mr.johnson is the founder and main author of the no quarter weblog. >> host: hello, larry johnson. i am a former employee of the central intelligence agency and work with the department of state anount terrorism and had been considered somewhat of an expert on terrorism because i can spell. today we have the opportunity for the ultimate reader's fantasy in this program, after words, to meet with an author. if you have read the book all of you would have wanted to sit down and say i would like to ask to answer questions. today, mark perry, but havethis opportunity to speak with you about this book. talking to terrorists. let me ask you, what are you? >> guest: the first question is the hardest question. i am a historian and author in one life. a middle east activist and analyst in another life. this is a combination of both. it refers to the history of the region while giving reers, i think, an insight into what is going on there and what the strategy is for the united states in dealing with the real challenge of terrorism. >> host: how did you get into becoming, part of your bio is

larry johnson. former pro bowler had a bit of a rough season last year but in his heyday he was good for like 1700 yards a season and larry thinks it will be an interesting battle for the redskins starting job. >> everybody is a different type of back. i'm different from clinton. clinton is different from westbrook. whoever gets the best chance to win. >>> why is kansas city team member arguing? look at him. he knocked him with his hand. >> you have to really try hard to not -- hang with us a second and watch again what he did. he is going to kick it in and he does and hits it with his arm and they disallowed it. >> i'm not a soccer expert but i believe -- we will check on it -- but i don't believe you can do that. >> right on. we will be right back. >>> and that is 9news now for tonight. don't forget we are always on. >> letterman with ashton kusher. reba mcintyre and brooks & dunn. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com

jack rice is a former cia officer, criminal defense attorney and larry johnson deputy director for the office of counter terrorism. larry, let me start with you in the sense that 24, 27 hours in, the police say they don't think it's an al qaeda connection. how do you put the pieces together to be sure in. >> the confidence, whoever assembled this, to go through the effort of getting the vehicle, they had money there. erasing the vin number, they are show i showing premeditation. if they turned ton propane and filled the car with the gas and managed to ignite it, you would have had a fire ball inside the car, broken the windows out. it's not going to be devastating. what captures me is it was so incompetent. i'm glad they are incompetent. it's odd the taliban would want to take credit for it. it's a failure. you are taking credit for a failure. if that's what we are up against, thank god. we are having some success in killing off the leadership of the islamic jihadist groups overseas. >> does incompetent tell you anything about lone operator, angry guy, coordination, group involvement?

larry johnson, served at the office of counterterrorism and former cia officer. et me start with you in the sense that 24, 27 hours in the police say they don't think it's an al qaeda connection. how do you put the pieces together to be sure? >> what strikes me is the incompetence, whoever assembled this. to go to the effort to get the vehicle. they had money there. to erase the v.i.n. number, showing planning, remeditation and to put this contraption together. it wouldn't have exploded. i don't consider it a bomb. they would have turned on the propane and filled the car with gas and ignite that you would have had a fireball inside the car, would have broken the windows out but not looking at something that's going to be devastating. what captures me is the fact this was so incompetent. i'm glad they are incompetent. it's also sort of odd the taliban would want to take credit for it. it was a failure, guys. you're taking credit for failures. it sort of goes to, you know, if that's what we're up against thank god. it's showing we're having some success in killing o

magic johnson. larry bird. michael jordan. jim duncan. and steve nash.r award presented by kia motors lebron james! [ cheers and applause ] >> tell them how i feel? oh, man. first of all, i want to say thank you. to everyone that's here and present. thank you. i mean this city of akron means so much to me. you probably heard this story before. ever since i was a kid i always said i was going to find a way to put this city on the map, and i'm going to continue to do that. to be presented most valuable player award means a lot. i'm not going to sit up here and say it doesn't mean anything to me because it means a lot. the individual work that i put in to every offseason to come in to full season to be great pays off. but there's a lot of credit that i give due to the ones that helped me along the line, and that's the coaching staff that we have over there, the training staff that we have over there, the front office, and most of all my teammates. [ cheers and applause ] because one thing i learned at an early age, that the game of basketball is not won by

this concept of 13 bankers, simon johnson johnson and james crock has written a book called "13 bankers" and the title comes from that conversation with larry summers but the real meeting where this played out is the april 21st, 1998 meeting in the conference room of the secretary of the treasury where rubin, somers, greenspan and levitt, in front of all the government regulators and white house officials, one by one took warren to task and asked her not to do this. she did it anyway and then congress stopped her in her tracks. most people believed that had we had transparency in 1998, 1999, 2000, we would have a thriving economy right now. the only reason our economy is in trouble right now is that we blew a multi-trillion dollar hole in it because the casinos didn't have the capital to pay off their bets, and now the american taxpayers had to do it. we paid. we have gone into huge deficit. one in six americans is unemployed or underemployed and much feels a sense of high economic insecurity and as we sit here today, greece, portugal, spain and italy are on the threshholds of default. the euro is in crisis. why? currency swaps and unregula