i asked myself, does the crew have that training, talon, background, discipline? have they got a good night's sleep silicon handle situations? i had a pilot, dear friend of mine who flew small planes. he said to me, flying is hours and hours of boredom followed by moments of sheer terror. that always stuck with me. i ask myself, it does the crew know when they're entering a situation that is beyond their capability? or their airplanes capability? are they trained well enough and they have the talent and experience and background to see this situation and say, i am not going to expose my passengers to that risk, i don't care what somebody above me is trying to set? and those are the things i hope to accomplish in this hearing. my hope is we focus on some of those questions and others, and i will wrapup by saying, mr. chairman, thank you for calling this such important topic and i'm just glad be here today. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i will be very brief. i will be looking at this from two perspectives, one as the united states senator, and one who lost a family me

way to blot out all this propaganda from the government and it's certainly there and it's the evil talons gripping the world and this is what is part of their propaganda tomb. on the streets i found people were really, really welcoming to us. we went to a little village and the villagers -- the big city iranian tourists were complaining the villages were more friendly to the americans than to the actual iranians that were visiting. they would let us take their picture and not the people from the big city of iran who came to see the famous little village. this is the rich girl from tehran who had to take a picture of me because she couldn't take a picture of the villagers. [laughter] >> now, when i'm working i'm just so energized by what i'm doing how how many people will see it. i'd get more good pictures. it was great and after a week he said, mr. rick, when you make this with your thumb it's like if i was to give you the finger, okay? [laughter] >> quirky insights when you go to different countries you never learn about. there's not a urinal in the entire country and i had a personal qu