students, when you think about the parents, many of whom were, of course, texting and snapchatting their kids, you know, it is remarkable what these first responders did. there will be a lesson all across america, in all the campuses across america about what you do when things like this happen. these tabletop exercises are not to be taken lightly. it s the same way we feel about our high schools, our k through 12 schools, all of which need to be taken more seriously by everybody in the field. you know, the other thing i would tell you is i thought about this early this morning, and i actually have a goddaughter who goes to school here who got off the plane, heard the situation and came to my home. she, i believe, has now returned to campus.
purposefully or just with a political motivation. those things are things we can t rule out, of course, until we learn more information, and i ll say we have an active this was just a few hours ago. there s an active investigation going on at this time. we ll all look forward to getting as many details a as we can and quickly as we can. i will say, like my colleagues on campus around the country do, we do tabletop exercises and prepare drills. we always hope and pray nothing like this will happen but are pleased with our first respond is and students and faculty and staffs well. all did what we wished them to do and were able to have a terrible situation not be any worse because of that effort. one final question. i know you have to run, dr. drake. columbus police said this was done on purpose a few times. they haven t released the name, identity of the person shot and killed by local law enforcement.
when outside the white house or in public forums that are not quite as protected as they would be within a compound. the same with pope john paul ii. he wasn t in the vatican, he was outside but it is when he least expected it. how do you gird for things you can t control because the crowds are so big? well, what you do is you put as many law enforcement officers, police officers, as possible in an area and new york will have thousands of officers assigned just as philadelphia and washington will. you hope that that presence will curtail any sort of action. how do you separate them from just protesters who show up at any event? very hard. just like when you have the g-7 and g-8 summits. look, a certain amount of luck is involved. no question about it. but you make your own luck to a large degree. a lot of preparation has been done, a lot of tabletop exercises, that sort of thing. but this pope is difficult to totally predict. that s part of the challenge
they have been planning, that and doing the tabletop exercises, and looking at every possible scenario, and communicating it on the realtime basis to make sure it goes off without a hitch. and the pope, as you know, he likes to interact with the public out there, and real people, and how do you protect him when he goes into the crowd, jim? well, more made out of that than should be, because the secret service is ready for, that and ready for any visit of any protectee they have. and with the pope, this is significant with his visit to the united states. and they plan for, that and they are prepared for, that and they will have the buffer zones in certain areas to have civilians and guests there that the pope can reach out to touch, and that sort of thing, and they will be prepared for him to do that and what is more significant if he were to go outside of that general, you know, forecasted area that he might want to shake hands with and go outside of that, and that is when the head
with me this morning to share their reporting and insights, peter baker of the new york times. let s watch the president answer. john kale from abc asked the question. if you call on john call, you re going to get this kind of a question. with respect to mr. romney s assertion that russia s our number one geo flil foe, they don t pose the number win national security threat to the nights. i continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan. so you guys know how this process works. that s a big jarring at the end. number one part of it is, they re at this nuclear security summit. they were running around doing table top exercises. they nigh they were going to get