yes, maam. >> hi. thank you for being here. i'm wondering if you could comment a little bit on what the difference between ctm claim strategies have been in iraq and afghanistan? >> for those of you not in the know ct is a counterterrorism coin for counterinsurgency. the u.s. military is built and trained for the entire cold war to fight the full gap fight. for 60 years the u.s. military has squared off to fight in that fight, tanks and the tiller to to -- military maneuverable warfare and that is why they did so well willing from kuwait to bed bed. in an amazing movement amazing come back channel combat. the term that force that had become a counterinsurgency operation is really tough. the difference in special operations versus conventional is a conventional unit the artillery and the army and the armor is your key weapon systems or you just man the equipment because the equipment does the killing. in a special operations unit the individual is the weapon system and he just equipped the man. trying to fight a counterinsurgenc

yes, maam. we will pass it down. >> it seems that we are facing a significant threat from bioterrorists with this whole field of synthetic biotechnology advancing and al qaeda calling for new recruits of microbiologists and genetic engineers. do you have any thoughts on how we might protect ourselves from this new threat? >> look, the lone wolf terrorist threat is probably the greatest one and one that you can never fully protect from. i think the best way to go after terrorism is to still go after their networks and to hunt them where they are and it's not just going after the shooter or the scientist that going after their logistics guy, the documents guy, their money guy, all the things you need to do to make a network work. if you take out one of them just like you can take up out the cfo out of the business is certainly rocks your business or your purchasing guy or your shipping guys so there are lots of lakes to klafter but going after them wherever they are and denying them sanctuary. and

yes, maam? >> will you do this every year and has everything in -- anything ever resulted from the study? has congress ever gone back to their military or whatever agency? >> what is happening with these airplanes i've been racing cane about them for three months as they are not going to be transferred to the forest service or department of homeland security so they will get used eventually but probably not in the way that they were most efficient. it's really interesting if you dig into the background on these airplanes, the military has come up with all sorts of excuses why they didn't want to use them but the real fact is the afghan military wanted c-130s instead of the so we are going going to give them to them. rather than wasting $609 we are going to waste another $4 million by giving them c-130 airplanes. here is my point. does congress hold itself accountable? who made that decision and? are they still at the right where they were? if there was a supply problem which they contend mainten

yes maam. >> jack, thank you. my question is how when you go into decide to do research for a book like this what is the process? do you think going in this is my one is my one way of viewing and as you do the research does it change and do your thoughts change? >> by the time i started, i should say in this case i started this case and i had a hard time getting a book out of it. so by the time i got into it and into the contract it was maybe march or april of 2013 and my deadline was two weeks after the end of the trial in july. so that was a little different and it made me compress my time that i had. it was fascinating doing it in real time you know. when this thing is unfolding around you and other than the guys at the conservative treehouse i knew more about this case than anyone other than the attorneys and a couple of real interested loggers. it's a fascinating way to look look -- usually it's things and doing historically but this is real-time which made it interesting. >> hey jack. i wanted to add before

sorry maam, we are going to go to the next question. >> good afternoon. mr.berg you alluded briefly to the answer to this regarding president wilson at princeton that these three presidents, what was their relationship, perhaps complicated relationship to status class? do you get a sense that t.r. was with the common man and not of the common man? he was a harvard and in taft was a yell man. a princeton man, yes and we knew that t.r. was friends with jake reese to the lower east side where my great grandparents set up shop on 100 years ago. i'm wondering on a specific note these three presidents of the great immigration, were they part of the america of these three presidents? >> it's a great question. i think what happened for theodore roosevelt was that when he first went to harvard he kind of was afraid. he thought he should just be dealing with the people of his class. but underlying that kind of attitude from he came from and wealthy family in new york his father had been interested in social justice and not join the real estate business that it made the