fighting ice snis. i m not sure it would. this has been a fear of ours for quite some time. predominantly we ve been focused frankly on al qaeda s efforts to bring down aircraft. but i do think it points up the need not only to harden the defenses at airports around the world, but steve, there s still a lot more work i believe we should be doing at our airports here at home. we re not at all at the point i d like to see us in terms of our preparedness, our security precautions. so this is an area that i think still remains a vulnerability for the united states and for other nations around the world. i m curious actually on that point. you say do more at airports around the country. anybody who flies regularly knows we have often very long lines to go through security. you ve got those body scanners. you take off your shoes. you take off your belt. what sort of measures are you talking about? well, it s not necessarily that we need different measures. it s just that we need to mak
i went over to russia to ask its leaders in the ministry of foreign affairs to work with us in syria to make sure we weren t, you know, engaging our planes with one another so we could avoid a problem and make sure if they were genuine about wanting to go after isis that we could do so together. but so far they have shown no willingness to want to work with us on that. they want to, you know, prop up assad and be complicit in the slaughtering that he s been doing of many innocent people. so i think hopefully if this tragedy indeed was caused by i.c.e. i see isis i see an opportunity for the united states, russia and our coalition partners to rethink what s going on in syria and try to remove assad, have a restart, try to get that country back up on its feet. all right. congressman eric swalwell, thank you for joining us. thank you. and joining me now in studio is senior fellow former ambassador, excuse me, former ambassador to morocco mark
standar standards. however, i think anybody would tell you that if you truly want to smuggle a bomb on board a plane you can do it. we ve seen gaping holes in security, in europe, in the united states, in asia. so to the extent that this security may or may not have been flawed at sharm el-sheikh i think is clearly now on the able and you have international teams including the russians and ikeo, by the way, examining security both at sharm el-sheikh and also at cairo. tom costello, thank you very much for your time. and coming up we re going to bring you more on the russian passenger plane crash as this story develops. senators lindsey graham and al franken weigh in on the news that it may have been taken down by a bomb. plus our other big story of the day, super tuesday. it brought huge wins for republicans across the country. what were the conservative causes that won big last night? and what could that mean for 2016? that s coming up. well, right now you can get 15 gigs for the pr
it was an off-year election, so a lot of states didn t have marquee races. but there were a few very important races, a few very important ballot questions last night. and one thing that jumped out at us has to do with a question about the changing culture in this country. we ve heard so much in the last few years, really over the last decade about the pace of cultural change. this country becoming more liberal in many ways on social issues. this is the year of course that the supreme court said that gay marriage is legal everywhere in this country. that s something that s been building very quick ly over the last few years. this is the year of caitlyn jenner, of bruce jenner transitioning into a woman. a lot of discussion on that topic about transgender rights. so last night was interesting because in three different races the conservative side of the social argument won. it seems as if in three place as cross the country conservatives were saying let s put the brakes on the pace of s
they will be met with some reluctance and maybe many people simply not believing those results because of now this report out of number 10 downing street and then u.s. intelligence that a bomb may, may have played a role. right. and of course people will always make that connection. russia sends military forces into syria and then a few weeks later this is what happens in egypt. but quickly mentioning the security situation at this airport where this plane took off from what was the reputation before this? did it have a good reputation for security or was this something that people were already pointing at and saying this is just a problem waiting to help? i don t think anybody overtly said, at least that i m not aware of, that it s a problem waiting to happen. but i ve also heard anecdotally over the years it s not the strongest, it s not the tightest security. i will tell you, any airline that flies to the united states from another country, that originating airport must subscr