former vice president joe biden spoke glowingly about the congressman. admired almost everyone i work with, but a few that i look up to. who i knew that i were better n i was. more successful at what they set out to do than i was. and john dingell for that man. congressman dingell who served in the army will be laid to rest at arlington national cemetery before a second funeral services held in d.c. on thursday. shepard: the north korean reportedly beefing up their bomb ingredients. but, the top commander of u.s. forces in that region says officials have made little to no effort i should say, have been made little no change to the country s military capabilities. he adds that overall, tensions there have decreased. he did say, the country s
welcome back in the crossfire tonight lawrence korb and michael reagan. we re following tonight s breaking news. cnn has learned airlines are being warned about possible bomb ingredients in toothpaste or cosmetics tubes travelers are taking to the olympics. let s go to sochi, russia, with cnn s nick paton walsh for the latest. nick, we ve heard so much about the ring of steel, a security blanket around the site of the games there. do you know if the russians are recalculating their security plan now in light of the toothpaste tube threat? they certainly say they ve done everything they possibly could already to make this games the safest. 37,000 security officials coming here. we ve seen helicopters yesterday rotating around the sky, three at a time. three surveillance balloons up in the air as well. and an internet dragnet as well
welcome to crossfire. i m sally kohn on the left. i m s.e. cupp on the right. there s breaking news tonight. cnn learns that airlines are being warned to be on the lookout for possible bomb ingredients in toothpaste tubes that travelers are taking to the olympics. moments ago peter king, a senior member of the house homeland security committee, gave this disturbing account of russia s failure to fully cooperate with the united states. they are not sharing enough intelligence or virtually any intelligence with us as to what s happening within russia. they re afraid that somehow we will use that to our advantage. we are getting some information about what s happening outside of russia, some external threats, that type thing or potential threats. i don t want to overstate that. but we have very close relationship with our allies other than the russians, but the russians the, for instance, are cooperating nowhere nearly the british did, the chinese did, the greeks did. let s brin
there have been a few cases that happened and of course there have been questions about if this is such a serious terrorism case and plot, why are the feds not getting more directly involved. police say he was able to buy bomb ingredients and images of what they said they recovered from him. he has been under surveillance a long while achl year or more. that s the key. regardless of what did the investigation, there is a lot of evidence here. this guy left a long trail online of his thoughts and interest in bomb-making and interest in al qaeda. this was something that was videotaped as he was building. is this the next osama bin laden? that might be overstating the case. the nypd did feel where he was ready to hurt people. what are more did we know about his background. he was an al qaeda sympathizer, but he is a dominican republican
speaker boehner delayed the vote presumably because he didn t have the votes. the house is in recess as you see from the live feed being sent to us from the government. we are hearing a vote would still come tonight the moment it happens we will bring it to you live from capitol hill on the fox report. first army officials indicate a soldier now in custody is admitting that he was planning to attack military personnel at fort hood in texas. investigators say it looks to them like he had the tools to make it happen including the guns and bomb ingredients. in fact, he may very well have succeeded had it been for a former police officer. this former cops works as a clerk at a gun store. the same gun store where major nidal hasan bought the weapons before he is accused of going on his shooting spree at fort hood in 2009. and this retired officer says he alerted investigators after the soldier bought a shotgun, i should say bought shotgun ammunition, a handgun clip. and smokeless gunpowde