or contact with anti-abortion demonstrators and protesters or any form of extremists at that clinic in colorado specifically? sure. well, colorado springs has always been the site of a lot of protests. and unfortunately over the last three or four months as you kind of mentioned earlier in the show we ve had renewed protests at a lot of health centers across the country. so we ve been very vigilant about security. there s kind of three things we do in the security realm. one is we work very closely with the local law enforcement. the second is we do enormous training with our staff all across the health centers. and the third is we invest in the best equipment we can to protect our patients and our staff. that s our highest priority. fortunately, there in colorado springs the staff were incredibly well trained. they took action immediately. and i really do believe that because of their actions working closely with the police they were able to prevent this from becoming even a worse t
or contact with anti-abortion demonstrators and protesters or any form of extremists at that clinic in colorado specifically? sure. well, colorado springs has always been the site of a lot of protests. and unfortunately over the last three or four months as you kind of mentioned earlier in the show we ve had renewed protests at a lot of health centers across the country. so we ve been very vigilant about security. there s kind of three things we do in the security realm. one is we work very closely with the locke p law enforcement. the second is we do enormous training with our staff all across the health centers. and the third is we invest in the best equipment we can to protect our patients and our staff. that s our highest priority. fortunately, there in colorado springs the staff were incredibly well trained. they took action immediately. and i really do believe that because of their actions working closely with the police they were able to prevent this from becoming even a worse
have been put into place such as spotters in the crowds adding snipers, what else in your view has had to take place? well your previous reports talks about a very visible security presence. what i would say is yes, it s visible, but frankly 90 percent of what takes place in the counter-terrorism in from the security realm is off the radar and obviously during the course of the event, the public just never sees and that s extremely important, because you you know your best opportunity is typically to you know identify and disrupt an event, are the period of time leading up to something like this. whether that s communication among the individuals who are perhaps planning or plotting or it s the surveillance that they have to do leading up to the
in the system. the one thing that concerns me most as i look at where we are, there is we re running out of trust in terms of how the american people see our key institutions of power. whether that s washington and congress, whether the executive branch, or whether wall street. and when you start running on empty in terms of trust, that puts our country in a very vulnerable spot. you know china well. herman cain said this week they didn t have nuclear capability. what does that say to you about a level of preparedness to be president on his part that has to be a factor in how he s evaluated? i think there needs to be a baseline level of knowledge from a foreign policy standpoint. but specific to china. as far as the eye can see into the 21st century the united states and china are on the world stage. and whether that s in the economic realm or whether it s in the security realm, we ve got to figure out how to make that relationship work. and it would be nice to have a president i
but specific to china. as far as the eye can see into the 21st century the united states and china are on the world stage. and whether that s in the economic realm or whether it s in the security realm, we ve got to figure out how to make that relationship work. and it would be nice to have a president in office who actually had a head start and actually knew them intimately well in terms of the economics and the security issues involved. mitt romney was the one who you were supposed to be drafting most closely. everybody talked about huntsman, romney, fighting this thing out in new hampshire and beyond. you haven t come close to him yet. yet you think there s a real issue with whether he can beat president obama. well, i think there is an issue on the flip-flops as it relates to trust. i don t know that he can go on to beat president obama, given his record. i mean when there is a question about whether you re running for the white house or running for the waffle house, you ve got