Good afternoon everybody. If i could ask everybody who is filing in to just be seated. Thank you so much. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the American Enterprise institute. I am the Senior Vice President for foreign and defense policy studies here. And i am genuinely delighted that we have senator marco rubio here with us today to help us role out this new report. I have my props here. I feel like vanna white. It is the product of the aei working group on transnational organized crime in americas. I dont think that marco rubio needs a lot of introduction to this audience, but i am going to give you a word or two nonetheless and then hand things over and do a little bit of housekeeping. The United States senator from florida. He is a member of the committee on appropriations and the committee on Foreign Relations and he has a resume much longer that i am not going to keep reading. But to us a leader on international affairs. Somebody who our country turns to to hear where we sho
Dozen groups of special t. S. A. Agents are fanning out at major transportation hubs, and counterterrorism teams have several individual suspects under surveillance. The government has already issued a warning of an increased terror threat, and for a time today, there was fear that it was happening at the scene of a 2013 massacre the Washington Navy yard. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter the allhandsondeck response at the navy yard was an example of the heightened concern about terrorist attacks. It was a false alarm but Law Enforcement is not taking any chances ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Metropolitan police chief cathy lanier we take every event here in washington very serious and our posture remains extremely high for all special fortunates and it will continue for the fourth. Reporter last weeks department of Homeland Security bulletin warned of an increased threat of isisinspired violence over july four. One official said, there is no specific credible intelligence for an attack but
Dozen groups of special t. S. A. Agents are fanning out at major transportation hubs, and counterterrorism teams have several individual suspects under surveillance. The government has already issued a warning of an increased terror threat, and for a time today, there was fear that it was happening at the scene of a 2013 massacre the Washington Navy yard. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter the allhandsondeck response at the navy yard was an example of the heightened concern about terrorist attacks. It was a false alarm but Law Enforcement is not taking any chances ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Metropolitan police chief cathy lanier we take every event here in washington very serious and our posture remains extremely high for all special fortunates and it will continue for the fourth. Reporter last weeks department of Homeland Security bulletin warned of an increased threat of isisinspired violence over july four. One official said, there is no specific credible intelligence for an attack but
Dozen groups of special t. S. A. Agents are fanning out at major transportation hubs, and counterterrorism teams have several individual suspects under surveillance. The government has already issued a warning of an increased terror threat, and for a time today, there was fear that it was happening at the scene of a 2013 massacre the Washington Navy yard. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter the allhandsondeck response at the navy yard was an example of the heightened concern about terrorist attacks. It was a false alarm but Law Enforcement is not taking any chances ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Metropolitan police chief cathy lanier we take every event here in washington very serious and our posture remains extremely high for all special fortunates and it will continue for the fourth. Reporter last weeks department of Homeland Security bulletin warned of an increased threat of isisinspired violence over july four. One official said, there is no specific credible intelligence for an attack but
Dozen groups of special t. S. A. Agents are fanning out at major transportation hubs, and counterterrorism teams have several individual suspects under surveillance. The government has already issued a warning of an increased terror threat, and for a time today, there was fear that it was happening at the scene of a 2013 massacre the Washington Navy yard. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter the allhandsondeck response at the navy yard was an example of the heightened concern about terrorist attacks. It was a false alarm but Law Enforcement is not taking any chances ahead of the Holiday Weekend. Metropolitan police chief cathy lanier we take every event here in washington very serious and our posture remains extremely high for all special fortunates and it will continue for the fourth. Reporter last weeks department of Homeland Security bulletin warned of an increased threat of isisinspired violence over july four. One official said, there is no specific credible intelligence for an attack but