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reporter: no other gun man is found. at this point it looked like he acted alone. reporter: officials won t say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if he s cooperating. randi kaye, cnn, new york. let s get much more on this. i want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. great to have you on the program. we want to talk about airport security to start off with. should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when he d already flagged himself up to authorities? absolutely. it is a troubling background to this gentleman from what has been reported to us. the fact that he had some problems apparently, allegedly, and then indeed checked this firearm with his checked baggage which of course is allowed in certain states of the united states. and that was nothing illegal this doing that. however of course what transpired of course was a terrible tragedy. but the problem we ve got here is ....
supreme court. the obsession with covering everything he says on twitter and very little what he does as president that s his preferred message of communication. the administration attempting to down play the importance of the president s tweets. the policy of the social media, chris. it is social media. it is not social media. it is his words. his thoughts. it is not a policy. it is social media. after tauting twitter as an essential part of the president s strategy for months. donald trump s social media platform is a powerful way for him to connect with the people. also education kalating his fight with london s mayor, accusing him of offering a pathetic excuse when he advised london residents not to be alarmed by increased security in the city. offering the scathing response when asked about mr. trump s planned visit to the u.k. his policies go against everything we stand for. apparently on message when he tweeted out there was a big meeting today w ....
likely the influence of the new chief of staff here, retired general john kelly who has been clear, trying to send a signal there is a new sheriff in town. that he s not going to tolerate discord and some of these tweets that are off message. but will we see this over the course of time? that remains to be seen. we ve had sort of the pockets of the president being very restrained when it comes to his messaging. i think when it comes to the relationship on capitol hill and this next battle that you talk about, the challenges, not only do you have republicans, conservatives like jeff flake speaking out, obviously he s been critical of candidate trump all the way back to the campaign trail, but republicans just don t seem that afraid of him. that s why you have lisa murkowski saying i m going to vote against you in the health care fight. how does he get republicans on board to get tax reform done? the reality may be that they re looking at tax cuts, because they don t have that big, ....
he has done the 2 to 1 regulatory removal for every regulation put in. which couples with the house of representatives vote to appeal. $3.7 billion of cost removed from the backs of business across the country. people can now spend those man-hours, doing something productive for america. americans, however, are unhappy 37 they re unhappy with the job the president is doing they re unhappy with the job congress is doing. congress has a 10% approval rating this week. it s not going the right direction. do you feel many americans feel this way because of what? coming from the outside, i don t understand why everything s so difficult. the politicians spent eight years saying we re going to repeal and replace obama care. they get up there and say, wow! what are we going to do now. you re part of that, that s what americans are thinking, you are on the inside, you are working with members in congress. yes, ana, and that s why when i reached the conclusion that the aaca, wh ....
yes, that is basically it. i don t know if he wanted to be there while trump was making his speech about the change of staff. phil rucker, as condensed as they are, all of our print colleagues at the white house are writing the lookback piece about the reince priebus era, all six months of it. and i know you contend he was something less than a chief of staff in full always? you know, yeah, i think that is exactly right. look, this is an establishment republican who became close to donald trump over the course of the campaign. tried to help integrate the party in the trump world. tried to do it in washington to help trump govern and pass his agenda on capitol hill. but he was beset time and time again by the kind of chaos and disorder that has really defined all of trump s enterprises, including this white house. it was so remarkable, that reince priebus was so belittled and demeaned at work, the backbiting was so intense and vicious. i talked to one staffer, the preside ....