steven chu will be at the meeting. >> what will he hear from these people?on how it was thatÑi the nigerian man who tried to blow up the airliner on the way to detroit, how she got on to that plane and what they're going to do from here. the president will be speaking for, and we are expecting the announcement. >> any inkling on what the substance may be in the commons this afternoon? >> the transportation security administration has been the unveiling a lot of different assets of screening -- methods of screening. odds are it will be something about bolstering the central dni. >> how likely is it that personnel changes will happen? >> we have got no indication from the white house that heads will roll out of this thing. obviously there are certain people on the hot seat, dennis blair -- it was his job-relate to connect the dots. the president has said this is where the bill year has come. we have no indication that his job is on the line. nor have we gotten an indication that homeland security secretary is under threat, even though she came under a lot of c

review is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of secretary of energy steven chu and his department. i also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor, john brennan, to lead a thorough review into our terrorist watch listing system so we can fix what went wrong. as we discussed today, this ongoing review continues to reveal more about the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives. we will make a summary of this preliminary report public within the next few days. but let me share some of what we know so far. as i described over the weekend , elements of our intelligence community knew that umar farouk abdulmutallab had traveled to yemen and joined up with extremists there. it now turns out that our intelligence community knew of other red flags that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula sought to strike not only american targets in yemen but the united states itself. we had information that this group was working with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact, the individual involved in the christmas attack. the bott

i mean, as i said, steven chu, the secretary of energy will be at this meet. >> and the bottom line isis he going to hear from all these folks because they are supposed to go agency by agency over reviews that each one of them was supposed to conduct on how it was that mr. abdul, farouk abdulmutallab, the young nigerian man who tried to blow up that northwest airline on the way to detroit, how that guy got onto that plane and what they're going to do from here. the president will be speaking before, and we are asked beckoned him to make some announcements. there's been a drum roll up to this meeting that we do expect something of substance to come out of expect any inkling on what that substance baby and those comments this afternoon? >> you know, the tsa, transportation safety administration, has been unveiling a lot of different new methods of screening. so we think it will be broader than that. the odds are that it's going to be something about, you know, bolstering the central dni, director of national intelligence. >> how likely is it that out of this meeting, or as a result of th

review is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of secretary of energy steven chuói also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security adviser john brennan to lead a review into our watchlisting system to fix what went wrong. as we discussed today, this ongoing review reveals more about the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives. preliminary report public within the next few days. but let me share some of what we know so far. as i described over the weekend, elements of our intelligence community knew umar farouk addulmutallab had traveled to yemen and joined up with extremists there. it now turns out that our intelligence community knew of other red flags, that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula meant not only to hit targets in yemen but in the united states. we had information that this group was working with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact the individual involved in the christmas attack. the bottom line is this. the u.s. government had sufficient information to have uncovered the plot and potentially disrupt

[laughter] my secretary of energy, steven chu. [applause] three wonderful members of congress can who have devoted a lot of energy to the issue of science and math education, and i want to acknowledge them the, representative bart gordon who's the chairman of the science and technology committee, democrat from tennessee. where's bart? there he is. thank you, bart. [applause] representative william lacy clay there the great state of missouri, and his district is home to two teachers who are being honored here today, so he's very proud of them. [applause] and a great champion of education generally, he's the chairman of the education and labor committee, representative george miller of california is in the house. [applause] we also since so many people were inspired in this country originally from our space program to think about math and science in new ways, it's terrific to have our nasa administrator and former restaurant charles bolden in the house. [applause] we've got regina dugan who's the directer of darpa as many of you kno

this guy had won it, and nobody questioned whether he deserved it or not -- my secretary of energy steven chu. three wonderful members of congress who have devoted a lot of energy to the issue of science and math education; i want to acknowledge them -- representative bart gordon, who is the chairman of the science and technology committee, democrat from tennessee. where's bart? there he is. thank you, bart. representative william lacy clay, from the great state of missouri -- and his district is home to two teachers who are being honored here today, so he's very proud of them. and a great champion of education generally, he's the chairman of the education and labor committee, representative george miller of california is in the house. we also -- since so many people were inspired in this country originally from our space program to think about math and science in new ways, it's terrific to have our nasa administrator and former astronaut charles bolden in the house. we've got regina dugan, who is the director of the defense advanced research projects agency, or darpa, as many of you know. we