in the wake of the death of osama bin laden, the question now is what will it take to truly defeat? al qaeda. joining me now is representative peter king, chairman of the homeland security committee. thank you for joining me. before we get to that big question, tell me what your view is about pictures of a dead bin laden. would you release them? this is not a major with me, but i have spoken to people who have seen the pictures, and i think it is important to get out the picture of his face. my understanding is that it does not look ghoulish or it s not going to terrify people. and like you, you know, you mention the conspiracy theorists. i think one way to head that off or at least to minimize it would be to put the picture out so it doesn t look as if we re hiding anything. if it were something that were particularly brutal to look at, i would say, no, it might be offensive. but from what i ve heard from people who have seen it, it s probably the right thing to release it. that s u
think it is important to get out the picture of his face. my understanding is that it does not look ghoulish or it s not going to terrify people. and like you, you know, you mention the conspiracy theorists. i think one way to head that off or at least to minimize it would be to put the picture out so it doesn t look as if we re hiding anything. if it were something that were particularly brutal to look at, i would say, no, it might be offensive. but from what i ve heard from people who have seen it, it s probably the right thing to release it. that s up to the administration. but from what i know, i would say yes. i don t really understand the difference, to be honest with you, in terms of potential propaganda use between killing bin laden and releasing a picture of him dead. i mean, it s the same thing, isn t it? i agree. again, if it were horribly distorted or something really brutal, i could see why people may find it offensive, it can stir up emotions, was to me, it
supreme court justices have to file disclosure forms listing mcincome of their spouse. listing income of their spouses. he did not understand the forms to require his wife s income to be disclosed. it wasn t that he was hiding anything. about it was a significant mistake. but delays huge difference between saying somebody is unethical, that they have to leave the bench and recuse themselves from cases. the problem with this kind of argument is it trivializes real problems of judicial integrity. we want when there is a genuine issue in the supreme court or any other court to be able to raise it as a major issue to get the justice recused. but if they are constantly saying justice thomas has to get out of healthcare and elain he a
working closely with the japanese because of the obvious concern this could have around the world. i think it would be very hard not to mention extremely foolish for the japanese authorities of tokyo, the japanese nuclear regulatory officials to be hiding anything. because eventually this will come out one way or another. what they need and i hope what they want is assistance in dealing with this problem and prehaven t it from getting worse. alisyn: they are issuing wildly conflicting reports. over the weekend the chief cabinet secretary said, quote, a partial meltdown was likely underway. then the prime minister s office said there was no meltdown and quote the situation is under control. so how do we know where the truth lies. those are the politicians talking. you are getting them what you usually get from politicians. what i m referring to are the certain communications between
possible infrastructure change to trains, buses at government buildings now sounds a little ridiculous. i want to hear why they don t work. if you look at the i mages you can see if they re hiding anything. we ve been talking to el al authorities talking about how these bombs have been able to get through situations and the machines and hav t stopped them. does the tsa catch terrorists or is that done by intelligence? it may find a gun or knife as in the case of the jonas brothers but does the tsa stop terrorism? that can be debated. we re talking mostly domestic travel here. most of the incidents are coming from international travel and that we re not doing much about. something to think about. we all ride the trains. i don t know if you do at home. back where i grew up, we don t have mass transit systems but here up north, everybody relies on the trains or subways. it s something to think about.