s national counterterrorism security officer chris phillips thanks. meanwhile here s. democrat strategist who previously worked for barack obama are now being accused of creating fake news in a bid to sway next year's presidential election that's after they launched a media company called korea news room with the aim of countering donald trump's dominance online in swing states were aghast to have delved deeper. it's certainly daring to take the one thing people still trust in this skeptical and cynical world you local news run by your neighbors people you know and trust and to pervert it into a tool of propaganda macchiavelli himself would be proud while the article she publishes are based on facts nothing alerts readers that career publications aren't actually traditional i'm time newspapers but political instruments designed to get them to vote for democrats the movie titanic was based on facts the movie 300 about those spartans was also based on true events the end result was fiction i'm just giving you a heads up for the next time you hear the phrase based on fact

hopefully a step in the right direction towards tackling the border problem former head of the counterterrorism security office chris philip says i saw never stop the planning attacks on the west through despite the defeat in syria. i don't get only ukraine that i've got a problem with this i think other countries as well and of course if you have free movement across borders anywhere then you're leaving an open door for terrorists and criminals that operate this round was a very senior person who knows this but there are many others that have also 'd managed to escape the battlefield and go back to their countries as this is a worldwide problem obviously he's managed a movie they managed to claim that he was being killed so the the or thirty's were on the back foot so it's really concerning it will be interesting to know where he has gone who he's been communicating with whether or not they've been set you know . cells of terrorists dotted around europe and across the world to bring this back they know they never this is the end of ice it's this this latest battle in syria is not the end of isis they c

s national counterterrorism security office . tens of thousands have taken to the streets of colombia's capital bogota to protest against the right wing government of u.s. backed president decay started as a largely peaceful march led to clashes with police. when students opposition parties and indigenous groups challenge the case economic social and security policies and a festive atmosphere. when a small group of people saw the hill projectiles at the police responded with tear gas a planted decays right wing government a key u.s. ally been on the wane since his election 18 months ago i placed around 200002 policy protests in several cities. nicholas o'donovan reports. what started as a normal union strike has morphed into one of colombia's biggest anti-government protest in recent times tens of thousands of people much in across the country and here on the streets of bogota at this point the rain thousands are still marching the gates the government. the city center everything from students to union leaders to community leader

s counterterrorism security office chris phillips says that arsenal has never stopped planning attacks on the west despite its defeat in syria. only ukraine that it got a problem of this of the other countries as well and of course if you have free movement across all those anywhere then you are illegal open door or terrorists and criminals who wrote this one was a very senior person who knows this but there are many others that have also 'd managed to. go back to that this is a worldwide problem obviously he's managed to move the militia claim that he was being killed so the the origins were on the back foot so it's really concerning it'll be interesting to know where he has gone who communicate. whether or not they've been set you know. cells of terrorists dotted around europe and across the world to bring this back they know they never this is the end of ice it's this this latest battle in syria is not the end of us they consider it will all go to war it is our war that they're going to bring into also being in the in the coming years ahead. the u.k. has defied a u.n. deadline to gi

circumstances surrounding khan's release are now in the spotlight the former head of the national counterterrorism security office has issued a scathing criticism of the criminal justice system saying that it's playing russian roulette with the public by allowing convicted criminals to be released from prison too early and this will be a key election issue here as well with police on prisons being subject to budget cuts of recent years catherine stansell al jazeera london. still to come here on al-jazeera farms of the future will be in wales to see how all techniques could help to save the planet. in much like loney devastated parts of zimbabwe i'm how to . tell you why many families are still struggling. however when to change i think you could argue it is that is sweeping across turkey the temperatures dropped a bit more the cloud is clearly streaming through it's rain for the most part but obviously it doesn't take very much to give us the eastern side of turkey towards georgia as a bar john is like to be snow at least on the upper slopes the cloud spills sas we get some rain into syria probably just a

former head of national counterterrorism security office, chris phillips, says questions need to be askede to treat terrorists as normal criminals. well, they are not normal criminals. they are very, very dangerous people and to treat someone that is radicalised, that wants to kill mass casualties in the same way as someone who robs a bank is just crazy. when someone like him comes out and he is released automatically, just to explain this, why are the parole board not involved 7 this is an automatic piece. if you've got a sentences, there is an automatic release date which is six months after the sentence begins. what levels of checks go in to that to make sure that the person has not reversed their view and become re—radicalised? i do not know. it may come clear in the future just how much evidence they have got of this man being deradicalised. it is quite easy to say that they no longer believe that and then they are released back into the streets. the key point why are we letting people out that are radicalised, who have got a desire to kill many people? there were many people targete

