john pistole is the first witness. he is administrator at the department of homeland security since 2010. he oversees 60,000 employees and 450 airports and security for highways, ports, mass transit systems. you have a big job and i commend you for the job you are doing. the chair recognizes mr. pistole to testify. >> thank you the members of the committee. let me start off by expressing by deep appreciation to you chairman and others who have expressed sympathy for hernandez and his family and the two other officers who were shot and wounded on november 1st. there was great outpouring at the memorial service held by the city of los angeles and the local police. law enforcement community pulling together and demonstr e demonstrating support for officer hernandez family and the two other officers and family. so thank you for that. the bottom line is these are challenging time for members of tsa employees especially those that lax who have been affected by this and lost a wellli-liked and well-respected colleague. i want

you don't. >> i hear john pistole's recorded message about how great tsa is doing and they're workingbe cooperative. until they start touching your junk. once they touch your junk, they've gone too far. >> i don't mind the patdowns and the screen. for anybody that minds them, they can go ton a plane with everyone else that didn't go through it. >> i want to be screened. the junk touching is weird but i -- >> i'll take it. rock my world. >> a minute ago i was reporting on this pilot in south florida who reported he was flying a piper pa-46 every craft and told air traffic controllers a passenger fell from the aircraft eight miles and southeast of the tami-ami airport. here's a map. they faa's statement: the aircraft continued to the airport and did land safely. they're zooming in. it's a inland. the f notified the coast guard and miami-dade rescue, and please contacted -- said please contact the agencies for information about the search for the peak. the pilot contacted faa air travel controllers at miami terminal radar approach, which is like miami center, which provides radar service

tsa administrator john pistole says his officers aren't there to make arrest, their job is to search for explosives. >> the police have that primary responsibility. our responsibility is making sure that nobody gets on a plane with something that could be catastrophic. >> reporter: local police provide the armed security presence around airports. but the union that represents tsa workers says friday's shooting is proof there should be a larger police presence. david borer the union's general counsel says the current system is putting tsa officers at risk. >> so you're saying it's not working. >> it's not working as well as it needs to in some locations. our officers can't arrest anybody. they're basically when an incident starts, they're just sitting ducks. >> reporter: one possible option that is being discussed is creating a separate unit of the tsa with law enforcement training and weapons. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> jeff: an evasioniation, of birmingham airport for more than two hours this evening and diversion of at least half a dozen incoming flights. fbi bomb techni

tsa administrator john pistole is on his way to los angeles today. he is expected to meet with the family of killed tsa officer hernandez and others. right now l.a.x. is open but no flights are leaving from terminal 3 where the shooting happened yesterday. a tweet from the airport says people who left things in that terminal yesterday can now get them at the ticket counter. >>> we're also learning more about the suspected shooter, paul ciancia. according to a federal law enforcement official, he was carrying materials including an anti-tsa rant and a reference to a new world order. ciancia lived in los angeles, but he is from new jersey. police have been at his family's home in pennsville, new jersey. according to the police chief, the suspect sent text messages to his family yesterday, ranting about the government. >> basically, the text message was just a message to the little brother and the way it was written, they had some concern about it, and that's when they brought it to our attention. >> the chief says officers informed police in los angele

it's our job, a job that they have a good leader in john pistole, and it's our job. are working hard to try to do it better. so they need a little bit, some sympathy for the loss of one of their colleagues and we extended. but i want to say to the folks out there at tsa, under john pistole's leadership are working hard, trying to do the right thing, trying to improve every day, we appreciate that effort and we urge them to keep it up. but if you're confirmed, what we do diminishes the risk, an employee could be the target of an attack like the one visited on officer hernandez and his colleagues. >> senator, i read something about that attack that was really upsetting, which was that apparently, allegedly the shooter shot fernandez, left, went up an escalator, and then came back when he realized he wasn't dead and shot him again. that's really bad. and i think that given the visibility of these people, their interaction with the public, we need to look at how to provide for their safety. i don't know that the answer is screened everybody that comes into an airport. th

and let me just close by again, to john pistole, i admire what you were doing. it's not easy representing an agency that comes under so much scrutiny. it is sometimes the face of homeland security, and i think you're doing a good job making that face a better face. across the country, making it more passenger friendly and targeted towards the terrace but i do believe this program, i don't live as some would say, i got asked on the nightly news last night, do you favor scrapping this program, and i said no, i don't. i believe he taking behavior can be so important in stopping the threat but i do believe that it could be more effective and efficient for the american taxpayer. i think that's what we're here -- what we're all here to do. esther chairman, thank you for indulging that i know my remarks with a little over and i appreciate you holding this hearing. >> thank the chairman. pitcher now recognizes ranking minority of the full committee, the gentleman from this is -- from mississippi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for holding this hearing today.

