the transfer of more powerful aircraft and the f-16 class, shmigel talked about this with the pentagon defensehere was a briefing at the spokesman of the us security council, chris kirby and who again said that the issue of planes is not on the agenda. it is not the most urgent thing on the agenda that the armed forces of ukraine need. so i think that once again we are entering the entire official discussion. will it necessarily be extended rammstein, but as we understand, politicians and diplomats must continue to put pressure on our partners, because without airplanes it will be difficult to provide air defense for us , but only cluster bombs are used more and more by the russians. how serious is this now? guided air bombs that were also supposed to be provided to us by the allies, eh, really , i understand that now these 500 kg or 1,500 kg guided bombs used by the russian army have become a serious threat to eh territories bordering russia by the federation, that is, if they are able to fly at least up to 40 km, which means that 500 kg is, relatively speaking, an explosion that is formed th

geospatial-intelligence agency, the state department's bureau of intelligence and research, the pentagon's defenseand the national security agency. we go now to washington, d.c., where we are joined by james bamford, longtime investigative journalist and author focused on the intelligence community. in 1982, he published "the puzzle palace," the first book exposing the inner workings of the nsa, the national security agency. his latest book, just out, is called "spyfail: foreign spies, moles, saboteurs, and the collapse of america's counterintelligence." jim, welcome back to democracy now! it is great to have you with us again. start off by, as you evaluate, what has been released. this intelligence, if it is real and by all accounts it looks real, of the u.s. spying on adversaries and allies, talk about what is most significant and where these documents are from. >> well, in terms of significance, i think the most significant outcome of this is a danger that we may lose actual human beings in russia. because a lot of the documents indicate we have collected information the inter-workings of the r

military personnel to gain access to the document exchange network of the us department of defense, the pentagonthis is the first, the second - one of these agents is already detained by the u.s. federal bureau of investigation and by the second i understand that this is mrs. the woman has now left the fbi of the united states because it was she who was only this person, the woman was one of where were the telegram channels located, the possible files of the folders were removed from the technical information exchange network, the pentagon, the pentagon, that is, the ministry of defense, taisher was detained, as we all now know, the american press writes about it quite widely, he served at one of the national guard facilities in a rather remote state massachusets, but i think that the most important thing is that now one of the serious versions of the fbi in the usa is that among them these people of the american military and ex-military were recruited by the russian special services by one of these recruiters the suspect, an elderly man, is already in the development of the us fbi and in the ne

geospatial intelligence agency, state or province bureau of intelligence and research, the pentagon's defenseence agency, and the national security agency. on tuesday, national security council spokesperson john kirby urged reporters not to cover the leak documents saying "it has no business on the front pages of newspapers or on television. it is not intended for public consumption and it should not be out there." that does it for our show. happy birthday to maria ines taracena and anna ozbek! [captioning made possible by pppxxxx■]■t■]■oññññ oç >> now, what should we focus on going forward? exclusive economic zone, and it might have been icbm, and exactly at what kind of missile, if it was whthe 12 or what. what is north korea going to do now? now, defense ministry said north korea launched what is suspected to be ballistic missiles, and one of them

geospatial intelligence agency, state or province bureau of intelligence and research, the pentagon's defenseence agency, and the national security agency. on tuesday, national security council spokesperson john kirby urged reporters not to cover the leak documents saying "it has no business on the front pages of newspapers or on television. it is not intended for public consumption and it should not be out there." that does it for our show. happy birthday to maria ines taracena and anna ozbek! [captioning made possible by /ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ/ñ pppxxxxo (sophie fouron) this little muslim island is stuck between the east african coast and madagascar. it's also a bit stuck between the long walk towards modernity and its very strong traditions. there are many challenges here in grande comore. there is shortage of electricity, everyday, they have shortage of water, the roads are devastated, the infrastructures are old. they have a long way to come, but they are filled with hope and optimisim. people take care of one another here. there is a great deal of

