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first, we paid a very serious price for focusing on counterterrorism and the east for 20 years. you remember these days in the state department, if you were going to get as a diplomat, you wouldn't have to spend your time in iraq and afghanistan. that was just i mean, it was the unspoken rule in military. you certainly did, because was the only way you were going to get battle experience. and, you know, thus the the the commendations the awards and so forth that would put you on a rise. so we ended up getting a generation of diplomats and particularly of military leaders whose whole experience had been in managing the counterterrorism wars, which required a completely different set of, of talents than dealing with the economic rise of china or a revanchist russia that was once again becoming aggressive and willing to risk a full scale war in europe. and so the book argues one of the prices we paid for the counterterrorism wars was a lack of attention on the area that would become the central challenge to the united states for the half century. and the signals that you out. so my

reason police are actively providing support to the investigation. —— counterterrorism.y one way in and one way out so it may have been difficult for people to escape once the attack started. the new home secretary was in southport this morning to lay flowers and meet the police, fire and ambulance staff who responded to what she called an unimaginable attack. it is responded to what she called an unimaginable attack. it is beyond every parent's — unimaginable attack. it is beyond every parent's worst _ unimaginable attack. it is beyond every parent's worst nightmare, l unimaginable attack. it is beyond i every parent's worst nightmare, you had what should have been a children's party, having fun at the beginning of the summer holidays, to then turn into something so devastating.— then turn into something so devastatina. . . ., devastating. with police forensics teams poring _ devastating. with police forensics teams poring over _ devastating. with police forensics teams poring over the _ devastating. with police forensics teams poring over the streets - devastating. wit

in counterterrorism level is to wait. to be very prudent about even identifying the attacker. we knew and the couple minutes after this, there were different pictures of who it could have been floating around on social media. they were wrong. there were other pictures, they were wrong. the prudent way is to wait. there is a cohort of open source analysts who are digging through this information. they are not even vendors, but they are digging through a lot of the information. my advice to everyone, just wait. the full story eventually comes out. i think they have to do a much better job of showing they are more neutral. tech has been under a microscope because they haven't gotten so many of the calls right. look at the hunter biden laptop story. big tech has a lot of making up to do when it comes to this. they don't have the trust of the people and i would say rightly so. caroline: head of all of this, meta lifted all restrictions on trump's accounts ahead of the election. as we do try to gain trust, this is also at a tim

they said counterterrorism police have offered their support in their help as well, but stressed it isd incident. they want anyone with information of anything that they know about, anything at all, to do with what has happened, to get in touch with them. serena kennedy also said care is also being offered to people in the community as well, who may be affected, and north west ambulance service, as well as offering support, said their thoughts were with everyone involved, especially those of the two girls whose lives were cut short. 11 people were treated on scene, they were taken to alder hey children's hospital, manchester child ren�*s hospital, manchester hospital as children's hospital, manchester hospital as well, this stretching out further and further as the emergency hearses don't act services trying to help those affected. —— emergency services. also went to three hospitals in the area. mersey fire and rescue are different people on the scene, they fire station is not far all, just at the edge of this road —— were the first on the scene. they were able to provide a fire crew t

a national security strategy that would reorient the us government away from years of counterterrorismard the great power competition. what he called revisionist and revanche ist regimes. now my only complaint about that national security strategy is, i think it dealt with russia and china as two similar then, then, but that's a small point. he was absolutely right to go in a new direction. now. that didn'he when the president went out to announce the strategy because it's donald trump. he hadn't sat to read he went out and he gave a speech in the rose garden that bore no resemblance to the strategy that he was putting out, which the usual problem, which was that the wk on russia and china. some of it was the execution because the president couldn't carry through, was thbiden administration.orward they adopted a lot of that gy. they do talk about areas of cooperation. came out before the invasion of of ukraine. they've dropped the cooperative kind of thought about russia. not they have not with china, but i think the overall message of those strategies and certainly the message of new

former fbi official and counterterrorism christopher o'leary is with us and former u.s. attorney who served in the region where the shooting happened harry littman, so thank you all for being with us this early hour. i know some of you have been going for hours and hours and hours now. i appreciate the dedication here, andy, you are one of them, what is the latest we are learning from the investigation? >> welcome to the 20-year-old suspected gunman is being-- they are doing a full background on trying to get to the immediate timeline, leading up to the shooting, but also, as well, kind of the larger lead. some of this will unfold tonight, as shack brewster was out of the scene in bethel park, pennsylvania, where they were conducting searches, including with the atf. and obviously, there is the scene that is being processed in -- at the rally site in butler. there's not a lot we know at this point, but what is going to emerge in the coming hours, did this individual have a criminal record or a mental health history. what, in terms of the guns or ammunition that was eithe

