joint intelligence bulletins to law enforcement, and not through leaks of anonymous government officials, but we need a system that informs the public at large what we are seeing, even if wa what we are seeing is self-evident to the public and what we are seeing and asking the public to do. it is going to replace the new national terror system has never been activated. johnson said it is not ak vatd because it set the bar too high for alerts. and now sh, we will talk abo the isis strategy with a member of the senate foreign relations committee.
reflect the, quote, new phase of the terror threat. johnson said the system will reflect the current reality of when not having a specific credible piece of intelligence specifying a plot isn t the end of the story. joining me now to discuss, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn s peter bergen. why have this terror system that we ve had in the past, right? you ve seen several levels amongst american citizens about the terrorist threat between san bernardino and paris and the taking down of the russian metrojet airliner. it s the most lethal attack on u.s. since 9/11, and most lethal attack in paris and most lethal attack on aviation. so the government is trying to assure americans it s doing everything it can. sometimes the threat environment, you don t have particularly, you know, streams of intelligence that points to something, but you do want to say something to the public
they ve murdered thousands of people creating chaos wherever it goes. in fact there are very few victories on war on terror. isis controls about a third of the country. libya yarks no functioning government nigh year. isis is aiding boco haram. meantime iran is gaining power throughout the middle east. iran now the only power inside iraq that is actually putting up a fight against isis. in the meantime president obama s acolytes continue to insist they have a handle on the terror system and isis in particular. we have to fight it on every front including front of social media. that is place where they ve really made more advances than you would have suspected and that is where we have to fight them as well. so while isis is burning human beingings alive, nancy
also a fox news contributor now. judy says we re a civilized society, ambassador, but we are also a society that, well, is open and this kind of thing can happen especially to people in high-profile positions. from your own experience how worried have you been? how complacent have you been? or how assured have you been in dealing with, you know, some of the angry people that you have had to deal with over years? well, it s true we re a civilized society. it is not the civilized people i m worried about so much. it is the people who are prepared to use chemical or biological or nuclear weapons as part of their terror system. you know ricin is classified as both a chemical and a biological weapon. it s a poison. you can be fatal if it s inhaled and maybe delivery by way of a letter isn t the smartest way to kill people but if you put it into the
bill: impact segment tonight. remember the color coded terror system? that s going to change. hearings were held in congress friday about the border. listen to this arizona rancher. we have been burglarized twice. rankers in the border area cannot leave their houses unguarded for a few hours since their homes are likely to be broken into. if someone is not there we live with weapons near our bed. bill: joining us now from washington. homeland security chief janet napolitano. you are a former governor of arizona. i m sure you feel this guy s pain. what do you say to him? i say look not only the former governor for arizona and u.s. attorney for arizona, i know this border very, very well there has never been more recourse to protect the border. more son its way. a thousand more border patrol agents are on their way. more technology.