tom, are you angry seeing the agency you once helped lead have such enormous breakdowns, our breaking news today? especially when it s simply a matter of funding and will to get it done. as i say, even during my tenure going back a number of years now, this was a known gap in security. it s something that definitely needs to be closed. just think of someone who, in this particular instance, mr. harvey, carrying very likely a backpack, toolbox, something like that, he s coming onto the secure area of an airport and conducting this kind of activity. this just as easily could have been explosives as guns. absolutely. there are so many people around the world who are watching us who have to be thinking and scratching their heads, are americans that stupid? we have a lot of money, what are you talking about here? is no one fighting to put the money where they need to put it
surveillance. nypd was running an operation to figure out where they were coming from and the gun runner was selling them to someone who thought they were being sold on the street and in fact they were being bought by nypd officers. on the other end according to federal officials was a 31-year-old baggage handler for the airline. eugene harvey who agreed to help the former delta employee who actually sneaking the guns on the flights to new york sell them on the streets. according to court documents, two weeks ago, he used his airport security fwooj enter the enter the terminal and go to the restroom on one of the concourses. the men who was running that entered the same bathroom and walked out a minute later with 18 hand guns in his carry on. the a parent handoff allowed the smuggler to get the guns after going through tsa screening with an empty backpack. they say surveillance shows what
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eugene harvey sent text messages to each other about the meeting location. and harvey told henry i m going upstairs now. henry said i m coming. so they met in the bathroom of one of the concourse there and they exchanged the guns. so the next video, the next clip you re going to see, harvey n now i m sorry, henry now has the guns in his knapsack and he s heading to catch the flight to kennedy. this is henry on the left walking towards this flight. he has a knapsack on, and he has a bag in his hand. that s mark henry right there. the next clip you re going to see, this is a still photo. henry is walking to his flight with the guns in his knapsack. now, you re going to see him boarding the flight to jfk.
it s a five-man operation here. allegedly an airline worker abusing his special airport access, loading up bags and bags of high-powered guns, some of them loaded and smuggling them onto an airplane. several airplanes. it s an alarming breach. reporter: if they can put gun on planes this time, they could have easily put bombs on those planes. here s how authority says it happened. eugene harvey, with a backpack full of guns, uses his badge to enter the secure area of the atlanta air pofrt port bypassing security checkpoints. most airline employees undergo