peter bergen is the author of "the longest war". the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda. he is director of the national-security studies program at the new america foundation. and author of the newly released book "the longest war". he is a television journalist, the author of holy war inside the secret world of osama bin laden. and the osama bin laden i know, an oral history of al qaeda's leader. both books are among the best nonfiction books of the year of the washington post and documentary based on these books were nominated in 2002 and 2007. he is cnn's national security analyst and fellow at the university center. he has written for the washington post, vanity fair, the new republic, los angeles times, wall street journal atlantic, and he worked as a correspondent for the national geographic television and cnn. he holds an m a in oxford university. i invite each other to tell us about this book and we start with mr. thomas. >> back to the question of our wars really necessary with teddy roosevelt. let me take you t

. >> my name is peter bergen. i am an investigative reporter. i do not write content, i do not right product. i do news reporting. i do not write material to put ads around. there are some assumptions coming from this gathering that i find troubling. many years ago, upton sinclair wrote a classical study of journalism. he said that the advertising model does not work. clearly, it does work, but the main thing that is missing from what everyone has been talking about so far is the consumer. when i read long form of journalism, which i write, i print it out. when i mounted an investigation of the region's last year of california, i collected about $7,000 from individuals and parlayed it into six print journeys, seven weeklies. got a lot of national coverage. it made some difference in people's lives, but i did not take a dime from any corporation. ok? so let's talk about how we go back to the model where people who need investigation, news -- because my duty is not to reflect corporations. let us not be proud that we are moving forward because we

there was a time when victor bergen off a nice to taste and valdez samplers a trauma surgeon who worked in the same hospital. now south loses latvia's president going off as a member of latvia's anti fascist committee. who is also a possibility i can't bear to see the revival of naziism in libya i can see it with the naked eye in the waters of the world upsets me most of all is that so-called democratic europe closes its eyes to the revival not as a group of the crew it was a. march sixteenth nineteen forty three during the second world war the laugh-in legion was formed. thousands of volunteers in the country signed up to fight for the nazis. off independence every year on the state legion veterans have been officially committees to hold a parade in central region. in two thousand and five big to turn off and several other anti fascist clans and prison rape stood in the way of marching legionnaires. the police dispersed all the empty fascists and let the s.s. veterans put the flowers at the freedom mourning. forces that we believe in a free country fascists and their followers have no

. >> my name is peter bergen. i am an investigative reporter. i do not write content, i do not right product. i do news reporting. i do not write material to put ads around. there are some assumptions coming from this gathering that i find troubling. many years ago, upton sinclair wrote a classical study of journalism. he said that the advertising model does not work. clearly, it does work, but the main thing that is missing from what everyone has been talking about so far is the consumer. when i read long form of journalism, which i write, i print it out.

you know the the summit to solve when they first started in your country in bergen two thousand and nine i was among the skeptics saying this is just purely symbolism because as you pointed out when goldman sachs created this terminate jim o'neill's career in two thousand and one it was just an acronym it was just a reference to the four largest economies in the world after the g seven what were the next four countries on the list and there was no particular rhyme or reason historically culturally politically financially they're very different countries india and china are still very poor countries russia and brazil on a per capita g.d.p. basis are much wealthier countries so what are they cut what do they have in common some are manufacturers some are raw material exporters what is the common basis for a summit. and as i said i was a bit of a skeptic however i have to admit that i think that the initiative the president medvedev took in two thousand and nine could bring this group together as leaders. makes sense first of all within the context of the g. twenty these these are the after

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over the operation in libya stack up among nato members today's meeting of its foreign ministers in bergen promises to be a fiery one but u.k. and france have been pushing other allies to increase the military pressure on mcconnell could have a head of the meeting a specially formed contact group on libya called cricket afy to step. down and let the people terminate their own future meanwhile the u.s. is training anti-government activists from the middle east and north africa on how to spread democracy with the help of technology but it's not easy guy nature can reports it could be a hidden agenda. the u.s. is providing high tech help with the innovations for anti-government activists in a number of countries throughout the world one of the latest developments is the panic button according to the state department the application can be uploaded on activists cell phones should they be detained the software instantly raises the contact book in their phones and sends a warning alert signal to other activists sounds great one push of a button and it's all gone probably mungo's thanking the u.s

strikes and there's a wide divergence in the numbers there and you know catherine she demanded and bergen you tracked at least the pakistan drone strikes you know america's foundation are usually relying on open sources newspapers try and find some consensus in the numbers it's really hard to do with a military it's us i'm totally with you there the fact that you know as they say you also find out of the pentagon doesn't even keep an overall tally of how many civilians are killed. the drone strikes or to me there's a huge conflict there if you consider the fact that we're supposed to be winning hearts and minds especially in afghanistan. yeah that's one of the big ironies here is you know general petraeus is running the afghanistan war is sort of on the horns of a dilemma here and he's considered this very counter insurgency groups counterinsurgency is all based on you know making friendly with local populous and trying to reinforce good will in constructs you know civil military relations rather than destroying things but also the pressure i think domestically to sort of accelerating and

