order to take explosive devices on to planes using the electronic devices of passengers, then we have to put in place these safeguards that ensure that they cannot be successful. we have gone from september 11th of 2001 until today, we have done the job. we have to look at these new threats because they re constantly trying to develop the means to achieve that end. all right. that s a good point. let s move on to some other developing stories right now. the white house saying the onus is on the obama administration. the obama administration for offering retired general michael flynn a 2016 security clearance after his 2015 trip to moscow. is the obama administration responsible for not catching that flynn was paid for that russia speech? look, the trump administration has to stop blaming and they have to start explaining.
the passenger cabin. then they created a catastrophe in our country. they try to find the easiest way in order to create an event which they believe will have a terrorizing effect upon the american people. i had to fight for five years in order to pass a law which i was successful in 2007 to screen all cargo on passenger planes in our country. the airline industry and the cargo industry fought me from september 11th of 2001 all the way to january of 2007. we know how al qaeda, how isis operates. we know what they re trying to do. we know that they put airlines at the top of their terrorist target list. so they ll look for any aperture to be successful. so our goal has to be to close it down. if there is credible information that says that there is now a way that they are exploring in
somber setting today in new york s lower manhattan, a bell tolling at 12:18 p.m. today to honor the six people who died in the first terrorist attack on the world trade center. the 1993 bombing 20 years ago today injured more than a thousand people. the bomb went off in an underground parking garage below one of the towers. six terrorists were convicted of carrying out that bombing. who could have foreseen exactly what would happen just a few years later on september 11th of 2001. well, overseas today what is being called the worst crash of its kind ever recorded. 19 tourists were tragically killed when a hot hair balloon plunged 1,000 feet to the ground in egypt.
megyn: well, the obama administration is today defending a possible plan to bring guantanamo bay detainees to the united states. well, no. dianne feinstein is defending her request for a report that talks about how we can do it if only we will find the political will. and as she looks at that report or and the gao that is an administration organization releases this report, we are hearing some heartbreaking stories from some victims families who are very much opposed to the idea, families who are warning about the dangers of bringing these terrorists here on american soil. among them, our next guest, a man whose family became a victim in two separate terror attacks here in america. one where his father was killed in the 1975 bombing of franz s tavern in manhattan and the other where his cousin steve died on september 11th of 2001. steve was in the north tower working for cantor fitzgerald
tradition in this country of honoring immigrants who join our military and put their lives on the line to keep the country safe. since september 11th of 2001, the united states has naturalized almost 75,000 members of the armed forces. too many of those patriots died on distant battlefields for our freedom before receiving full citizenship here in the country they called home. as president, i will stand for a path to legal status for anyone who is willing to stand up and defend this great nation through military service. [ applause ] those who have risked their lives in defense of america have earned the right to make their life in america, but improving access to legal immigration is only one part of the equation. we must also make legal immigration more attractive than illegal immigration. so people are awarded for waiting patiently in line.