You can hear more about the economy from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen in testimonye week on tol hill this cspan. Org. And now joining us on the washington journal is a guest weve had on relatively frequently. This is Linda Robinson on the wy rand corporation. Shes also an author. I linda sirobinson, where were yo last . I think were going to this about isil today, so i have been out in the region this year. Ive been to iraq, jordan, and d kuwait. In iraq, ith visited all the various units that were doing k. The advisory and training work y out ou wthere. Now are you working with the pentagon in your current role . So rand is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. It works for bulk anyone, but d say probably the bulk of its work is for the u. S. Governmente and of that the biggest part is u get dod research. So when youre out in the field, do you get a sense of whos fighting who . Whos winning . Its so complex, so i think thats very important to establish. It is in my view
Briefing today, although this will be his briefing. As many of you know, the news from San Bernardino continues to evolve. Obviously we have now have seen the names and faces of those victims, the fallen and the injured, and as always our hearts go out to them and keep them in our prayers. Not just those who did lose their lives, but those who were injured in this and the Law Enforcement officials. It is an evolving investigation. We also told you wed keep you informed about this investigation. Just recently there was a press conference in the local area with the assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles Office providing more operational details. The director is going to give you a further briefing as well. The fbi has taken the lead in this investigation. They continue to work with our local partners who are outstanding partners also along with the atf and u. S. Marshals. Theres been a lot of new information thats come to light, and the director is going to give you some more in
San bernadino mass shooting. Hostsritage foundation discussion on the obama strategy counterterrorism strategy. General Loretta Lynch comey spoke from fbi had worked headquarters in washington, d. C. Attorney general lynch good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming over. I have joined by the director today. The news from San Bernardino continues to evolve, and now we have seen the names and faces of those who have fallen and the injured, and lets keep them in our prayers, not just those who lost their lives, but those who were injured, including Law Enforcement officials. It is an evolving investigation. We told you we would keep you informed about this investigation. Recently there was a press conference in the local area with the assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles Office providing details. The director will give you a briefing as well. The fbi has taken the lead in this investigation. They continue to work with our local partners who are outstanding, also along with
Just recently, there was a press conference in the local area with the system director in charge, the Los Angeles Office giving more detail. And as we from that indicated yesterday, the fbi has taken the lead in this investigation. The continue to work with our local partners who are outstanding partners, also along with the atf and u. S. Marshals as well. There has been a lot of new information that has come to light. The director will give you more insight into that. Thank youll for being here today. Director, i want to say word of iatitude director comey want to say word of gratitude for the Law Enforcement in san bernardino. And a word of thanks to those help, the doctors and the emts. We want to make sure you understand this is now a federal terrorism investigation led by the fbi. The reason for tht is the far has led too radicalization. We are spending a tremendous amount of time over the last 48 hours trying to understand the motives of these killers and trying to understand eve
Evidence revealed here, inside the house of horrors where the two San Bernardino suspects holed up and where police found at least 12 pipe bombs and thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition, there you see a koran, that was sitting there, of course. If any of this is giving you the chills. How about the fact there was a pipeline of guns funneled along the eastern seaboard every day, and there, the baby seat where a sixmonthold baby of the nightmarish couple probably sat not knowing what evil her parents were leading to. We want to bring in guests, and by the way, we have jeff flock standing by at the press conference. We have a press conference moments away by james comey, the head of the fbi. We have the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms, tony, its officially terror and the fbi has to be very careful with exactly what it decides and how it puts this out. But a house of horrors, paired with all kinds of stuff thats coming out on the web, what is your best assessment at the