administrator john pistole said behavior detection officers are essential. my concern with their sufficiency ease is that if we remove one whole layer of of security that being the b.t.o. those who again are the least invasive and looking for intent rather than items then that gives us an exposure to potential terrorists that we don't currently have so let's talk about this latest study and whether it's enough to boot this program for good i was joined earlier by j.v. to chile managing editor of reason twenty four seven i first asked him about the kinds of behavioral indicators that t.s.a. would can it consider suspicious well but look what they say what they say is deceptive activity. what that actually exactly constitutes is anybody's guess i mean they do have a checklist of things they want to go through that are supposed to identify high risk passengers the key indicator that was that important fact is that there doesn't seem to be any basis for the program that established. right well i do want to take a look at some numbers out of this report the t.s.a

tsa administrator john pistol said behavior detection officers are essential. my concern with the deficiencies that is that if we remove one whole layer of security that need to be those who again are the least invasive. i am looking for intent rather than items. then that gives us of exposure to potential terrorists that we don't currently have. this latest study and whether it's an awesome that this program forget. i read earlier by jd to kill a managing editor of reason in twenty four seven i first asked him about the kinds of behavioral indicators. the tsa would consider suspicious. well look what they say what this is deceptive and stated a dom what an excerpt exactly constitutes is anybody's guess a mini do check with the things i wanna go through that it was to identify high risk passengers. the key indicator though is that important fact is that there is a cb any basis for the permit a stamp. right well i don't take a look at some numbers out of this report and its hits a look at the number of people selected by spot officers for further screening at fo

administrator john pistole said behavior detection officers are essential. concern with there's a fish and seas is that if we remove one whole layer. of security that being the b.t.o. those who again are the least invasive. and looking for intent rather than items then that gives us an exposure to potential tears that we don't currently have. so to talk about this latest study and whether it's enough to boot this program for good i was joined earlier by j.d. to chile managing editor of reason twenty four seven i first asked him about the kinds of behavioral indicators that t.s.a. would consider suspicious with a look at what they say what they say is deceptive activity. what that actually exactly constitutes is anybody's guess i mean they do have a checklist of things they want to go through that are supposed to identify high risk passengers keep indicator though is that the important fact is that there doesn't seem be any basis for the program that established. right well i do want to take a look at some numbers out of this report the t.s.a. looked at the n

administrator john pistole said behavior detection officers are essential and my concern with that was a vision sees is that if we remove one whole layer of. security that being the b.t.o. those who again are the least invasive. looking for intent rather than items then that gives us exposure to potential tears that we don't currently have. so to talk about this latest study and whether it's enough to boot this program for good i was warned earlier by j.d. to cheerlead managing editor of reason twenty four seven i first asked him about the kinds of behavioral indicators that t.s.a. would consider suspicious with a look at what they see what they say is deceptive activity. what that actually exactly constitutes is anybody's guess i mean they do have a checklist of things they want to go through that are supposed to identify high risk passengers keep indicator though is that the important fact is that there doesn't seem be any basis for the program that established. right well i do want to take a look at some numbers out of this report the t.s.a. looked at the number of people selected b

we'll see more from john pistole this afternoon.'ll see what comes out of that. >>> meantime there is new scandal involving president obama's secret service detail. allegations against these two agents. that some cog up next. gregg: a heated city council meeting with the crack-smoking mayor of toronto. you know the guy. we'll show you how that one went. martha: it does not get any better, folks. >> mistakes, will never happen again and never happened again at the air canada center. [laughter] martha: we just want to alert something here. there is an event going on in washington called the washington ideas forum. it is different journalists and capitol hill representatives speaking. you just see ted cruz is here and chris wallace, our own chris wallace is inner viewing him right now. moments ago nancy pelosi was interviewed. and she said something interesting. she believes that the president will offer a proposal today, for americans who are losing their health insurance. so things seem to be moving quite quickly. we're working our s

