Thank you for coming, my name is steph jones and director of the transnational threats project for the center for strategic and international studies. We have a fantastic two sets of panels on what is an important subject. Part of the motivation i think from Suzanne Spaulding and i and looking at this. It was to look at some of the recent attacks, including el paso and the synagogue attacks. There has been a dialogue, debate within the u. S. , about how to respond to it. What the degree of threat and how serious it is and how to respond. What we would like to do is move in the following sense. We will begin with a discussion about the evolution of the threat and how domestic terrorism, i know some of the terminology for some of these groups in the government is the racially motivated violent extremist groups. I cannot promise that panelists will use that term. Just be aware, we are talking about roughly the same subject. Will move into a second panel which we will debate and discuss so
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States of emergency along the southeastern sea board with florida, georgia and the carolinas are null the strike zone all in the strike zone. We will have the latest forecast and we will speak with North Carolina governor roy cooper about the preparations underway in his state. But first, police now looking into a motive for a deadly mass shooting in west texas. They say a gunman opened fire on officers during a traffic stop on an interstate, i20 near midland then took offshooting at people randomly from his car as he made his way west to odessa even carjacking a u. S. Postal vehicle, killing at least four people and wounding at least 20 before Police Killed him in a shootout. We will hear from the Texas Attorney general in a minute. We begin with correspondent mike tobin in odessa, texas. Good morning, mike. Good morning, mike. The latest update from police is that of the five people who died out here, one of them was the gunman. Four of them were victims of the gunman. All started wi
That looks at this issue and then george, Senior Vice President of programs and the homelandrector of security. You have a range of views on the subject. A couple of points of order before we begin, we are going to have a discussion for about 40 minutes or so and then we will open it up to questions from you. Please remember this is about questions. If you give a monologue, i will cut you off and ask where the question is. Peak into the microphone raise your hand. We will call on you. You can identify yourself and ask your question into the microphone. Emergency there is an , the policy is to move to the National Geographic museum, which has a cafeteria and is located next door. That was not an indication to go there before or after, although you can if you want. With that, we will start and i will sit down. Thank you for coming. Off. Y dont you start us , theus a sense after 9 11 u. S. Government focuses on al qaeda and the Islamic State. We have added other kinds of extremist threats
Live coverage here on cspan. Where we wake up and there isnt a big escalation happening in the region. We have seen more than a dozen incidents in the gulf targeting tankers and threatening the freedom of navigation. U. S. Iranian escalations just continues. Sanctions last month and iran increased its enrichments of uranium. Iraq we have seen two iransions targeting the militia. Morning, thet this droneonfirmed that one was shut down. This is the second incident in yemen since june. With me to discuss this is a very Diverse Group of experts, and all of them i would call friends. Will start from the far left senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracy. A senior fellow at the center for american progress. She follows yemen very closely and is a nonresident fellow at the middle east institute. To my left is a senior fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Thank you for hosting. Thank you for our cspan audience following this, for those who are following us on twitter as well. Ho