anywhere. can you, as the leader of this city, truly address gun violence without changes to national policy on guns? that s a great question that you re asking. and here s what i had to do when i produced my blueprint to end gun violence and other violence in the city. i had to show and identify the various rivers based on my reformist views, based on my law enforcement status and based on being a state lawmaker. i needed to lay out, here are the rivers we must dam. now, some of those rivers are beyond my control. i don t control the reform, to raise the age part of it, i don t control the federal laws. we re going to do our job. and i m hoping that our partners see my experience of having justice and safety both together can turn around this violence that we are experiencing.
settling scores. the sports lead. one nfl player is out and another suspended for what? late hit? helmet to helmet tackle? nope. allegedly it s for the same type of behavior we usually attribute to mean girls in high school. good afternoon. welcome to the lead. i m jack tapper. we begin with the national lead. moments ago, the head of the union representing officers with the transportation security administration issued a statement calling for some of those officers to be armed in the aftermath of friday s shooting at los angeles international airport. the statement reads in part quote, at this time, we feel a larger and more consistent armed presence in screening areas would be a positive step in improving security for both tsos and the flying public. the development of a new class of tsa officers with law enforcement status would be a logical approach to accomplishing this goal, end quote. security at airports across the nation will be reviewed on orders from attorney general e
city, attorney general eric holder says they would be on death row right now. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. right now, we re learning much more about the bloody shooting rampage at los angeles airport that sent panicked passengers fleeing for their lives, left a tsa officer dead and three more victims wounded. now there s a brand new push by the union that represents tsa officers to give them law enforcement status, in other words, guns and arrest powers to protect themselves and the public. meantime, the suspect, who allegedly targeted the tsa, remains in critical condition. cnn s stephanie elam has been piecing together the details of what happened, an incident that might have potentially been prevented. what are you learning? reporter: well, wolf, the idea of arming some tsa officers is just one idea that s being suggested in light of the shooting here. in the meantime, investigators continue to look for reasons why this 23-year-old shooter was
the name of the mosque is the islamic society of boston in cambridge. that he had some outbursts that caused quite a seen at the mosque and it was threatened with expulsion. do you have any information or has the f.b.i. been briefed on whether the imam at that mosque called any of that to the authorities attention? my understanding from talking to authorities including police is that the imam never told anybody about that in law enforcement. nobody in the government was told. that is very significant. for someone to be ejected from a mosque because of radical outbursts, that is usually a good marker that person has become radicalized. that was the obligation of that imam to go to law enforcement, either the boston police or f.b.i., someone in law enforcement status because this is happened too often. it happened in new york where a person goes to a mosque, says he