it is an entirely appropriate role. what about the idea that actually, ok, it could, in this instance, be absolutely fine, but if it becomes more regular, if it becomes a standard backstop, that actually that will eventually eat into the operational capabilities of the armed forces, simply by diverting attention, personnel, time, money away from their responsibilities? you re absolutely right. it is one of the core responsibilities of the forces to do this sort of thing, but their primary responsibility is defence of the country in the number of different ways. it is quite possible if this does persist and go on for a long time, it does erode their operational capability. but it is something the armed forces are prepared to do, and in many cases are trained to do, and as we have seen on numerous occasions, fire strikes, ambulance strikes, problems with olympic security, as well as covid, we have seen how
what about the idea that actually, 0k, it could, in this instance, be absolutely fine, but if it becomes more regular, if it becomes a standard backstop, that actually that will eventually eat into the operational capabilities of the armed forces, simply by diverting attention, personnel, time, money away from their responsibilities? you re absolutely right. it is one of the core responsibilities of the forces to do this sort of thing, but their primary responsibility is defence of the country in a number of different ways. it is quite possible if this does persist and go on for a long time, it does erode their operational capability. but it is something the armed forces are prepared to do, and in many cases are trained to do, and as we have seen on numerous occasions, fire strikes, ambulance strikes, problems with olympic security, as well as covid, we have seen how effective the armed forces are. one thing i would say is that the armed forces
the feet go to nova scotia. sorry about that canada. president obama keeping a tradition of his presscy alive. he will speak at this morning s national prayer breakfast. he has spoken at the event every year of his presidency. he ll be joined by the first lady and vice president joe biden. returning now to the top story. officials say president obama has been briefed on the latest intel suggests explosives could be concealed in toothpaste tubes on planes heading for the games. we re live at the white house. reporter: good morning, chris. this morning, a senior official says the president has been made aware of the threat and that he is meeting regularly about olympic security. this is about terrorists using toothpaste tubes to smuggle
very disturbing stuff. we re also digging deeper on olympic security and crucial lessons that officials in russia are studying right now. brian todd is here with this part of the story. reporter: wolf, not just those recent attacks in volgograd and the black widow threat that nick just report on that are sparking concerns in sochi, there s a specter hanging over these games from the attack on the israeli athletes at the munich summer olympics in 1972. those are images russian officials are determined not to have repeated on their soil. this image of a recent attack in volgograd is seared into the minds of russian security officials, but it s likely this image is as well. for nearly 42 years every olympic host city has resolved no pictures like this can be associated with their games. the munich attack in 1972 changed everything as far as the olympics was concerned. it wasn t that the olympics were being attacked. it was that the whole world was watching the olympics, thus it was
bombers. peter doocy live in washington with the very latest on olympic security. hi, peter. hi, eric. a big speed bump for american officials trying to keep athletes safe is that russian officials just are not sharing they have gathered about threats to the olympic games. the russians don t want to share what they have because they are afraid that will enable us to learn how they obtain their intelligence that we will use against them in the future. as far as using technology, i don t want to get into what other policy is but can i understand why people in our government would be reluctant to share a very so sophisticated piece of technology which could be used against us in the future. so, not only are the russians not sharing, they are not accepting american offers to lend over devices that can jam ied signals. something we heard from the chairman house homeland security committee mike mechanical who also said on