rhoades, i believe you used to work alongside former acting head ken casprisin at minneapolis-st. paul. he's stated before that thousands of airport workers who are only subject to random checks are the single greatest threat to aviation security. now t.s.a. employees are regularly rooted out from being caught rummaging through baggage or for inappropriate behavior which is obviously good we're catching them. my concern is by these reports there are only three u.s. airports that currently require employee security checks, atlanta, miami, orlando, and in atlanta they had a major gun running operation busted in 2014. additionally, we have reports there are some 73 employees at about 40 airports who potentially have terrorist ties. at some point is the t.s.a. causing more insecurity than it solves? i mean, frankly as a very frequent traveler, at that gives me concern that screening process may identify potential terrorists but yet they continue to work there. mr. rhoades: so let me try to answer that question, sir. i believe if the t.s.a. was mandated to screen every employee at airp

i can tell you at the minneapolis-st.airport, the airport police has at times begun to tabulate wait times. think of that. we are expending police resource s at our airports to check on t.s.a. reporting our wait times. and as recently as last month, the airport is investing in some sort of automated wait time calculations. that would indicate, sir, that they don't trust the numbers that we are reporting. mr. duncan: thank you very much. >> the gentlelady from new jersey, mrs. watson coleman, you are recognized. mrs. watson coleman: thank you very much. and thank you gentlemen for being here. i want to ask one question, i think it was you, mr. brainard, who said there were only a handful of really bad administrative level people. a lot of others have left. you said there is only a handful. is that 10, 12, 5? mr. brainard: less than 20. i do not know the precise number. only the people i deal with in my world. i don't speak -- strictly as an operations. i don't speak for the office of law enforcement, global strategies, or

rhoades, i believe you used to work alongside former acting head at minneapolis st. paul. he's stated before that thousands of airport workers who are only subject to random checks are the single greatest threat to aviation security. now t.s.a. employees are regularly rooted out from being caught rummaging through baggage or for inappropriate behavior which is obviously good we're catching them. my concern is by these reports there are only three u.s. airports that currently require employee security checks, atlanta, miami, orlando, and in atlanta they had a major gun running operation busted in 2014. additionally, we have reports there are some 73 employees at about 40 airports who potentially have terrorist ties. at some point is the t.s.a. causing more insecurity than it solves? i mean, frankly as a very frequent traveler, at that gives me concern that screening process may identify potential terrorists but yet they continue to work there. mr. rhoades: so let me try to answer that question, sir. i believe if the t.s.a. was mandated to screen every employee at airports i

but i just wanted to add with our own story out of minneapolis-st. paul, and it is a story, first of all, of inefficiency, so we made a reconfiguration at our airport and there were lines at one point where the average time was 45-50 minutes, average time. that meant there were passengers waiting. this is just a month ago, for two hours, for an hour and a half, missing their flights, and there were simply not enough t.s.a. agents on. they rerouted a training that was of course necessary because of the inspector general report that came out this june showing some severe problems in security at our airports. so we had a perfect storm of people out for training, a new reconfiguration and then finally the spring break travel. but it was simply unacceptable when our taxpayers have been paying for t.s.a., and in fact this congress authorized $100 million more, $90 million more than they asked for in the last budget year. i know and i have appreciated t.s.a. administrator neffenger coming to minnesota, saying that it was unacceptable, saying they were hirin

in atlanta, minneapolis, st.aul, clock an hour before tsa inspects your carry-on. >> we have very high passenger volumes. >> tsa administrator -- >> i do have consaernz but long wait times. it gathers people up. inconvenience for the traveler no small problem it pose a potential problem with respects to large crowd of people. >> earlier this year the nation's busiest, atlanta hartfield jackson fed up with the tsa woefully understaffed said it is considering privatizing the security screening process. >> we are working very hard to dramatically improve our ability to move people through, shifting resources to, to the highest volume airports. front loading our, our hiring to those airports. train more people than we have ever trained before. >> reporter: so how did we get here? one the number of fliers has grown substantially over the last couple years. the tsa has shifted its focus to enhanced screening at checkpoint instead of efficiency of moving people through the lines. also the number of screeners is capped b

let's go back to our affiliate in minneapolis- st.ide of his paisley estate. ñp>> his music will live foreve and people who are heart broken because hearts are breaking with this news. they ca' know he lived through his music and there is a variety of messages that he left. and profound message was a message of love and a message of something beyond what we experienced here. what prince would want us to feel ri)u now. he would want us to mourn, he knows he left a lasting impression with us, but after that, he would want us to celebrate his life and he transitioned to something greater. and so is while my heart is broken, i am blessed and i feel fortunate to have had wonderful memories with prince roger nelson and my condolences to his family and those close to it him. >> you say his full name. prince roger ares nelson. what was he like to have a quiet conversatrjrwith? >> he was amazing. and he was funny. he was so real you know? and versatile and a multifacetted man. we watched you movies together and we watched john oliver and diffe

