Impact on the surrounding environment. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im richelle carey. Nerves are rattled in bangkok this morning after another explosion hits the capital. A bomb went off at a train station earlier today. It follows the deadliest attack to the capital in years. Twenty were killed monday at a popular tourist shrine. The hunt is on to find the accused bomber seen in a Surveillance Video. We are live in bangkok. Tell us about thes man in that video and the search to find him. In the past hour or so, we heard from a thai police spokesperson. He said the man seen that in Security Camera footage, the man in the yellow shirt as he is being described is no longer simply a suspect, that he in fact is the bomber, they believe, so that essential going one step further than the comments we heard from the Prime Minister earlier in the day, who acknowledged the existence of the video, said he had seen it, that the man in it appeared to be a suspect in the bombi
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Y. Y. Y. Authorities are trying to find a man behind a deadly bombing in bangkok popular with tourists. Police released the video, showing a man wearing a yellow tee shirt. He was seen with a backpack and without it. Officials are trying to urge be the public to stay calm. Picking up the pieces, this is a shopping district in bangkok that has seen dramatic political conflict several times before, but nothing like this. Dozens of people were killed here on monday, among them victims from malaysia, china, hong kong and singapore. Many more were injured. It was an attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible at a high profile target, the shrine. The government acting urgently to restore a sense of security from the public and millions of tourists. In our country, there are individuals or groups of individuals who are seeking to destroy the country. The on going attempts at destruction might go politically
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
He did speak to both democrats and republicans. Can you say how many . I dont have the specific numbers here. But the president convened many calls with democrats and rms opt Judiciary Committee. You say these are intensive consultations. Are names exchanged . Well, i dont have a beyond just saying do your job, ill do my job, we all know the constitution. When you say intensive, can you give some indication of what again, i think it depends on the person and on the view of the person on the other end of the phone. Well, the best possible circumstances. Well, yeah. Look, as ive noted earlier, there are some people who have publicly and privately said theyre not going to consider anybody. It is hard to have a detailed conversation about who the president is considering if theyve already said it doesnt matter who you choose, im going to oppose them. Unfortunately, thats the approach thats been taken by a large number of republicans and thats unfortunate. Is that the response he got from s
To you. [applause] thank you very much. It must begin by apologizing for holding you up from a 20 minutes. Now that no work is revitalizing traffic at this time is impossible but thats a good thing i think so while i apologize im also happy that i got caught up in the works overflow traffic tonight. Its my role to lay out the ground rules for our conversation. We will begin with the author Dale Russakoff making a presentation. She will then be followed by the three panelists who have joined us to an affect react comments on what dale has written and what she will say to us tonight. Dales comments will be about 15 minutes. That means that panelists will each get about 10 minutes to respond. Is that all right panel . Again have ongoing conversation after those initial remarks have been made. After they have made their presentations then we will open the floor for comments, questions from the audience and i think we have a microphone here. We may have another mic somewhere in the room but