flight the former head of the national counterterrorism security office has issued a scathing criticism of the criminal justice system saying that it's playing russian roulette with the public by allowing convicted criminals to be released from prison too early and this will be a key election issue here as well with police and prisons being subject to budget cuts over recent years catherine stansell al jazeera london. is a former london metropolitan police chief superintendent joins me now from us well hill in north london one of the questions in your mind about how and why aslan khan was released after being convicted of terrorism offenses. well i mean people are very very surprised i think you had a situation where somebody who was article a gang of 9 individuals were trying to blow up the london stock exchange you know that iconic buildings in london was convicted up for trial they were subsequently sent to prison but we don't know what's happened with his co defendants who would have also reached the end of their trial i think those there's a significant concern about the judgement

circumstances surrounding khan's release are now in the spotlight the former head of the national counterterrorism security office has issued a scathing criticism of the criminal justice system saying that it's playing russian roulette with the public by allowing convicted criminals to be released from prison too early and this will be a key election issue here as well with police and prisons being subject to budget cuts over recent years catherine stansell al-jazeera london. let's go live now story chalons who is just by london bridge and rory will cause we know that 2 people were killed in that attack which took place yesterday and one of them has now been named. yeah you're right 5 people were stabbed and title 2 of them unfortunately died a man and a woman 3 people still injured in hospital as far as we know the identities of the dead are knee of the man has been released so far we understand that he was 25 year olds jack merits so a young man a graduate of cambridge university is far the has praised him on twitter as a beautiful spirit who always to the side of the underdog he was clearly jack merritt

need to balance privacy security may sound superficially attractive but what should be accessible to which organizations and what purpose first what level and type of counterterrorism risk should we be willing to tolerate for critical liberties and freedoms and how does the national security structure dialogue with the american public to address the question? second how is the national security committee covering the approach of exploitation of the internet particularly at a time when technology is far outpacing legal policy rulings and be, to find information on the internet that is far more rich , valuable and intrusive than other types of collections with statutory regulation. third, what is the role of the private sector of national security counterterrorism activities? is there a point at which private sector and government collaborate in the area of data collection there is the intolerable privacy risk to individuals? i suspect these kinds of questions are increasingly important as you look to the future. >> so broader national security issues. counterterrorism intelligence integration particularly in an area era constraint would be increasingly difficult and

. >> fbi director christopher wray was on capitol hill to testify on security threats facing the u.s. aboutrs asked counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cyber security measures. the senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon.

allison pieces who's the deputy director of the national security program at the 3rd way think tank and in pretoria. the senior research on counterterrorism at the institute of security studies welcome to you all right so we have seen the u.s. repeat what it said many times in the past and that iran is the west state sponsor of terrorism and in this report we've also heard the u.s. say that the gulf crisis is straining these regional counterterrorism efforts so just how much are regional tensions hindering u.s. attempts to try to keep iran in line. in fact all of this there is a this and it's that but it is in the region the tensions the ramification of the arab spring the fragility of at least 10 states and out a book. all of this contributed to the what so called terrorism and the activities of those groups let's take a dim memory always defined those 2 groups being on a state activists and on us there are those basically what's contributing to their strength their activities their narrative their slogan is backs but actually instability is in politics and actually the united states is on a state did help and this sort of all by for exa

chris phillips, former head of the national counterterrorism security office. back to their last performance at the euros, but the young side have exceeded expectations, fascinating interview with gareth southgate. cricket first. cricket ongoing overnight. the latest from hamilton. england are facing a real battle if they're to win the second and final test and level the series. they've lost two early first innings wickets in reply to new zealand's 375 all out. england finished the day on 39—2 so they trail by 336 and the day started well enough with england's bowlers on top. tom latham made a century yesterday but he added just four to his overnight score before he was bowled by stuart broad. new zealand recovered well though. daryl mitchell made 73 and bj watling — who you'll remember frustrated england with a double century in the first test — also scored a half century to put the hosts in control on day two. back to the interview with south glass —— gareth southgate. later today, england and wales will find out who they'll face at next year's euros. scotlan

