They share their side of the story. Good saturday morning to you. Thanks for staying with us. Nice to be be with you. Welcome to americas news headquarters from washington. This programming note. Neil cavuto and the cost of freedom will air at a special time today beginning at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Meanwhile, a somber day in delaware and across the nation as the funeral of beau biden is set to begin in delaware. The 46yearold son of the Vice President died one week ago after a twoyear battle with brain cancer. Doug mckelway is standing by in the familys hometown of wilmington where people are beginning to arrive for services. Doug . Reporter hi, elizabeth. Weve just gotten word that the president and first family have arrived at the Delaware Air National guard air base here outside of wilmington and should be arriving at the church momentarily where people are already being seated in the pews inside the church. It is difficult to imagine the totality of the grief that the biden family mu
Just a short time ago. He and the first lady boarded air force one to go to wilmington. The white house says mr. Obama will honor delawares former attorney general as a remarkable son, father and public servant. Cnn National Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty is going to be with us in a bit. But we do want to get right now to Douglas Brinkley and talk to you, douglas, if we could, please about beau biden and the legacy that he leaves. Well in some ways its fitting that todays dday. Because day of we think of as a great day of military service and beau biden, who had an opportunity to stay in politics stay in delaware make money, work in a law firm decided to dedicate his life to public service. In his mind that meant joining the national guard. That meant becoming a major in the armed forces and serving overseas duty in iraq. So doods funeral will have a military feel to it. But its also he was a religious man. A child of Roman Catholicism. Somebody who believed in god and jesus christ. And
70 attempts to smuggle a mock weapon through, they were able to 67 tiles. 95 failure rate is astonishing failure. The issue is is this mechanical failure with equipment, personnel or training issue, complacent say issue . Any of us that have gone through check points wonder at what point do your eyes glaze over if doing that job and you dont Pay Attention . Is it all of the above or Management Issues as well . Thats what the tsa is dealing with. Homeland security requiring immediate changes as it relates to supervisors, training, checking and maintaining the equipment. Theyre recognizing they have to do a a top to bottom review of their personnel and of their procedures following this report. They take our water away yet theyre letting bombs and weapons through. When i talked to former tsa chief about that he would say keep in mind in his words, those doing probing are what he calls super terrorists. They work for homeland security. They know the vulnerabilityies that airports and tsa
Caucuses. Many of them are unity sided. Please welcome former Vice President joe biden. Thank you, erin. Great to see you. Great to see you. [ applause ] we got a good crowd. Great crowd. Good to be back. Good crowd on a poll night. Thank you. Are you ready . Ready, get set, go. So lets get started and get straight to our audience. Vice president , of course today is veterans day and we honor all those who serve and have served this great country. The first question we have tonight is from dave degner, served in the u. S. Army reserve for nine years and spent 15 years as a truck driver. Hes currently running for state senate here in iowa and is the Democratic Party chair and is teaching at a local Community College while attending the university of Northern Iowa full time. Go ahead with your question. How do you have time to even come and ask a question . God love you. Thank you for your service. Ill make time for you, mr. Vice president. As she said, as a 42yearold veteran who enliste