Into a series of franchises are more or less influenced by the inspirational ideology of al qaeda. But in the control of their local commanders. For example, you have one franchise in north africa, one in mali, one in the northern arabian peninsula. You have al qaeda in iraq. You have al qaeda in syria. Then of course, you have al qaeda sleeper cells that we have seen pop up in europe, australia, and god forgive in n god for bid in canada and United States. The residual legacy of bin laden still seems to be able to attract these young arabs who want to be a member of al qaeda, aattracted to what is essentially this death cult of al qaeda. We have not a great deal of success to turn that off. Host we have this map of the middle east that we want to put back up. Ambassador ginsberg, what kind of military presence does the United States have in this area . Guest if you go to iraq after the Islamic State was able to take the city of mosul, the second largest city of iraq and seize territor
Support for hezbollah or hamas, or the assad regime. Now being confronted by our strongest adversaries in the region that are being strengthened on the back of sunnis who are afraid of the shiite ascendancy. Host lets take some calls. We will begin with dennis in arkansas on our democrats line. Caller you know, they say that you cannot go to war with g5 unless god tells you to or you are not a muslim at all. That kind of eliminates an awful lot of these guys. Those tribes have been fighting for a long time centuries trying to get a leg up on the other guide. Isis is being run out of yemen and libya primarily. Firsthand knowledge from people who escape their is different from the political point of view. Are we going to be the police force for the entire world . Obama kind of said im going to get as out of the war, those are campaign promises. He is a man of his word. He also killed osama bin laden. You can say bush did it host there is a lot better. A lot of connections being made by d
You know, to expand our airports, we are increasingly relying on passenger facility charges for the capital we need. How can we support the administrations proposal to raise that cap and how can we support your efforts and vice versa on that . Well, this is a vitally important issue. Right now, theres a its a 4. 50 cap on the pfc charges. We proposed lifting that cap to 8. Which would provide these are moneys that airports can use flexibly to improve their facilities. It takes a little bit of the structure of the Airport Improvement Program away and puts that money at the local level so that you can use that money more flexibly. We are big supporters of this. And again this is a place where i think conveying directly to members of congress how this impacts you, what plans do you have for your airport that could be enhanced if you had more nimble dollars at the local level that could be used to enhance that vision . Thats the area of disconnect that i think we have up here. And by the w
Bill in the senate today continues work on the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline appeared they will vote this evening starting at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. It will affect oil drilling in blow to Alaska Oil Production is one of the headlines this morning. We want to get your reaction. If not by phone, you can contact us at twitter. You can post a comment facebook. You can send us an email. This is the front page of the newspaper of the alaskan newspaper. It would be the approval of congress. The president is proposing to designate the majority of the Arctic National wildlife rigid as a wilderness area. This drew an angry response from elected officials is yet as a land grab by the federal government. That is the front page. The announcement came yesterday through youtube and a video that the white house. It runs about a minute. Alaskas wildlife refuge is an incredible place. It is pristine and undisturbed. It supports caribou and caribou and polar bears. It is very fragile. I am proud that t
Oakland police say someone hit and killed an elderly woman this morning then sped off leaving the woman bleeding in the street. Take a look at sky 7 hd video. Police say they found the woman lying in the street bleeding from the head near 18th avenue and east 15th street around 8 00 this morning. Investigators say the woman appeared to be in her 80s. She later died at the hospital. Police have not released a description of the driver but say a green honda may been involved. All lanes are open on interstate 580 after a rollover crash that happened at 4 30 in the eastbound direction near the 164th avenue exit. A sedan hit the Center Median then rolled over. A honda pilot suv then slammed headon into the car. One woman died, two others were injured. More than 300,000 in wine stolen from a famous napa valley restaurant has been recovered, 2700 miles away in North Carolina. Abc 7 News Reporter Wayne Freedman is live in yountville with the effort to find the thieves. Reporter behind me, rest