other legislation, any type of the policy? this is pretty simple. we re going to make sure every state has the ability to keep the people safe in their state. i d like to find out where this nest of terrorists in west virginia may be. i think we can take care of it in west virginia. trust me. we ll take care of that back home. just give us an idea where they are. we ll go get them. senator joe manchin, thank you as always for being with us. thanks abby. and we ll talk about what s happening on the house side with congressman peter welch in just a bit. first, one of the nation s top terror experts explains what we can all learn from a history of violence in the middle east. plus, the south gets slammed by winter storm rema. drivers stranded and hundreds of thousands without power. when will it end? and later, a boston headline that has nothing to do with snow. the one sports contest beantown may want to throw. the cycle is rolling on. it s thursday, february 26th. meet the world s
the political violence in palestine. he argues that effort included everything from diplomacy and lobbying to civil disobedience and, yes, terrorism. he writes, quote, the jewish terrorism campaign was arguably the first post-world war ii war of national liberation to clearly recognize the publicity value inherent in terrorism. the violence was often choreographed for an audience far beyond the local population. that s from his latest book. hoffman is director of the center for security studies at the georgetown school of foreign service. he s one of the top terror experts in the u.s. and also expert of the classic study inside terrorism. an honor to have you here. welcome, bruce. i want to start off the bat and ask you, how did political violence and terrorism impact
interstate 95 corridor. i will tell you what, the cold might be worse in the north. real feels in the minus double-digits. ryan, reena, back to you. the derailed tanker cars in west virginia are still smoldering this morning and hundreds of families are still evacuated following the derailment that sent fire balls in the sky. two dozen tank cars derailed, each loaded with 30,000 gallons of north dakota crude. a more flammable type of oil. trains like this go through thousands of american neighborhoods. so the feds are working on rules to require tougher tanker cars. terror experts are dissecting the latest chilling isis video that shows the brutal execution of 21 egyptian christians. abc news is not showing the actual video. they are paying close attention to the accent of the english-speaking jihadist thinking perhaps he might be an american. today we are on the south of rome. he says south instead of soth. so he is not from canada.
emerges from this. joe, jump in. and again, maybe you can expand on this as well. there has been a recruiting call. the washington post actually has a quote out of an isis magazine saying it is very important that attacks take place in every country that s entered into alliance against the islamic state. every muslim should get out of his house and find a crusader and kill him. it s important that the killing becomes attributed to patrons of the islamic state who obeyed its leadership. obviously we don t know the situation in this case but again if you talk to terror experts out of australia, the united kingdom or i suspect even the united states, they would say this is in fact the greatest threat. people reading things like that from isis and then acting on it like perhaps this lone wolf is doing this morning. so if you are just joining
see whether this is lone wolf and if so, what kind of lone wolf. one of the things that s kind of interesting is when incidents like this tend to happen, you get a sense from online reaction from some of the jihadist groups and isis and others whether there s affiliation to it by their reaction to it online. right now the online reaction to this seems to be muted from the known militant groups and other sites that are normally tracked. there s definitely been a few tweets in supports of individuals but right now the major online accounts of some of these groups as i ve been seeing it from those that are monitoring has not been as loud trying to claim responsibility. we know australia is a key ally in the fight against isis and there have been threats against australia because of that. joe? all right. we re going to have a lot more straight ahead obviously going to be talking to reporters on the ground, talking to terror experts and also get a statement from the nypd who has spoke