have been diverted in libya and have gotten into the hand of some very ugly people. and they are worried specifically, according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner. clayton: this is very important. if that is accurate, if that is true there were 400 missiles that were stolen, lost, go back to when hillary clinton says what difference does this make at this point. eric: now al qaeda may have 400 surface to air missiles that we don t know where they are and could be targeting our passenger airplanes. it matters. when she said that, she tried to put that story behind her. let s move on. four dead americans at this point. it matters a lot because we don t want 4,000 dead americans. gretchen: it adds another wrinkle. we still have four americans killed and we don t have resolution and we don t know exactly who is responsible for that and how that went down. now could there be this second layer of a story here with more danger ahead for americans in the hand of t
a good idea to keep our eyes open. eyes open big time. aren t there thousands of small airplanes across the country to keep an eye on? yeah, and that s the big problem here. the federal government recognizes it cannot possibly monitor all of these situations on its own. it needs the eyes and ears of individual private plane owners, people who work at airports to keep an eye out, see if they see anything unusual. that s how we ll get a final warning. impossible for the fbi to track every single small plane across the u.s. and impossible to track every single threat. we ve definitely narrowed down the possibilities when it comes to commercial aviation. in other words, passenger airplanes. private aircraft is much more difficult. we only have i guess a week from today until the anniversary. does that make things more difficult? no specific criminal threat at this point. you try to lock down things, check and check twice. do we need to be more heightened
steven hayes. the jury deliberating right now. we ll have the latest from new haven coming up. jon: a full report from each of them coming up later this hour on happening now. jenna: our top story today, a growing concern that al-qaeda may be entering a bold new phase of terrorist activity. a splinter group, al-qaeda in the aarabian peninsula, suspected in several attacks. joining us now to talk about this, former homeland secretary michael chertoff, also managing principle of the chertoff group. mr. secretary, thank you so much for join us. good afternoon. jenna: there s a lot to this story but one basic question: how safe are we? well, of course, one of the things that s important about this plot is it was not directed at passenger airplanes. it appears to have been directed at cargo jets or, perhaps, the ultimate recipient of the package. and that reflects a lot of the progress that s been made over the last years with respect to
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