. >>> a letter set to taa chief john pistol raising major concerns about airport security around the country. the letter claims some tsa agents are overstepping bounds and putting passenger security at risk. the letter argues against repositioning of airport officers arrive from check points. remember, we told you yesterday, that l.a.x. airport police were repositioned last year away from tsa checkpoints to monitor larger areas. here is part of the letter from airport police crews. go with me. this is a current statute require this a law enforcement officer be able to provide prompt responsiveness with problems at screening check points. definition of prompt has been interpreted broadly. a uniformed standard should be applied to all category x airports which would examine a law enforcement officers within 300 feet of the passenger screening area. joining me now on the phone to talk about this letter is one of the authors, marshal l mcclain. we appreciate you joining us. were you involved in any effort to move airport police away from tsa checkpoints at l.a.x.? >> good evening, thank

>> tsa chief john pistol met today with the grieving family. how is l.a.x. honoring him this weekend? >> reporter: well, he flew here from washington because he wanted to see this widow face-to-face. he met with her for 30 minutes to express his deepest con dole ents. beyond the badges with the black cloth, we are also seeing our -- right when you fly into l.a.x., there are 100 foot pile ones. the pile ones are normally clear colored. they will be lit blue in honor of tsa and this fallen officer. >> thank you very much. the suspect, paul ciancia did not have many friends in high school. he was quiet and didn't really fit in. he moved to los angeles 18 months ago from new jersey. chris lawrence has more from new jersey, the suspect's hometown. >> reporter: police are still here at the family's home in new jersey looking for any sort of clue, anything that can help investigators piece together a motivation, something to tell them why this happened. one of the things that's going to make it somewhat difficult is outside of his family, we found that paul ciancia

it's a job they have a good leader in john pistol. it's a hard job. they're working hard to try to do it better. so they need a little bit of, they need some, certainly some sympathy for the loss of one of their colleagues. we extend that, but i want to say to the folks out there at tsa under john's leadership, they're working hard, trying to do the right thing and improve every day and we appreciate that effort and we urge them to keep it up, but if you're confirmed what do we do to mitigate the risk that tsa or department of homeland security employee could be the target of the attack like the one visited on officer hernandez and his colleagues? >> senator i read something about that attack, that was really upsetting which was apparently allegedly the shooter shot hernandez left, went up and escalator and then came back when he realized he wasn't dead and shot him again. that's really bad and given visibility of people, interaction with the public need to look how to provide for their safety. i don't know the answer is screening everybody that comes

>> i talked to the director of tsa john pistol yesterday. we talked about a review of the policies at airports. every airport is a little bit different but the coordination with the local police is key because remember, tsa officers are not armed. it the local police that provide the perimeter security, if you will, that's a more soft target outside the check points and so, what we want to do is conduct and i want to work with the director of tsa to lack at how are we coordinating with locals at the airports of security, police officers to see is there something we can do better or differently? i will commend the officers, though, for a very quick and effective response. as you point out, he had multiple rounds that could have killed so many more people. we're fortunate that that didn't happen but unfortunate an officer was killed. >> i seen reports recently that the suspect entered the exit at the security point, in other words, the guard that you kind of walk by as you depart an airport and coming out of where the actual gates are. is that

according to tsa administrator john pistole. >> we want to do what we can to support and work with, againthe police to make sure we're doing everything possible to prevent something like this happening again. >> reporter: with l.a.x. back in full operation, authorities continue to search for clues as to what led to the violence. dan sheneman, nbc news. >>> new this morning, u.s. secretary of state john kerry met with egyptian foreign minister in cairo. it is his first trip to egypt since the military ousted the country's democratically-elected president in july. kerry said the u.s. is a friend and partner to the egyptian people and wants to contribute to the country's success. in an interview ahead of the secretary of state's visit, the prime minister said he intended to have frank and honest talks with kerry. he arrived before mohamed morsi and 14 other top brotherhood leaders go on trial. kerry's visit to cairo is the first stop in a nine-day trip to the middle east, eastern europe, and north africa. >>> michael jackson's former doctor who was just released from jail is now suing to get