teaches at columbia, georgetown and george washington universities and serves as a member of the pentagon's defense policy board. his most recent book of many "military history for the modern strategist" was published just this past january. before i begin i'd like to remind that you we're live streaming this event and we're on the record. our panelists will be taking questions from the audience toward the end of our conversation today. for those of you who are joining virtually, please feel free to send your questions to events@brookings.edu. thanks. over to you. michael: thank you. welcome to brookings. it's really been a day we've looked forward to for a long time. you're a great american leader already. i want to begin this conversation by asking you questions about the committee on intelligence. because this is your first visit, if i could ask everyone to join me in welcoming the congresswoman. [applause] i want to begin, then melfully will ask a few -- melanie will ask a few, i wanted to ask your take on the overall state of u.s. intelligence today. before we get into the morning, again, case

gain access to the network of exchange of documents with the credentials of the er ministry defense of the pentagon of the usa, this is the first, the second - one of these agents has already been detained by the u.s. fbi and, as i understand it, this lady has now left the u.s. fbi because she is the one uh, only this person, a woman, was one of the telegram channels where uh, possible files of the folder were removed from the technical network of information exchange, the pentagon, the pentagon, that is , the ministry of defense, uh, taisher was detained, as we all now know, the american press writes about it quite widely, uh, he served at one of the national guard facilities in a rather remote state of massachusetts, but i think that the most important thing is that now one of the serious versions of the fbi in the united states is that among them those people of the american military and ex-military were recruited by russian of the special services, one of these recruiters of the suspect, an elderly man, is already in the development of the us pbf, and in the near future, i think we will learn m

jon: you are with the department of defense, we will call that dod, the pentagon. obviously department of defense has a complicated relationship with journalism and reporting. thomas's mission and the mission of people at warhorse is to make the department of defense more transparent. more accountable. more accessible for the general public. i guess the first question would be, why are you here? kathleen: [laughter] sure, absolutely. first i am thrilled to be here, i also want to thank thomas and certainly you, for signing up so early on. to help the effort. jon: to be fair i am not busy and lonely. kathleen: nevertheless. jon: when he asked, i happen to be free that month. [laughter] kathleen: here is the reason. i do not think we have a complicated relationship with the press. jon: i am going to stop you there. kathleen: you united states military is about defending the constitution and the free press as part of the constitution. if you go into the pentagon and walk the halls you find we will make space available and fully used by the press. if you take a trip of

calculate the officials of the us department of defense contractors of the pentagon, american biotechnology corporations, state institutions and private companies in ukraine, today we are supplementing the list of defendants in the biological forces and the pentagon among them. supervisor non-government organizations the international institute for hiv and tuberculosis in kiev was directly involved in the creation of a laboratory base for the implementation of military biological research in ukraine conver viruses, crimean hemorrhagic fever and hantoviruses in ukraine andrew stanley pecks, professor molecular, microbiology and immunology at the johns hopkins university school of public health. attracted. as one of the leading consultants for the upi 2 project, the use of gene information systems for remote observation and laboratory diagnostics. yes detection of diseases, anthrax lyremia people animals in ukraine watches executors of american military biological projects citizens of ukraine natalia rodina deputy general director of a state institution, kiev regional laboratory center minist

states of america , the us ministry of defense informed about it - this is already the 36th aid that they provide to our country and on august 21 according to the pentagon, ukraine will receive, in particular, missiles for the haimarts, ammunition for art installations with a caliber of 155-105 mm, anti-tank means and high-precision aviation ammunition , the deputy secretary of defense of the united states and for policy , collin cal, named three priorities of defense assistance, this is air defense, artillery , mechanized and armored forces, pavlo bakunets, a member of the committee verkhovzhetu is now in touch with us mr. pavlenko please tell me , have you returned from america or are you still staying there? did you spend the whole week at the pentagon congresses directly? of course first of all, i should say that i am greeting you from washington , and thanks first of all to god, but also to our bravest defenders in the world, and thanks to the help of our international partners, who are also steadfastly holding their ground and saying that in the future they will declare even more aid thanks to this ukrainian people, in fact, we have the opportunit

separately, secretary austen hosted latvia's minister of defense at the pentagon. the leaders discussed the strength of the u.s. latvia defense relationship and ongoing efforts to support ukraine. they discussed shared security interest in europe including nato's deterrence and defense posture ahead of the july nato summit. staying on europe for a moment, next week secretary austen will travel to sweden to meet with his counterpart to discuss security related topics shared by our nations. he will travel to germany where he and the chairman of the joint chief of staff will host a meeting on april 21 of the ukraine defense contact group. this will be the 11th meeting since though vital forum was established by secretary austen when. you're ago the secretary and general milley it will join ministers of defense and senior military officials from nearly 50 years -- to 50 nations around the world to discuss the crisis in ukraine and continue our close coordination providing ukrainian people with the means necessary to protect cells against russia's unprovoked and illegal

