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brennan, bring us up to date with this thing.we got this report earlier this week that someone might try to provoke an incident here, set off a bomb. what can you tell us. >> good morning, bob. we convened another meeting this morning at the white house situation room to review all the available intelligence and to go over the actions that we are taking. the president met with his senior national security team yesterday, directed us to do everything possible to pull these threads, to see about the information that's been provided to us that is specific and credible. again it's not confirmed. but the president wants to make sure that we leave no stone unturned. that's what the intelligence law enforcement and homeland security communities are doing. >> schieffer: have you received any information yet to corroborate these original reports? it's my understanding that you think you have an idea of who gave these orders, and you have some general idea anyway who may have been ordered to carry them out. >> we do have some information a

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brennan says now is time to keep the pressure up. but for how much longer? we seeing the end of the al-qaeda terror network? fox news military analyst is joining us live. good to see you. thank you for joining us today. >> good the see you, jamie. >> over the last year, really, you and i have been talking about al-qaeda, where they stand versus the taliban. i remember the last number i heard is only 100 al-qaeda in afghanistan. but bigger picture, how strong is the al-qaeda network right now? especially when you have different factions in different places? >> well, first of all, our intelligence agency and special operations forces deserves a huge amount of credit for what they have done for ten years. largely the al-qaeda is on the defense. i don't dispute the words that brennan is using that they are on the ropes but they have not been knocked out. we have to do that. we've got to break their will and defeat the movement. our leaders know we have to stay on top of them to do that. we cannot back away. the focus, resources, commitment and determination, we

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chief white house counterterrorism adviser john brennan said as much. >> it was al qaeda in the arabian peninsula that attempted to bring down that airliner over detroit and which put explosives on cargo planes bound for the united states. it is al qaeda's adherence, individuals, sometimes with little or no direct physical contact with al qaeda, who have seccumbed to its hateful ideology and who have engaged in or facilitated terrorist activities here in the united states. >> again, that was john brennan. that was in june of this year describing the threat in yemen. now, this charismatic cleric is also thought to be the inspiration behind the u.s. army major who went on that shooting spree at fort hood two years ago that killed 13 american soldiers and wounded 32 others. with the u.s. government engaged in trying to get the yemeni president to step down from power there were questions about whether the government would continue to be cooperative counterterrorism partner. with this news some of the questions have been answered and what i've been told this morning is the yemeni government

brennan expressing disappointment with a lot of the report and a lot of the disappointment had to doith the lack of detail, and lack of clarity as he read it about who was in charge, but also what is going to happen. insofar as you are going to put some flesh on the bones or whatever the metaphor is, clarify that urgently that would be very important. it's interesting how much cybercomes up and also these remarkable instruments of data analysis retention, which have helped us enormously in the last week with the latest threat stream. or we can yet do better at that as the boss that. thank you. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. olson, let me just take up where you left off because i was going to talk to you about who is the lead for countering violent extremism? i know that the white house is the lead for policy and put out what is in our view a disappointing disappointingly, sketchy strategy, but it's the nctc going to be the operational lead for implementation? >> we will not read the operational implementation. the national security staff and counsel at the white hou

this would also be a location with limited public access, including the brennan street wharf. this is obviously going to be a key place for event the party infrastructure to make it safe for the uses that are there. right now, it is not approved for this level of activity. with approval, it would then make this more habitable and would allow themselves to put their installations on top. as i mentioned earlier, i want to step back and take a look at the broad economic strategy. we mentioned the billion dollar number, the jobs number, over a thousand. those projections are obviously very exciting, but we need to do what we can to deliver on those promises. what we have tried

