reporter: cawthorn later admitted those comments were motte true. last month for the second time since taking office just over a year ago, cawthorn was stopped from carrying a gun through airport security. police seized this loaded pistol at an airport check point and sited the 26-year-old with a misdemeanor charge. he could face up to almost $14,000 if tsa fines as a repeat offender. i forgot to disarm before i went through a check point. it s my bad and i have to own that. reporter: this dash cam video of the march 3rd stop. his tearing has been continue
general, and you re watching them do cocaine in front of you. cawthorn later admitted those remarks were not true, but the constant controversy has made for easy attack ads from his gop rivals in the 11th district. while they post online, america falls apart. reporter: last month for the second time since taking office just over a year ago, cawthorn was stopped from carrying a gun through airport security. police in charlotte seized this loaded pistol at an airport check point and cited the 26-year-old with a misdemeanor charge of possession of dangerous weapon on city property. he could face up to $14,000 in tsa fines as a reoffender. i forgot to disarm before i went through a tsa check point, that s my bad. reporter: cawthorn was set to appear before a judge this week on a charge of driving with a revoked license. this is dash cam video of the march 3rd stop gained by a coalition of north carolina news organizations. but his hearing has been
bag pending certain circumstances and criteria, but the issue they say is that there are just so many gun laws across the country. varies state by state. georgia i believe is a open carry and a conceal carry state so long as you have the proper permits. when you get to an airport check point though, you can t bring a gun. the worst has happened and this is why the tsa has been sort of tooting this horn saying people cannot bring guns on board a commercial airliner and we ve seen these numbers go up as the pandemic subsides and people come back to travel again, they may have either forgotten or they had a gun in their bag or they may have simply forgotten the rules. this may be an indicator of first time traveler. a pretty interesting case here and we still have questions to answer. i want to just make sure we highlight this for our viewers. the three people that the tsa are saying that were initially injured or believe may have been injured in this gun discharge
secure on-line. heather nauert welcome to monday. good morning. hope you all had a great weekend. cold out here this weekend. good morning to you. i ve got headlines to bring you. the t.s.a. union is demanding tighter security including armed security officers at every airport check point, this after a gunman targets agents at l.a.x. on friday. cops say they missed speaking to the suspect by minutes the same day he killed a t.s.a. agent and wounded several others. cops visited his home because his family was worried about receiving what they described as disturbing messages. but he was already headed to the airport by the time those officers had arrived. after being gunned down by police at the airport, he told officers he acted alone and he had been dropped off at the airport by a friend of his. his motivation appears to be centered around some sort of a grudge. law enforcement says the shooter is heavily sedated and under armed guards at
there? does it need to be an adversarial proceeding or more open? it needs more scrutiny by members of congress. we don t need to have every decision the fisa court makes on the front page of the local newspaper. but i think it has to be some accountability back to citizens and member of senate and the house. there has to be unfettered way in which our elected officials the request make sure the programs are not tramplalling all over the constitutional rights of americans. many of us believe they are. all in the name of national security, which we all want. but we have allowed ourselves to be frisked and searched at airports through tsa. i don t know that anybody can tell us one time when the tsa has caught a terrorist at the airport check point. hot dog vendors in times square caught more terrorists than the thousands of the tsaing agents have. doug: good point, governor.