i want to bring in former cia analyst peter brookes. for the cia, as i said, also with the defense department. thank you so much for being with us this morning. i really appreciate it. and, peters, here's the question, we know that the suspect is sedated. we know that he's intubated with injuries to the throat. if there is communication going on, we can presume it's probably by writing. you probably can't get all the answers you want, so what are the key questions to ask right now? >> of course the other question is, i'm not a medical professional, but to what level of competent can he answer those questions? but as we said, the most important thing right now, john, is to know if there's any other plots under way. if there's any other bombs out there. issues of public -- of public safety. eventually down the road they're going to want to get into the history of this, because obviously the other terrorist, his older brother, is gone. they're going to want to know how this all came about. but right now, it's public safety, any other plots

we welcome back secretary of defense heritage foundation senior fellow peter brooks. gentleman, you see these descriptions, the confidence level is varying degrees of confidence. it was done on a small scale. yet, you already have senator john mccain and others saying it's time for the united states to arm the rebels. what's your take on this, please? >> well, we put ourselves in a very complex and difficult position. you know, 70,000 murdered. we've now publicly stated this is a red line employment of chemical weapons. it's very likely they have been employed already twice an will again, but, the use of u.s. military power in a situation like this is inadvisable. what do we do? we go against scud missiles, artillery units, mortars, syrian air force. it's hard to imagine military power from the air, a clean strike as having any real results. so, you know, it's hard to bluff in public on the employment of u.s. military power. by the way, we're cutting back sequestration, carriers not deploying to the region. the signals aren't good. >> general mccaffrey, quickly, as a

on behalf of all the american people, peter brookes c.i.a.icer has written a book and many articles on chechen terrorism. i don't know how you make a connection or understand a connection with the two men. when are we to understand to take away that conflict half a world away and what we watched behind us monday? >> we don't know what was behind the attacks. what was their purpose of it. there is potential connection back to chechnya. there are islamist militants that have been involved in terrible attacks there, attacks on schools, sub ways and theaters in moscow and the concern is -- these groups are associated with al-qaeda. i want to know is there an international connection. were they cad calized abroad? how did they learn to make these bombs? did they learn it from internet or trained by somebody? my real concern we're in a new territory. this is new page in the war on terror. it could be the new normal. we have to be very concerned about it. >> bill: peter, what do you mean a new page. i've got ten seconds, define that? >> this is the

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former cia analyst peter brookes is our guest on that just moments away. martha: let's go down to texas where a first look at the warrant now shows that the texas d.a. and his wife were shot a number of times in their home over the weekend. they found casings near the bodies. the couple was killed two months after the assistant prosecutor from the same county was gunned down outside the courthouse. the deaths have left that community visibly shaken. >> i think it is very terrifying nothing something like this can happen in a small town. >> we're still in shock i guess is the best way to describe our feelings about this latest incident. >> gunn schotts i you into it was a lot -- gunshots. it sounded to me like an assault rifle. >> they were great people. i'm going to miss them, i really am. good neighbors. they were good neighbors. martha: sad situation this is. dan springer is on the scene. he is live in kaufman, texas. what is the latest on the investigation here, dan? >> reporter: well, like you said, martha, that search warrant obtained by police confir

we have pete peter brooks. thank you for joining us, matthew, what do you make of fact they are from chechnya? is that a piece of a puzzle. the uncle is anguished and trying to tell us that is not relevant but i suspect it is. >> we don't know yet, why these boys decided to do what they did. we can speculate that if they have chechen family ties, whether they grew up in chechnya so young, they are not veterans of the chechen wars from 1990s. they may have had some exposure to people who were. melissa: they came here speak seeking asylum. that is how they got their documents and that is how at least one became a naturalized citizen, this is relevant they were told they were fleeing that country. >> they would one of those narratives is an islamist extremist terrorist story, even if they had no exposure in person in chechnya, what may have happened, you know being isolated, feeling disgruntled in u.s., they went on-line could they speak language, they may have been radicalized through web forms. melissa: peter, w

peter brookes, senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation joins us now. you. you write, in fact, time to wake up and smell the jihad. what do you mean? >> yeah. well, i was looking at beyond boston, the terrible tragedy up there and i did a quick search online of just news items and just, taking a number of things, i found that over the last two weeks there have been tens of attacks or plots around the world, in some 10 countries on four continents, killing 3 to 400 people. i mean, gregg, in iraq, in one single day there were 25 separate bombings. in pakistan in one day there were eight separate bombings. gregg: yeah. >> in libya there was an attack on the french embassy. so this is, we need to pay attention to what is going on. we're in the post-usama bin laden era but we're not in the post terrorism or post-al qaeda era. gregg: so when president obama claims as he did on the campaign trail early and often, quote, al qaeda is on the path to defeat, is he mistaken? is he naive? is he in denial? >> i can't channel the president but i believe he was talking

joining me is peter brookes, former deputy assistant secretary of defense and senior fellow with the ge foundation. peter, welcome back to the show. how wrried shoulde be about this? >> well, we have to be concerned about this because north korea has the capabilities to undertake some terrible things so you can not dismiss it but there is obviously some rhetoric here. the messages are meant for internal audiences. he is trying to develop this new leader, is trying to develop a cult of personality to burnish his credentials with his people. he is also sending a strong signal to the new government in seoul, korea, and united states and its national security team as well as to china which is one of its supporters. there is a lot of dynamics going on here. melissa: how dangerous is the restarting the facility itself? some reports early on said this was, they were just creating energy. that is why they were restarting it. others now more rhetoric saying it is more weaponry. what do you believe is really going on in there? >> well it is just the latest step for them to ratchet up the pressu

