dbi of how to resolve that and however, i believe that there may be and maybe there is going to be a ctc issued for one of the permits that has been revoked and 23 that cfc for the revoked permit would then supercede the cfc, from the 3 unit building. >> and so, dbi issues a cfc for one of the permits that is subject to revocation that would over rule the 3 r report and that would show the two family dwelling. >> and should we condition it then? >> and maybe, he could speak to whether or not there will be a cfc issued on one of the permits that is subject to the revocation and if they were to needed to file a subsequent permit that would issue or confer a cfc. >> well, they would still need to go through the final inspections and so the issue is that the elimination of the revocation and the suspension and then the normal procedure will be ongoing. >> and so that is why, at this point, i am prepared to depending on whether there is four votes. and to over rule the zoning administrator on the basis that the revocation was done in error. and that i should leave it at that. >> i don't know

. >> i think there is a lot of mystery about what the in ctc -- nctc does in the counterterrorism world. let's talk about the central role that it has. one of the changes that happened on your watch was the calling of names for the targeted coming from the national security council and the pentagon to being centralized that nctc. there's been a lot of controversy about that. can you to the extent you can talk about what was the role in developing and calling the list for the killings? >> i will narrow that a bit. it's a criticism we have heard from congress and elsewhere. i see eric l. tabare and others that wrote about this that you have in the theory the cia had a kill list and the cia had another list and the list didn't match up and there was all this confusion. that's not entirely true either. but you also have the possibility that you have the people responsible for operations making intelligence calls about how bad someone is or is not and that can lead to -- i'm not saying it will but it can lead to some perspectives about how you draw the justice about who is no kidding an immi

his predecessor at the end ctc -- the nctc is mike leiter. he was the second director of the national counterterrorism center until 2011. he is now senior counselor to the ceo of the data analytics alantir technologies. he is also a national security analyst for nbc news. why don't we begin with a very ,road question, and that is what is the current state of the threat from terrorism? where does it emanate from and how serious is it? why don't we start with you? >> it is great to be here. it is daunting to talk about it. we have talked about a lot of subjects today. i will give it a shot. i would say right off of the top the threat is very different now for what it was 10 years ago and even 4 years ago. thinking at a couple of different levels. as have been noted, the threat from al qaeda and afghanistan is really significantly degrading. we do not face the same rate as the same attack as 9/11. the group is really struggling to survive to recruit and train and operate. it still is -- it remains at the vanguard of the movement. is still looks

the nation's largest cities receive direct federal funding for public help prepare the best route the ctcpublic health emergency preparedness grant program and the hospital preparedness program. while the rest of the local health departments rely on an allocation of these grants that pass through the state health department. it's also important to point out that fema's grant program as separate from those previously mentioned public health programs, but it's not duplicative. this program ensures that the first responder agencies leaves fi year and ems have the resources they need to respond to disasters large and small so that take away message here is when any federal grant program is cut, it has significant and sometimes dangerous impact on the programs that rely on those funds. a survey conducted in the latter part of 2011 fell almost 60% cut or eliminated one program airing as a result of the federal funding cuts. in that same year almost a quarter of the local health department had to reduce or even many the preparedness program because of the funding cuts. , just quickly and out of