we the defense, the pentagon spokes person was a bit defensively perhaps appropriate, made for the department of defense. but he capital gang to the analogy of a locked house, a house with a locked door, and initially said it was being, it was bug old. but then he actually changed a little bit and said, no, it was. if you learn your keys to some friends and while you're away and i'm, they kind of went through your stuff basically. so this is how the pentagon is trying to present this. and you know, all the protocols with our but it was just, you know, this is a breach of trust by a criminal she ever tried to do. thank you very much. indeed. now, does your investigation has uncovered a massive money laundering operation involving gold smuggling in southern africa on the cover jernace of the investigative unit have exposed the extent of the operation in zimbabwe, which is implicated some of the nation's most powerful people, including the 1st lady. i think some dreams reports out there is on the cover, reported one to launder $1200000000.00 of criminal fund by building a fictitious casino resor

. >>> breaking news from the pentagon, the defense department says u.s.roops are moving to east africa to be ready to extricate american diplomats from the u.s. embassy in sudan the violence is intensifying there as two rival generals fight for power. bombing and gunfire have destroyed hospitals, airfields and homes. officials now say hundreds of civilians are dead joining me now is nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube what's the department of defense watching out for right now >> reporter: yeah, and you mentioned that hundreds of civilians are dead but there are also upwards of 70 u.s. personnel at the embassy who have been under lockdown for days along with other civilians there in the capital the u.s. military now seeing this violence is starting to preposition some troops in djibouti, east africa, they're prepositioning in case they need to conduct what the military calls a noncombatant evacuation. this includes everything from the possibility of having to evacuate the 70 personnel from the embassy in khartoum to a larger neo, that would incl

we have to stand up everywhere there is and back up and fortify our defense pentagon, spend correctlyuble amount we are putting into defense to stop a war and be willing to fight a war. we are not showing deterrent. >> lisa: i don't believe the war in ukraine is winnable and my biggest fear is after depleting our military arsenal after this loss of life, russia will end up where they were before this with parts of the donbas region and what was this for? >> brian: they want the whole country, if we pull out, they will take it. >> steve: more on this throughout the day. >> lisa: that was respectful. we can disagree and get along. >> steve: today should be the last day of the drills around taiwan unless they decide, you know what, go one more day. let's talk about this. the $10 million legislature is back in session today and expecting protests because this is the first time since republicans in the state house voted to expel the two freshmen democratic if the loud chaotic protest after the six people were shot at the church school in nashville. nashville, here is what is probably going

defense. we know certainly from leaked pentagon documents that they seem to have a degree of strength in termsf ground forces, perhaps even an upper hand on russia, but when it comes to add defense and it's therefore scape abilities. that is where the vulnerability is. take a look at this tweet from the ukrainian defense minister alexia resnick over just on thursday, he says. our top priority is to quickly build a multilevel air defense, anti missile defense system patriots irish teenage moms and make 29 at the most recent, but not the final steps towards this goal, he says. given the kremlin's barbaric tactics, we need nato style. fighter jets are renewing that call for fighter jets so far, of course, we've only seen them getting mig 29 fighter jets from poland and slovakia, not the newer sort of nato style jets that they have been calling for. this is a very high level meeting. we've just seen the nato secretary general arrived there. he just just straight for basically from his first ever trip to kiev since the start of the conflict, where he said that ukraine's future would be in the allia

pentagon documents. a lot of pressure is on mobile and defense teams.and alarm was russian drones or missiles launched mobile air defense teams like the first president's brigade jump into action. old weapons like a soviet legacy antiaircraft gun. it works on propeller driven, irani and made sure he drones. >> does not fly very fast. allows us to react quickly. >> reporter: this gun was made in 1960 and holds a hundred rounds and they can load all hundred and 5 seconds but when you have coming attack drones every shot counts. for the cruise missiles they use man, portable khmer defense systems. almost 3 times his age. the first shot he ever fired in combat, the max 101 cruise missile out of the sky. >> translator: i didn't understand anything. this is my first rocket and i was very happy. >> reporter: document leaked from the pentagon show ukraine would run out of defense ammunition in mid-may giving russia an advantage in the skies. >> we lose the control of the sky, huge armada what they did in mariupol where they dropped freefall bombs. >> reporter:

separately, secretary austin hosted latvia's minister of defense at the pentagon. the leaders discussed the strength of the u.s./latvia network, and discussed shared security interests in europe, including nato's deterrence and defense posture ahead of the july nato summit readout will be available later today. staying on europe for a moment next week, secretary austin will travel to sweden to meet with his counter part to discuss security-related topics shared by our two nations from there, he'll travel to germany where he and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general milley will host an in person meeting at ramstein air base this will be the 11th meeting of the udcg since this vital forum was established by secretary austin win year ago. the secretary and general milley will join senior military officials from 50 nations around the world to discuss the ongoing crisis in ukraine, and to continue our close coordination in providing the ukrainian people with the means necessary to protect themselves against russia's unprovoked and illegal aggression the contact g

defense department. and democrats were just trying to get money from the pentagon budget and just ship it to desk and stood to see. so either way, there was no kind of supervision of jail. didn't have any backing when it came to the pentagon, but other stuff they had a little bit, but they did. did they? they got their lesson said g i, we and republicans were very powerful at one time they've taken over congress. i mean the senate and house boat which and flogged there and vineyards that so it was impossible for them to do really independent work. so it's a political pressure was number one, they were very afraid. so everything is just go down the middle, go down the middle, you know, he said speech read whatever. and on the one hand, on the other hand, don't say nothing. and that's, that's the political atmosphere where this report was coming out and missile defense, you have to know. it is ronald reagan spect program, correct. but he was representing this community of people ad los alamos, ad livermore, people who have been advocating, getting out of the abm treaty and go against russia 1st strike and al

of rammstein april 21, this date of the contact group on the defense of ukraine was announced by the us air force and confirmed in the pentagoning to preliminary data, the ukrainian delegation at the meeting will focus on strengthening air defense, provided armored vehicles and shells for heavy artillery of 155 caliber and means of radio-electronic warfare, group meetings usually take place in an online format, but now the defense ministers of the countries will meet in person, the day before the delegation of the ministry of defense visited the capitals greece, cyprus, spain and romania about this match, the minister of defense of ukraine, oleksiy reznyakov, assured that the results of the fruitful negotiations will be felt very soon by our fighters on the battlefield, the strength of ukraine's defense will curb russia, the secretary of the national security and defense council, oleksiy danilov, said that the ukrainian military is currently undergoing training abroad, plus the state receives weapons from partners, our troops are preparing are preparing quite powerful training is taking place abroad of our troops, the idea of

military is making plans to get americans out just in case cnn's oren liebermann reports from the pentagon. the defense department has positioned a number of additional forces near sudan and a number of additional capabilities in the event of an emergency situation and in preparation for different contingencies. according to dod . some of those contingencies include the need to secure the embassy and perhaps the need to evacuate the embassy. now. the defense department won't say what additional forces or where , but we've learned from the u. s defense official that there are now several 100 marines in djibouti at camp lemonnier. those marines have an aviation combat element with them, essentially, aircraft that can move maria beans and other ground forces in if necessary, and those forces could be used again, both to secure the embassy and to evacuate if needed, given the situation, the u. s. and that includes the state department, the defense department and the white house are watching the situation in sudan and in khartoum very closely. according to d. o d records, there are only about 14 troops base

a pentagon spokesman said the defense department is reviewing its safeguard for classified documents though he stressed there are stringent guidelines in place for sensitive materials. in washington alice barr nbc news. >> thank you, alice. south florida dealing with historic flooding after nearly 25 inches of rain fell yesterday and it is still coming down. check out this video from fort lauderdale. that is the airport. the runways full of water. obviously no flights are coming in. workers had to close the airport but hope to reopen it by tomorrow. that is iffy. city leaders declared a state of emergency closing schools and offices. people had to be rescued from their homes. some are saying their homes floodd within minutes with that monstrous downpour. at one point city emergency center had 900 calls for help. >> when all of a sudden it came in over the kitchen shelves i knew there was no stopping it. in a matter of 20 minutes the whole house was flooded up to 3 inches of water and eventually up to 4 inches throughout the house. >> officials say the storm may have broken the single

