Speaker. Our interviewers are always welcome to send comments simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and we will post for everyones future reference following todays program. Hosting our events james who serves as Vice President of our katherine and Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. Graduate of west point and 25 year veteran of the army serves as adjunct professor at Georgetown University and served as professor at defense university. He serves on the board of trust years at the Marine Corps Foundation and Advisory Boards for the west point center of history and the Hamilton Society and operation renewed hope. Please join me in welcoming jim fano. Pete is not only a great friend but define it is definition of Great American graduated at presentation tone princeston and harvard. Two bronze stars. Working with fox news and so having having put his life on the line im not sure what possessed him to write this. In the world in which we live you write a book about
Vigilance of the American Public. Host when you say managed and contained what do you mean . Guest if we had this conversation after 9 11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. But that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9 11 1 or even the pars attack. You will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. You will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those statements are correct. Host you write americans suffer from historical amnesia and the golden age of terrorism was in the 70s. Guest yeah, there were more than a hundred hijackings and a slew of attacks by the weather underground, puerto rican nationalist, and black panthers. There was a lot of Political Violence in the 70s and that pretty much disappeared. Host this is not to say the public should over
Shakespeares death. At noon today booktv is live from the Folger Shakespeare library in washington d. C. That all begins at noon, and its followed with your opportunity to talk with shakespeare scholar ellen mckay and Folger Library director michael witmore. Also this weekend, sue klebold discusses her son, dylan, the columbine shooter. She traces her journey to understand the junction between violence and mental illness. Some of the other books were featuring this weekend on weeking tv booktv, why the rust belt is the next hot spot for global innovation. Theres two new biographies which examine the lives of John Quincy Adams and louisa adams. Plus, youll hear about the life of missionary john birch, the namesake of the john birch society. For a complete its schedule television schedule, go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Thanks for coming. Im with the local Amnesty I
Sleet of the windshield. Thats an Eyewitness News ban thats in columbus circle. What in the world is next. Meteorologist lee goldberg has the forecast. Last thursday we were at 80 degrees and an active forecast. Opening day for the mets. Its cold and its gray. And we do have a system approaching thats going to give us wet snow tomorrow. Lets give you what you need to know and hopefully this is the last snow forecast i have to give you. Cloudy skies and bundle up. 44, it feels likes 30s and winds gusting. We have a Winter Weather advisory through central pennsylvania, and im waiting into the evening hours to see apart of that is extended into western central new jersey. Probably into maybe huntington or warren, maybe into somerset counties. Well have that watch that in the evening hours. Weve had a couple of showers and a couple have have been ice pellets or grapple. Its ice pellets and thats lifting out and clearing out in the evening hours. Theres the system coming through chicago and
So how hard was it to do this book, how long did it take . Guest it took three years of fulltime research and writing, obviously thats not counting my two decades plus as a reporter on military and National Security issues prior to that, you know, gaining a lot of that information of previous articles, previous books and its also not counting the time spent in the editing process after those three years were up. It was very difficult but, you know, obviously not impossible to find the people and, you know, in some cases the other publish works or unpublished works that could power the story of this organization from its roots in 1980 all the way to the fight of Islamic State. Joint special Operations Command is the command United States military secret special Operations Missions. It was formed in 1980 as a result of the failure of operation eagle claw which was the at the same time to rescue the american hostages in iran. The pentagon put together a Blue Chip Board of half a dozen ret