he was a deputy assistant secretary of state and the counterterrorism bureau now lives in iowa. and he's in the iowa iowa legislature. he went around to a meeting that chuck grassley had one of these town halls to the very 1st question . and it was not just what it was multiple, whatever i want to know is quote, why the hell are we spending all of this money in ukraine when we've got needs here? yep. that's where it was. and it is, it's people like grass, they and others that are compromised they, they try to sell it out. but this is helping us build jobs cuz we've got a factory over in the east iowa, this building 155 millimeter shelves. so that what i'm saying is there's a separation that's growing between the republican base and trump is still smart enough that despite all of his bomb bass did. yeah, we're going to do this and we're going to go, you know, punch him in the face if they don't do what we say when it gets down to actually making the policy decisions, he recognizes it's a lose or does it get united states more aggressively involved and formed wars. yeah, tom, it's

he was a deputy assistant secretary of state and the counterterrorism bureau now lives in iowa. and he's in the iowa iowa legislature. he went around to a meeting that chuck grassley had one of these town halls. the very 1st question and it was not just what it was multiple, whatever i want to know is quote, why the hell are we spending all of this money in ukraine when we've got needs here? yep. that's where it was and it's people like grass they now there's that are compromise they. they try to sell it out. but this is helping us build jobs cuz we've got a factory over and uh, east iowa, this building a 155 millimeter shops. so that's what i'm saying is there's a separation that's growing between the republican base and trump is still smart enough that despite all of his bomb bows to they are, we're going to do this. we're going to go, you know, punch them in the face if they don't do what we say when it gets down to actually making the policy decisions. he recognizes it's a lose or does it get united states more aggressively involved in foreign wars? yeah, tom, it's era, it's

but i read from you what the director of the counterterrorism center said. we don't really think that's a risk. and now it's, i mean, the evidence is cropping up. so far, thanks to god, we have not seen a spectacular act of terrorism. but you are still sitting down here and the priorities you are identifying are changes in, you know, an october 7 attack on israel, which sounds like a makeweight to me. it's a tremendously horrific incident but it's not a change in terms of the threat picture that has always existed in the middle east. and then you talk about domestic violent extremists. mr. magaziner asked you about risks like january 6. i know that it is a stock piece in some politics in the united states that january 6 was as bad as 9/11. i don't honestly remember it that way. and maybe, maybe some americans will disagree with me. or many americans from mr. magaziner might disagree. but what accounts for that? i mean, it sounds reckless to me. you did not, ms. abizaid has not, other members have not come out and said this is dangerous to the homeland. i am

asylud immigration system, establishing a new border security command and delivering enhanced counterterror powers to tackle organized immigration crime. legislation will be brought forward to strengthen community policing, give the police later powers to deal with antisocial behavior in strengthen support for victims. measures were introduced to improve the safety and security of public venues and help keep the british public safe from terrorism. my government will bring forward plans to cut in half violence against women and girls. my ministers will seek to raise educational standards and break down barriers to opportunity. action will be taken to get people back in employment following the impact of the pandemic. a bill will be introduced to raise standards in education and promote children's well-being. measures will be brought forward to remove the exemption from value-added tax for private school fees, which will enable the funding of 6500 new teachers. my government will establish skills england which will have a new partnership with employers at its heart, and my ministers will refo

this is a very complicated and vast process, and i'm confident that the full weight of the fbi counterterrorism division and all of its supporting assets like surg and the evidence response teams they are working tonight if deployed to the scene, they will be going 24-7 on these cases. he's for quite some time just in terms of making an identification, andrew, i mean, is the fastest way i'm taking fingerprints off his office corpse. is it following the history of the weapon used? what what's the best way assuming he doesn't have ideas on him talking about. >> sure. right. you look in his pockets first, but the weapon is probably not super reliable indicator of identity just because it could have been a long chain of changes in possession of that or transfers of that weapon along the way. they can run fingerprints instantly from the scene. they have a process called a quick capture machine that they developed literally on the battlefields, working with special forces and our military forces in iraq and afghanistan, they can print him in place an instantly returned whether or not he's got any sor

