harridge joins us. we ll talk about health care legislation and what is the head of congress. washington journal starts now. . homeland security secretary said collaboration on many levels must occur in counter terrorist threats to the united states. democratic homeland security committee member jane harman from california says president obama s approach sophisticated tradecraft. the new york post says it is time, prez, for you to get serious. in our first minutes together, your thoughts on the president s handling of the terrorist threat. host: you can call us what that information, if you want. you can also send an e-mail. or if you follow us on twitter, don t forget, you can make your response is there. this is the op ed this morning in usa today from homeland security secretary general napolitano. the headline says the u.s. will find and fix system vulnerabilities. she goes on to write that this really makes a more critical we work at all levels. host: there ar
you think this is being orchestrated by mr. james? no, i don t think it s being orchestrated by mr. james. you think he s that powerful? i think mr. james is using his power po bombard the regents and administration to take action or he was going to break the story. mr. liggett, my thanks to you. i m glad we were able to get your side on the air. i understand you ll be filing some paperwork now to make sure your coach can coach at the alamo bowl. we ll be following it. one against my thanks. suzanne malveaux is in the situation room. happening now, the evidence again the suspect in the failed airline bombing. we have new information and how the u.s. is going to try to get justice. we re assistantsing by to hear from president obama himself. plus airline passengers exposed to revealing body scans, very revealing. does national security now trump individual privacy? we re going to show you exactly how it works. president obama s new year s resolution. he has a l
to know the other ways? when i had cancer, i wish this book had existed. tucker: that is it, all of the time we have left this evening. the news continues with shannon bream coming in tonight for greta van susteren. shannon: good evening. i am shannon bream in fort greta van susteren. a plane that passed through amsterdam and bound for detroit. i am shannon bream in for greta van susteren. passengers and crew sprang into action, and the explosives never went off, and least, not as he intended. you get the inside story from someone on the plane. and then, congressman pete hoekstra explains why he thinks it is dangerous to close gtmo. joining me now is a correspondent for the new york daily news. thank you for joining us e. you have covered al qaeda for more than one dozen years be what do you make of this? thank you for joining us. the suspect tried to blow up in this light coming from amsterdam. he has confessed, perhaps under the dress or the pain of his look at bein
when i had cancer, i wish this book had existed. tucker: that is it, all of the time we have left this evening. the news continues with shannon bream coming in tonight for greta van susteren. shannon: good evening. i am shannon bream in fort greta van susteren. a plane that passed through amsterdam and bound for detroit. i am shannon bream in for greta van susteren. passengers and crew sprang into action, and the explosives never went off, and least, not as he intended. you get the inside story from someone on the plane. and then, congressman pete hoekstra explains why he thinks it is dangerous to close gtmo. joining me now is a correspondent for the new york daily news. thank you for joining us e. you have covered al qaeda for more than one dozen years be what do you make of this? thank you for joining us. the suspect tried to blow up in this light coming from amsterdam. he has confessed, perhaps under the dress or the pain of his look at being on fire for allegedly
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions brown: good evening. i m jeffrey brown. president obama said a totally unacceptable systemic failure led to the attack on the u.s. airliner. ifill: and i m gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, the president today promised to act quickly to fix flaws in the nation s security system. brown: we ll look at the clampdown at airports and the potential trade-offs of stepped-up screening. test. spendthrift, it s an inconvenience to passengers. there are questions. what were the suspect s connection to yemen? ifill: and what were the suspect s connections to yemen, the embattled arab nation that has become a bastion for al qaeda terrorists. brown: then, ray suarez looks at a plan to fight poverty by improving education and healthcare south of the border. a mexican program designed to improve the lives of the poorest of the poor is being copied and studied around the world. i ll have a report. ifill: and the search fo