. >> for both vaughn alex at dulles and mike touhey in portland, something just didn't seem right. >> i looked and i says if this guy don't look line like an arab terrorist nobody does. >> but this was pre9/11. >> and i said, that's not a nice thing to think. in this day and age, you've dealt with thousands of piece arabics and sheiks and muslims. it's not nice to think like that. just a couple of guys heading out of town. but he did give me a creepy feeling, you know. >> if i had somebody i wasn't comfortable with, i would follow them over to security and sometimes give a high sign to one of the security guys. >> did you consider doing that? >> i did. as they left the ticket counter i stepped off the ticket counter and followed them for about three steps, caught myself. i said, why am i doing this? am i really sure that there might be something wrong? or am i doing this for other reasons that -- because they're foreign or non-english-speaking? >> i mean, you caught yourself thinking, am i racial profiling, basically, right? >> i caught myself thinking, yeah, am i doing this for a rac