trump as bumbling character. he gets to decide what s secret. it s true. assume the rumbling we are hearing is true, melissa. that what happened here is that israel told the united states that isis had developed a new battery and computers that is a perfect bomb to bring down a commercial airliner. why wouldn t the president of the united states share that with russia? we have an enemy in common. isis is the enemy in common. the president of the united states is the person that gets to decide what is classified or not. that s an executive function. it really irks me. for the first time i am really believing now that the leaks are a bigger story than the substance of what is leaked. so let s assume that s what he did. told the russians that the isis has the computer bomb. the worst thing is someone heard him tell the russians and ratted him out to the washington post. melissa: let me tell you two things people would say that was
computer bomb. it was about a month and a half ago where there was a travel restriction that was placed on people bringing personal devices on to planes from ten particular airports which were named. we know that al qaeda of the arabian peninsula has a bomb maker who is developing a technology that is possibly being shared with other terrorist groups in the region. so there happens to be a whole lot of information that is available on open source, that s well-known. the real question is what was provided beyond that? i don t know the answer. to answer that question, some of your colleagues in congress want to see the transcripts. they are asking the white house to turn over transcripts to congress. is that something you support? i don t have any issue at all. i d be happy to read those transcripts. that would answer my question, if these transcripts exist. i don t know what else was discussed at that meeting or any
information. it s not always specific and credible. so they have to kind of gauge their response on a sliding scale. so his response they re going to add some new measures for particular flights but they re not going to raise it to the highest level here. so i think if you re planning to travel to the u.s., the intelligence officials i talk to say no one should be panicking here but this is just an abundance of caution getting the information out there to airlines. i want to bring in former homeland security adviser fran townsend currently sits on the dhs external advisory boards. you ve been there, fran, when threats like this come in. why go public with this? does that surprise you? it s interesting. as you talk to folks inside the law enforcement community and homeland security community, they say they ve been watching this, right? we ve heard about al qaeda and its affiliates, particularly al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, looking to develop new bomb techniques and methods to
intelligence officials i talk to say no one should be panicking here but this is just an abundance of caution getting the information out there to airlines. i want to bring in former homeland security adviser fran townsend currently sits on the dhs external advisory boards. you ve been there, fran, when threats like this come in. why go public with this? does that surprise you? it s interesting. as you talk to folks inside the law enforcement community and homeland security community, they say they ve been watching this, right? we ve heard about al qaeda and its affiliates, particularly al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, looking to develop new bomb techniques and methods to get past our screening procedures. you saw the computer bomb and underwear bomb. this has been sort of a recurring theme. this has been growing over the last several weeks. we heard the threat in the toothpaste tubes. they ve been looking at what are the methods they re looking at to smuggle explosives onto a pl
highest level here. so i think if you re planning to travel to the u.s., the intelligence officials i talk to say no one should be panicking here but this is just an abundance of caution getting the information out there to airlines. i want to bring in former homeland security adviser fran townsend currently sits on the dhs external advisory boards. you ve been there, fran, when threats like this come in. why go public with this? does that surprise you? it s interesting. as you talk to folks inside the law enforcement community and homeland security community, they say they ve been watching this, right? we ve heard about al qaeda and its affiliates, particularly al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, looking to develop new bomb techniques and methods to get past our screening procedures. you saw the computer bomb and underwear bomb. this has been sort of a recurring theme. this has been growing over the last several weeks. we heard the threat in the toothpaste tubes. they ve been look