an atta girl at her. they re all euphemisms. this was an extraordinary admission of ignorance about the single most important job the president of the united states has to protect the security of every american. even donald trump has recognized that as the number one job of the president. you cannot protect the security of americans without understanding the foreign intelligence surveillance act and the 702 amendment to that act. he has been in office a year. i was absolutely dumbfounded that he had no idea what fisa was and 702 was. as various people have pointed out. the president s daily brief every day is filled with information from 702 and fisa. the fact he didn t know what that is questions the very core of his ability to do the job. so you know what i thought? stay here with me, all of you. so again, i don t have access to classified information anymore. but when i did, and sarah was in the white house at the time as well, the shoe bomber. remember richard reid? now i don t
countries. so europe has to face the threat of these attacks. what is different about this to an extent, as far as i know, this is the first islamist suicide bomb attempt in the united states. i know we had the shoe bomber, but, again, he was on a plane. as far as actually having a suicide attack here in the u.s. by an islamist terrorist, i think this is the first one. now, if he acted on his own, that s one thing. if this is at all coordinated or directly inspired by isis, again, it could mark a new turning point. also with the christmas and hanukkah season coming up and the large large numbers of people that gather in manhattan and throughout new york, the nypd will have to be and it will be, i guarantee you, on even higher security level than before. yeah, that s what they re certainly indicating. as you know, he s reported now to have plenged allegiance to isis, but one source is also telling cnn the suspect teamed to have suggested he was
you get a shoe bomber you take your shoes off at the airport. it sometime you will have to take your pants off in the grocery store. when do we start getting ahead of this problem and trying to solve the real problem instead of reacting to whatever they do next? in some cases sadly you can t fix everything. the world is a dangerous place. people are not all good. we can t assume there is some magic solution to death and destruction. it has been going on since time immemorial. you can look at the person and people are already in scented to if they should see something say something. if someone seems crazy or acting in ways that make you concerned, tell law enforcement. we tell people to do that and the other solution is everyone wants to look at the modality. do we ban trucks if people are running over people? do we ban guns because that was what was used? you can t do that without amending the constitution and i don t think that is something we
interesting point here then. do they have the capability, are there groups or individuals here in the u.s. now who have this capability? no. bill: they do not? that s the good news. we don t see that. if, when and if that happens, obviously the policy is going to change. and we ll have to ban these devices from domestic flights. bill: are we ahead of them or not? yes or no? we are always one step ahead. that s where we try to be. we were not there on 9/11. we saw sharm el-sheikh, the shoe bomber, they are trying to constantly target aviation. we have to stay one step ahead. bill: thank you for sharing what you know with us today. michael mccaul. i appreciate it. bill: we ll talk again. shannon, what s next? shannon: devastating twisters tearing through the heart land leaving behind a trail of diswruction. details on the storm system moving through several states. plus, the brutality of north korea inside its borders. inside look of prisons and
america. i can t put it more simply than that. that is a real threat. it s not some hypothetical threat. they have developed that capability. we are trying to develop technologies to screen this stuff properly to keep it off of airplanes. and i think our biggest concern is that it gets into the united states domestically. and at that point we have to reassess the response. i think it s an evolving threat. just like the shoe bomber, you know, just like what we saw sharm el-sheikh, that airline getting brought down. they have consistently tried to bring down aircraft since 9/11. it is the crown jewel. bill: sharm el-sheikh was. they loaded explosives near the jet engine of the plane in a soda can, correct? correct. bill: if they are able to do that on such a small device, what is their capability now and it appears to be significant. today it s a laptop, you talk about a progression.