julie: an airline mechanic is under arrest accused of trying to sabotage a plane set to take off from miami in july. according to the criminal complaint, the american airlines employee admitted he was frustrated by union contract negotiations and tampered with a navigation system to collect overtime. the plane was bound for the bahamas. the pilots noticed an error message before take-off and fortunately aborted that flight safely. the mechanic is due in federal court on monday. bill: ohio, a woman accused of smuggling a baby on a plane. they said the woman tried to board the flight back to michigan with a 6 day old infant boy. greg palkot watches the story from london. this is a very strange story out of the philippines, bill.
all we get is some oblique reference that george papadopoulos made in a bar. that s the whole reason we had a two-year long investigation. julie: that was the whole theme of the f.b.i. s basis. they had no basis. they used the christopher steele memo dossier which turned out to be b.s. and that was their basis. so they were going knowingly on b.s. right. that was the basis in the fall. that was the fall of 2016. even before that, when they quote launched the russia investigation, it was based on a comment in a bar. that doesn t even get to the dossier which jim comey admitted in december of 2016 had never been corroborated. never been vetted and certainly wasn t verified. look, he if your goal in life is to avoid indictment, congratulations, jim comey, you did it. my goal in life is to have history say i was fair. history will not judge jim
comey as a fair f.b.i. director. he is a partisan who delights in attacking the person that he still would be working for right now, julie. keep in mind if he hadn t been fired he would still be working for the person that he thinks is too unfit even for impeachment. bill: thank you for your time. congress comes back next week. do we get the i.g. report next week in its entirety? yes or no. the new one that horowitz is working on? bill: yeah. no. lindsey will get it before anybody else. i hear rumors, horowitz is good about keeping this stuff to himself. i doubt it s next week. julie: you are as in dark as the rest of it. we re supposed to be in the dark. we re supposed to be. bill: for now. thank you. right now. bill: have a great weekend. thanks. julie: new developments in the case of the missing connecticut mother of five. first her estranged husband was arrested for a second time. now we re learning his girlfriend has turned herself
venture capitalist adding a single passionate person could fund the entire program if you re rich enough you can do that. comes as nasa and a white house hash out plans for a multi-billion effort to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024. we ll watch that. 9:44 now. julie: the governor of texas signing eight executive orders hoping to help prevent mass shootings in the future. we all knew there were just two in the state last month. while the attacks in el paso and odessa killing 29 people and injuring dozens more prompting this legislation. let s bring in texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. you say you ll continue to work expeditiously with the legislature on laws to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and safeguarding the rights of law abiding texans. how do you plan on doing that? multi-level approach. first of all the governor had his executive orders.
to be sure we implement quickly with the executive orders and into law police must have a system of all of our police departments when they get a call like that they turn it into the suspicious activity center so that we can immediately follow up on that. so that s number one. we have to do. that call did not go through. in terms of the midland shooter he was someone who had called police a number of times. when he was fired from his job last saturday, not only did the person who fired him call 911, but so did the shooter call 911. and he had a lot of issues that will, i think, come out in the future of his past difficulties. but we have to identify these people and that s getting accurate information up to the right channels as quickly as we can and that s what the governor and i want to do and once we identify those people we have to be sure they can t get a gun. julie, over 3 million people have been stopped from getting firearms since background checks since 1994.