first of all, nicholas burns, remind us, this was a period almost a quarter century ago.is is a small corner of europe. remind us who radovan karadzic was and what happened. >> well, judy, he was the leader of the bosnian serbs. he led that community and its parliament. this was a war by the bosnian serbs to conquer the bosnian muslims, to combat the croat community, the slovenian community. the serbs wanted to create a greater serbia. and karadzic and ratko mladic, the leading general of the bosnian serbs, led a vicious campaign. that war took 100,000 lives at least, 2.5 million refugees, anó it culminated in this great, great tragedy in srebrenica in july 1995 when the bosnian serbs, under karadzic's orders, murdered 8,000 muslim men and boys in two and a half days in a soccer stadium. and that was the worst massacre in europe since the nazis. it galvanized the united states and europe to act because we had not acted sufficiently between '91 and '95, and it led to the u.s. air campaigns in september and october of that year, and it led to the dayton peace talks. that's

we will speak with former nato ambassador nicholas burns.go to break, let's take a live look at european capitals lit up in the colors of the belgian flag to honor the victims of today's attacks in brussels. ♪ matt: ambassador, thank you for joining us. there are statements coming out from leaders all around the world, including president obama in havana, about a response to this terrorism. what you think government nice to do to defend our allies against attacks like this? ambassador burns: we have to identify what has happened with the europeans. it happened here in new york. the terrorist group that took responsibility, islamic state, is a threat to both the u.s. and canada and to all the europeans. what it means is we have to rally around them. traditional cooperation, law enforcement cooperation, and making sure that error -- that our intelligence agencies are working together. when you have homegrown terrorists in the city of brussels and in the suburbs of move withhave to their allies. we have to have an engaged america to help the eu

nicholas burns, professor at the harvard kennedy school. rukmini callimachi, professor at the harvard kennedy school, who leads the paper's i.s.i.s. coverage. peter spiegel, bureau chief for "the financial times." i am pleased to have all of them on this program on this day. >> we saw several raids in schaerbeek. they found bombmaking materials, chemicals, i.s.i.s. flags, those raids are continuing in schaerbeek. they released photos of three perpetrators who they think did the bombings. two guys that are likely dead and one there is a manhunt for. so those raids going on in schaerbeek now. they're on the run. they haven't disclosed how extensive the cell is. the expectation is this was a well-planned, professional and large cell that perpetrated this today. >> rose: any connection with the arrests made recently? >> that's speculation. 24, 48 hours ago we heard belgian authorities saying they were nervous that because the arrests made friday, that abdeslam, the last remaining attacker from paris, they thought since he was arrested they thou

under secretary -- former under secretary of state nicholas burns who has worked for democrats and republicans, he was also there. i served under secretary of state condoleezza rice with under secretary burns, a great career foreign service officer. he also stated -- quote -- "we are being humiliated. we've lost our strategic foot hold." he's talking about the middle east. "and we've abdicated our leadership. " that's not a republican partisan saying that. and general john abizaid, in my view, one of the premier military leaders our country has seen in a generation who i had the honor of serving with as a marine major, recently stated "without american leadership, we're not going to move in a direction that's going to produce effective results." and then there was another recent article in the paper, in "the washington post" by another observer, expert on foreign policy issues, fred hiatt who wrote about what he saw at munich and what he stated was that the endless negotiation by our secretary of state that perpetually and falsely holds out the prospect of eminent progress on so many different

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burning of the judas," something of an easter tradition in some catholic countries. effigies of unpopular figures are set ablaze. this year in venezuela those figures were politicians, including president nicholasmaduro and a local mayor. but president obama wasn't spared the torch, either, the u.s. has long been a favorite target of venezuelan anger, and venezuelans have much to enrage them: the global price of oil, venezuela's main commodity, has fallen dramatically, crushing the government's bottom line. meanwhile, the venezuelan central bank began printing money at record levels. the result: massive inflation in the socialist country. the cost of consumer goods increased 275% last year, according to the international monetary fund. and that number is expected to double in 2016 long lines and empty shelves have come to define life for many, as well as anger at the maduro government. in elections last year, the opposition party won a majority of seats in the national parliament. earlier this month, after weeks without water, protests erupted in this san cristobal neighborhood. meanwhile, in caracas, nurses protested a lack of medicines and equipment, while across town, demonstrators called fo