as an experienced intelligence officer, i can tell you that the terrorists around the globe no doubt in my mind, they re all creating cells, no doubt in my mind that many of the people leaving afghanistan are terrorists, they haven t been vetted the way they should be vetted and keep in mind we have a pathway here to america called the mexican, american border. when i worked at the fbi national joint terrorism task force as a military terrorism officer, that was the greatest concern, during the iraqi war and the extended afghan war. so no doubt in my mind, we better strengthen our homeland security apparatus or we re in for some real trouble. todd: to that point, you mentioned what essentially is an open border there at the u.s./mexico border, plus now terrorists have a planning ground, it s called afghanistan. are our intel services, our u.s. intel services up to the challenge that this increased burden is going to place on them? i ve got to tell you, i
Feb. 26, 2021, entitled National Preparedness: A Summary and Select Issues by
Lauren R. Stienstra, section research manager, and
Shawn Reese, emergency management and
homeland security policy analyst:
SUMMARY
The nation has faced challenges in the effort to respond to, and recover from, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Persistent challenges related to acquisition and delivery of diagnostic tests, production and management of personal protective equipment, and development and distribution of vaccines have introduced new questions about the state of national readiness, for pandemics as well as other emergencies more broadly.
This is not the first time the nation has evaluated its state of preparedness. In the wake of the response to Hurricane Katrina,
bilateral meeting, hoping to get out of that and meet with the queen for high tea. he has a big day and a lot of protests but he is handling it. jillian: chaos on capitol hill, trump hating fbi agent peter stzrok claims he does not remember sending his we will stop it text message we have all seen a number of times but they are for this excuse for it. you were speaking on behalf of the american people? i don t recall writing that text. in terms of the text we will stop it, you need to understand that was written late at night, off-the-cuff. jillian: should the american people believe him? here to react his former member of fbi national joint terrorism task force, stephen rogers, thank you for joining us. what do you make of the entire day yesterday?
brighter. bigger. thinner. even curvier. but what s next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. we re back following the active shooter situation in colorado springs. we go to former senior military intel officer on the fbi national joint terrorism task force, steven rodgers. steven, do you have any updates, any news? well greg, you hit the nail on the head. it s very, very little to work on. and kimberly brought up a point i d like to follow up on. when do you make the decision to go in? you make the decision in the past when there was a shot fired within the confines of the
so the new york times let me let me just get a new question here. thank you for this being on the show, dennis. but here it is. the new york times reported that the man who bought shahzad s condo six years ago was interviewed by the national joint terrorism task force just after that purchase. did the united states government know about this guy a long time ago, that he was a problem, shahzad? i saw the same report in the new york times this morning, chris. obviously i think what you ve seen in this instance since this fire first started on times square on saturday evening, unbelievable cooperation among fbi, nypd, intelligence services to make sure that we brought this guy to justice. i think that is the norm in this instance, where when our guys get information they act on it. this report in the new york times, i don t have anything to verify that. we ll obviously track that down but the bottom line here, chris is this, 53 hours after this guy attempted this attac