. >> jason from north bergen, new jersey. >> jimmy: ah, from new jersey. very, very good.rect? >> never. >> jimmy: okay, very good. and i can see you backstage, that you had to pick a name for your crew. >> yes. >> jimmy: what do you come up with? >> team mustard, like mustard since we're in yellow, but french. mustard. roll that r. >> jimmy: that's a long name. that's a long, long name. thank you for the explanation of the name. a whole wikipedia page based on your name right there. team mustard. and roll the rs. now, clearly you've all been accessorized backstage. let's take a look at your group photo here. there they are, team mustard. [ cheers and applause ] i get it now. very good. looking hot, looking real hot. all right. very good. welcome, you guys. what are your names and where are you all from? >> i'm kelly and i'm from new york. >> jimmy: hey, all right. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm julie, i'm from wayland, massachusetts. >> jimmy: very good. [ scattered applause ] >> i'm david and i'm from nashville, tennessee. >> i'm eric from philadelphia. [ cheers and appl

host: we're joined from north bergen, new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning. this is for mrs. sanchez. i want her to explain to me about the health care bill, how a person -- i'm very lucky. i'm 70. i'm retired. my income is $24,000 a year. so i'm not falling in that medicare proposal of the republicans mr. ryan. but it's many people who is going to be only 55, who are going make less than i do. and i want ms. sanchez to explain to me how that people is going to survive. not everybody is a genius. not everybody can go up like she did. host: how do you respond to that sentiment? guest: i think to speak directly to the caller, i think your concerns are valid. the point is not that the new health care initiatives are to look at entitlements and how to approach them, to make sure that they're stronger. i think it's to break the system apart as much as it is to find a way to make the system better to make it solvent so that it can be there for the extended family that are dependent upon it. i talked about my personal experience with it earlier. navigating the syste

what we're going to do is start off with karen greenberg, a longtime friend of new america, peter bergen here, and a longtime collaborator in these conferences. and karen's going to give us the broad overview of the domestic threat. and then we've asked peter newman to look at this dynamic that we started talking about in the last panel, internet radicalization, and the countermeasures, counterradicalization both for the internet side and more generally. and then pleased to have juliet cayenne speak today. she's just finished five years of continuous service, first for deval patrick in massachusetts and then just recently as assistantñr secretary of homelad security for intergovernmental affairs. and she's going to take a look at homeland security in the context of a changing threat and changing budgets. how do we, where do we stand in terms of the homeland security enterprise? and then, finally, we're going to close with our own barry lynn who directs the -- and i always forget the name of the program -- it's the markets, enterprise and resiliency initiative. and barry brings an incredi

host: we're joined from north bergen, new jersey. good morning. caller: good morning. this is for mrs. sanchez. i want her to explain to me about the health care bill, how a person -- i'm very lucky. i'm 70. i'm retired. my income is $24,000 a year. so i'm not falling in that medicare proposal of the republicans mr. ryan. but it's many people who is going to be only 55, who are going make less than i do. and i want ms. sanchez to explain to me how that people is going to survive. not everybody is a genius. not everybody can go up like she did. host: how do you respond to that sentiment? guest: i think to speak directly to the caller, i think your concerns are valid. the point is not that the new health care initiatives are to look at entitlements and how to approach them, to make sure that they're stronger. i think it's to break the system apart as much as it is to find a way to make the system better to make it solvent so that it can be there for the extended family that are dependent upon it. i talked about my personal experience with it earlier. navigating the syste

we juxtapose teddy roosevelt and eisenhower to show you polarity of america's feelings now peter bergen will take us into "the longest war" against al qaeda. >> thank you p very much it is honored to be on the same panel as thomas. it is a factual matter it isr" the longest in american history but have beenam mentioned a point* is important to think about one of the most famous observations and i amnk paraphrasing is the most important job the statesman has is to decide been going to or whate kind of four or we embarking? some mistake it for what it is not. this is a task that george w. bush failed. but i want to leave you with the thought about what kind of for being gauge upon. but before may get to that i want to mention to the roosevelt but with osama bin com laden they're both upper-class families and in bin laden case against the soviets and afghanistan and he fought quite bravely against the soviets almostst decided the snow 1985 set up a camp in order to attract t enemy fire which is a strange thing to do from a military s perspective but windows rose 70 arabia who wanted to mar