threat. reporter: homeland secretary john kelly announcing greater scrutiny of passengers, canines that detect explosives and enhanced screening of electronic devices. make no mistake, our enemies are constantly working to find new methods tore disguising explosives, recruiting insiders and hijacking aircraft. reporter: secretary kelly warning there will be consequences if airlines refuse to comply. those who choose not to cooperate could be subject to other restrictions including a ban on electronic devices on aircraft or even a suspension of their flights into the united states. reporter: secretary kelly refused to detail all the any requiremention for security reasons, noting that the screening guidelines will be both seen and unseen and phased in over time. the travel ban guidelines, however, will go into effect later tonight.
increased use of canine teams at airports abroad and for airlines abroad, increase use of explosive trace detection kits and enhanced screening of airport personnel. who is john kelly. make no mistake, our enemies are constantly working to find new methods for disguising explosives, recruiting insiders and hijacking aircraft. now, this new policy falls short of an outright laptop ban that many airlines had feared. but john kelly says that that could be resurrected if airlines and foreign airports do not comply with these new guidelines. bill, back to you. bill: all right, doug. keep us posted on all that doug mckelway at dulles today. 25 past. shannon, what s up. shannon: promising something big on healthcare. are senate republicans close to a deal? deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is live with us in minutes. before this summer s out, president trump is going to work with this congress and we re going to keep a
evaluated intelligence and real concerns that i had about terrorist plotting. make no mistake, our enemies are constantly working to find new methods for disguising explosives, recruiting insiders, and hijacking aircraft. i ve made a point to talk with everyone i can about securing aviation. i ve met with our international partners, i ve met with our industry leaders, i ve met with our private sector stakeholders. my conclusion is this. it is time that we raise the global baseline of aviation security. we cannot play international whack a mole with each new threat. instead, we must put in place new measures across the board to keep the traveling public safe and make it harder for terrorists to succeed. today, i am announcing a first step toward this goal by requiring new security measures to be applied to all commercial flights coming into the united states from abroad. these measures will be both seen and unseen, and they will be phased in over time. they will include enhanced
others is go into these airports and systemically work out what s gone wrong other wise the alternative is simple. you don t get direct flights. what i don t understand, it s not as if the egyptian government doesn t have a ton of military personnel and secret police, if they wanted to bolster security at airports, they could bolster security at airports. i don t want to tread on the toes of my colleagues but i suspect they will say you can have all the security alike but if some go bad, you re in a worse situation than nothing at all. paul, should it be that complicated to protect the back end of the planes, the ground crews who have access to them? if you have an insider at the airport that s a holy grail for a terrorist group, isis and sinai has a track record of recruiting insiders inside egyptian military, inside the
wage. there are high turnovers. and the kinds of background checks that you would want with people with access to secure areas simply aren t done because there s not enough time. as you know the president obama came out with a strong statement that there is certainly a possibility that the bomb was on board even as the investigation continues. but a president of the united states or prime minister of britain wouldn t be making these kind of statements unless they had hard intelligence pointing in that direction. i absolutely agree with you, wolf. there does seem to be significant intelligence pointing towards the idea that isis in sinai carried out this attack, this potent, aggressive affiliate in sinai. this is a group, wolf, that s had a track record of recruiting insiders inside the egyptian