Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when hed already flagged himself up to authorities . Absolutely. It is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. The fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this
firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the United States. And that was nothing illegal this doing that. However of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. But the problem weve got here is that although some cases
those were ahis word. seems like it would have been a much bigger deal for the president of the united states and would have merited him sitting down with putin saying what the heck are you doing and if you re going to continue to do this, we re going to get involved. that is a fair criticism, that even some democrats like adam schiff, diane feinstein, have leveled against the president, that he waited too long to launch the sanctions and punish russia. but i just want to get your personal understanding to you agree with this line from this report. we further assess that putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president-elect trump, we have high confidence in these judgments. do you agree with that? i would accept that. but, you know, again now that we have this report, can we get i don t understand i don t understand the political side of it and say what are we going to do from this point forward.i do
parties, but because material stolen from the democrats, only that material was released in the days and weeks leading up to the election, it is in large part because of that that the community concluded that the intention here was to weaken hillary clinton and help donald trump. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. some u.s. democratic lawmakers are calling for a bipartisan commission to further investigate the depth of russian influence in the u.s. political process. for reaction from moscow, let s bring in fred pleitgen. i m curious to know what the xr kremlin are saying. is this an embarrassment or compliment? i would say that they would be angry about the results coming out of the report. there hasn t been any official comment yet from the kremlin at all. however russian media outlets, state owned ones and also senior russian lawmakers have been commenting and they have been quite angry.
presidential election. here s what donald trump s senior adviser jack kingston told wolf blitzer on friday. what was clear, that there was no effect of the results because of this. no tampering of machines. and no motive that was found and so forth. so i think that the good part about this report and today s action and the hearings this week is that maybe we can get beyond the politics and say okay, what do we do about this because we know russia isn t loan. there is china and other nations always trying to hack into our computer systems. what can we do about that. and then one other question if we re going to continue, and we as a community of maybe critics in washington, d.c., where was the president, if this was going on in 2015, 2016, why did the president wait to this fall to talk to putin about it and even when he did talk to putin about it, he said you guys need to cut that out.
believes the hacks do not tapt his election victory. quote, there is absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election including the fact that there was no tamper ing whatsoever with voting machines. intelligence assessment confirmed that being thatting was not involved in vote tallying. but in a statement trump never specifically acknowledged that russia was behind the hacks. despite the clear intelligence assessment and overwhelming bipartisan agreement on russia s involvement. i think that is the one thing in a statement that he should have acknowledged, that whether you re a republican or a testimony, we are not going to tolerate a country like russia trying to interfere in our election process. reporter: donald trump and some of his surrogates have made the point that only the democrats were hacked here and that s why only democratic material was released, but in fact this report contradicts that and says that the cyber ops targeted both major political