toothpas toothpaste tubes and shoes may just be the beginning. there is increasing intelligence showing al qaeda operatives inside syria are recruiting americans and other westerners who go there to fight in the civil war to actually train to attack in the west. the u.s. believes when they arrive in syria they are encouraged to go to special training camps to get crucial bomb-making skills and ultimately return to their home countries to launch attacks. we re seeing now the parents of training complexes in syria to train people to go back to their countries and, of course, conduct more terrorists attacks. reporter: yemen is deeply involved, u.s. officials say. that group has tried to continue to attack the united states. u.s. officials estimate about 70
delegation and i m so glad that she s able to go as well. well, you re the first gold medalist that we ve had on the lead and we hope to see you again soon. thank you so much, brian. thanks, jake. that s it for the lead. i m jake tapper and i ll hand you over to mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. mr. blitzer? jake, thank you very much. the horrific violence in the ukraine. it may not be heartful but the rocker ted nugent apologizing for the vicious slurs aimed at president obama. is that enough to get him and republican candidates off the hook? and decades after discrimination kept their heroism from being recognized, 24 veteran americans are now finally to receive the nation s highest military honor. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with an extraordinary turn of events in the ukraine s
we re free to move around. it doesn t seem all that bad but it s really an island. you know, we saw a few protesters who were found guilty today in moscow. some of them had you know, it was a peaceful protest that turned violent on the eve of vladimir putin s third inauguration. another is serving a decade in jail for throwing a lemon at a special operation s officer. putin is cracking down on he had independent media, or what is left of it. he s cracking down on opposition. but this is the sochi olympics have been effectively kind of, hey, look over here. julia, thank you very much. julie is in kiev and jim sciutto is here in washington. up next, americans recruited and trained by terrorists in syria to bring their deadly skills back to u.s. soils. why officials are very worried
[ thunder crashes ] it doesn t. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. we re getting disturbing new details about what could be the next big terror threat. americans recruited and trained by terrorists abroad to bring their deadly new skills back to u.s. soils. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr has been digging into the story for us. what are you learning, barbara? the threat of bombs in
we have a tremendous opportunity to do something about this. 97% of the scientists say that this is happening. 97% of scientists say that hiv causes aids. 3% say no it doesn t. that doesn t mean you don t throw out the 97%. 97% of scientists say that smoking causes cancer. 3% doesn t. you don t throw out 97% scientists on any other issue, why do we on this one? a lot of people expect the president to sign the keystone pipeline allowing it to be built from canada down to the gulf of mexico to bring oil from canada through the united states. do you expect that will happen? no, i don t. what if he says yes? he s not going to what if he does? a lot of his advisers are saying do it, it will create jobs. three things that once americans know they will laugh at it and run away from it. do you know how many jobs would be created? first they said a million, then