go to contrave.com. st . back with our prit cal encounter terrorism experts as we follow new and alarming breaking new. retired general john kelly is warning the ban on laptop computers and other electronings aboard some airline flights could expand. there s growing concern can he says terrorists may have come up with a way to hide bombs in electronic s battery compartments. the threat is real, and this thing could expand, and i m looking at it three, four, five six times a day. it is the thing that keeps me awake at night. how worried she americans be, phil? let s give you a report card on national security. if you look at the stuff we talked about, stuff like north korea, people coming across the southern border, southern border gets a d, north korea is a b moving up. they don t have the capability yet to reach the continental
shows can evade some commonly used airport screening machines. now terror bombmakers have come up with a way to hide explosives in the battery compartments but still have the lap top turned on long enough to get past the screeners. in december, fbi experts report that they tested different layers of explosive configurations to see how difficult it would be for airport screeners to detect them. using tsa rated machines, the test found that the machine had a far more difficult time detecting these types of now bombs, anderson. and there s new information about how terrorists are perfecting their skills? reporter: there s a number of things going on here tonight, anderson. there is information that these terror groups have been able to gain some access to airport screening equipment. what does that do for them? it allows them to basically test a device that they fabricate and see how far they can go to get it past airport screening, now this was part, part of what led
asking if president trump imposed a litmus test before nominating him. that was a line of inquiry that gorsuch shut down. have you ever met president trump personally? not until my interview. in that interview did he ever ask you to overview row v. wade? no, senator. what would you have done if he had asked? senator, i would have knocked out the door. that s not what judges do. they don t at that end of pennsylvania avenue or this end either. judge gorsuch said he flatly rejects litmus tests in general and saying it s not something that judges do. the senators will hear from witnesses and a vote is expected april 3rd. dave and christine. cnn has learned an al qaeda affiliate is perfecting techniques for hiding explosives in batteries and battery
aqap, al qaeda in the arabian pence larinsul peninsula, terrorists there are perfecting techniques for hiding explosives in batteries and battery compartments of laptops and other devices. i ll speak wbt all these stories, much more with senator sheldon whitehouse, he s a key democrat on the judiciary committee. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by as we cover all the news that s breaking right now. first, let s go to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly with more on the health care battle that s coming to a head. phil, the president s dealmaking skills, they are certainly being put to the test right now. r reporter: no question about it, wolf, they re very much a work in progress. one house leadership aide telling me a short while ago we re simply not there yet when it comes to the votes but today, today was the day they were waiting for. the president pitching the hard sell trying to get this across the finish line. can you get the votes, mr. presi
for hiding explosives in batteries and battery compartments of laptops and other commercial electronic devices. thank you very much. we ll be speaking with someone who was briefed on this in just a moment. they are taking this seriously. our other breaking story at this hour, where is the proof? the white house tonight dismissing calls for the evidence to back up president trump s charge that president obama wiretapped him. james comey of course says there s nothing to it. the national security director says there s nothing to it. despite that damning testimony and the fact that virtually no one is standing by trump s accusation but his own press secretary, the president and sean spicer aren t backing down. we asked where is trump s proof? the president telling fox news six days ago they would share information with the house intelligence committee soon and also promised this. i think you re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the