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Trace Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. We all remember the chinese spycraft that flew over the u. S. For a week, and chinese citizens suspected of being spies who posed as tourists to infiltrate Military Bases in alaska and the heart of the city, doj busted communist part for running secret police stations to spy on Chinese Nationals on u. S. Soil. Lawmakers warn the ag scheme is one of the worst troubling yet. Put china in control of the global food supply. A aishah former cia Station Chief dan hoffman, but first bryan is in iowa and that is where lawmakers met to talk about the theft by the ccp. So, bryan, what did farmers say about this threat . Yeah, hi, aishah. Farmers are particularly concerned about the secret patented genetically engineered seeds that are the target of chinas theft. In 2016, there was a Chinese National here in iowa who dug up genetically modified corn seeds and was convicted in 2016, and sent to three years in prison. U. S. Agr
you are going to jail. yes, you are. yes, you are. you are going to jail. [bleep]. [bleep]. you gave me one [bleep] warning, one warning, that s it. you gave me one [bleep]. trace: passenger disruptions are all too familiar, making air travel unpredictable. even when the flight is on time. police arrested a man for assaulting a delta flight attendant on a plane headed to new orleans. a similar situation on a flight to miami where an american airlines passenger is said to have pinned a flight attendant against the cockpit doors. douglas kin is executive director for the national association of airline passengers joins us now. thank you, sir, for coming on. i want to put this on the screen, from the international air transport saying 2021-2022, unruly passengers are up 47%.
Was discovered during a secondary search, but it was returned after its blade was removed, which is against procedure, according to the agency. john pistole is a former t.s.a. administrator. once a box cutter was discovered, it should have been a much more thorough screening. reporter: incidents involving disruptive passengers are down 80% in 2022 after soaring during the pandemic, but, so far, there have been nearly 2200 this year alone, including this one early sunday where a passenger holding a toddler allegedly choked a flight attendn t and refused to sit down during landing. the flight attendant is expected to be okay. after the 9/11 hijackers were able to gain control of four airliners with box cutters, cockpit doors were reinforced. it doesn t appear either of the incidents posed a viable threat to the airspace or the pilots. norah. o donnell: kris van cleave with the airport scares, thank you. well, tonight, democrats hoping
Take quite a while to get sorted back out. yeah, that makes sense and i wasn t aware of the passengers on the ramp area. thank you for that information you re bringing to the conversation. john, jim cavanaugh mentioned the security of the cockpit doors now on airplanes. i seem to recall that was something that was put into effect in the wake of 9/11. but are they all impenetrable by a gun if a gun were able to get on board a plane, which, again, to jim s point, he s made this as a really positive story in that this was stopped. nobody has been injured. there s no employees or passengers that are at risk now. so that s the silver lining of this incident. but is there gun or bullets, weaponry, ammunition that could penetrate a cockpit door? the doors have been hardened in the wake of 9/11, and that s true on all airliners today. so, the they are designed to