Politicians, and others to condemn the perpetrators and declare the terrorist will not win. We have been here before and we need to say this again does not make it any less true. Now, bloombergs executive editor. What have we learned so far . Most likely a suicide perpetrator. Gle the police are keeping details to themselves. We dont know if the attacker acted alone. No one has claimed responsibility. It was interesting to note theresa may condemned the attacker and the ideology behind it. That is pointing in a particular direction in terms of motivations behind it. Bit, but, we know a there is more we need to find out. Jon who radicalize them, who trained them, who funded them. A 23yearold male has been arrested in south manchester. It is related to the attack. Is it too early to assume this was part of a wider group of individuals . John you never know. Small cell. Ty the key question is, was this a lone wolf attacker or two lone wolves . Was it part of a tightly organized campaign,
Better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. But lets be clear. Its not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support or no knowledge for nato. Much of our parliamently our congre congressmen and senators dont know much about nato. Most would be surprised that nato continues not only to run the Afghan Mission but have between a third and a half of the troops there from european countries. So we have done not a particularly good job of explaining the importance of nato to our own security, to our own to what it is that europe and nato contribute to what we do day in and day out. So before we start lecturing our european friends about how important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending
Important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending is, we have a job to do here ourselves. Our interim general scocroft that when were thinking here how to engage in capitol hill that narrative. Ill take the woman in the back. Thanks. My name is trina flocrant. While in washington im at the transatlantic academy. What you said about the nato issue is music in my ears. I just wish it had been said by the defense and Deterrence Program or defense and deterrence posture review whats going on. Because one of the things that was very apparent during that time was the silence from and i know that you as ambassador could probably not say what you said now, but from an american perspective, there was very little said to actually push the europeans in that direction you just outlined. I can say this because im a european. I think without the americans taking the lead, and quite frankly, lecturing and pushing the europeans on issues like thi
Is set to discuss strategy with Health Insurance ceos. White house meeting comes after obama adds a substantial change to the law. The president said thursday that Insurance Companies can offer another year of coverage under their existing plants. Thats because people have been losing coverage and havent been able to find new plans on the healthcare. Gov website. It continues a white house official says that obama and senior aides are meeting with a senior officials to discuss Holding People enrolling in new plans and help to minimize any disruptions as consumers switch to new plans. The official was not authorized to speak publicly in advance about the meeting. They spoke on the condition of anonymity. That from the associated press. At the head of the Congressional Budget Office testified wednesday before the house and the Senate Budget Conference Committee Douglas Elmendorf told the lawmakers even shortterm agreement on spending levels would be better than no deal at all. Conference
Reporter we have new details of that incident about the u. S. Reaper drone that was fired on by the iranians on thursday. A senior u. S. Official tells me just minutes after the first distress call went out from the tanker at 6 12 a. M. Local time, the u. S. Military moved an unmanned mq9 reaper drone over the tanker. The drone alived at 6 20 a. M arrived at 6 20 a. M. Local time. At i 6 45 a. M. Local time, prior to the Second Attack on the second tanker, a missile was fired at the u. S. Drone on station over the au pair. Thats a norwegian flagship. It missed. U. S. Officials have assessed it was a modified sa7 surface to air missile fired from irans mainland. It was fired after the u. S. Drone arrived on station to assist the norwegian tanker. Separately, weve learned from u. S. Officials that an american mq9 drone was also shot down over yemen by Iranianbacked Houthi rebels in recent days. The British Government has issued a statement blaming irans revolutionary guard corps for the