Cspan2. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Up next on booktv michael allen, majority staff protecter of committee on intelligence provides an insiders account of restructuring of the u. S. Intelligence system after 9 11. This program is just over an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the new America Foundation. Im peter bergen. I run the National Security program here. Its with a lot of pleasure that we goat welcome mike allen to talk about his new book. Thank you. And hes had a distinguished career, most recently in the government as chief staff on the house Intelligence Committee. He sent seven years in at the National Security council and the george w. Bush administration. He managed to writ book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business. All in the space and continuing working on the hill at the same time. So very impressive. [inaudible] mike agreed to speak about the stories in his book for about a half an hour and ill engage in him q a and let him an
Full coverage of the shooting rampage here tonight. Also, we will be bringing you a live report about what federal Health Officials now classify as an urgent threat to the health of all americans. The centers for Disease Control have issued a landmark report estimating for the First Time Ever how many people died from drugresistant bacteria each year. The numbers are truly startling. John roberts will have that report from the centers for Disease Control. And clearing skies in colorado have given officials a first look at the devastation after a week of torrential rain and what some have called the local flooding. At least seven people are known dead. More than 600 people are unaccounted for. More than 1,000 people remain stranded, needing to be rescued. The rain and flooding destroyed or damaged some 19,000 homes. The latest on what is now the largest aerial rescue operation since hurricane katrina. In the latest from wall street where today the Dow Jones Industrials rallied. The dow
Words. A colossal victory. For the first time weve negotiated with the taliban as equals. And we gave them everything they asked for, the dream team. These are the heads of intelligence, military, with long ties to osama bin laden. When i was in iraq last month, i met with general demford and ambassador cunningham. As we were standing in front of the afghans, im concerned about the influence the five could have on the process. As the ambassador told me, as we withdraw, his biggest fears will be a vacuum and then well be hit again. Mr. Secretary, can you tell me how this move is in our best interest in terms of our security . To start with, as i have covered this ground this morning, we got our one remaining prisoner back. I dont think thats an incidental accomplishment. Second, as has been quoted here, here a couple of hours ago, the former Central Command commander, marine general jim maddos, what he said this sunday last sunday, about one of the significant features of this return wa
Provide. Cases the overall u. S. G. Counterterrorism effort may that,. Some of a number of things to empower women and youth who are inticularly vulnerable communities that are at risk to extremism. Arrayl go towards a whole of programming on the multilateral side. Support the globe counterterrorism forum, which is a gathering of countries designed to address terrorism issues, and to put out best practices so that theyre all following a design. Again to combat terrorist flow all the other things i just spoke of. Thank you. You off because i want these gentlemen over here to ask questions. The Ranking Member, five minutes. A it was pointed out to me by Committee Staff that we did get these numbers from c. R. S. , i want to thank the u. N. Ambassador for setting the straight. Does your department or bureau in the state department have as fulltime scholars . Islamic we dont have would class it quite that way. What we do is is programming that we support that brings in those voices and we
Possessing a firearm. Do you believe that congress should repeal this law . As far as my position is concerned, again, the aba has not taken on position on that. I think we have to look again at the individual involved and the individual crime. So for example, weve had cases, and Domestic Violence is something thats certainly on my radar screen personally and my office. Something just like child abuse that we take very seriously. When we have a Domestic Violence case i think we have to look, is that person an owner of guns . Or does that person use a gun . I think those are the distinctions that have to be made. I think a broad simply designation of someone who owns a gun should never be able to own a gun again i think has to be looked at very seriously. As opposed to using a gun in Domestic Violence. And i have no problem with that person not being allowed to own a gun. So do you think the current law which applies to misdemeanors as well as felonies is a good law . Depending on the c