this carefully-structured defense plan. and that s essentially what we ve been hearing that concern from aides as the process is down there for two weeks. now, we do know he is going to be pretty well-staffed. his acting chief of staff, jared kushner, the white house counsel are all expected to be on property as the president is going over these decisions before he heads back to washington. but, of course, the question is what could happen between now and hen? and as one person said, the laundry is down there. the longer there is for other people to influence his decisions on things like this. all right. katelyn, thank you. and i want to go now to the former director of the nixon library, tim neftali, congressional reporter for the washington post and joe lockhart who was president clinton s press secretary during his impeachment investigation. tim, okay. two weeks. and you could say his his daily time is unstructured in the sense of when he wants to you know, watch tv or tweet
today and he worried bomb making components could go undetected. you could have a 30-minute wait time and they treat it like it s a national emergency. it s an unhealthy obsession of places speed over security. reporter: that obsession also led the tsa to disable technology on x-ray machines that screen carry on bags in pre-check lanes. this memo states as of last month the x-ray machines should be operated without the auto detection algorithm enabled. when the item comes through, a box will come around and surround the item that says stop and take a look at this, that box is no longer on the screen. tsa has made changes to the setting that hampler ter the ab to check. they have been putting millions of passengers into tsa pre-check who aren t pre-check.
this cnn exclusive. more than 40 million u.s. airline passengers are expected to go through airport security checkpoints this holiday, but this tsa security director says you may not be as safe as you think. reporter: he s been with the agency for 17 years. he says tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to shorten wait times. one champexample, it s a reduce. they re reducing the concentration of metal that it would take to set off that alarm. how do you know that s why they did it? there s a memo out that says they did it. reporter: change it to the tsa-precheck setting. he says the practice continues
something historic happened this week. reporter: you may know him as jim jordon. sgr guess what. reporter: we guess many know him as the congressman who never wears a jacket. i m so angry, i couldn t even wear a jacket today. reporter: he carries it but rarely wears it. leading to jokes like found jim jordan s jacket. flotus has it. even when he goes on tv talk shows, no jacket. i m going to start a telethon to get representative jim jordan a blazer. he s usually ablaze about something. we have six people having four conversations in one sentence. reporter: always in shirt sleeves. this week something truly historic happened. not impeachment, jim jordan dressed up. the ohio congressman put his arms through the sleeves of a
jacket. jim jordan is wearing a suit jacket and he looks almost as uncomfortable as he makes all of us. i m about to pop off. reporter: what s the deal? does jim jordan have hang up about wearing jackets? i don t know. the only time i wear the jacket is when i have to. i wear it on the house floor because i have to. reporter: the rules required him to wear one for the impeachment vote on the house floor. i wear it at the white house. reporter: there are multiple twitter accounts reporting to be jim jordan s jacket. all i want is to be worn. when he posed in the overly big jacket belonging to radio host, his missing jacket posted, who the bleep rolls up a suit jacket sleeve. jordan has a theory. you can t really get fired up and get into it if you have some jacket slowing you down. that i conveyed this mess an on sent 21st.