Today the president will give the public an idea of how suspected terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab slipped past post-9/11 airline security and nearly pulled off an attack on a Christmas Day Northwest Airlines flight.
The White House plans to release an unclassified report on what went wrong and reveal new steps intended to thwart terrorist attacks in the future.
On Thursday's American Morning we discussed what the report may show with the former director of national intelligence, Ambassador John Negroponte.