in syria, and where you have very bad, very extremist people learning to use weaponry, it's of profound concern to the united states. >> also of concern, with just a few days to go now until the start of the olympics in sochi, we know the president said last week that sochi is safe. however, security experts that i've spoken with, people on the ground, they themselves say they wouldn't even go. so what does the intelligence you're seeing indicate? >> well, you know, you very rarely get intelligence on a specific attack before that attack happens. and, of course, you know, both the russians and of course there's been a lot of international cooperation, have really done their best to lock down sochi, to install all sorts of security measures just as is happening as we speak for the super bowl. i have no reason to believe that those measures aren't quite solid. but again, it's always as they say. it's the bullet you don't see that kills you. there are people, whether out of check nia or dagestan in russia who would get an awful lot of publicity if they were able to