counterterrorism. lead the fbi security branch and washington field office. played a critical role investigating the boston marathon bombing the attack in benghazi and the russian attack on our election in 2016. please welcome our panel members and moderator to the stage and thank you. [applause] thank you all for coming out tonight. what an incredible lineup of panelists that we have here from the national security community. we will be taking questions but i'm lucky that i get to sleep lead them off tonight. and i want to dive right in because there's there is so much a rich territory to mine here. when we look at the question of the intelligence community and how it impacts people with regard to election security. can you help us at the table john brennan with the day in august of 2016 when you went to susan rice then national security adviser and said, we have evidence that vladimir putin himself is directing election interference in this country. >> thank you for the invitation. it is great to be here. 2016 when i went to the white house i went to see th

the fy 20 request includes $1.3 billion to support the armed forces capacity, counterterrorism, and secure the countries land and maritime borders including the suez canal. in closing, the president's fy 20 request is for national security priorities in the region and advances our interests. thank you for your enduring support of diplomacy in the region and our foreign service investments. our ability to respond quickly to needs in the region and allocate funding effectively requires your continued support. i look forward to answering your questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, chairman. thank you for the opportunity to testify on the important role of the development and humanitarian assistance programming in advancing u.s. interests in the middle east and north africa. it is an honor to be here and to be representing the professionals of usaid. usaid recognizes most of the nations in this region are actually middle-income countries, countries with young populations whose energy, education, and educatio in intelligence can be kept can play a critical role in helping these count

security issues. theme eight, the need for whole of government. counterterrorism intelligence integration across all relevant departments and agencies, particularly in an era of constrained resources, will be critical and i suspect increasingly difficult. it will also be insufficient. as we found over the past two decades, we need whole of government integration. that's always been a channlleng for us. as any practitioner will acknowledge, the reality of the way the government is configured limits interagency effectiveness. we are a government of departmental sovereignty, the way we're designed. way money is appropriated. we have hardwired silos of sectors across the government. endless studies have been written about the interagency process. i think the 9/11 commission had it about right, quote, it is hard to break down stovepipes where there are so many stoves that are legally and politically entitled to have castiron pipes of their own, unquote. not impossible. when very good example was the post-9/11 watch list and screening architecture that brought together

frederick helped create and lead the global security counterterrorism analysis program analyst team lead for the headquarters regional intelligence team in california and prior to this book served as an intelligence analyst and spent six years in the counterterrorism at the department of defense. senior technologsenior technolor the heritage foundation as the first senior fellow for technology, national security and science policy his research focuses on the intersection of technology and national security, the particular interest in artificial intelligence, autonomous weapon systems and intelligence issues and prior to joining cummings was the national security adviser to senator ben zacks. thank you for being here and i will swear you in the fourth week of testimony. if you would please rise and raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony ithattestimony is thee whole truth and nothing but the truth, thank you. now we will hear your opening statements. thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i will comment on the work to combat criminal and nationstates cyber att

before joining cnas, she helped create and lead facebook's global security counterterrorism analysis program. she was also the team lead for facebook headquarters' regional intelligence team. prior to facebook, she served as a senior intelligence analyst for a u.s. naval special warfare command and spent six years as a counterterrorism analyst at the department of defense. -- as heritage's first senior fellow for technology, national security, and science policy, his research focuses on the intersection of technology and national security with particular interest in artificial intelligence, autonomous weapon systems, space, and intelligence issues. prior to joining heritage, mr. kitchen was national security adviser to senator ben sass. thank you all for being here. in keeping with the tradition of the committee,ly swear you in. if you would rise and raise your right arm, hand. if you'd repeat after me. do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give the committee is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? thank you. all right. now we'll hear

security investigations. i've seen the necessity of these provisions throughout my time as the counterintelligence agent and counterintelligence -- counterterrorism agent. national security threats have evolved significantly in the last 20 years from the proliferation of mobile smartphones to the expanded use of encryption new technology has allowed actors to work increasingly in the shadows. today we have nearly universal access to the internet and anyone with a cell phone can view and become radicalized by extremist content. subjects are no longer forced to travel to other countries to communicate with other extremists who threaten the security of the united states. they can do this from their home. we witness a shift toward individuals acting alone without clear ties to anyone foreign adversary. our window for identification and disruption is shrinking. threats have evolved. congress has helped ensure we are prepared for tools to protect the u.s. and its interests. i'm here to talk about expiring provisions which the fbi uses with pfizer court-approved oversight. as my colleague explained, we use is this records provision to obtain records and

security threats facing the u.s.. senators asked about counterterrorism efforts, stopping foreign influence in elections, and cybersecurityres. this senate homeland security hearing is two hours 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank our witnesses for your service to our country.

