estimate per passenger here in israel is just shy of $57 per person per trip. when you look at the second model which is the airport security model in the u.s., you see that we have 450 airports we have to cover, 770 million passengers a year, and the security cost per passenger comes to just $7. so you see there s a big difference between the volume and also the cost per passenger. now, at the airport we spoke with an american family who was from florida be. they make a lot of trips to israel because one of their children is at the hebrew university. and they told us that when you look at the airport security officers, you can clearly see that they re trained to identify deception. well, they just look at you. they take a good look at you up and down, all around. and they ask you pointed questions and, of course, they look right at your eyes when they ask those questions. reporter: we asked the israeli airport security
you compare that to the situation in the u.s., and what you see is that we have 450 airportses in the u.s., and, its territories and handling 770 million passengers a year, and when you do the security cost break down it is just shy of $7 per person, so that is pretty a pretty dramatic comparison and we have been traveling with the secretary throughout the week and talked to her about the issue of airline security and the israeli model and she said really the critical points are the issues of size and scale and of course as i interviewed her she outlined the objectives for her visit to israel. you know that terrorist attacks, from this area of the world, for years. i think it is more a sense of what partnerships we have, what information we re sharing, what kind of best practices we can share in terms of protecting security and safety. reporter: the other issue here is that they are very aggressive would you profiling
this involves the collection of intelligence. best to do it and not talk about it. former head of the c.i.a. bin laden unit says he has significant intelligence value. he s very important in the taliban. the overall military commander. he will be missed certainly. if the packs persuade him to talk he has good information for us. experts say he will be replaced and the war will go on, unless he gives up critical information about key taliban and al-qaeda leaders including perhaps whereabouts of bin laden. bret: that would be something. thank you. new york mayor bloomberg take on vice president joe biden over the security cost of a possible criminal trial for accused coconspirators of 9/11. he says the biden s figure may be exaggerated. the mayor today said his estimate is reasonable and no
blow up the country, you don t have a civilian trial in america in a mass population center. you turn them over to military justice, don t give them miranda rights. get as much intelligence and you can and make sure they never live to fight another day. senator brown is a former military jag officer who understands a military justice is the proper form or an enemy combatant. which costs more, i think mr. biden was comparing the cost of the two. think about the cost of this expensive circumstance in new york city with khalid sheik mohammed, increased security cost, increased lodgisticscal cost and who gets stuck? american taxpayers have to pay for t i think it s time for old-fashioned common sense. 300 million up to a billion
happened. i have a college talk which is very popular, my contention that free speech is under serious threat. from the progressive left, the social justice left. we had six similar things happen. they have proven me right. violent left protesters, they forced me to be evacuated preventing me from giving me the last speech of my tour which was supposed to be exactly about this problem. heavily ironic. says a lot about the social justice left. tucker: trace gallagher had given us a detailed, he d said that the university system had told you that you had to pay the security cost. you had to have security because of the threats you got from the anti-free-speech agitators. rather than making them pay for the cost, you had to bear it?