families and tell them what happened, it s based on facts. we re trying to balance the need to do this quickly with the need to make sure that it s accurate. i think we will certainly err on the side of accuracy. should there have been u.s. forced used to help locate his body rather than relying on the niger air forces? there were niger air forces involved, french air forces and u.s. forces involved in the operation in its entirety. so there were u.s. forces involved in recovery. as i mentioned to you, without going into detail, as soon as the general contacted me that night, i spoke to the secretary of defense. it was a 20-second phone call when i told him what we re asking for. i immediately called the general, told him his request for additional support. was approved. then we started putting the wheels in motion to deliver that capability. so i can tell you once we found out that sergeant johnson was missing, we brought the full weight of the u.s. government to
we are back now with congressman john garamendi, a member of the house armed services committee. we are monitoring right now the terrorist threat here in the u.s. during this fourth of july holiday weekend. we want to get his insight considering there is huge concern about a possible attack by isis sympathizers. i want to ask you about something that one of your colleagues congresswoman martha mcsally told us. she said this week that there are only 16 individuals in the federal government who are working on counter radicalization. you just mentioned how important the strategy to tackle that is. is the u.s. allocating resources in this fight correctly? i don t think so. i think she s correct. we don t talk about it much on the armed services committee. usually we talk about what is called kinetic, that is guns bombs, rockets, the like.
itself. and very interesting in this ca case, while there was the house-to-house effort to locate the final bomber, the tip off came once it was okay to leave the house. the owner looked out and saw the plastic tarp on his boat in his driveway was amuck and he provided the tip. citizens are key in engaging the community. there s some tension there. right after the 9/11, the focus was on putting together a more robust national security intelligence apparatus with some involvement with state and local. bush said often we have to fight them over here so we don t have to fight them here. clearly with the recognition that these kinds of attacks are so much more difficult to prevent in that the response is local, investing local seems to be key. we put national treasure into the war overseas. we have to think about e reallocating that to capable here at home.
does feinstein s bill have a chance of passing? that s a good question. four strategist today, our political strategist we re going to hear about them and the new republican efforts to change the electoral college by reallocating the votes according to kojs ll district. the republicans want to do away with the winner takes all system in the states we ve all gotten used to the past you hundred years and have voted with democrats the recent election. with the republicans going to monkey around with the electoral college to win? steve mcmahon is a democratic strategy exist robert costa is washington editor for the renowned national review. steve, let s talk politics. and i hope you can do this honestly. i don t know what your current constituency is or who you have to work with but it seems to me there s a national con sense u. right, left and center at least right and center on doing something on background checks.
that s a good question for our political strategists today. we will hear about them and the new republican efforts to change the electoral college by reallocating the votes according to congressional district. let s talk about that. republicans want to do away with the winner takes all system in states we ve gotten used to for the last couple hundred years who have voted for democrats. are the republicans going to monkey around with the electoral question in order robert cost and steve, let s talk politics. i don t know what your current constituency is or who you have to work with, but it seems to me there s a national consensus on doing something on background checks. people with mental, emotional problems, with criminal records should not get a gun, at least in a formal transaction where you can stop it. i m not sure we re ready to go for the assault weapons ban again because of the opposition by the nra and the gun owners of america or whatever it s called. your thoughts? i think