before joining cns she helped create a late facebook's global security counterterrorism analysis program. she was also the team lead for facebook headquarters rachel intelligence team in menlo park, california. write a facebook she served as a senior intelligence analyst for u.s. naval special warfare command and spent six years at the counterterrorism analyst at the department of defense. mr. klon kitchen is a serum technology research fellow at the heritages foundation. as their first senior fellow protect old compassion security and science policy to his research focuses on the intersection of technology and national security with particular interest in artificial intelligence, autonomous weapon systems, space and intelligence issues. prior to that he was national security adviser to senator ben sasse. thank you all for being here. in keeping with the tradition of the committee i will swear you in before beginning test one. please raise and rise -- please rise and raise your right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] >> thanknd you. and now we'll hear your opening statements. mr. burt, we

analysis on fridays london bridge attack we can bring in a young son yeah a counterterrorism consultants at the modern. security consulting group thank you very much for being with us at this hour here on- fronts t twenty four now british police say that they're working around the clock to find out what happens at this friday. but they are clearly treating this as terrororism. ys good evening well everything points to it- the type e of attack d. d. course to take the key factor being they do use- of a fake suicide belt usually this is a tactic that is going to two very well known- terrororist groups. i think-n in t the wake of the attack and you're not going on this occacasion i think more evidenc- came up that says certainly- there. s. frame this as being a terrorist attack. no group or individual has yet to come forward to claim responsibility but what are your own thoughts about who could be behind this. well that. that's the problem is that- t this type of attatack where as of a few years ago- with. a fair amamount of certainty you could point to one group or another hasas been- cocoopted by by. pretty much

security division. deputy assistant director of counterterrorism action, susan morgan from the national security agency. >> chairman graham, ranking member feinstein and ricky members of the committee, thank you letting me testify for the foreign intelligence surveillance act or fisa. these are authorities that will expire at the end of this year unless reauthorize by congress. the administration strongly supports permanent reauthorization's of these provisions. three of the authorities, business records, lone wolf provisions have been part of pfizer for over a decade. they been renewed by congo smokable times most recently in the freedom act of 2015 but before that the same authorities were reauthorize multiple times between 2005 and 2011 in each renewal gained bipartisan support. today am going to give you a brief overview of three of the authorities and then i'll turn over to my colleagues to address how they been used in practice and national secured. the mcauley from the nsa will address the cdr authority that senator feinstein described in targeted collections of data counterterrorism investigatio

third period what is the role of the private sector and national security counterterrorism activities. is there a point at which private sector and government are collaborating so closely that there is an intolerable privacy risk to individuals. i suspect these kinds of questions will be increasingly important as we look to the future. let me move away from electrons back to the last three themes. the need for whole government. counterterrorism intelligence integration across all agencies particularly in an area of constrained resources will be critical and i suspect increasingly difficult. it will also be insufficient. we need whole of government integration. it has has always been a challenge for us. the reality of the way the government is configured, limits interagency effectiveness. we are a government of departmental sovereignty. the way we are designed, the weight is appropriated, the way, the way it works. certainly that is not a new issue. in this studies have been issued. i think the 9/11 commission had it about right. it is hard to break down fights where there are so many

by the secretary of state and the national security advisor to the president, and the two principal items i was charged with words -- were the counterterrorism and strategic security talks to rid there was a third request from president putin concerning a business dialogue which has yet to be implemented. it really would not involve substantial involvement of the united states government those are the three issues i was briefed on last year. did you ever see actual notes from that meeting? secretary sullivan: ambassador bolton -- memorandum, the back-and-forth between the two presidents in the meeting, but i hesitate to say this -- there may be memos that discuss priorities. memo thatnot see a summarized the results of the conversations between these residents. that briefing may have been in rider -- in riding as well -- writing as well. a number of isis prisoners remain in northern syria. a number remain at large. analysts say that russia may own domestic its terrorist problem to syria. do you believe with that -- do you believe that? and given russia's increasingly prominent role in syria following our withdrawal, are you aware of united s