this is an absolutely enormous victory for the counterterrorism services here in the uk and also theirsa and canada. they were all part of a joint undercover operation which established that anjem choudary, having left prison for a shorter sentence in 2021 began trying to redevelop and rebuild his network, thinking you could try, first in north america by recruiting people in online lectures there, not knowing that the organisation he was targeting was actually completely infiltrated by us and canadian undercover officers and it is that evidence which showed a continuation and as organisation through these years and basically led to his conviction last week and this extraordinary sentence today. i've got to say that his lawyers also looked extraordinarily shocked in court today and i wouldn't be surprised if they tried to take this on behalf of their client to the court of appeal, because it is so, so long. this could be the last time that anyone ever sees anjem choudary, the leader of this incredibly important network which is been at the heart of so many terrorism plots in the uk. re

they are saying that there is no known link with terrorism, although counterterror police are assistingstigation into those horrific events on monday, when three little girls were killed, and several critically injured in the stabbing that took place very close to where i am speaking to you now. police have been given more time to question that suspect. they have been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, so we will see whether the police have any more information they can give us later on today. information they can give us later on toda . ., , information they can give us later on toda . . , ., , information they can give us later ontoda. . , ., , , ., on today. that is how things stand with the investigation _ on today. that is how things stand with the investigation at _ on today. that is how things stand with the investigation at the - with the investigation at the moment. regarding the violent clashes on tuesday, can you tell us more about the aftermath? figs clashes on tuesday, can you tell us more about the aftermath?- more about the aftermath? as you mentioned. _

, sophisticated gangs _ like counterterrorism, sophisticated gangs working across our borders, and we those same techniques to take those gangs down to make sure of the _ take those gangs down to make sure of the citizens across europe. so i for one _ of the citizens across europe. so i for one simply do not accept and will never— for one simply do not accept and will never accept that we can't do the same — will never accept that we can't do the same with the smuggling gangs. that somehow they are the only gangs that can _ that somehow they are the only gangs that can operate across europe with impunity. _ that can operate across europe with impunity. i— that can operate across europe with impunity, ijust never will except impunity, i just never will except that. _ impunity, ijust never will except that, having been involved myself in taking _ that, having been involved myself in taking down terrorist gangs. so we must _ taking down terrorist gangs. so we must do _ taking down terrorist gangs. so we must do more together. we have temporarily lost the feed. keir starmer echoing some o

they work counterterrorism issues. they work all kinds of issues like this. they're getting into those issues. first is communications. communications within the secret service network, but also communications between local law enforcement and the secret service. there's a question on threat assessment. there's a question on decision making, timely decision making. and that's the one that was interesting, director wray kind of paused for a bit before he tried to go after that answer. when they asked him about that, why did they let him up on that stage? that's the question everybody has. if you knew there was a threat out there, why did you do that? although director wray did say there was a couple of others that were actually on scene, there was he wasn't the only suspicious individual. so there may have been more than one. and really, in these situations, you do have suspicious individuals. so maybe the threat assessment wasn't quite there. that's what we're going to find out. >> yeah, i think one of the things that struck me was that today we heard wray sa

. >> i think i'm here to add more color about what counterterrorism looks like terrorism rats look like. i spent 2010 through 2014 going back and forth to afghanistan i as a civilian intelligence officer working with pier 1 special operations units to fight the terrorism problem. when i was here at home, we were working the terrorism issue as well with a particular issue on the terrorists that wanted to come here and blow up things here in our homeland and preventing them from doing so by going over there. now this is what i see as the biggest blind spot that the biden administration biden administration is either ignoring, as you say, through incompetence, or let's just leave it at that. the idea is that they are exposing the citizens of the united states to potential terrorist activity. as we have seen with these data points -- has anyone seen the news stories of the chesaning -- chechnya and army officer homes? it's a matter of if, not when, given the people crossing the border on the terror watch list. we are doing a disservice to everyone, people who did vastly more overseas than i

the reality is, because of our focus over the last 30 years on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in the middle east and afghanistan, for all the understandable reasons, but we have unfortunately mortgaged our investment in nuclear modernization and we frankly can't afford to do that any longer. given the threat landscape, given the fact that particularly as we move into the 2030's, with he face the prospect of two near-peer nuclear competitors for the first time in our history and our nuclear triad, while capable and effective today, you know, when we look out decades to come, will we be in a position to be able to provide that safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent, given the capabilities we have? the answer is no. so we have to move forward with modernization. the department of the air force is responsible for stewarding two legs of the nuclear triad. our intercontinental ballistic missile which is currently serviced by the minuteman three. it's been in service since the 1960's. i had an opportunity to travel out in early july and was truly impressed by our airmen that ar