. >> any items removed brennan reserve removed? any items severed for discussion? >> item k19 i have a couple of questions on. >> roll call will take place if there are no other comment spirit go no other comments. >> i would like to move forward item i, which is the resolution for approval. and we have the reconsideration of resolution 108, already approved on august 23. can i get a curriculum report? you are reporting for the commitment bowman -- for the commitment? >> it was forward with a positive recommendation, and i believe we did recommend an amendment. >> yes. should i give an overview? >> just hold on one second because we are going to have to read them as well. >> the committee did ask for legal counsel to draft an amendment. >> and another resolution? commissioner fewer: i would like you to read it into the record. >> the board of education adopted policies in 1991 and in 2003 respectively, and whereas in 2005, the department of defense created a military recruitment database that purchases information on individuals from outside resources for the purpo

>> well, i understand what john brennan is saying. obviously, taking down usama bin laden this year and just recently, they got this fellow, al rahman, the new number two in al-qaeda, number one out there who took usama bin laden's place, ayman al-zawahiri is in place but they have taken out some of the senior leadership in pakistan. what i'm worried about is we don't become complacent and some of the other affiliates are dangerous, in yemen, al-shabaab in somalia, we've had a number of attacks in iraq, that probably have fingerprints on it from al-qaeda and there are parts of africa. i don't think we're there yet, i understand what he's saying but complacency would be a big mays tick, especially in the shadow of 9/11. bill: would you agree that he said the white house has the right formula to take down al-qaeda and its leadership, meaning they have to look over their shoulder time they get together and sit down or nominate someone else for a leadership post? >> absolutely, and this is a continuation of what the bush administration di

brennan expressing disappointment with a lot of the report and a lot of the disappointment had to doith the lack of detail, and lack of clarity as he read it about who was in charge, but also what is going to happen. insofar as you are going to put some flesh on the bones or whatever the metaphor is, clarify that urgently that would be very important. it's interesting how much cybercomes up and also these remarkable instruments of data analysis retention, which have helped us enormously in the last week with the latest threat stream. or we can yet do better at that as the boss that. thank you. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. olson, let me just take up where you left off because i was going to talk to you about who is the lead for countering violent extremism? i know that the white house is the lead for policy and put out what is in our view a disappointing disappointingly, sketchy strategy, but it's the nctc going to be the operational lead for implementation? >> we will not read the operational implementation. the national security staff and counsel at the white hou

that's why you're hearing leon panetta and david petraeus and john brennan saying things like al qaeda is facing strategic defeat because at a certain point you just cannot get the people he with twith the experi knowledge to kind of step up to what is now -- which has long been the world's most dangerous job, being number two and three in al qaeda. there are just fewer and fewer takers or people able to fill the positions. >> what about al qaeda in the rainian peninsula based in yemen and led by this american cleric? p of the american cleric is not the leader. he's the most well-known person in the english speaking world because he speaks english, is the public face. but it's still led arabs. another revelation from the papers from the compound. bin laden mix 96ed the proposal saying, i'm used to the people in charge. i don't want this american cleric to be in charge of al qaeda in yes, ma'am aren. certainly for u.s. counterterrorism officials are that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the other thing they're concerned about are lone wolves with no connection to any network who may t

. >> brennan: cofer and his people pulled together what was going to be the next step as far as going after al qaeda, going after afghanistan. and they were the ones that actually were able to bring the plans to the table first and present them at the white house. >> black: where everybody else is looking for their maps on afghanistan, we're ready to rock, ready to roll. i mean, we were waiting for the bureaucracy to catch up. >> narrator: black would personally present the plan to president bush. >> brennan: cia had already done more homework on al qaeda than any other part of the us government. and so, what they were able to do then was to put together a proposal and a timeline as far as how the cia could be the vanguard of the us government move against al qaeda. >> narrator: the cia code name for the covert program would become "greystone." >> priest: they had a matrix that they offered to the white house that said, "these are the countries we need to go into. go after bin laden and his terrorist network. kill and capture them and their supporters." >> narrator: greystone was a ch

