Shows can evade some commonly used airport screening machines. Now terror bombmakers have come up with a way to hide explosives in the battery compartments but still have the lap top turned on long enough to get past the screeners. In december, fbi experts report that they tested different layers of explosive configurations to see how difficult it would be for airport screeners to detect them. Using tsa rated machines, the test found that the machine had a far more difficult time detecting these types of now bombs, anderson. And theres new information about how terrorists are perfecting their skills . Reporter theres a number of things going on here tonight, anderson. There is information that these terror groups have been able to gain some access to airport screening equipment. What does that do for them . It allows them to basically test a device that they fabricate and see how far they can go to get it past airport screening, now this was part, part of what led to the ban of several
Until he died too in 2008. But for all the problems that guinea has had as a country, for all that all the challenges it has struggled through, guineas Natural Resources have not really been a help thus far. Yes, they do have the Worlds Largest untapped deposits of iron ore but that has not necessarily turned out to be a good thing for them. Mostly what it has turned out to be for them is a scandal and a crime. And now that part of it is becoming part of our president ial politics here in america. Reporter Jesse Drucker has a remarkable piece that just posted this afternoon in the New York Times. Its about more potentially criminal trailing ends that seem to have followed our new first family into their new lives in the white house. And although a lot of that story is about this remote west african country of guinea, my favorite part of the story actually takes place in jacksonville, florida. At the jacksonville, florida, airport. Just a few years ago, 2013, the widow of one of the pas
New york times. Its about more potentially criminal trailing ends that seem to have followed our new first family into their new lives in the white house. And although a lot of that story is about this remote west african country of guinea, my favorite part of the story actually takes place in jacksonville, florida. At the jacksonville, florida, airport. Just a few years ago, 2013, the widow of one of the past dictate ers of dinny, the widow of the dictator who died in 2008, she became a cooperating witness for the fbi. One day in the spring of 2013, she put on a wire. The fbi wired her up so they could surveil and tape her conversation. And she went to the Jacksonville Airport. And she had a meeting at a diner at the Jacksonville Airport with a representative from a Large Mining Company with interests in her home country and in that big iron ore deposit. In 2008, guinea had awarded to this company the exploration rights to half of that gigantic deposit of iron ore. It was a little bit
Health care not as an urgent daily concern for the people hes supposed to be serving, but as a political bargaining chip. Here he was after the first Gop Health Care bill fell apart. The best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. It is exploding right now. I think what will happen is obamacare unfortunately will explode. Its going to have a very bad year. So what would be really good, with no democrat support, if the democrats, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real Health Care Bill. The Affordable Care act is not exploding. According to analysis by the congressional budget office, the exchanges despite their problems arent in the much touted death spiral. So the president has been essentially threatening to make the aca explode himself. Floating a plan to withhold those payments to insurers, likely causing markets to collapse. In order to extract concessions from democrats or, put another way, the president of the Uni
The meetings the president s soninlaw took in the white house, the president completely unending his partys agenda on guns. And thats right, one of his cabinets spending spree on furniture. And john kelly told his former staff at the department of home land security this today. I miss every one of you every day. Truly, six months, last thing i wanted to do was walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being secretary of homeland security, but i did something wrong and god punished me i guess. A little humor, maybe a little reality there. Lets begin at the white house now with Kaitlin Collins who is standing by for us. Hope hicks announcing her resignation less than in hours ago, today all eyes are on Jared Kushner. Tell us about what is happening behind the scenes at the white house. Reporter thats right, it is a lot going on behind the scenes here. Especially with hope hicks one of the president s top aides and closest confidants announcing she is resigning after spending the