right now tsa chief john pistol is headed to los angeles to meet with the fbi and the grieving family of tsa officer gerardo hernandez. so, tell me how l.a.x. is honoring this fallen tsa officer. >> reporter: well, it's just like the high security that we just heard about in the news conference, don, there is also going to be visible signs of mourning here at the united states sixth busiest airport. when you first drive in, there are these 100-foot pylons at the entrance of l.a.x. they are going to be lit blue, and that's going to be for the tsa. the tsa color up until thursday. and then once you get past the entrance and you start to check in, you'll see that the tsa officers here have on their badges a black band, and that is for their fallen officer, their fellow co-worker, mr. hernandez. what we're seeing here not just visible signs of security but also visible signs of grief, don. >> and what are investigators looking for at the airport today? we had a brief conversation about it, you know, just a couple minutes ago, but what exactly are they looking for today? >> reporter: well,

there is a new head of that agency, a man named john pistol, who came from a 26-year career in the fbi, and many in the industry think he brought greater professionalism to tsa, but yes, frustrations remained. they get more than 300 complaints per month about courtesy at the checkpoints. they say they do review complaints. they are professional. a try to treat people with respect, but there are many people, particularly on the east coast, that perhaps turn to the train between washington and new york because by the time you get to security, wait for your flight, it might be easier to take a train. host: we'll be talking to frank n. wilner to discuss rail transportation and infrastructure. this is something we read in the first half-hour, but in case you is that, from "the washington times" -- a bill to make the tsa give up all of the loose change. passengers have left as much as half of a million dollars over the last two years. under existing law, tsa is allowed to keep all of the loose change (plastic bins at their scanning machines. a congressman wants to change that, turning the mo

tsa administrator, john pistol, has only said that the agency will review their policy and how they willh local police from this point on. the union representing tsa officers is calling for armed security at checkpoints, but they are not calling for tsa officers to be armed. and former home land security secretary said outright arming tsa officers is a bad idea. >> i was on the virginia tech panel. and right after the virginia tech tragedy, people thought maybe she should arm students. then the school room tragedies and everybody arm teachers. now there's conversations about arming the tsa. we really need to figure out why so many people for to violence to solve their problems or express their grievances. >> reporter: tsa says it will be working with members of congress to determine what changes in security policies will be made. but, carol, the bottom line is, if you are flying out of an airport today, you will not notice anything different during the tsa screening process. what you may see is a beefed up police presence around the airport. >> renee marsh reporting live for us this morn

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tsa administrator john pistole will testify before a subcommittee, expected to discuss lessons learnedeft one tsa officer dead. >>> if you haven't been keeping an eye on your 401(k) this year a happy surprise! balances have hit record highs. christine romans is here with more on that. good morning, christine. >> good morning, carol. this morning the dow jones industrial average at a record again, i think this is the 37th of the year, the close is above here where it is today the 37th record high close of the year so the stock market has been going in the direction of savers and investors who are investing in their 401(k). let me show you what fidelity says the average balance now is of the 12.6 million 401(k)s they have. record high $84,300. for the people who have been investing every month through their paychecks over ten years that average balance is now $223,100. we've never seen those averages quite this high. it is i guess validation really of what you've seen this year in the stock market, but i would caution that about half of americans are not invested in the stock market in a

of that a new head agency, a man named john pistol, who came from a 26-year career in the fbi, and manythe industry think he brought greater professionalism to tsa, but yes, frustrations remained. they get more than 300 complaints per month about courtesy at the checkpoints. they say they do review complaints. they are professional. a try to treat people with respect, but there are many people, particularly on the east coast, that perhaps turn to the train between washington and new york because by the time you get to security, wait for your flight, it might be easier to take a train. host: we'll be talking to frank n. wilner to discuss rail transportation and infrastructure. this is something we read in the first half-hour, but in case you is that, from "the washington " -- a bill to make the tsa give up all of the loose change. passengers have left as much as half of a million dollars over the last two years. under existing law, tsa is allowed to keep all of the loose change (plastic bins at their scanning machines. a congressman wants to change that, turning the money over to nonprof

