age of 30, and he s got a following among the young people of saudi arabia. and he s made dramatic measures to curb the power, the intrusiveness of the religious police. who have always been sort of an arm of the government. and he s trying to move women out of the 18th century and into the economy and into some form of public life. so there is room to argue that if he pulls this off saudi arabia will be immensely better in the coming 25 years, but for now most of his initiatives have not worked. general, in 30 seconds or less, how will you know? what indicator are you looking for? well, i think all of us ought to be extremely concerned that saudi arabia remains not only just a huge source of energy in the world supply system and by the way, the price of a barrel of oil went up $57 today.
think, make a fair judgment about whether it s too aggressive or not. it was certainly aggressive. as someone who worked with the fbi, when you hear the president saying the manafort raid was tough stuff, the fact that they went in so early, they went to his home, is it particularly unusual? i mean, isn t that how the fbi raids i mean, wouldn t they go in early? is that a particularly unusual case? this is not excessive. i ll disagree with some of the comments earlier. number one, as i mentioned last night, director mueller doesn t send messages. he has to go to a magistrate and say, we re going to do something, there s a term that we use in the investigative business, intrusiveness. extremely intrusive. if i look at your facebook page, not very intrusive. if i read your e-mail, or go into your home at 6:00 a.m., extremely intrusive. the judge will say, you have pretty good evidence at 6:00 a.m. whatever the judge saw was significant. the other issue, i m not going
have to go through because of these terrible random acts of terrorism. it s a very vexing problem and the other issue is 100,000 flights a day around the world, about 10 million people get on airplanes every day. that is an enormous logistics exercise to increase further the intrusiveness of security checking. we have to go through at the moment. and what about cctv, as well, some suggestion that perhaps he had gone into the bathroom before opening fire on the terrified people in this terminal. perhaps more cctv or perhaps more collaboration between social media agencies and authorities, airport authorities, would just help provide a bigger picture of when attacks could be in the offing. yes, that s a possibility. although, you know, in the few seconds to pull a gun out of a bag, what cctv could do with the
a society? yes, we place a value on security and human individual liberty. those are coming into conflict now, big time. you are going to see more and more intrusiveness and more intelligence. more profiling take place. you say this as fact. i think we are going to do it. i don t think we should, i think we are going to do that. i think that is a destruction of the american dream. but i think it is taking place. that is a pretty depressing way of putting it. what are we promoting on television and the media and the blog?
nefarious. now, senator, meanwhile, back in the states, the tsa here at home has been under scrutiny even before the crash. we now know it failed in a series of undercover tests in september to discover contraband. how confident are you that homeland security is on top of its game when it comes to u.s. airport security? well, look. i think homeland security and all of our security forces try to bring to bear as much intrusiveness as possible so that we can detect or uncover a plot. but we ve got to be vigilant. and every time there s an incident, every time there s a news event, that, i think, informs us about other ways we re going to have to be vigilant. this may be one of them. i m afraid it might be one of those incidents where it will affect the united states in terms of how we examine folks as they re getting on airplanes. but i think it s still a little bit premature to make that assessment. both with regard to what we do