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300,000 russian servicemen, the chinese will bring along 900 plus pieces and military hardware and more than 3,000 chinese troops. what is this all about? this is about big power competition and this administration is clearly identified the new strategic framework of the united states is literally facing. we ve been involved in the 9/111 wars, now 17 years in afghanistan, russia and china have been advancing themselves militarily. they are not building exactly what we have in terms of toe-to-toe my soul ships but thy are building capacities that make what we have considerably more vulnerable. we pull an asymmetric strategy. it has been working for them. the exercise you are speaking of is the largest exercise that russia has ever been involved in, they were part of the soviet union during the cold war. i m on a commission for the national defense strategy. a congressional commission, interesting enough, funded by john mccain. i will report out next month,
attack. and now, as the debate goes on, then the issue of the homegrown terror and radicalization has been on the radar since 9/111. again, they are trying the to be reassuring, and crossing the words, and not calling it terrorism outright, but moving in that drek shungs because if the president comes out to say that it is an act of homegrown terrorism, is it is a whole different level. and our president has been criticized for being weak of taking on isis abroad, and certainly concerns about whether he is up to dealing with the challenge at home, alex. thank you, ron allen. and great setup for the next segment, because in the wake of the california shootings, how the obama administration dealing with terror on the glow the ball level. let s bring in our national security military analyst kevin baron, and kevin with a welcome to you. is there anything in particular that you have heard about this that strikes you as a takeaway or something that is sticking
was coordinated and if the reports are that it was? well, we will know more in the coming weeks. it was clearly a major failure of intelligence. yes, it was coordinate and getting automatic weapons and hand grenades and suicide vests, and this is the stuff of a well planned operation. but remember, this is eight people. this is a tiny attack now dominating the world s discussion. i didn t take a lot of sophistication to do this. i mean, 9/111 was sophisticated and devastating, this is just your average homegrown terrorists murdering civilians. i think ta in a place like new york city which has a giant foreign population also, we are much better prepared to deal with this, but again, you can t protect the site of attack. you have to give the intelligence people, and the cia and the covert operations have to get out there. and retired four-star general barry mccaffery, and always a
the one against saddam hussein s iraq, and the other in the wake of 9/111 a 1 and the administra is on tenuous legal ground for this and the basis of the war going on in the last year. congressman adam schiff, thank you for joining us. thank you, wolf. presidential candidate donald trump is out campaigning, and he has a special message for his rivals when we come back. resolve to turn heads this holiday season. starting now with roc® retinol. it s up to two times stronger than imitators. try roc® retinol correxion® night cream. after 1 week, fine lines appear to fade, 1 month, deep wrinkles look smoother. and after one year, skin looks ageless. make you roc retinol resolution today and put your best face forward in 2016. high performance skincare only from roc®.