university homeland security policy institute serving as dean of global advisor to a firm specializing multinational companies. he is on the advisory board for the national counterterrorism center and director of national intelligence and serves in the homeland security group please welcome philip to the national archives. [applause] >> you missed the most important part of live part-time in memphis. [applause] thank you. i was running there that was a historic part of memphis wondering whether to write another book and reflecting on what i witnessed at the cia during that excruciating time after 9/11 and realize some of my colleagues and friends had written their stories but many of the people i worked with would never speak or write and their stories would never be told of nobody talk to them or put their stories to gather in one simple narrative to explain what happened. so i decided that morning i would do that for go this is mostly their stories. it's not a history. it's not every document that ever appeared what we call the program. it's a story of men and women that i served with who decided to speak to me. so to step back in time with me we are going into a time

global stability and security this requires the state does, see with the russian government and the areas of shared interest for example an arms control corporation, to counterterrorism, and the opposition to russia where undermines the interest and values of the united states and our allies and partners. for example for threatening security in the united states. is a deputy secretary of state have been directly involved in developing u.s. policy in russia, i laid the u.s. participation in ongoing terrorism dialogue with the russians. and it let a senior u.s. delegation to geneva and mid-july to restart a u.s. russia strategic security dialogue. last month, i participated in the decision to oppose sanctions on the afghani goshen, and others associated with the internet research agency, for their attempt to interfere with u.s. 2018 midterm elections. considering these complex issues, i want to acknowledge this committee his leadership and insights on russia, is i have mentioned in recent meetings with monday of you, if confirmed, i would welcome the opportunity to consult and collaborate with members of this committee individually and collectively, on our russia polic

the security services and counterterrorism authorities are working at any given time on at least 800nd that since 2017, they've interrupted and foiled 24 significant terrorist attacks, they are doing a pretty good job — bearing in mind they have a finite amount of resources. that is important to remember, all the number of attacks we don't hear about and see precisely because of the work that is done. let's return to the skies earlier on. checking to see if anyone let's say this was a lone individual working for the sake of this argument. how much more difficult does that make it for police to try and track and prevent? incredibly difficult. we hit the proverbial nail on the head as much as where as conventionally in the past there was a much more considered and structured framework behind many terrorist groups with the line of command or command and control that would designate tasks and appointments to those that were in their ranks. these days regular with a very different dynamic. we have individuals that can often be self radicalised and purports to be inspired by the agenda by

ahmet yayla assistant professor of homeland security, former chief of turkish national police counterterrorism and operations division, and fellow is broken on extremism at george washington university. you gave -- would you like to say something before i even ask you? all right. you gave an incredible presentation this morning about how the turkish regime carries out influence operations on u.s. soil also touched a bit in the last panel on the military operations in syria and i would like to pick up from where we left last panel. what is the guiding principle in your view that's driving president erdogan in what is doing in syria now? >> after 2014 when the anticorruption operation in december 2013 redoubt against erdogan said family members and his close circles, erdogan realized he cannot -- if he leaves power. his understanding he has to stay in power regarding of what works in the past people were believing or claiming erdogan was doing whatever he was doing for the good of the islam and the country, for the good of the religion and turkey however, in 2014 or after 2014 it became obvious

serving as acting director after james comey was fired, has a storied career and counterterrorism, the fbi national security branch in washington field office, played a critical role in investigating the boston marathon bombing, the attack in then the russian attack on our election in 2016 so please welcome panel members and moderator to the stage. [applause] >> thank you for coming out tonight. what an incredible lineup of panelists from the community. we will be taking questions that i will lead them off tonight. i want to dive right in because there is so much rich territory. when we look at the question of the intelligence community and how it impacts people in regard to election security can you set the table for john brennan, will that day in august, 2016, when you went to susan rice, national security adviser and we have evidence that vladimir putin himself is directing election interference. >> thank you for the invitation. and to see the president to susan rice and others. and to make sure the president of the united states was aware of what we knew and the work we needed to try to get sense of wha

bridge is a security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism officer joins me on the line our very good evening to you charles sadly whenever we speak it seems to be after an incident such as this or quite frequently in the u.k. as well initial response from you as to the nature of the incident and also the police response which by all accounts seem to be pretty rapid. yes the police response actually on the ground seems to have been almost flawless of course it's very early to say but what we can see from the video shows that the police acted pretty much as you expected pretty much as you would hope that they would do so and of course i've learnt from previous incidents and your correspondent rightly referred to the 12 and a half years ago which was quite a similar attack or be killed far more people you've got a situation here i think where once a person is identified with a bomb belt around him carrying some kind of bomb vest or something like this and the report suggests this person was places response is almost going to be automated to soo

