after he was arrested. now, he said and he keeps insisting that all he wanted to do was rob the people on the train, and that he found the bag full of ammo in a park near brussels, but as the guys, the three american guys said during that press conference. you don t need an ak-47, a handgun, and a cutter and nine cartridges of ammunition to rob a train. thank you very much. let me bring in former british senior officer and adviser, mikey kay. how are you? great. here s my thought. this guy, el khazzani on the radar of france, spain, and belgium, but even with all of that, he managed to board a train without a problem, with an ak-47. got some kind of a handgun, knives. how does something like this happen? train security is something which is increasingly complex to try to implement. it s not like airport security. trains, you get on at one
train to stop them. absolutely. that s one of the three americans that said is don t just stand there and watch, do something. at the end of the day, it may come down to the bravery of the passengers in that scenario to stop something like this from happening. in some of these instances, a terrorist may not think somebody is going to fight back. that adds an element of surprise that they may have to deal with. this goes down in a much better out come. one thing i want to ask you about is how much longer can we go on with lesser train security and plane security. when you go to the airport and around the world, it s a far different situation. this man was able to get on the train with an ak-47 and eight magazines and another firearm and box cutters.
officials say afghan security forces have killed a group of taliban insurgent who launched attack over the weekend and left more than two dozen militants dead. the assault was aimed to seize control of kandahar as part of the taliban s annual spring offensive. almost a dozen government buildings were targeted in the fight. officials had barricaded themselves inside a city hotel. new york senator chuck schumer is getting serious about train security, he says, after documents taken from bin laden s compound show al qaeda s plans to attack the united states rail system. schumer wants to apply the same no-fly list restrictions homeland security uses for airlines to amtrak to keep suspected terrorists off our trains? by alerting law enforcement about passengers on the no-fly list, we ve been able to catch and deter terrorists from boarding our planes.
airline security. maybe it s good, right? we talk a lot about it. what about train security? 15 million of us a day ride trains. are we secure? that and more coming up top of the hour on studio be. . megyn: did you use the airplane blanket? no, i don t use them. megyn: what s the difference wean the blankets and the pillows and the seats themselves? good point, casey! they spray em. megyn: oh, yeah. thanks, trace. okay. megyn: we just got word that laguardia will open in little more than an hour. that is better than they have been projecting. of course, with 5,000 flights canceled in just the last few days an airport being open doesn t necessarily mean you re going anywhere. we ll take a look at tomorrow s commute just ahead. plus, a football coach who has a thing for the foot, and we are not talking about the kickers on his team. the foot fetish in kelly s court. and during the break you can go
better job to stop the guys before they get into the train station. when you tack about train station i want do go back to planes, you said they are targeting al qaeda and targeting our planes but they targeting our trains. why is it that they so badly want to target the airlines? is it a hit? is it bigger news? why airlines versus a train packed with people? guest: well, it has been something they have been successful at before and they tried to use areas of vulnerability they believe there are still areas to get and, and in fact, the aviation security has improved quite a bit under the seven years of president bush he installed a lot of measures that made flying safer. and right now we are removing secondary screening measures and the primary line so it is harder for passengers to cope with the travel and not understanding why. so we need to focus. trace: if intelligence is the key to train security, why isn t it the key to plane security, as well? guest: it is the key to aviati