i can tell you at the minneapolis-st. paul airport the airport police has begun to tabulate wait times. we're expending police resources at our airports to check on tsa reporting our wait times. and as recently as last month, the airport is investing in some sort of automated wait time calculations. that would indicate, sir, they don't trust the numbers that we're reporting. >> thank you very much. >> i thank the gentlemen. gentle lady from new jersey, ms. watson-coleman, you're recogniz recognized. >> thank you gentlemen for being here. i want to ask one question. i think it was you, mr. bernard, who said there were only a handful of really bad administrative people. a lot of others have left. you said there's only a handful. is that ten? is that 12? is that five? >> i would say it's less than 20, ma'am. i don't know the precise number. i'm speaking strictly within operations. i don't speak for the aus of law enforcement were global strategies or human capital. there are 13 or 15 different divisions within tsa. i can onl

took ill after the concert last thursday night in atlanta and on his way back home here to the minneapolis st. she was checked into a hospital in illinois. stayed overnight and released on saturday. in true prince-like fashion threw a release party, a dance party on saturday and told people to not waste their pra r prayers just yet because he felt better. something went wrong here this morning when a call was made at 9:43 local time that he was unresponsive. a lot of these fans are young and there are a will the of older fans here. the one word that a lot of people used to describe him is transcended. we see all sorts of cultures represented here young and old. black, white, hispanic. folks who took away something from his music. as a kid who grew up in the '80s, it was hard to not be infected by his style of music. there was no one playing music the way he played. i was listening to purple rain last night. it's probably my favorite rock tune. i listened to it on a loop and had no idea i would get this awful news as so many others did today. they will be mourning because they felt like he was

in minneapolis-st. paul area, so very small minority person.you're a black person you grew up in the same neighborhood. north minneapolis and or south minneapolis. this is kid i always knew. i didn't really know him. didn't inner act with him that much occasion i in school. more after we graduated from high school and we became more famous. deirdre: lauren, you could have religion. prince was very forthright about his faith. even said he feels like he was cured of epilepsy at different times. he was very strong in his faith. >> i didn't know he had epilepsy at a child. i learned recently he had epilepsy and learned that he believed he had divine intervention and healed of it. he was jehovah's witness, very much strong in his faith. didn't use drugs. didn't take alcohol. he was vegetarian. very healthy person and faithful. he his marriage, he got married the in church right around the corner where my mother lives, till lives actually. deirdre: glad you're here. nice to remember a musical genius. certainly creative icon. stacy you saw him in conc

i went to college in minneapolis/st. paul. morris day and the time, that was prince's partner. they would go out and get in run. prince could really play. everybody got so shocked when that chappel skit came out. if you're 5'2" and you are part of the reatiotation at central , you can really play. i kept thinking what's prince best known for? he's known for being dynamic and krcreative and a perfectionist. he was turnover prone. it must have driven him crazy that he couldn't say take two, let's try that again. >> we have to play this little piece from the chapelle show. >> never judge a book by its cover. this cat could ball, man. >> game, blouses. >> but he also had a great sense of humor and knew dave and was in on that econocomedy. >> it's just his love for the game. it's been amazing to see it reciproca reciprocated. the minnesota wild hockey team are in the playoffs right now. they did this tribute to the glyph. next door to the target center is one of the courts where prince would just be there playing basketball. the wn

this guy meant the world to minneapolis, st. paul.ase. the sound we associate with him will always bear the name minneapolis. >> yeah. he loved there. he had homes in other places, but that's where his roots were. famously, you can hear people in thiz neighborhood where his house is would talk about these amazing parties that he would have. and, you know, and he would invite his neighbors to these parties. imagine not only living down the street from prince, but being invited to these incredible parties at paisley park that he would have. he had one of those amazing parties this past saturday, we're hearing about from industry insiders and still waiting to see what happened at that party and beyond that that could have led to his death. we don't mow. but getting back to the fans, brian, it's such a big part of this story. in a positive way, they were almost cult-ish like. they would hang on every word on the internet of prince having a song, prince showing up somewhere. my girlfriend that i talked to earlier today who is a long-time p