brennan says al-qaida's number two man was killed by a cia drone strike in pakistan last week. he also says u.s. intelligence has detected no active terror plots as we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >>> there's still no nationwide radio network dedicated to emergency responders post 9/11. a report released by the national preparedness group says political fighting is to blame. the first responders were unable to communicate on 9/11. it was considered a critical failure that cost lives. >>> 6:15. house republicans pushed back and they wanted president obama to delay his highly-anticipated prime time jobs speech next week. alison burns is live in our washington d.c. bureau on how the speaker of the house pressured the president to change the date. allison. reporter: dave, democrats say it is a stunning show of disrespect from speaker boehner for president obama. the last time that the president addressed a joint session of congress was for a state of the union address and he wanted to do it again next wednesday to lay out his new jobs plan. but it's the same n

brennan says al-qaida's number two man was killed by a cia drone strike in pakistan last week. he also says u.s. intelligence has detected no active terror plots as we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >>> there's still no nationwide radio network dedicated to responders post- 9/11. a report released by the national preparedness group says political fighting is to blame for the delay. first responders were unable to communicate on 9/11. it was considered a critical failure that cost lives. >>> time now 5:15. a bay area youth pastor due in court today. 38-year-old john gamboa is charged -- accused of having a sexual relationship with a girl who was a bible study students. police say the girl is under the age of 14. the girl's parents called police after allegedly finding suggestive text messages on her cell phone. the youth pastor now faces several serious charges, including committing lewd acts on a minor. >>> a warning this morning in redwood city. yesterday a mountain lion was spotted twice near canada college on farm hill boulevard. the first sighting was ab

brennan, his chief adviser on these matters, has been in touch with him throughout the day. we are told the president is no longer in the west wing and is not being briefed by brennan now or tonight, but has constant access if there's any need to be in touch with him and his schedule could be changed at any time. as well, piers, in anticipation of 9/11 there was earlier in the week a meeting of his national security team and his homeland security team in anticipation of any possible threats. i'm told that if there should -- if a need should arise, they could have another meeting of that nature tomorrow or in advance of 9/11. of the tenth anniversary. >> jessica, there's going to be a press conference, we believe, in about half an hour involving new york mayor michael bloomberg and also, i think, ray kelly and others. what can you tell me about this? >> i do know that that is taking place, obviously, in new york, not here, not involving the white house. but they are very well aware of it. they say this is part of a very methodical process that happens when a threat rises to a

this has really been ramped up. >> woodruff: i did interview john brennan, a couple days ago, and he said ever since they went through osama bin laden's material when they killed him, they known that this was an interest in doing something on the anniversary of 9/11. so they've been looking for something, i gather. >> they have. and the reporting that we've been doing at npr, what's been really unusual is in the run-up to this anniversary, there has been very, little evidence of chatter. it seemed like al qaeda leaders had gone to found because so many of them had either been captured or killed by drone attacks, and they just seemed like they were sort of huddled up. so this particular intelligence interpret that they got kind of surprised them because there had been silence for so long. >> woodruff: so they're still investigating, is that right? >> that's exactly right. basically what happens is they get this intercept, or they get a piece of intelligence that seems strong, and this particular source apparently has been very help am to them in the past and corroborating other things

there has been a concerted effort under john brennan in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge, to use unprecedented numbers of drone attacks. and it's been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. these people were trying to keep low cover, not being -- not coming out into the open. it hampered them operationally and ultimately led to their demise. not just where we saw around the al qaeda leadership itself, but also these splinter groups. and so, you know, if you look at what the president said he would do in trying to get elected, this fits that. and people can say whether they, you know, like his policy on israel or not, they can pick holes in it, but at least he did what he said he would do when it came to al qaeda. >> last word from you, evan, they can run, they can hide. can they hide anymore? >> well, you know, a lot of al qaeda leaders have been killed in the last year. some very, very senior people. number one, the number three, the number two from what we know right now is on the run, is desperately trying to avoid

