terror threats buy al qaeda. we re joined on the phone. jeff lanza is a retired fbi agent. all right. thanks for being with us. gary, i m going to go with you. although embassies have been closed in the past, it s never been this big or affected so many embassies or consulates. what do you think is going on? i ll say this. during the 2 1/2 decades i was in the agency, i saw closures in the middle east frequently in the 1980s and 1990s. maybe not after 9/11. but in the early days when we were fighting hezbollah, we would see a lot of this. never like this, gary. no. i d see across the middle east embassies close. it wasn t a big story because the media didn t have the reach in those days. you have a great reach now. gary, gary, media reach or not, it s never been this many.
terror threats buy al qaeda. we re joined on the phone. jeff lanza is a retired fbi agent. all right. thanks for being with us. gary, i m going to go with you. although embassies have been closed in the past, it s never been this big or affected so many embassies or consulates. what do you think is going on? i ll say this. during the 2 1/2 decades i was in the agency, i saw closures in the middle east frequently in the 1980s and 1990s. maybe not after 9/11. but in the early days when we were fighting hezbollah, we would see a lot of this. never like this, gary. no. i d see across the middle east embassies close. it wasn t a big story because the media didn t have the reach in those days. you have a great reach now. gary, gary, media reach or
terror threats buy al qaeda. we re joined on the phone. jeff lanza is a retired fbi agent. all right. thanks for being with us. gary, i m going to go with you. although embassies have been closed in the past, it s never been this big or affected so many embassies or consulates. what do you think is going on? i ll say this. during the 2 1/2 decades i was in the agency, i saw closures in the middle east frequently in the 1980s and 1990s. maybe not after 9/11. but in the early days when we were fighting hezbollah, we would see a lot of this. never like this, gary. no. i d see across the middle east embassies close. it wasn t a big story because the media didn t have the reach in those days. you have a great reach now. gary, gary, media reach or
bare bones bargain. if not, payments to critters, bill payments, you name it, there is not enough income to cover all that. every month we come up $125 billion short. if we cannot borrow to bridge the cap, 40% of the monthly obligations could not be paid, and that could include social security checks due to go out on august 3rd. the stakes we just laid out are monumental, so both sides have to give ground and risk their jobs for the good of the country. what is so hard about that, right? joining me with their insights on conflict resolution are cnn contributor, pete dominic, and family law attorney, mrs. winestein. what does it take for two entrenched parties to agree on a deal that both need? well, you know, the obvious is that you take the emotion out of the room and you try to deal with the practical. what we deal with is the practical and not the legal when we re trying to negotiate this. they re trying to take the politics out of the room and get to a solution that can