i want to bring frank donitelli and alicia menendez back in.e made on both sides, is education the answer, though? >> partially the answer, but i think what the gentlemen said is the key point here and that is that we have to, we have to help out in terms of trying to make these things work. it's a frustration and it's an intrusion and i got to take my watch off all the time and take my shoes off. i'm not going any farther than that. but you do it because we need a safe, we need a safe environment here where people can feel free to take airline travel. >> i guess the question a lot of people have with this, alicia, is this really making us safe? do you have to screen 100% of the american people to really be safe? are we taking, in a weird sense, the easy way out? >> i'm not a security expert. i will defer to the security expert we just heard from. but i would rather screen 100% of people and get on my flight knowing that everyone there has been screened rather than risk. i mean, when you take into account the cost benefit analysis, like you sai

republican strategist frank donitelli and alicia menendez and eril suthers and patrick gavin.times wonder if some candidates are tenacious or masks because we're already hearing whispers of meg whitman who lost 140 and she is now reportedly setting her sights on a senate seat, potentially a 2010 run against dianne feinstein who is trying to make a jump back in the game after a loss. what do you make of that, pat, she wants to get back into the game. we think she'd be done with it now. >> she has an awful lot of good will out there. she's lost, i think, because of the hispanic gal that worked for her she didn't treat very well and this could be a good year in 2012 the year of the republicans. she has $3 million and only went through 3% or 4% of it, you know. >> that's just small change for her. >> yeah, pocket change for meg whitman. what the problem is, money doesn't buy votes. you can have all the money in the world but if your message doesn't resonate with voters or strange or the people don't go for it, you're not going to get elected. she's a prime example and carly fiorin