the president was briefed by his chief counterterrorism adviser john brennan this morning and he's not in the west wing now but is available should he need an update. i should also point out that in anticipation of 9/11 he chair at ming of his team here to make sure that the team is doing everything necessary to step up security measures around the country because they anticipated that there could be extra concerns because of the anniversary on sunday. anderson? >> peter, i want to play another piece of sound from the new york press conference. this is the fbi new york field office assistant director in charge. >> as we know from the intelligence gathered following the osama bin laden raid, al qaeda has shown an interest in important dates, in anniversaries such as 9/11. in this instance, the instance we're all here tonight to speak about, it's accurate that there is specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information. as we always do before important dates, like the anniversary of 9/11, we will undoubtedly get more reporting in the coming days. >> peter, your sources are saying the

brian, look, what i have been told it's simply, yes the president has been briefed, you've got john brennan who's dealing with this, but that all statements and all public alerts are going to come through the department of homeland security, and right on clock work, there was some discussion that it would be issued after the speech, none of that and it's all in the hands of dhs at this point, brian. >> and as we await the president entering the chamber, we should turn to the topic in chief tonight. that is with our politics so badly broken, here's the backdrop as the gavel comes down and -- >> the president of the united states. >> so chuck, talk to us about the president's motivation, what he plans to say, what he hopes to get out of it? >> reporter: the white house knows this is a now or never moment, they're in about a 2 1/2 month window what one administration official sort of reluctantly admitted where they can still govern, they believe, so the motivation of this speech, the proposal he's going to spend the congress next week, he already called speaker boehner, senate republican leade

brennan darby organized them and introduced us to them and got them to come out so we didn't have any relationship to anybody really other than brandon darby and i don't read it is featured in the documentary and it seems like a pretty stand up guy i mean somebody who started an organization that helped feed hundreds of people victims of hurricane katrina he's passionate he specifically you know called you and your friends to action seems like somebody that you might want to associate with but from what i understand he later became an f.b.i. informant if brendan someone you blame for what you've gone through the last couple of years i'm not really interested in and point fingers and language i mean i have to take a certain level of responsibility for my own actions but i think when people especially if they watch the documentary and see how things develop i think there's it's a complicated situation and everybody bears some responsibility for mistakes and you know in some cases some really unethical behavior so you were you were arrested along with your friend david mackay and how lon

information had not been shared and he had his counterterrorism adviser john brennan go back and lookappened. i talked to john brennan earlier this week and he reaffirmed that as a result of that they went back and strengthened those information sharing mechanisms among the agencies. >> so bottom line, if you're in new york or d.c. do you stay home this weekend? do you stay away from soft targets or just go on? i have a feeling i know what you're going to say. >> yeah. >> go on and live your life as normally as you can? >> that's right. you cannot -- you can't change your life and your activities based on unconfirmed threats. if that was the case we would never go out of the house. so you got to wait to see if there is additional information. authorities are going to let you know that and if it is confirmed, then you can think about how you want to alter your activities. >> fran, thanks. >> sure. >> barbara star has been working our sources at the pentagon. what are you finding out? >> well, there is a growing sense officials say that this threat is emanating from pakistan, from the p

since john brennan earlier today ma mention of something we're going to take on which i think is a real litmus test for the office of dni, we have been on a steady upward growth for the last 10 years in money and people. that encompasses the of -- entire existence of the dni. i hope to profit from my experience when i served as director and went through this before. taking care of people. second, something i am pushing very hard is the integration of intelligence activities. integration is might think, my sheol, my stick. -- my thing, my spiel, my stick. this is an area, that i ever learned is important. it is not an area that is not as mature as our classical foreign intelligence apparatus. we have only been doing this for 10 years. the third area is the expansion and matation of responsible information sharing. that relates to integration. i would like to focus on integration and the sharpening of our focus. we have worked on the policy front which is kind of boring. not very sexy but it is important to work the policies and mechanisms that response -- gives sharing. cia as the emphas

