visible and politically important role in washington, d.c. that s really important. here s why. as the lame duck congress gets to work, there s lots of reporting and speculating and negotiating about the tax cuts, right? about whether or not rich people are going to get a giant new tax cut. that has been america s front-page political issue actually for a few months now. it started getting debated even before the elections. but honestly, nothing s really expected to happen on the tax cuts issue legislatively until the week after thanksgiving at the earliest. what is about to happen a lot sooner than that in d.c. is a much more dramatic change from what we have been talking about for months now. something that puts the republican party s mitch mcconnell problem at the center of american news and politics. and i m not sure very many people have seen this coming. here s how it works. president obama has now arrived back home from his nine-day overseas trip to asia. he is just
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u.s. now have these advanced imaging technology machines. the transportation security administration says it has 385 of them in place and it expects to have more than 1,000 of them operating by the end of this year. they are walking through x-ray machines that conduct full body scans through your clothes. pilots and a growing number of passengers groups are raising concerns. tsa says that they are unfounded. if you refuse a full body scan? guess what you get? a enhanced pat down. the search includes the breast and genitalia areas. that s a strip search. if you refuse to do that, you don t fly. the man who made the video ended up going home without getting on the plane. he says he was also threatened with a civil suit and a fine. joining us now, clark kent irvin, the first inspector general to the department of homeland security. he s currently director of the homeland security program. clark, good to see you. you, too, drew. you were a guy that was overseeing this when th