the movement from executives in armor. much industries, for example, in to the pentagon offices into the a sector defense and into security agencies. and then their return to their companies. it's away for executives to increase the income performance of their companies and thereby benefit from the bonuses for from higher profits. and this, this revolving door is a common place in the united states government. it affects every cabinet office. it affects every industry now that he's had the new strategic policy, the united states is, were willing to use a nuclear weapon 1st. that's never been true. never a u. s. foreign policy does not change it if the policy of the hedge of mine and whatever president may think. when he takes office, he finds himself inevitably following it. because the foreign policy, a leap, the blob has been roads, term, the bureaucracy, and the state department. and the national security agencies, they run things, there's any aluminum democracy. there's less democracy there than i've seen in princeton's the don at the people's republic. that's the true democracy. i'm so i'm serious.

pentagon with all the details. good evening, david. >> reporter: good evening. the fbi has arrested the prime suspect, and just moments ago, the secretary of defense ordered an investigationified documents. some of which circulated for months in a chat group used byvm teenagers. the fbi put on a show of force to arrest a 21-year-old airman and the national choose its national guard. he came out with his hands up in front of his childhood home south of boston. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest. >> today, the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. >> reporter: it came one week after the pentagon first discovered some of its most highly classified documents posted on social media. although the leak started last fall, when secrets first started showing up on a gaming platform called discord. >> it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. >> reporter: "the washington post" interviewed a teenage member of a small chat group on discord, who said the leaks began with text messages quoting from

pentagon with all the details. good evening, david. >> reporter: good evening. the fbi has arrested the prime suspect, and just moments ago the secretary of defense ordered an investigationnths in a chat group used by video gamers, some of them teenagers. the fbi put on a show of force to arrest a 21-year-old airman in the massachusetts national guard. he came out with his hands up in front of his childhood home south of boston. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest. >> today the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. >> reporter: it came one week after the pentagon first discovered some of its most highly classified documents posted on social media although the leaks started last fall, when secrets first started showing up on a gaming platform called discord. >> it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. >> reporter: "the washington post" interviewed a teenage member of a small chat group on discord, who said the leaks began with text messages quoting from classified documents and then,

the research work is at the disposal of the pentagon, the us department of defense and people in uniform on these orders. but, and the results of this work are being transmitted through closed channels back to the territory of the united states of america, and what happens to us there? unfortunately, it is still unknown, but we absolutely understand. that what's going on out there behind closed doors is in direct conflict with the '72 convention, international ratified and certified by the united nations conference on the position of biological weapons, based on these conclusions, which the commission made after almost a year of work. and what will happen next? e, on the basis of this investigation, and the investigative judicial authorities should work, if it is necessary to establish the guilt of specific persons in committing these crimes, what next . throughout the year, our commission had at its disposal a variety of materials, including materials that certain further procedural actions, and we, of course, transferred all these materials to the investigative committee of the russian

the national guard, it is decentralized with them, therefore , neither the pentagon is the commander for him nimister of defenseachusetts, who will have to deal with him. this is the first second. and all this leakage began yet. well, i operate with open data, i started back in january. but then she did not splash out with a wide one. e in a social network, but twisted e, within the framework of a certain community , the participants of which, apparently, are the same young people as this organizer, but they themselves did not take it out of importance. and only when one of them isn't this guy. someone else spilled this case into the wide net. here. gone noise. uh, what does that say? this suggests that, of course, the level of control over sensitive information. obviously not enough. i'm not inclined to follow the conspiracy theories that this was all intentional, because then , uh, it's not clear. and by whom for what purpose? uh, there is, who is the beneficiary? could be? well, the fact that the special investigation that has been launched, that the attitude of the former american leadership towards this is

