u.s. navy launched a strike against iran-backed houthis rebels after they fired missiles at u.s. navy warships off the coast of yemen. u.s. marines had pulled out and shudder the embassy months before when a blood he civil war tearing yemen apart. the withdrawal slowed the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. one of the most lethal branches of al qaeda and its proven itself to have ambitions to attack our country. in 2009, they sent a man known as the underwear bomber to the u.s. with the aim of bringing down a u.s. airliner. in 2011, the u.s. drone killed the radical american born muslim cleric who had been directing and planning attacks on the u.s. since president trump has taken office, air strikes against al qaeda in yemen have more than doubled. there have been more than 80 air strikes this year.
u.s. navy launched a strike against iran-backed houthis rebels after they fired missiles at u.s. navy warships off the coast of yemen. u.s. marines had pulled out and shudder the embassy months before when a blood he civil war tearing yemen apart. the withdrawal slowed the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. one of the most lethal branches of al qaeda and its proven itself to have ambitions to attack our country. in 2009, they sent a man known as the underwear bomber to the u.s. with the aim of bringing down a u.s. airliner. in 2011, the u.s. drone killed the radical american born muslim cleric who had been directing and planning attacks on the u.s. since president trump has taken office, air strikes against al qaeda in yemen have more than doubled. there have been more than 80 air strikes this year. u.s. special operations forces have returned in small numbers
coming from the outside. the new america foundation and a number of other experts have looked at the terrorist attacks that have occurred, the ones that have been lethal. none of them have come from the outside. they ve all been from people who are american citizens or have been residents living here for a long time. even of the non-lethal cases, you know, where they were thwarted or nobody was hurt, those also have been almost all of them americans or residents. so it s a misplaced the whole measure actually is a misplaced kind of out-of-date idea because we haven t seen, since 9/11, a successful, thank god, lethal attack coming from the outside. we saw some attempts since then, the most recent being 2009 with the underwear bomber, the nigerian who got on the plane on christmas eve and tried to blow
so, lawrence, i will tell you what the hell is going on. the security threat is not coming from the outside. the new america foundation and a number of other experts have looked at the terrorist attacks that have occurred, the ones that have been lethal. none of them have come from the outside. they ve all been from people who are american citizens or have been residents living here for a long time. even of the non-lethal cases, you know, where they were thwarted or nobody was hurt, those also have been almost all of them americans or residents. so it s a misplaced the whole measure actually is a misplaced kind of out-of-date idea because we haven t seen, since 9/11, a successful, thank god, lethal attack coming from the outside. we saw some attempts since then, the most recent being 2009 with the underwear bomber, the nigerian who got on the plane on christmas eve and tried to blow up the plane. that was thwarted. so the real issue is
sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. in march, president trump took it upon himself to fire en masse without warning 46 sitting u.s. attorneys across the country. almost all of them. they had previously decided they were not going to fire them all at once, but for some reason they did. one of the u.s. attorneys who got fired she was there for eight years, her ten newer was high-profile including the prosecution of the underwear bomber who was ultimately sentence today life in prison. ms. mcconveyed has extensive