman had a story about that for economics, and he said

i want to personally bank -- thank the detroit sector chief. we do not want to lose him.s well as a a mobile unit at the guard base in the immediate geographic area that has is different facets of the military. fbi net is complimenting under the cbp pa umbrella the great lakes and northern border when which has air assets and water assets. some of the unique dynamics, not only do we have an asymmetrical theater with the great lakes but we also have the two busiest border crossings. we have busy rail entries. we have a lot of the same kinds of things that are happening on the southern border. we are anticipating that we have a ground mission in 2010. the soviets under the dhs cbp. -- this will be under the dhs cbp. the rollout of the surveillance cameras, you can imagine how we were concerned about how the public would say, big brother. you are putting these cameras up in one of the busiest voting sectors in the world. are you going to be looking at me? there was a lot of consternation about this. arbitrate sector chief -- our detroit sector she brought in the stakeholders