defense minister themes. today, the focus of negotiations will not be discussed, as the head of the pentagon emphasized, thereof air defense and ammunition, and artyom will continue the topic . well, or at least enlist some kind of military support for his speech, judging by press reviews were lukewarm. it is unlikely that zelensky’s next call to accept ukraine into the ranks of nato will find a response, saying that he deserved such an invitation to and in, if he doesn’t exist, then neither the ukrainians nor the majority of the inhabitants of the countries of the alliance members will allegedly understand the experts. the opinion is different. they are reminiscent of the nato secretary general during his visit to kiev, he made it clear to the sun, they support, with weapons , equipment and finances in return, expecting to win on the battlefield, and only then it will be possible to discuss political decisions, and the status of kiev in the north atlantic alliance, but serbia, as stated by its president aleksandar vučić in nato, was called more than once only belgrade. according to him, he remembers the bomb

according to the secret documents of the us department of defense, the pentagon it was about espionagem other countries, he published these documents in the cyber space, the second court session will be held today, a few days ago, last week , he was arrested in the american military, going to adam's house and arresting him, the pictures were published. the first session was attended today, the second session of the court and the elimination of the experts say that this young american has questioned the national security of the united states with what he has done , especially since he did not provide the most information on these people, the security officials said, "we still don't know how many ." these documents have been published and also people who have access to this, in fact, the documents of other people in the attacks, i am talking with mr. etemadi, an expert on the issues . hello, mr. etemadi, good morning. what is the available news and information? we must have the process of security look at the news and information prepared from the official sources of the countries and ho

on april 21, the date of the contact group on the defense of ukraine was announced by the us air force and confirmed in the pentagonding to preliminary data, the ukrainian delegation at the meeting will focus on strengthening air defense through armored vehicles and heavy artillery shells. 155-caliber and means of radio-electronic warfare, group meetings usually take place in an online format, but now the defense ministers of the countries will meet in person on the eve of the delegation of the ministry of defense visited the capital greece what about spain and romania this was reported by the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov, he assured that very soon our fighters will feel the results of the fruitful negotiations on the battlefield. ukraine uses much more than in general . this war against russia, isn't it? that's how many projectiles they produce. well, i don't know how in the world, look, in the world, it 's not only the western countries that are made up of confederations from russia, north korea, iran . unfortunately, you know china, but not really in nato countries. produces, at least until a

videos they move from executives in armor. much industries, for example, into a pentagon offices into the sector defense and into security agencies. and then their return to their companies, it's away for executives to increase the income performance of their companies and thereby benefit from the bonuses for from higher profits. and this, this revolving door is a common place in the united states government. it affects every our cabinet office. it affects every industry. now that he's had the new strategic policy, the united states is we're willing to use a nuclear weapon 1st. that's never been true. never a u. s. foreign policy does not change. it is the policy of the head, your mind, whatever, you know, president may think when he takes office, he finds himself inevitably following it because the foreign policy elite, the blob as been roads term, the bureaucracy in the state department and the national security agencies. they run things, there's the aluminum democracy. there's less democracy there than i've seen in princeton's done at the people's republic. that's the true democracy. i'm so i'm serio

secretary austin hosted latvia's minister of defense at the pentagon. discussed the strength of the u.s.-latvia relationship and ongoing efforts to support ukraine and discussed shared security interests in europe, including the nato deterrence and defense posture. readout available later today. staying on europe for a moment, next week secretary austin will travel to sweden to meet with his counterpart to discuss security-related topics shared by our two nations from. there he'll travel to germany where he and general milley will host an in-person meeting on april 21st of the ukraine defense from contact group at ramstein air base. the 11th meeting since it was established one year ago. the secretary and general milley will join ministers of defense and senior military officials from nearly 50 nations around the world to discuss the ongoing crisis in ukraine and to continue our close coordination on providing the ukrainian people with the means necessary to protect themselves against russia's unprovoked and illegal aggression. and as we have highlighted

the pentagon becomes the defense secretary himself and then and civil war historian knows everything about what happened about the musket that were used the weather on the day of of the battle antietam the slope of the the the hills were charged and he gets to washington he's got to f modn day civil war instead of with muskets and cannons with drones and laser guided missiles. that's what happened to ben bernanke. in the world of economics, because he got to washington and a new financial crisis happened right. his toes and he had to fight this new battle in, the financial markets, to stop the banking system from melting down with instruments that that even existed ten years earlier. and if you read my book, you'll learn all about these instruments collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps. they had to figure out what these things were and how to keep the financial system standing and. he had to use this historic knowledge that he had. there's another guy in the book, robert shiller, who's one of aker law's best friends, another i iconoclast, a thinker who's written a lot