i would say as you put it, john brennan put the coordinating role on behalf of the president in the last few days in response to this threat and our role at nctc is to be the place where informatio comes together cause some of the information is coming from the cia, as coming from fpi. lots of information coming from dhs. we play a central clearing house world where we take all of that information come analyze it and share what we are seeing from the analytical standpoint. >> secretary, you want to add to that, does this sound right to you? >> it is an amazing coordination that might seem and i don't think would have been ble to accomplish tenyears ago. it is ultimately coordinated out of the white house. we all understand how we fit together. sometimes it's difficult to articulate and know it when you see it, but it does seem to increase our ability not only to share information among ourselves, but it's important that we get information to the country and receive information back, and that also is a difference between now and ten years ago and i can say that ten years ago when i was th

now questioning the qualifications for counterterrorist trainers he's even sending a letter to john brennan now calling for a scanner. to be put in place for that kind of training so now the f.b.i. has been called out once again for using the teachings of a man which are widely discredited it is not only wrong or potentially illegal i wonder if they're going to stop lying and actually prevent it from hosting another forum with law enforcement i certainly hope so. and we talk about the struggling economy in this country all the time more than forty six million people that are now living below the poverty line the official nine point one percent unemployment and the real you six measured sixteen point two percent unemployment the fact that large corporations continue to sit on piles of cash in offshore tax havens and take jobs elsewhere while their executives break in record profits altogether you could call this not only a bad economy but it's an employment crisis but there's one thing about it that never gets talked about and that's the underground economy that's rising because of the crisi

you faces another sexual assault allegation in france by novelist christine brennan . runs first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began in the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sent specialists to complete it both countries have agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. tropical storm lee has reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. there's a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five a gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . russia's youth beating a path to the big cities to make their living at the rural towns they leave behind a d

. >> white house counterterrorism adviser john brennan says the u.s. is fundamentally safer ten years after the september 11th attacks. at an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies and the national security alliance, he also talked about what the killing of osama bin laden means for homeland security. he was interviewed by frances townsend, former homeland security advisor to president george w. bush. this is a little less than an hour. [background sounds] [applause] >> hi. i thought before we started, john, i thought it was appropriate. in my office i hung this flag of honor which has the names of all of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and i thought it would be appropriate to hajj it today -- hang it today for the conversation. >> very nice. t >> ladies and gentlemen, john brennan is a friend, a colleague, a patriot and anrenn enormously talented individual. he was appointed as assistant ta the president in 2009, he is a 25-year veteran of the cia having held several key overseas positions particularly in the middle east.

white house counter terrorism chief john brennan claims that al-qaeda is "on the ropes." says u.s. intelligence has not detected any active terror plots on the 10th gretat anniversary of 9/11. i'm ainsley earhardt. now, back to greta van squand susteren. n dollars. tomorrow night you will be fuming when you see our investigation. tonight griff jenkins jess gates another part of the gao report. there's even -- investigates -- there's even more waste. >> reporter: this gao report on waste and duplication could save hundreds of billions if federal an event agencies would implement the recommendations in it. tonight we want to focus on education and job training. this report is six months old. we want to know what is being done? there are 82 separate federal perhaps to improve teacher quality across 10 different agencies administered at a cost of four billion dollars a year. you look further and find that nine of the 82 programs support improving the quality of teaching in science, technology, engineering and math. these programs are administered across departments of educati

for the past four months, homeland security advisors to the president, john brennan, has been runningcess to make sure we're preparing appropriately for this anniversary, taking all necessary precautions, just two days ago the president chaired a meeting of his homeland security team to look at the preparations, to make sure we were doing everything that was necessary to be hyper vigilant in this situation. and you can be sure that in relation to the -- >> bill: we have nothing to be worried about at this point. you got it under control. >> we have to be vigilant all the time. that's what we're doing. >> bill: jay, you're always welcome on the program. thanks for taking the heat tonight. we appreciate it. directly ahead. >> it's been a pleasure. >> bill: who won the debate last night in california? we'll ask carl cameron and james rosen what the word is in political circles. bernie goldberg on whether the moderators were baiting the republican candidates as newt gingrich charged. we'll be right back. [ whispering ] ok, here's your room key, the crib is already there. great. thank you