While today's announcement is an important and necessary first step, criminal background checks must eventually become a part of the screening process.

We will accept nothing less than the right transaction.

If there's a silver lining to this, it's that I've spent two years trying to get people drummed up on this issue and it was very difficult to get them to pay attention. In the last 10 days, there's been no shortage of people paying attention to it.

The real risk we see from a port security standpoint is that somebody's going to put something in a container. We are talking about, literally, the first baby steps in a huge process that has to happen. We're trying to create a smart box.

In view of the concerns raised by federal, state and local officials over this approval, the Port Authority must ensure that a full and comprehensive review of this matter is complete.

We would like to obtain information to show that it's not a security risk. This is in our back yard.