heather: first, growing fallout from a shocking security failure at newark international airport. lawmakers are demanding a top-to-bottom security probe after an undercough t.s.a. agent struggles a fake bomb past not one but two security checkpoints last month. a former t.s.a. now speaking out about the agency and the safety measures he reportedly described we are live in the new york city newsroom with more on this story. the anonymous whistleblower says there are really big holes in security at newark liberty airport in new jersey saying he wouldn t trust the people tasked with keeping americans safe to walking his dog in an article in the new york post the former t.s.a. screener says it is easy to bend the rules and much of what the agents do amounts to make believe. for example, the patdowns that
issues. keep being americans safe to walk his dog. in an article in the new york post, a former tsa screener highlighted numerous required procedures and checks, saying it s easy to bend the rules and much of what agents do amounts to quote, make-believe. for example, the palt-down, he calls them ridiculous, saying it s impossible to find anything with the back of your hand and screenings of children? those last about 10 seconds, going completely against the tsa protocol. but while there were concerns over deficiencies, officials point out the system has worked. i don t want to be encouraging terrorists to get on the planes. again, we have not had anyone get on a plane successfully with an explosive device in the united states in the last 11 1/2 years. something is working but it has to be approved.
screeners do little to keep passengers safe. this interview coming on the heels of last week s news that an undercover agent got a fake bomb past screeners. what needs to be done? joining me is alan colmes, host of the his show and show host mike gallagher. good to see you. we understand, we appreciate it. we got past security. heather: no tsa screener here. let s talk about the new policy allowing the novelty sized certain sporting equipment. is this overloan. i wasn t aware, that small scissors are still aloud and tweezers. those could be used as a weapon? let s look what they are doing. for those that travel a lot. heaven forget shaving
(applause) in the latest example of how ridiculous our airline security system has become, the tsa screener drove a three-year-old wheelchair bound girl to tears. and you can t touch my daughter and recording it. and and that breaks my heart. poor little three-year-old girl has spina bifida in a wheelchair and the parents are taking her to disney and we not only have to check her, but her wheelchair, too. i m sympathetic with the idea that we want to be safe. i get that. i want to make sure we take every precaution we can, but when you re dealing with a he three-year-old to treat them as if they re under arrest? can we not just use a little
condemning it still, authorities here are clearly worried as we moved around the suburbs on wednesday. we saw a huge presence of security checkpoints and soldiers through the suburbs. clearly, the response is growing to the unrest here, shep? greg palkot live this early thursday morning in damas tus. a frantic search is said to be underway as look for possible stow aways on a cargo ship docked in newark, new jersey there may be nothing to find it all started this morning during a routine s in. a u.s. coast guard officer boarded a cargo vessel from pakistan just offshore. that s when they say they heard human noises coming from inside one of the containers on that ship. a coast guard officials say when they knocked they heard a knock back. docked the ship and removed the containers one after another after another. so far they say they haven t found a thing. a man says a t.s.a. screener spilled his grandfather or his grandfather s ashes and then