let's bring in john cohen, former counterterrorism official with the government, worked with the departmenthomeland security. and john, thank you for joining us. we've talked so much in recent years about this threat enviernt. you've been sounding the alarm bell. >> yeah, george, i have been working for the last year with law enforcement and o'election officials across the country so we can be better prepared as a nation to deal with the current threat environment. quite frankly i'll tell you what i've been saying to them. this is the most complex, dynamic and dangerous threat environment that i've experienced in the 40 years that i've been working in law enforcement and homeland security. the reason i make that assessment is in part because of what we've been hearing so far on this show. we are an angry, divided nation, and that anger and division has become intertwined in our political discourse. there are a growing number of people in this country who believe that violence is an appropriate way to express their ideological or political views or to express their disagreement with others.

. ♪♪ >>> we're joined now by former assistant secretary for counterterrorism at homeland security andistration, and cbs news national security contributor samantha vingrad and at smith a cbs news contributor and former secret service deputy director. both of you were with us through the breaking news last evening. a.t., start with you, from what we are hearing from secret service, what do we know about the security perimeter exactly here and what went wrong? >> well, obviously, the number one problem the most glaring question to be asked is how did this individual make it to the roof of that building with a long rifle, an ar-15 type rifle apparently? the secret service plan has three concentric rings of security, inner perimeter, middle and outer and the counter sniper team is responsible for that outer perimeter, up to a thousand yards and so it's their responsibility to pan out and watch all of that and look for the sort of thing that occurred yesterday. >> so did the secret service have adequate time to prepare for this rally? i understand this butler, pennsylvania, location had be

and i am a consultant on counterterrorism and human rights law. research was on the counterterrorism efforts to defeat in iraq and syria and. the overlap with or the gaps with the human rights law, international criminal law, humanity law and refugee law. so it's relevant to the military efforts to defeat isis. but i'm not. my question is my question is who is actually benefiting from the existence of isis whether from the very and the operations defeat isis and the resurgence? because there are two points. one is that the u.s. benefiting from isis by having a legitimate existence and presence with it, with a scale in the middle east. the other point is, actually, iran benefiting from isis by establishing a larger scale, the in iraq, the proxy is the the hashed. i think we have we have the let me let me add on to this, you know, just a qualification. you know, there was a major isis attack in iran. isis came out a commemoration for soleimani and 100 people. so i'm not sure i agree with your analysis but the us still has forces in iraq and syria su

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and she certainly has no experience in dealing with counterterrorism. i can you i've been in the0 business for 20 years, and the words that came out of her mout ts thath was, you know, we to get to a lasting peace. we need a hostag e deal. if she knew anything about counterterrorism, she would understand i that thend te only way to get to a permanent t cease fire would be through making sure that we're honestdei about the definition here, which is the rootit of terrorism and dismantling the hamas organization. the only thing hamas understands is that strength is the operation which is conducted. rescuing noa agami, who happened to be at bibi's address, their address there to congress. o so israel's got a lot of experience, and so does bibi. but at the end of the day, o only way to get to a lasting peace is by dismantling the terrorism at the root. and that and therefore, you won't just have a temporary calm, you will actually have an ability to have a conversation now, but a long term peace. israel's had quietng-ter. we get there through that strength a

serious about pivoting to asia, supporting the fight against russia, some things like counterterrorism are not going to get the full amount of resources that you would like. >> before i let you go, how do you think america's foreign adversary's viewed president biden's performance on thursday night. >> i suspect pretty much everybody watched the debate and thought the president did not perform the way we would have liked to have seen him perform. however, i've spent time around three presidents and i will tell you that president's job is enormously hard and involves all kinds of things none of which are standing and doing a debate for 90 minutes on tv. the president's job involves passing legislation. i hope people would compare this president's record in that regard with the last president's record. >> being quick on your feet is important on the job. >> yeah. again i think he's acknowledged and the vice president acknowledged that was not the performance we were looking for, but i'm not so cynical as to believe that american people are going to choose a president based on a 90s minut