i would like to thank the committee chairman, the ranking member, richard hudson and congresswoman sheila jackson-lee who is sitting in for organizing this here. i want to begin by joining with my colleagues to honor the life and service of gerardo fernandez a tsa officer who was killed in the line of duty on november 1. i offer my deepest condolences to his family and friends and want to honor all the tso's and other first responders who risked their lives to stabilize the situation. this hearing follows the release of two reports of the incident, one by the los angeles world airports and the other by the tsa administration. i am concerned about some of what was revealed in those reports. i am not -- because those things that were revealed, whether it is the red telephone or the panic buttons or even the interoperability are things that can be fixed. i think that ms. lindsay and chief tenant have already talked about a quick response to those kinds of things. they had the resource to do it, and they will certainly knew it. i would like to spend a moment if i may to talk about the need fo

i would like to thank the committee chairman, the ranking ander, richard hudson congresswoman sheila jackson-lee who is sitting in for organizing .his here by joining with my colleagues to honor the life and service of gerardo fernandez a tsa officer who was killed in the line of duty on november 1. i offer my deepest condolences to his family and friends and 's ando honor all the tso other first responders who risked their lives to stabilize the situation. this hearing follows the release of two reports of the incident, one by the los angeles world airports and the other by the tsa administration. i am concerned about some of what was revealed in those reports. i am not -- because those things that were revealed, whether it is the red telephone or the panic buttons or even the interoperability are things that can be fixed. i think that ms. lindsay and chief tenant have already talked about a quick response to those kinds of things. they had the resource to do it, and they will certainly knew it. i would like to spend a moment about the need for a consistent law enforcement presence

i would like to thank the committee chairman, the ranking member, richard hudson and congresswoman sheila jackson-lee who is sitting in for organizing -- ranking member and for organizing this here. i want to begin by joining with my colleagues to honor the life and service of gerardo i'd like to spend a moment if i need for a about the consistent law enforcement at t.s.a. passenger screening checkpoints such as the one where officer hernz was killed. i know that there are diffce

i'd like to thank michael mccaul, richard hudson and congresswoman sheila jackson lee who's sitting in for ranking member cedric richmond for organizing this hearing entitled "lessons from the lax shooting: preparing for and responding to emergencies at airports." i want to begin by joining with my colleagues to honor the life of he around doe hernandez who was killed in the line of duty during the active shooter incident on november 1st, and i offer my deepest condolences to his family and friends, also honor all of the tsos and other first responders who risked their lives to stabilize the situation and protect the public on that tragic day. this hearing follows the release of two reports on the november 1st incident, one by the los angeles world airports and the other by the transportation security administration. and i am concerned about some of what was revealed many those reports -- in those reports. but i'm not worried because those things that were revealed whether it's the red telephone or the panic buttons or even the inoperability are things that can be fixed. and i think th

american goodwill association and we also have richard white's he is a senior fellow and director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want richard before we go into the broader discussion of whether crisis in ukraine we keep hearing in media that within days russia could possibly invade eastern ukraine and southern ukraine of the poles want ten thousand nato troops on the ground permanently the baltic states they want more air cover eccentrics such oh and don't let's not forget georgian azerbaijan and armenia are getting more nato assistance i mean are we really at this kind of crisis level here . reports that i read are not that russia will invade ukraine in next three or four days is that russia has the capacity given its troop deployments and what it demonstrated its pretty effective operation to engage in another off offensive operation if it so decided in three or four days and would probably be able to seize whatever territory it had in mind in part of eastern ukraine so i think that's the concern that the russian fo