right now we want to bring in peter brook's two works for the cia as a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. how critical is it that the 90 year-old brother of tamerlan tsarnaev be caught alive? >> well, is important. there is still some months that we don't know about this. is there a firm international connection? with a self radicalized? what motivated them? are there more potential terrorist attacks in the future? other part of the sleeper so? is the picture gets more clear new information makes a blurry, and there is just so much that we need to know. getting a hold of him and the freaking get informational tell us a lot. dagen: of course we mentioned the city has been on virtual lock down the public transition down. all of your major ones. so closed for today. amtrak service was closed down. people told by the governor of the state to stay indoors. boston and the surrounding areas. how critical is that? how critical is it that for these authorities to be a will to do their job? >> well, first of all, is public safety, of course. there are armed law enforcement officers, fed

peter brookes, former cia officer and senior fellow of national security affairs at the heritage foundation just wrote about the potential chechen connection. we have be real, careful, peter, just because someone is chechl chen doesn't mean they're islamist militants. we have very few fact in the case and. one is that they're chechen and one is that they're muslim. what are we supposed to make of those facts? >> you're right, jenna, we have to be careful here. we do know that part of the world has been a very highly terror-afflicted. there are islamist militants there. they are involved in places beyond chechnya as you mentioned. in syria, they were in afghanistan. i'm very concerned, jenna about the fact that the russians notified us in 2011 about the older brother but they must have something, must have been going on before 2011. he must have had some sort of contact with the, somebody in that, in russia, itself that he came onto the russians radar. so he must have been in touch with someone the russians were surveilling. of course in 2012, the older brother spent six months there. we don

heritage foundation's senior fellow peter brooks writing today, it's highly unlikely the missiles northea is mobilizing have the ability to successfully target south korea or japan or the united states, but he goes onto warn this saying, quote, before you start your happy dance assuming north korea is going to launch a missile in an open ocean test the missile may pass over japan a less than fully successful flight test could result in missile debris falling on japanese territory causing death or destruction on the ground. the u.s. isn't free or clear either. while the u.s. mainland might be out of missile range guam is within reach of the missile type it has moved to its east coast. peter king is our guest now. i had no idea you had a happy dance. among the scenarios that are very serious here with north korea you say the most dangerous one is that kim jong un has delusions of grand you're that could -- grandeur that could be. why do you consider that the most dangerous of all scenarios. >> i worry he may be on the verge of or have delusion of granduer. i don't know maybe we should hav

brooks. bernie, sue vaughan. michelle meyers. and peter cohan. >>> good afternoon, dr. espinola jackson, bayview hunters point. i want to make sure it's part of the record, and that you're able to read what's here. in recent years we have [speaker not understood] impacts linked with the projects [speaker not understood]. we must also factor in the precautionary principles as the ordinance that permit us to have a project and impact, be it [speaker not understood] animal or humans. the san francisco planning department [speaker not understood] because this has been going on for sometime and you might not have been here. but san francisco planning department again and again has sent a wrong signal to those that want to circumvent a holistic planning practice, not giving credibility to c-e-q-a and precautionary principles. this department did this with lennar and partial a at the san francisco shipyard as well as the recent approved wellness center [speaker not understood] in san francisco. all this was done without giving consideration to seniors, children, and more impor

joining us scott shane of the "new york times", rosa brooks a professor at law at georgetown and peter singer, he is director of 21st century security and intelligence at the brookings institution. here in new york michael boyle, he was formerly a counterterrorism advisor to president obama. i am pleased to have all of them here to talk about this. i begin with michael boyle. explain how this became and why, you know, a crucial element of the battle against terrorism on the part of the obama administration. >> well, i think the obama administration confronted a unique series of difficulties when they came into office. the one thing is there was growing instability in pakistan which made rely on pakistan's government much more difficult. the second as we know hamid karzai in afghanistan has also been becoming more and more difficult for the united states to deal with. i think drones began to look like a very attractive way of dealing with a terrorism problem in afghanistan and in pakistan, in part because dealing with the government's was so difficult and costly to do. in a relatively s

procuring funds to fund an educational trip to washington, d.c., brooks, he did that last year and doing it again this year and we work with st. peter's school to fund for class sweat shirts. we had a conflict with the color and style. mission officers took the reigns and raised funds to get sweat shirts for those students. we provided interviews for their program. we hosted star kings elementary program. we coached our officers coached basketball and baseball. we've worked with merchants to facilitate christmas toy drives and participated in summer reading programs. the next slide will give you an idea of some of the events going on here in our mission. last year we hosted 217 special events. those were coordinated by our very capable sergeant chandler and they range from small block party street closures all the way up to large events which the carnival, pride, sin cinco de mayo and halloween. this next slide will give you an idea of some of the neighborhood a lielgs that alliances that we have on the mission and work with these groups on a regular basis. the next slide will show you some of our community based organizations, many o

peter hanley, thank you so much. back to you. >> elizabeth, we'll come back to you. we'll come back in a second. to brooke baldwin, a block away on the phone. brooke, what are you seeing? >> i am staring down the street, norfolk street, where the two suspects apparently lived, and a 40s man, perhaps the father. i'm staring at a huge swarm of black suvs, just in the past couple of minutes, fbi agents out of the car, we've seen guns, walking down norfolk, walking toward the scene, but we cannot access. to set the scene, there are dozens of members of the press sort of watching and waiting to see what's going on. we've been watching agents go toward this home, toward this aarmt, we have seen families, babies, dogs, being walked away, we know this whole area has been evacuated. two things i want to get across. i'm staring at an ambulance at the very end of the street. is someone in it? i don't know, lights are blinking, and also a big black suv that actually now pulled away. blinking as well. and a colleague here saw someone handcuffed placed in the car and that suv is now gone. in addition to police, jake, a