prince, of course, was a fixture here in the minneapolis/st. paul twin cities area.ks have been streaming down this street all day, the street closed much of the day. they have parked across the highway and walked across this highway to pay respects to a man who was an icon of this community but really belonged to the world. ♪ purple rain purple rain >> reporter: over the years he was called many things. icon, legend, genius. even a symbol for which there was no name. tonight a music world is calling him a lost treasure. from fans outside his famous paisley park -- >> i can't believe he's gone. >> reporter: to industry giants like aretha franklin who spoke to brian soon after getting the news that prince was dead at age 57. >> prince is gone. but the music will go on. >> what was bit him, do you think? >> well, i don't know. young adults and adults loved prince. ♪ the sky was all purple there were people running everywhere ♪ >> reporter: mtv, which came into its own about the time prince was turning into a mega star in the early '80s, interrupted its programming. his

i have minneapolis/st. paullion than cruz has. now, the system is not a good system. when you take louisiana, i went to louisiana and campaigned there. i won the state. now the numbers come out and i have less delegates than cruz. that's not the american way. as you know, i won louisiana, big victory, everything great. but because of arcane rules and a lot of nonsense, i end up getting a few less delegates than cruz. that's not the way the system is supposed to work. >> three-fifths of the american people say you're right, if you have the most votes, you should bow the nominee. i'm still trying to figure out what your alternative is if you don't get it. what do you do? >> i don't think i want to tell you as much as i respect you. i did an interview at the university of pennsylvania many, many years ago -- >> this stuff doesn't work with me. >> is that a true thing? >> it's all true. you were a selecelebrity even t. >> i do like your question of leverage. my leverage is the voters, chris, just to end it. my leverage is the voters. i have millions more votes than anybod

atlanta and minneapolis/st. paul you can clock nearly an hour in your wait.ou have many airports expressing discontent with the pace at which screening is happening? >> i do have concerns about long gather people up and not an invi inconvenience for the traveler put has large crowds of people. >> reporter: earlier this year, hartsfield-jackson airport is considering privatizing the screening process. >> we will frontload our hiring and training more people than we have ever trained before. >> reporter: so how did we get here? one, the number of flyers has grown substantially over the last couple of years. the tsa has shifted its focus to enhanced screening at the checkpoint instead of efficiency of moving people through the lines. also the number of screeners is capped by congress. administrative neffinger says the agency is screening as fast as it can for open positions but acknowledges he may have to go back to congress to ask bottom line as the summer approaches, people may have to leave more time at the airport so they don't get a window seat at the termi

i got contact numbers from jake up to the minneapolis, st. paul area. a couple of his supervisors called back and basically it was general information, about the same thing as sarah saldana. two days before i came here sarah's advisor called and said she wanted to reach out to me. i told them i was not interested. what part of no don't you get? no means no. that's it. >> thank you. i see my time has expired. i think the witnesses. >> the gentleman from florida, chairman of the subcommittee on national security for five minutes. >> thank you and thanks to the witnesses. you have my sympathies. this is a terrible thing. it was preventable. had our government simply done its job, it's core duty , you guys would have your loved ones here today, and i appreciated in your testimony pointing out that this is happening across our country, and i was in law enforcement as a prosecutor, and some random american commits a crime and you want to prevented. have someone in custody and release them to whether it's early release or here in this case illegally with no ri

i have some contact numbers from jake up to the minneapolis st. paul area, a coup -- couple of his super survivors called back, much the same thing, sara sal dan i -- zare's advisor reah the out to me. i wasn't interested a day or two days later what part of no, don't you get. no, means no. that's it. thank you. >> thank you for your testimony. i see my time expired. i thank the witnesses. >> we'll go to mr. desantos, chairman of subcommittee on national security. recognize him for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to the witnesses. my sympathies. the thing is, what gets me, it was preventable, had our government simply done its job, our core duties you would have your loved ones here today. i appreciate, miss hartling, in your testimony this is happening across our country. i was in law enforcement as a prosecutor. if it is just some random american commit as crime we want to prevent it. when you have somebody in custody and you release them, when they're early release as criminal in the normal justice system or here in this cas

professionally comment on how much those resources would require, but what i can say is that the minneapolis/st. paul airport, there are i believe over 10,000 people that work at that airport. obviously some of them come during various times of the day and various shifts, and certainly the insider threat has received a new focus based upon world events. but i will say we are resourced in fte. i'm unqualified to comment whether we should also receive resources in that but i can say that's not our specific focus. >> let me put it this way. obviously we're talking about basic screening, right? >> yes, sir. >> every staff member that works here goes through screening to get into an office here, and in terms of being able to do their job, if you know you have to go through a screening process, you show up early. is that unreasonable? >> no, that's not unreasonable, sir. i think what our administrator has done rightfully so is reducing some of those access points at those airports. if you're aside of side badges and various access points, those are available to some employees. however, again, i don't