Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
those were ahis word. seems like it would have been a much bigger deal for the president of the united states and would have merited him sitting down with putin saying what the heck are you doing and if you re going to continue to do this, we re going to get involved. that is a fair criticism, that even some democrats like adam schiff, diane feinstein, have leveled against the president, that he waited too long to launch the sanctions and punish russia. but i just want to get your personal understanding to you agree with this line from this report. we further assess that putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump, we have high confidence in these judgments. do you agree with that? i would accept that. but, you know, again now that we have this report, can we get i don t understand i don t understand the political side of it and say what are we going to do from this point forward.i do