that s going to be a tough one to put back together long term. reporter: now the pentagon may not able to stay quiet much longer. tomorrow general lloyd austin, head of central command, guy in charge of running this war scheduled to testify before the senate armed services committee. of course, republican-led. all about the progress in the war and about the russian involvement. one u.s. military official telling me, a short time ago, expect to see fireworks. john? barbara starr for us at the pentagon. thank you so much. joining me now, cnn national security commentator mike rogers, former republican chairman of the house intelligent committee. what s putin doing here? several things. there s a warm water port in syria he s long wanted to maintain and his lease is up in ten years. this is his way in keeping that warm water port. think about this.
hyper hyperboliy. the troops on the border is the concern and i see the individual you and have heard the correspondentses talk about thin ukrainian troops massing with tanks and all kinds of stuff. that s right. we have seen throughout history these things can pre sip tate a big precipitate a bigger cries. nobody want to see that happen including putin. they need the warm water port for trade. he knows if he goes too far, europe will finally, once they decide to rebound that, they would shut them off economically cycle don t think this will escalate too much into a military contract. i m concerned iran, china, and north korea will see this as weakness on the american side, which means at some point we ll have something come to at the fore and have to stand up and
show, we re still strong. the united states may have alloweds the to happen with crimea and its wasn t worth getting involved. we didn t know it was happening. that s what they tell us. this happened quickly in the sense that putin, if you remember, he had just come off the heels heels of a very succel olympics. this was precipitated be domestic things in the ukraine. so yanukovych gets deposed and putin has to make a go-no go decision. he has a clear military purpose to maintain control over crimea. he needs a warm-water port. that s unless the case in other places. sothink we ll be okay. the thing i m concern about is whether iran, north korea, or china are going to take this as a lion to make provac tv maneuvers. let s hope nat. good to see you. secretary of state john
rise of superman: decoding the science of ultimate human performance . he joins me now. so when people look at these kinds of athletes we always think that today s athletes are just much stronger, much fitter than the baseball players of the past, the basketball players of the past. but you re saying that s not the only thing going on. certainly the physical capabilities have gone up. our training programs are better, et cetera. but elite athletes, they re pretty physically equal. it s a mental game at the upper edge of performance and president people that have the edge there are the ones winning. you call it something called the flow. flow is an optimal state of performance. it is means we feel our best and perform our best. everybody has some experiences. flow are those moments when we totally lose ourself in the moment and everything else goes away. why do you look at extreme sports as a way to study flow? in extreme sports something astounding has happened in the past
happened before in history. these guys give us a phenomenal case study for looking at flow and the level of performance has gone up so much we know these athletes have to be in flow to perform. if they re not the general rule they re ending up in the hospital or dead. who are the most impressive athletes you studied. all the athletes i studied are astounding. if they re in the book their stories are there because they did something impossible. there s a paradigm shift in athletic achievement. the one i look at as a climber named dean potter. dean potter is a free soloist, climbses without ropes or protection. at the time he started climbing, he went down to pad gown ya and free climbed 400 foot walls, staying in flow three and four days at a time. that s what s incredible. they have figured out how to extend the state, not just a brief moment of victory, it can last for days in certain cases. you write about surfing. surfing is a phenomenal