Finding likeminded people and are reaching online to find those recruiters and radicalize rsers. Guest something a little broader. Certain phase were a space where reality is for trade which is part of the tool used in the radicalization process. There is a misnomer that exists and people think a guy watches and isis video and automatically becomes a jihadist. Is more complicated. That is one element of a larger intellectual, psychological and emotional process. It takes a person from being one thing to something else. Love, hate, anger, fear. Complicated things. The social media aspect is important, but i think sometimes we go exaggerating and minimizing. Legal backandforth between the two. Host hasnt made recruiting for ice is easier . Isis easier . Guest yes. A allows isis to portray powerful image of itself they can be all things all people. You want to . You want religious . You want revenge . You went wacko ways of killing . You have that as well. And allows them to reject a comp
Complicated. Its great to look back today, 15 years ago, the terrorism threat. When i was at the National Terrorism center we looked at how that threat had really changed to much in the last 12, 15 years, where its more diverse, adapted on the terrorism side. Now look at cyber. All those same features characterize cyber threat. You have increasingly sophisticated actors, criminal gangs at the level of what we thought were at the capability of nation states. You have the nature of those attacks changing from destructive to disruptive, destroying hardware. One of the things we think about now, the offense typically has the advantage. The offense wins. Its a little like transform. When i was at the National Terrorism center, didnt taub about its basically impossible to stop every terrorism attack. Risk management, it applies in the terrorism realm. Youre managing realm but same thing in the Cyber Security realm. You can stop every did you see president obama beat his chest and say our Cyb
Morning. Is this the kind you see with your medications as well . Have they increased . If you leave in the in the eastern part of the country. We want to hear from you. Have your medication costs increase . If so, by how much and how is it to pay for them . We have this blog posting. There are a few job jawdropping fact. The average cost of cancer drugs increased from 10,000 to over 100,000 by 2012. This is from a recent study from the mayo clinic. Have you seen the same thing and what is it like . There is little from yesterdays hearing. Ceo arguing and the margins profits and versus how much it costs. How does it go down when you are collect in . 274 dollars and on the paradigm you will collect 300. We will take the cost of goods out. Out take 274 forre collecting two right now, if youre doing the generic to say people money, you are going to charge 300. That will be the wholesale acquisition costs. The only thing you have changed is the name . This is why we dont believe you. 300,
Can you even we have not ended the scourge and the threat of home violent extremism. People ask me what keep you up at night. Thats thing number one. The prospect of another home grown or home born, violent extremists acquiring a weapon or a tool of Mass Violence and carrying out an attack some place here in the homeland. It cannot be quantified. It is difficult to detect and given the nature of it. In my view, what we and Homeland Security needs to do in addition to all the they thinks we are doing is to continually to remind the American People of all the things we are doing and 10 or 12 things we are doing and constantly securing our homeland but to also say to them there is a role for a public of awareness and vigilance. You cannot eliminate all risks whether it is a terror attack or a mass shooting or gun violence. We cannot end it tomorrow. We can and reduce it as much as possible, consistent with our values and laws. But, the prospect of an hbe attack is still there and we need
They are both going to be downstairs signing and selling the books. I wrote a book about gps and pinpoint how gps is changing culture and mind and i think i will be signing books. They definitely will. E] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and youre watching cspan2. The next author panel will begin in about ten minutes or so and its an author panel on immigration. We will be back in just a fewilb minutes. [inaudible conversations] book tv just covered a live panel on cspan2. The conversation on Political Parties and the election and that included ralph nadir, thomas frank and the three authors signing books right now, having conversations, they werent able to take q a, questions and answers duringue Panel Discussion so this is the opportunity for festival goers to ask some questions and getto their books signed. A Beautiful Day out here in brooklyn new, new york, cspan is live all day. We have three more Panel Discussions left. One is happening right now upstairs. Thomas frank. Say,