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also joined by michael crowley senior foreign affairs correspondent and cbs news political director johnhael, let me just start with you. this situation in yemen how could we not have seen this coming? >> well, bob there are so many moving parts in yemen. i'm sympathetic to administration trying to keep their arms around country that lot of experts describe as a failed state. for several years now we've been primarily worried about al qaeda franchise in yemen known as al qaeda in the peninsula. perhaps most dangerous terror group. they put the underwear bomber on a plane in 2009 inspired other near miss attacks had ties to the massacre in paris. we were focused on counter terror against aqap now this insurgency that has little to do with america has to do with internal tribal and sectarian dynamics in that country. and i think it just came faster and harder than we expected the government was more fragile than we expected. now those counter terror operations against al qaeda as result of the government appear to be on hold or close to it. that has real consequences for american security.

turn now to michael crowley. welcome back.part of the beginning of this current situation was what happened at "charlie hebdo." this week they came back with another cover featuring the prophet muhammad. what do you think as a magazine guy, what do you think about the decision? >> well you know people in the press are sort of admirably defiant bunch. when you tell them they can't do something it makes them want to do it more. it applies in a case like this and a more mundane situation like the government agency doesn't want to answer a question you better believe that the amount of effort is doubled. this is the spirit of the free press. it is quite likely to have security consequences. and you know i think that we are probably going to see efforts to further retribution and we are going to see more attacks and raids like the one we had today. it's clear we are in a new era of terrorism here. i think social media is a crucial part of it. we will see a lot of attacks particularly as the war festers. >> and part of that we have

my then uncle walter crowley one of my political idols in life, along with a fellow named michael dowd charged with portions of queens county in making sure that the catholic vote came out for mario cuomo in the 1977 race for mayor of new york which was famously won in the primarily ed koch. but that was not the only election that mario cuomo -- and storied election mario cuomo was part of. he'd been part of elections before that. and lo and behold in 19 2, he would once again find himself in a matchup between himself and ed koch and mario cuomo prevailing in that statewide election. at about 15 years of age, i remember handing out literature at the churches in western queens and southern queens and it really was my intraw into -- entree into political life. then in 1984 as a student in queens college, i interned in the office of then-governor cuomo. what an experience that was to be working with bob sullivan his storied poster but officially on the official side was working in the statistics office, with dick story, a former reporter in new york city marty stedman, to have tim russert