chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we haven t heard much information about. soledad i really can t give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at no time did the bomb ever make it on to the plane but as far as even the country it originated from, all of that for various reasons is not being disclosed but it is ongoing, involved sophisticated intelligence and it s something where i don t think the government expected it to be coming out yesterday because it s ongoing and the device is being tested by the fbi, and as you raise the issue about whether or not our current level of detection is enough to be able to find this type of device. t
leaders across the globe, all the parliaments and congresses, and centers of government, what would you tell them to do? guest: not just the congress and the parliament i fine it depressing to see capitalism s finest on wall street and in the city of london going, begging and asking for more printing of money. it s what got us in the mess. we had massive corporate and private and government debt, and governments have responded by . redoubling all of the things that created the problem and cutting interest rates lower and printing more money which penalized saving more. no civilization up until now would ever have run the economy on the basis of penalizing thrift and rewarding spending. this is an extraordinary new they new phenomenon.
and once the arab league said, look, we want you to take action against a fellow member of the arab league, which was extraordinary, there has been a redoubling of efforts. now, there are countries that are are deeply concerned about doing anything, but a lot of their doubts have been ameliorated by the strong stand of the arab league. it wasn t such a strong stand. they said they would support a no-fly zone, but they also said you can t bond market air defense systems of libya, so you the united states is not going to do a no-fly zone and not go ahead hand take out their anti-aircraft batteries. well, no one is because that would put pilots in danger, and part of what is being discussed in detail is what is the level of arab leadership and participation in any actions that would be authorized by the security council. if the arab league wants a no-fly zone, they are air forces. saudi arabia has a lot of f-15s and f-16. qatar has an air force, united
the obama administration has taken a different approach than its predecessor. they have directed more money to the government itself instead of using private contractors. you mentioned that. is it a mistake to give money to a notoriously corrupt and incompetent afghan government? that question answers itself. no, unless, of course, you bound that engagement and that donation and that gift of money very, very tightly with degrees of oversight. in fact, the special investigation, the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction, retired marine general fields, just resigned this past week. i won t get into why he resigned. i don t know why he resigned. but something tells you that there is there needs to be a concerted effort and a redoubling of our efforts to insure that we bound that type of largeess on the part of the
injuries and then up in 2009, 5,800 performance artist injuries. do we have any idea if the show s going to go on? the show i mean, on broadway, kyra, unless you have terrible box office receipts which this show hasn t, playing to packed audiences, the show always goes on. a review to find out what happened. redoubling of the efforts on safety, make sure that the fellow is okay. i don t know if this will push back the opening night date past february 7th or not. that will be yet to be determined but i think in this case with this much money on the line and prestige on the line and this much buzz about it, the show will definitely go on. got it. thanks. equal access to the web, what the fcc is taking on today. a closer look at net neutrality, what it means to you coming up. first, flashback. 73 years ago today it was called disney s follow.