john f. kennedy. >> i saw the pistol in his hand. >> accused killer lee harvey oswald was gunned down while handcuffedtective jim lovell. >> i attempted to turn odds wald behind me but i was too close to him. >> we'll never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nutcase? >> a trial moois have answered questions of conspiracy but with oswald dead investigators focused on ruby. how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world? >> because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. >> the actions by ruby in treating oswald were not spontaneous and that he probably had assistance. >> when andy purdy served on the commission he examined ruby's unusual access to police headquarters. >> i believed that officer dean who was in charge of security let jack ruby into the basement. >> patrick dean's involvement has remained a question. >> he had failed a polygraph back at the time of the assassination. information i'm not sure was turned over to the fbi. >> but ruby's ties with law enforcement went beyond dallas. >> ruby works for the fbi

already a ride p a pistol or five years has been high all day so this lady ashton be chief negotiator for the p six. he's also i met a week that mr is john kerry the us secretary of state and not a mystic every meeting with crystal afro and lady ashton at the moment he's meeting with top the homage of attorney the iranian foreign minister out they trying to broker the last ten percent of a package deal of interim measures what we understand ninety percent of the pp she's had been timed out and had dropped text is obama on the offering. but there are two major sticking points the cycle of iraq heavy water reactor which is not in operation get back in the fatwas that would have the plutonium making capability in other ways the option to cross check to nuclear weapon the western powers while back that facility could be kept and in exchange the radiance to make the concession of pushing told big s sanctions relief so the trade off is what did i get in return from sanctioned relief to do more on the isle to be what every act that interim six month check each and during that six month period they would be looking at a global agreement to make

john conley focused on a seven-story brick building. >> reporter: the suspect turned out to be lee harvey oswald. he had taken a bus in a camp to his rooming house, picked up jacket and pistol. he was walking down the police and police officer j.d. tippett called him over to his police car, and he just shot him at point blank range. >> it was a horrible act and certainly not the act of an innocent person. >> reporter: now oswald was wanted for two murders. he was on the run, but not for long. innocent person. >> reporter: now oswald was wanted for two murders. he was on the run, but not for long. >> reporter: police found him sitting in the rear of the theater. aboard "air force one" still on the ground in dallas, another drama was unfolding. >> reporter: with jackie kennedy at his side, lyndon baines johnson took the oath as the 36th president of the united states, and "air force one" now carrying two presidents took off for washington, d.c. >> reporter: they cleaned up the scene but could never erase the painful memories preserved forever on the dallas police recordings of november 22nd, 1963. bob schieffer, cbs news, dallas. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "

john, no one has claimed responsibility, but do the police have any idea of who may be behind the shooting? >> no, and the fact that the gun that was used in this attack, a serbian pistol clean in terms of a crime record. no other criminal acts have been known criminal acts have been committed with this weapon, ballistic tests show. it has become even murkier. it's unusual for a terrorist group in greece not to use the same weapon again and again. that's its signature. that's one of the ways the police corroborate claim of responsibility that follows a terrorist attack. this is how it's been done for years. so this clean weapon the police call it, is a bit of a mystery. on the other hand, advocating in favor of a terrorist attack is the style of it. the fact that it was ahit job. two men, marksmen knowing how to strike in order to inflict death in the chest with a bullet wound to the head to make sure the victim is dead. that is a mafia style attack. it's a bit of a puzzle to the police exactly who has done this. >> very intriguing. now john, of course, this comes after a recent crackdown on golden dawn. has there been any more reaction from them? >> no, golden dawn ha

>> fortunately alex had recently exercised and i commend administrator john pistole, they did an exercise for this type of situation just weeks before this event. i'm pleased that tsa will be undertaking a review to see what lessons can we learn from lax i look forward to discussing those results. i encourage tsa to fully engage stakeholders as part of its review, private industry has a role to play when it comes to securing airports and airplanes from bad actors. in addition, today's hearing is an opportunity to also examine some of the findings in gao's most recent report on tsa's screening passengers by observation techniques program, commonly referred to as spot. i had the opportunity to observe this program firsthand a few years ago during a visit to boston logan airport on the anniversary of 9/11. i'm a fan of