intelligence committee. he s been well briefed. as you know, a lot of public officials they have raised concerns. i m trying to get a better sense right now on what is going on especially the jitteriness we saw here this morning in washington that turned out to be fortunately, nothing, but you saw hundreds of law enforcement swoop down on that navy yard. we re going to try to get more information on what s going on. i have asked officials about the skeptics out there who say there have been dozens of thinks alerts over the years, and they never come to fruition. everyone shoots me down but there still is no credible threat about this weekend? supposedly but they did get nervous, i suspect, because of what happened last week on three
demonstration just getting under way to my left. there s another demonstration that s under way over on the other side of the square. so across the center of athens tonight, all sides coming out to say the dignity of greece is under threat. and i expect you will see several demonstrations all week or more of that to come. rana, richard earlier said there s no easy way out. there s just hard ways out, but the thing is that we don t know which hard way this is going to go yet. so you have certainty and inevitable pain here. that s right. i think that s what really worries the markets and that s why you see them moving up and down. there s a jitteriness because it s unprecedented territory. i was actually covering europe in 1999 when the euro was started, and it was an unprecedented experience. you had 18 countries coming together to form this currency. that s never happened before. nobody knows what happens when it falls apart. for greece it could mean going back on the drachma. that
that this is not just something made up. yes. i ve been in functional mris. they put you in there, and they ll put pictures in front of you and see what part of your brain activates by how much oxygen it uses. they can actually put you in there, have you do math and compare what your brain does to control subjects to see how where the difference is. they re actually working on implants that people are going to be able to get to help upgrade your brain in just the near future. if there s a basic way to explain how the concussion resulted in you turning into a math genius how do doctors explain it? well the main thing that the way i always explain it is our vision works like a video camera, like a tv. you re seeing individual pictures like this. and it s jittery, but there s a portion of our brain that smooths it out so my hands looks nice and smooth. that portion of my brain is injured. so when things move they have this slight jitteriness to it
jitteriness in the american public about the circumstances in the middle east. with respect to the specifics, i mean i would point out that in yesterday s washington post , and i certainly feel this way, but george will really gave expression to this in the most meaningful way i ve seen so far and that is that these insurgencies are predicated on the collapse of crumbling regimes and hierarchyes and they have ignited complex sectarian and tribal power struggles. sometimes anti-american system used in these power struggles. it is very important none of us rush to judgement but be engaged into deliberative process. donna, no one is rushing to judgement here. we listened to the spokesperson of the white house carney. we ve listened to our u.n. ambassador and basically they said it was because of this videotape and now we re finding out that it s not. and listen, when you listen to this administration, for
rick? rick: thanks. and quick alert now. update on a story we told you about at the top of the show. there were two people injured when a package bomb explode the. lafayette, colorado. the weather not great. the bolder county bomb squad is securing this vehicle that you see in the picture there. once it s secured, then they can start their investigation. police just talking to reporters a couple of minutes ago. they say that the explosion happened a few minutes before 1:00 p.m. local time. sorry for the jitteriness of this camera. we re not controlling it for you. two victims. they were transport to do a local hospital with burns. we don t know their condition, but a half dozen homes in that neighborhood have been evacuated. the bomb squad now trying to confirm that there is no secondary device inside that car. that s why they re being very careful as they search it. as get more information, we ll pass it along. other news and parents and educators fight ago judge s