i m not saying you re wrong, but i m saying when it comes to cheap ideology, chucking out statements that $50 million is cheap. i didn t throw it out, you pried it out of me, you begged me for an answer. we loved that so much, we decided to have number two. take a look another this latest rant of president obama which i call the abcs of snl. this whole thing with obama saying the rich don t pay nair taxes [ bleep ] and i voted for the guy and i m a democrat. what else? no holds barred interview, hopefully in will be something in between the beeps tonight. a fat epidemic to end all epidemics is striking the nation. and a foiled plot against a u.s. airliner. the would be suicide bomber was actually a double agent working with the cia and al qaeda a dramatic twist in this story, it was already a huge success for the cia, now we find out this guy, the suicide bomber, would be suicide bomber was working with the cia. that s right, this was a big intelligence succes
i m not saying you re wrong, but i m saying when it comes to cheap ideology, chucking out statements that $50 million is cheap. i didn t throw it out, you pried it out of me, you begged me for an answer. we loved that so much, we decided to have number two. take a look another this latest rant of president obama which i call the abcs of snl. this whole thing with obama saying the rich don t pay their taxes [ bleep ] and i voted for the guy and i m a democrat. what else? no holds barred interview, hopefully in will be something in between the beeps tonight. a fat epidemic to end all epidemics is striking the nation. and a foiled plot against a u.s. airliner. the would be suicide bomber was actually a double agent working with the cia and al qaeda a dramatic twist in this story, it was already a huge success for the cia, now we find out this guy, the suicide bomber, would be suicide bomber was working with the cia. that s right, this was a big intelligence suc
every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt there s good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investigation is still unfolding. a short time ago we heard from white house chief adviser or counterterrorism. the big question how worried should we be that this bomb and others like it would not be detected by current safeguards. this i.ed was a threat from the standpoint of the design we ve been able to determine and so now we re trying to make sure that we take the measures that we need to to prevent any other type of ied from getting through security procedures. so will ramped up vigilance m
chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we haven t heard much information about. soledad i really can t give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at no time did the bomb ever make it on to the plane but as far as even the country it originated from, all of that for various reasons is not being disclosed but it is ongoing, involved sophisticated intelligence and it s something where i don t think the government expected it to be coming out yesterday because it s ongoing and the device is being tested by the fbi, and as you raise the issue about whether or not our current level of detection is enough to be able to find this type of device. t
a threat anymore. u.s. counterterrorism official says the explosive device is similar to the one that was used by the so-called underwear bomber back on christmas day of 2009. only this time, more sophisticated and harder to detect. barbara starr is live at the pentagon this morning. what do we know about the bomb itself and about how this all unfolded? well, very little detail being made public at this point, ashleigh because officials say operations intelligence operations are still ongoing. clearly, pointing to the fact they still feel there are elements of whatever this organization is that was behind this throughout. and they believe it is al qaeda in yemen known as aqap. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. as for the bomb itself, all the indications are that it was very similar. as you said, to devices used by aqap in both the christmas day underwear bomber and another plot after that to put bombs inside printer cartridges and put them on aircraft bound for the united