enforcement officials say they don t see this as a large scale, meaning many, many perpetrators involved, but again, they say that s based on preliminary investigation. anderson, one of the things they re being candid about tonight is a lot of these details, they simply don t know. yeah. that s important to recognize. again, i will repeat this a lot tonight, it is important to recognize what we don t know at this hour. it is very early hours in this investigation. john, i appreciate it. we will continue to work our sources. i m joined right now by a couple of people who have a lot of good information. former u.s. assistant secretary of homeland security, massachusetts homeland security advisor and cnn contributor, julia kaiam will join me here. fran townsend, also homeland security advisor and member of the homeland security and cia external advisory committee excuse me, cia external advisory boards. also, with us cnn contributor and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes.
threat to israelis and their stable for a number of reasons, because it s so close, shares a border, the use of chemical weapons in syria could threaten some israelis and it threatens a refugee challenge because israel would probably open its borders to bring in refugees if they fled, and it is a real challenge for jordan, the president s next stop as he spends several days in israel. jordan has already taken in many thousands of syrian refugees and would no doubt face the need to take in more if chemical weapons were used. we are looking at air force one landing. the president is about to get out. i want to bring in bob baron and fran townsend. fran sits on the cia external advisory committee. if we take senator feinstein at
background does it surprise you it s taking this long? well, you know, these kind of investigations overseas where you don t control the environment are particularly challenging. remember, we reported here that it took the fbi weeks to get the security situation sufficiently under control that they could even get to the benghazi consulate. and that s a real indication of why this is so complicated. i think it s a real testament. you remember right around the time that secretary clinton was testifying before congress in mid-january, fbi director mueller, it was publicly reported he had gone and met with the libyans to encourage and try to push them for additional cooperation. seems like it s paying off. fran, appreciate the reporting. thank you very much. we should also state fran is a member of the cia external advisory committee. in august of 2012, she visited libya with her employer, mcandrew and forbes and met with ambassador chris stevens. now keeping them honest a massive ac
february 8th. rick santorum shakes up the republican race. he s coming off a three state sweep in minnesota, colorado and missouri. is an or rum hopes to cash in on his big wins. today he s in texas because an adviser says that is where the money is. so santorum said money isn t everything, but it s part of the game. we re doing very well raising money. i think last night we raised about a quarter of a million dollars online. and we feel like going forward we ll have the money we need to make the case we want to make. sap tore rum s rivals are nursing their wounds looking ahead to the next dates on the election calendar. newt gingrich is in ohio, one of the ten states holding haekss on super tuesday, march 6th. gingrich is hoping those races will revive in some way his campaign. mitt romney also looking for a win in colorado yesterday. now he s trying to rebound from his loss to sap tore rum. nonstop shelling is said to be under way in homs. we just got this video. this i
you re done in two minutes. you say to newt, what? what the hell are you doing? you believe you i expect this from sol olinsky. this is what he taught barack obama, and the stuff you re saying is one of the reasons we re in the trouble we re in right now. this total ignorant populist view of the economy that was proven to be incorrect with the soviet union, with chinese communism. also today, tom donahue, president of chamber of commerce called the front runner foolish, saying, quote, i was very disappointed with the intramural carrying on with the republican party. he also scolded gingrich and perry for attacking romney s record. it sounds as if you re attacking the capitalism and the free-market system. and that s not what we re about. to attack that, to me, is inconsistent with who we are. governor perry has dialed back his rhetoric. he was calling governor romney a vulture capitalist. he s not using that term anymore. that line of attack cost him the support o