every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt there s good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterrorism. the big question how worried should we be that this bomb and others like it would not be detected by current safeguards. this i.ed was a threat from the standpoint of the design we ve been able to determine and so now we re trying to make sure that we take the measures that we need to to prevent any other type of ied from getting through security procedures. so will ramped up vigilance m
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take on iran. joe biden speaking out about blind chinese activist. they wanted to stick to their commitment to bring chen to the united states and bring his family with him. heather: the u.s. border patrol taking heat for a tactic on the u.s. border with mexico. agents under fire for nabbing illegal immigrants in arizona and then sending them to texas and california before deporting them back to mexico. they say the tactic deters illegal immigrants from trying to re-enter the u.s. they say it puts vulnerable people in danger. casey stegall is live in los angeles with more. reporter: this program is called lateral repatriation. once it s determined that an illegal immigrant does not have a criminal background they may
between the american and chinese governments off blind chinese lawyer and dissident guangcheng he scaped house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy. it was on the eve of hillary clinton s trip to china, making it more fraught. deal to release chen, that deal fell apart. chen s friends and allies took to twitter to express concern that he would be double-crossed. and now it looks like china will grant chen a visit to come study law in the u.s. but the basic contours of the story triggered a predictable round of campaign recrimination. it s hard not to view the tale in moral terms. forced abortions and sterilizations, so desperate for freedoms, he climbs a wall, even though he s blind, badly injures his foot and limps his way to the u.s. embassy, hoping against hope to be welcomed into the free world, only to find himself caught up in the delicate
why lyndon baines johnson could get things done in washington and the lessons for today. and is china changing from a company into a country? i ll explain. first, here s my take. whatever you thought of president obama s speech on afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead, al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. so finally, after a decade, we seem to be right-sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? while we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or re