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from claims that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is anti-semetic.

In a pre-taped interview with

that aired on Tuesday, the 34-year-old dismissed

, which arose after her 70-year-old father tweeted and deleted an image of

calling the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee the "most corrupt candidate ever" in a graphic many believed resembled the Star of David.

"He clearly did not think that was the Star of David," she told Spencer. "I think it should have been taken at face value. That was clearly not the intention."

, went on to say that her father has been a longtime supporter of the Jewish community.

My father's track record of supporting and advocating for Jewish people and for Israel is unimpeachable," she said. "Whether it being the grand marshall of the Israel Day Parade when it was not advantageous to do so to the support he has offered my husband, myself and our family as a young Jewish couple."

"I know my father and I know his intent. I think that was really rather ridiculous," she added.

Elsewhere in the interview, Ivanka spoke about her father's

habits – which he used to defend himself against the

"The only filter is himself," she explained. "He's able to communicate exactly what he wants to say. It has gotten him into trouble occasionally. But I think, much more powerful is the fact that he speaks from the brain, he speaks from the heart."

"He's the messenger of the people – he's the people's candidate," she said.

And as for the threats of violence that appear to be rampant in recent weeks? "We live in scary times," she said. "I worry about the safety of my father but I worry about the safety of every American, including my children and myself, my family."

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Ivanka also refuted the "flawed perception" that her father doesn't value women, saying that Donald "has empowered women – even me – his whole life."

"People talk and talk about gender, but do they actually live it?" she asked. "My father has. He believes in equality amongst the genders – economically, politically and socially."

"I don't know that people appreciate his tremendous empathy and his warmth, but they should," she added. "This country needs a president who's able to dream big. And my father will be able to do that in a very big and a very real way."

But it was when reflecting on Clinton's recent attack ads against her father – which portray him as a

"I wouldn't have my children listening to those ads," she said. "The negative ads – especially those and almost all of them – are a complete manipulation of his words and packaged for maximum impact."

"Despite what anyone may say, including the opposition, I know the man and so do my children."
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Tougher TSA bomb tests raise stakes for screeners
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON  When covert agents test how well airport security screeners find homemade bombs, they pack a detonator, timer and battery inside a cluttered toilet kit, stuff it into a suitcase and carry it through a checkpoint.

Agents also hide fake sheet explosives in briefcase linings. They stash watch timers inside hollowed-out books. They cram detonators in back braces and smear plastic explosives on shoelaces.

The Transportation Security Administration's special operations division devised the testing to raise the stakes for airport screeners and test whether they can spot bomb parts hidden as a terrorist might try to get them on an airplane, according to a classified TSA report obtained by USA TODAY.

The testing in the past year is far harder than it was before and shortly after the TSA took over airport security in 2002, agency spokeswoman Ellen Howe said. In earlier tests, covert agents would put a gun or a large assembled bomb in an otherwise-empty briefcase, she said.

Howe said the increased difficulty explains why screeners at Los Angeles and Chicago O'Hare airports failed to find more than 60% of fake explosives that TSA agents tried to get through checkpoints last year.

The failure rates — about 75% at Los Angeles and 60% at O'Hare — are higher than some tests of screeners a few years ago and equivalent to other previous tests.

"We want to have higher failure rates because it shows that we're raising the bar and the tests are harder," Howe said. Using a basketball analogy, she added, "You might score more points against a high-school team, but your skills are going to be improved if you're playing against an NBA team."

But aviation-security consultant Rich Roth worries that high failure rates may encourage terrorists to try to bring bombs on airplanes. "The terrorist will think he's got a very small chance of getting caught," Roth said.

TSA chief Kip Hawley has intensified efforts to stop terrorists from carrying bomb parts on a plane where they could be assembled. Shortly after Hawley took office in 2005, the nation's 43,000 screeners began getting an extra hour a week of training to find bombs and components, Howe said.

This year, the TSA for the first time began running covert tests every day at every checkpoint at every airport. That began partly in response to the classified TSA report showing that screeners at San Francisco International Airport were tested several times a day and found about 80% of the fake bombs.

Constant testing makes screeners "more suspicious as well as more capable of recognizing (bomb) components," the report said. The report does not explain the high failure rates but said O'Hare's checkpoints were too congested and too wide for supervisors to monitor screeners.

At San Francisco, "everybody realizes they are under scrutiny, being watched and tested constantly," said Gerald Berry, president of Covenant Aviation Security, which hires and manages the San Francisco screeners. San Francisco is one of eight airports, most of them small, where screeners work for a private company instead of the TSA. The idea for constant testing come from Ed Gomez, the TSA security director at San Francisco, Berry said.

The tests typically involve an undercover person slipping a bag with a fake bomb on an X-ray machine belt, Berry said.

At San Diego International Airport, tests are run by passengers who local TSA managers ask to carry a bomb, said screener Cris Soulia, an official in a screeners' union. "It's nobody we would ever expect," Soulia said.

Screener Don Thomas of Orlando International Airport has noticed changes in testing.

Until a few months ago, covert tests were hardly ever done at the airport, said Thomas, president of the screeners' union. A few weeks ago, Thomas was tested three times in one week, including one test at a checkpoint that screens only airport workers.

"I kind of like it," Thomas said. "It keeps you a little bit sharp, and you don't feel pressured, like you're going to get fired or written up." Screeners who miss fake bombs are pulled aside, shown the piece they missed and are ordered to complete training.

The classified TSA report illustrates the tests' difficulty. In the fake bomb hidden in a toiletry kit, the battery and timer "are not discernable amongst the other clutter," the report says. But the "distinct image of a detonator is clearly visible."

The CD player filled with fake plastic explosives is "not readily discernable" but should be spotted by screeners because "the dense organic mass is visible in the upper left hand corner of the bag," according to the report.

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