biden himself asked about what could happen if there was someone with a suicide vest. what goes into deciding how to carry out this kind of very risky raid, phil? there s a couple of characteristics you have to look at. you mentioned one. the intelligence value is very high. there s a prospect he s going to speak. getting inside someone s head to understand things like courier networks, who s next in line in leadership. that s incredibly value for an organization that doesn t like to put stuff down on paper and doesn t communicate by e-mail or text, human being detainees are very important. that s the intel piece. the second piece is the safety piece for the women and children in the compound. when you have surveillance, and i ve seen this live, when you have surveillance over that compound over the course of weeks or longer, you get what we used to call pattern of life, who is coming and going, how many are men, women and
there s a couple of characteristics you have to look at. you mentioned one. the intelligence value is very high. if you get him, regardless of whether he s a hardened terrorist there s a prospect he s going to speak. getting inside someone s head to understand things like courier networks, who s next in line in leadership. that s incredibly value for an organization that doesn t like to put stuff down on paper and doesn t communicate by e-mail or text, human being detainees are very important. that s the intel piece. the second piece is the safety piece for the women and children in the compound. when you have surveillance, and i ve seen this live, when you have surveillance over that compound over the course of weeks or longer, you get what we used to call pattern of life, who is coming and going, how many are men, women and children, how many are under the age of 18, you can determine that from videos. you look at that and say if we go in with something like a drone strike, the ris
steve bannon or congresswoman greene goes after me, it s followed by a barrage of really scary e-mails. we have had to bring in, you know, houston police department and because i m i m jewish, there is a lot of anti-semitism linked to it, lot of nazi stuff. and so, i have anti-defamation league has helped me. it s these are really tough times. i never dreamed when i got my md and ph.d. to make vaccines to help the world s poorest people, that was the reason i did it, that there would be followed by something like this. so we live in very difficult times, indeed. i wish i could say that i haven t experienced similar to what you have but i have and so i feel your pain. there s i am empathetic to it. i am so sorry this happened to you but on the bright side, you are an amazing human being and you are doing great work for human kind. thank you so much, sir. thank you, don. that means a lot. i really appreciate it. thank you. and thank you for watching, everyone. our cover
look at it. we in america might say who would believe this? remember, putin s popularity ratings are routinely high but they were even higher after the invasion of crimea. people in every country like to see their leader look tough. what happens if the russians moves into ukraine and that video pops up? we may not be persuaded but somebody in moscow who says i like tough putin looks at that video and says we have to move in. i think the propaganda value for putin is strong inside russia. i m not sure anybody inside the united states or europe would believe that stuff. a quick one before we go there. the beijing olympics starting tomorrow, is putin just waiting for the games to finish before moving forward with an invasion? i ve seen that argument and i don t buy it. any president that thinks about expanding the american security perimeter east towards russia has to think twice and he s done
he told me all about the experiment. i said this is like nazi stuff. this raelt hitting like a tidal wave. we were a science experiment. these people split us up and studied us like lab rats. we didn t recognize this stuff until it was put in our face, until it was in newspapoo print. but there were clues in the past. i remember from a very young age people would come to the house,