territory in a state, they can conduct external operations out and into united states just like we saw with laptop device issue turning them into explosive devices, putting them on airplanes. that coming out of that region. the sooner we defeat them, the sooner we can stop that threat. maria: will we see an expansion in terms of what is allowed on planes? given what you have learned and how they are trying to attack us. i think that secretary dealt with this in a very threat-based riaality, done well. i think all threat based. if they ki can increase their sy standards we ll allow them to bring the devices on. to the airports, so, all threat-based, but sooner we take out isis in syria, the less of a threat that is.
certain other parts of the world including places like dubai and abu dhabi, those state-of-the-art systems are actually very good at detecting the kind of explosives that groups like al qaeda in yemen are developing, even when they re concealing them inside laptops. the key technology here is called explosive trace detection technology. that involves the gate a laptop or some other electronic laptop device being swabbed and then a machine being used to analyze whether there s any explosive residue on that swab at all. and they can actually, these machines, detect a trillionth of a gram of residue. so they re very, very good. the group that is believed to have the highest level of bomb-making expertise is aqap. that s essentially al qaeda in yemen. tell us more about them and how they developed this expertise. al qaeda in yemen are at the center of the concern when it comes to this threat. they are significantly ahead of isis when it comes to developing
with, and then it turns out that anthony weiner, the husband of huma abedin, who happens to be the top aid of hillary clinton s sexting allegedly sexting with an underaged girl, it turns out the fbi discovers in the process of that investigation, that e-mails are on that that laptop device. how could comey have planned that? there s also he could be guilty of that judgment at work. they re also investigating according to the times or paul manafort s connection to ukraine, they were also investigating possibly connections with the clinton foundation. they chose not to do that because they were concerned it would influence the election. what s different about this particular situation? i think what s different is director comey had gone before congress and testified and he had an obligation to alert heads of these committees that he was that this new information had developed. that wasn t the case no, he had no obligation.