security issues. theme 8, the need for whole government. counterterrorism intelligence integration across all relevant departments and agencies particularly in an era of constrained resources will be cortical and i suspect increasingly difficult. it will also be insufficient. as we have found over the past two decades we need whole of government integration. that has always been a challenge for us. any practitioner will acknowledge the reality of the way the government is configured limit interagency effectiveness. we are government sovereignty, the way money is appropriated and congressional oversight works. we have this across the government and that is a new issue, and the interagency process, the 9/11 commission, quote, it is hard to break down stovepipes where there are so many stoves that are legally entitled to have cast-iron pipes of their own, not impossible. one good example is the post 9/11 watch listing in screening architecture that brought together the entirety of the government but that has been under stress as the agency begins to adjust to

foreign secretary under tony blair mark allen former head of m i 6 his counterterrorism unit as well as branches of the government and security services these what individuals who were treated unjustly in some cases for several years and they want to they want. we have a range for our stay in tripoli to coincide with that of the lawyers who are prosecuting the cases. legal director of the human rights n.g.o.s reprieve and they are getting ready to meet for the last time before preliminary hearings start in the u.k. . says he's bringing his case not to get financial compensation but to expose british hypocrisy of everything. to cuba. instead of the. us. back in the ninety's both britain and the. as the enemy accusations of the bombing of a plane over lockerbie and other acts of terror had made the dictator an international pariah and his opponents were welcomed in the u.k. but with the rise of al qaeda the situation changed and the regrouped in afghanistan although the removal of gadhafi remained their only goal by their close proximity to a sama bin laden who was about to unleash the 911 attacks. if you were a north african b

terrible attack of yesterday near london bridge. officers from london's counterterrorism command have been working flat out with securityould expect, to continue to try and establish the full circumstances of what's happened. at this time, we've found no evidence, no evidence, to suggest anybody else was involved in this attack. however, we are still making extensive enquiries to make sure that no one else was involved. 0ur investigative priority at this time is to ensure that there is no one related as an outstanding threat to the public. to this end, we've carried out two searches that addresses both in staffordshire and in the stoke—on—trent area. 0ur officers have therefore been supported by officers from staffordshire and the west midlands counterterrorism police. i would like to thank them as well as the local community in those areas for the support they've shown as we carry out those crucial enquiries. the investigation team is also speaking to many of those who were present at fishmongers' hall, but i would appeal to anyone who was there on friday, anyone who hasn't been spoken to, to contact police on 0800 789

in media, which is very different from the last time i was in the national security division when this was a counterterrorism. it was 95% counterterrorism, post 9/11 al qaeda focused responsibility. that is a big shift over the last 10 to 12 years in the work of the division. >> one of the questions we all the nsg has been active in the china prosecution issues. you have done the china initiatives. what do you see as the goal of consider success as you go forward? ways to are a lot of measure success in this space. let me step back for those who are not familiar with what we have been doing their. it is something -- doing there. it was something that was done to focus on chinese espionage and particularly economic espionage and it to -- and intellectual property for their economic development and plan. it was a result of intel we were seeing in the morning briefing from the intelligence communities and wanted to do something about what we were seeing in terms of chinese activity. ishink the success ultimately we will continue pursuing these cases as long as they continue pursuing their bad behavior. success

please join me in welcoming back, assistant professor of homeland security, former chief of the turkish national police counterterrorism and operation division and fellow program on extreme is him at washington university. you gave -- would you like to say something? >> okay. you gave an incredible presentation about how the turkish regime carried out influence operations on u.s. soil and we touched a bit in the last panel on the military operation in syria and i would like to pick up where we left at the last. what is the guiding principle in your view that is driving the president and what he's doing in syria now? >> after 2014 when the anticorruption operation in december 2000 carried out against the family members and his circles, erdogan realized he needed power so he's understanding he has to stay in power regardless of what. in the past people claim that erdogan was doing for the good of islam in the country however, in 2014 or after 2014 it became obvious that his main concern is himself. he basically uses his politics and religion to make sure that he is going to be in power for a long time. he amended the con