President s inner circle. Let me go straight to jim sciutto, chief National Security correspondent. Jim, you have the floor. Reporter brooke, thanks so much. And thanks to our viewers for joining for this very special live event. A live interview with secretary of defense, chuck hagel, during what can only be described as an extremely busy and challenging time for the Defense Department, for the administration, for the country. We appreciate the defense secretary taking the time with us. Of. Thank you. Reporter we also are doing this from a very special venue. Were here today in newport, rhode island, at the naval war college. Where the president s military leaders are trained. More than 500 of them joining in the audience today. And not just american, there are some 63 countries represented here. And many of the countries that are right in the center of the stories we are covering today. Representatives from estonia, saudi arabia, jordan, turkey, egypt, israel. These are the decisionm
The spring. As we walk through the story together, a warning for you. Some of these pictures are tough to look at. It tells the story of what is happening on the ground. You have other images of satellite showing Russian Artillery inside formation inside the ukraine. It is not just russian weapons. We have seen that before here. This time, as many as 1,000 Russian Troops are fighting in ukraine according to one u. S. Official. As far as russia, what is russias official response . Denial, denial. Moscow saying it is not supporting or arming those rebels in ukraine. That worries the u. S. Even further. Take a listen. Ill also note that we are, im not sure if many of you have seen this. We are also concerned by the russian governments unwillingness to tell the truth even as soldiers are found 30 miles inside ukraine. Joining me now, ben judah, author of this book, fragile empire, how russia fell in and out of love with Vladmir Putin ben, well ccome back. Lets begin with you used the w wor
American, james foley, who was beheaded by ien isis fighter with a british accent. You remember the video. The root cause of the Terror Threat according to David Cameron is islamic extremism which cameron calls a quote, unquote poisonous political ideology supported by a minority. It believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in an almost medieval state. A state in which its own citizens would suffer unimaginable brutality, including barbaric beheadings of those that refuse to convert to their warped version of islam, enslavement, raping of women, and widespread slaughter of muslims by fellow muslims and of course exporting of terrorism abroad. The u. K. Is so concerned about the isis threat theyre talking about creating new laws to take away passports. Carl pin hall is live in london and attended that conference. Also, Security National analyst julian kie a. M. Carl, to you first, David Cameron said there is no specif
And now david has been murdered in the most callous and brutal way imaginable by an organization which is the embodiment of evil. We will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes. More tough talk, but does haines death move the needle politically and is the uk ready to step up now that theyve lost one of their own . Joining me now, Cnn Senior International correspondent ar wa damon in london for us, Foreign Editor for the daily beast Christopher Dickey joining me in new york, and cnn senior political analyst david gergen is with us as well. Arwa, let me begin with you. Weve heard tough talk from David Cameron there. Are other british politicians on the same page . Thats what we have to wait and see to find out. He most certainly at this stage is trying to drum up whats been up until now severely lacking Political Support for more involvement when it comes to the overarching battle against isis both in iraq and in syria. Those two fights are goin
Injured, six critically, including a young child. Thankfully, however, no one was killed. To help with the recovery, governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency. The economic losses caused by the quake is likely to be more than 1 billion. I want to bring in kyung lah, in napa, california, close to the epicenter of that quake and cnn meteorologist chad myers in atlanta following the wider effects. Key young, i want to start with you. First, youre right in the middle of it there, officialsing the damage could have been much worse. Why is that . What are you seeing there . Reporter because of the time of day this happened. The earthquake struck at 3 20 in the morning. You can see here just on this corner where all this debris, had it been the middle of the day there would van tables out, people having coffee, there would have been perhaps more injuries and someone killed. So the timing of this, even though this is a terrible disaster for Northern California, the timing of it is luc