these two men in this chilling video are believed to be the bombers behind a deadly suicide blast in the city last month. that killed dozens of people. in the just released video, they are promising something similar for the host city of sochi. one senator said the terror threat is so serious, he would not go. i would not go. i don t think i would send my family. i don t know how you put a percentage on it, but it s a rich target in an area of the world that has almost broadcast that they are going to try to do something there. in a moment, i will talk to a former olympic athlete who is heading to sochi, tara lipinski. the covert operations officer. etch perez, let me begin with you here in our reports about the black widow. what more can you tell us about
after a new terror video came out today, we re wondering if what he s done will be enough. the video had this ominous statement from men claiming to be suicide bombers saying this, quote, as for your olympics, something that you really want, we ve prepared a present for you. you do your business and we ll do ours. we ve prepared a present for you and all tourists who come over, unquote. russia flooding sochi with police. one u.s. lawmaker worries about what it s not sharing about security. i am very concerned about the security status of the olympics. i do believe the russian government needs to be more cooperative with the united states when it comes to the security of the games. we have found a departure of cooperation that is very concerning to me. mike baker is a former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence, global
covert operations officer. michael welcome back to the program program, good to have you here today. let s start with this study, this study that was done by an organization called the new america foundation that looks into the effectiveness of these programs. you and i spoke about this last week. then the study came out that said of the 225 terrorist acts or attempts acts in the country that they analyzed, the nsa played no role or very little role in the uncovering of those plots. a couple things about this. first of all, the new america foundation, a key supporter of the foundation is the george soros open society. there is an agenda before the report is produced to begin with, i would argue.
in her other life she was 50-year-old colleen larose. she was indicted in 2009. she became consumed by thoughts of muslim holy war and facing a potential life sentence on this. but here is her lawyer on the judge s relatively short sentence. i think it is a just and reasonable decision by the judge, in light of all the myriad of circumstances in this case, fairly unique case but i think it s a just and reasonable decision. would i have liked less? yes. martha: let s talk about this. mike baker, former cia covert operations officer and president of diligence llc, global intelligence and security firm. what did she do, mike? well, first of all we all can agree, she had a very difficult childhood growing up. a lot of people will say martha: that is part of the leniency here. you look at this background. she was impressionable. what did she do, she didn t
these hard decisions. and he says he has spent his whole life in the service of the american government and people, but he is also asking secretary of state kerry and the american public to bring him home. he says he felt abandoned. and in this letter he sent to the washington post and that he forwarded to this video, he says he feels disappointed. that the media has forgotten about him. and when you look at what they demanded in the exchange for his release, the release of al-qaeda prisoners, end to drone strikes in pakistan and afghanistan and yemen, it is clear it is not going to happen. because the u.s. doesn t negotiate with terrorists. and it is really hard to see how this gets resolved. coming up next, we ll talk to a former cia covert operations officer. and we ll ask him what he sees in this video and any possible signs that weinstein could be sending, coming up.