with that, i now recognize the chairman of the subcommittee on aviation infrastructure, mr. petri, for his opening statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you for organizing this important hearing and doing so with the transportation committee. after 9/11, the transportation committee held a number of hearings to attempt to determine what happened and what needed to be done. and it became very clear at those hearings that the then existing federal policy of requiring easy access to the cockpit in case there was a medical emergency or something of that sort was not the most secure way to go. that policy was changed, and now our cockpits are hardened. that is to say it's very difficult for a passenger to take over an airplane and turn it into a weapon, as happened at 9/11. that in my opinion is the most significant security change since that time. beyond that, of course, people can go on airplanes and possibly take a plane down, can create whis chief, become a hara-kiri person, as they could if they were to go to a football stadium or on a cruise liner or any other so

petri voted for him. >> yeah. andy you are on the stephanie miller. >> hi, everybody. three things first of all mrand doesn't like me. because they felt i done a hatchet job on this. [ laughter ] >> second, i would like to tell you something i didn't really overhear at a secret republican meeting i didn't really go to. it is called the three ss, the litmus test. keep them sick, keep them stupid, and keep them scared. >> yeah, like you say i don't think it has ever been so blatant. i remember when they cheered that we lost the olympics, because the olympics would have been in chicago. >> yeah, they are routing for the economy to fail. i mean what is that? >> yeah, exactly. back with remaining moments with rob reiner live in studio on the "stephanie miller show." >> announcer: she is your human prozac. it's the "stephanie miller show." ♪ [[vo]]cenk uygur calls out the mainstream media. >>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal." we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. it's completely inapp