she told the truth about the children in beslan, she did so at the war in chechnya. and in other instances where she knew that she was putting herself in harm's way. and accepted the fact that she would probably die, pursuing the truth . >> your work is full of mortal challenges to your characters. terrible things befall them. they are constantly dealing with tais terrible injury and challenges. and the rest of it in light of what you invented for your novels did it change your perception of that stuff, experiencing it yourself? >> wanted to experience that sometime back i created a hazard for my character, arketyrenko in which he had been shot mountain head and part of the tbult remaine bulletremained in his skull. and then my eye followed to some degree with this operation. i have now got electrodes in my head. and i've got -- so that i have a kind of shadow of my bshe -i have become a shadow of my fictional character. >> will you continue writing? >> what else would i do? >> from here what does your prognosis look with parkinson's? >> what i'm hoping for is ten go

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to do something that might produce a result that similarly bloody as both the moscow theater and beslan but the terrorists would hope would further embarass the putin regime further, undermine russia's success in the games and hopefully in their view have knock off own other effects held in russia in the future. >> u. >> thank you very much. obviously ukraine is a very important and complex subject but it particularly interesting for us to hear what do you think about the impact of ukrainian crisis on u.s.-russian relations? >> thank you, thank thank you vy much dimitri and paul, and chuck in the center. somehow per flexing did you did not find room between henry kissinger and senator paul to say comforting rooms. everyone around the table, is testament to the value of what you all do and i'm very perplexed that i have qualified to be on this panel but grateful. let me say -- >> don't be perplexed. i was not smart enough to ask you to speak at our anniversary. [laughter] >> i acceded the idea. so not only did, i did this fellowship, it was under a program called title 8 embassy policy s

then to another region in russia and instead of having a conference, to our horror, the school in beslan was taken. again, somebody with minimal military background, i was horrified, there was no perimeter established around the school so people were walking, shown on national tv, realtime, people walking in and out of the school. where hundreds of schoolchildren were taken hostage. again, the botched retake and over 300 kids and some personnel perished in the retake. not very impressive, no serious investigation, no public lessons learned. and in the meantime, you have trains, planes, airports, automobiles, and the moscow metro being targeted again and again with suicide bombers and bombs. the high speed trains between moscow and st. petersburg were hit twice. two planes to volgograd were hit by female suicide bombers who bribed the security guard or the russian equivalent of s.a. with about $100 or $150 bribe to not open their bags and the planes went down. so the threat is both homegrown and internationally connected. and clearly sochi is a huge, high priority target. volgograd appare

school shootings are largely unheard of in moscow we had a terrorist event in russia in 2004, in beslan, where terrorists took hundreds of students hostage and 300 of them were ultimately killed that was entirely different sort of an event, jon. what happened in the wake of that, russia decided to place security officers inside of all schools. so that was a change in the way schools are run in russia and now not surprisingly russian authorities are saying this morning there is complete review of security in all russian schools. this as the olympics are just a few days away and security is on the tip of everyone's tongues in russia, jon. jon: with sochi coming everybody has to be on edge as a result of this attack. >> reporter: absolutely. jon: amy kellogg, thank you. jenna: meanwhile back here at home, new developments in the new jersey bridge traffic story. more documents subpoenaed by the state's special investigative committee are due this afternoon. meantime governor chris christie's staffer, that had been named in the investigation is stepping down. so that's another development. e