Close, leaving 8,000 unemployed. The federal bureau of investigation is on the case of nude photos stolen from several hollywood celebrities. Private information, theres civil and criminal consequences. Professor dumpster has sweated it out inside his tiny steel home or six months. Im a proud home owner in austin. What we do is a calling. Joan rivers died at the age of 81. Joo we begin with a second journalist brutally beheaded by an Islamic State group. It shows the decapitation of Steven Sotloff, who grew up in miami and was known for his heartfelt videos. In the video he says hes paying the price of americas acts. We have dedicated resources to rescue Steven Sotloff. Our thoughts with prayers are with mr Steven Sotloff and his family and those that worked with him. Steven sotloffs killing comes two weeks after the execution of james foley. In that video is threatened Steven Sotloff would be next if the u. S. Launched air strikes against them in iraq. Steven sotloffs mother recorded an emotional video plea asking is to release her son. I ask you to please release my child. As a mother i ask your justice to be merciful, and not publish my son for matters he has no control over. Since james foleys execution, the u. S. Conditioned air strikes, paving the way for gains by iraqi forces. Strikes around amerli, 100 miles north of baghdad helped to avert a looming humanitarian crisis. Is identified david haines, british aid worker if other governments join the u. S. Fighting against them. Joining us from washington d. C. Is ambassador james wol si, former director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995, and ambassador for negotiation on conventional armed forces in vienna, and the chairman for the foundation of defense for democracies. Pleasure to have you with us. Good to be with you. Two americans murdered on camera in two weeks. A british citizen threatened. The state Department Says other americans could be hostages. Is there anything the u. S. Should do to prevent horrific executions of americans and other westerners . One a person is captured by i. S. I. S. , their option, i think, are to try to escape. If that is impossible, to pray. Because this is a group not of just thugs or robbers, these are theocratic totalitarian imperialists. They are establishing an empire, a caliphate. Anyone that is part of it, living within its borders, that do not convert to their view of religion, they kill. Horribly, by burying families alive or by crews fiction. I think that crews fiction. I think the first thing we have to do is acknowledge that we are at war, weve been attacked by a totalitarian regime, we have to deal with them. You said before, and you said now, that we are at war with the terrorist. The president said last year that the global war on terror was over. Was he wrong, how do we conduct the war when we have terrorists in pakistan, yemen, iraq, syria, afghanistan and who knows where else . Well, i think the president m mistook Osama Bin Laden for an overall victory over a Major Movement. We dont have terrorists that we are dealing with here. Some are terrorists. When we talk about the is, we are talking about a Major Movement with Members Forming military units and carrying out some kind of sentence for people that they capture, that will not sign on to their religion. Something we have to take seriously, as we eventually took major wars. So far i think the president and the u. S. As a whole basically have been behaving like the europeans in the 1930s, between 1933 and 39. Back just before world war ii. We are being positively chamberlain esque. Appeasing the is group. What needs to be done. We have chuck hagel, secretary of defense, and secretary of state john kerry talking very aggressively about having to destroy the group, but the white house seems to not take the same position. I dont know why president obama drew a red line in the sand about syrias use of weapons, and after they crossed the line, shrugged. I dont know why he told dmitry medvedev, who was russian president , that once he had been reelected, he could be more flexible in dealing with putin. This is not the way you behave in dealing with people like these enemies. There are other things we need to do. We need to help the kurds, and with military capability, not just with food or night googles and so forth. We need to be tough with the qataris about their wealthy individuals sending weapons and funny mainly to is. We need to help figure out how to pull the sunni tribes together and to into a coherent group, the way we did back in 07 08, when we put the surge together. I think we need to do all of this without putting big american units in, but a few c. I. A. People, special forces people to help the people who are with us get organised. I think we could do that. Does that include syria . As you know, they have a lot of land, they hold a lot of land in syria. They have taken over syrian army bases, they have oil fields. Do we go in there . Is that a case if we do go in against the is terrorists, are we hapelping bashar alassad, w we do not want to help . Its a big dilemma, we had a similar dilemma at the beginning of world war ii. We decided to aline with stalin against hitler. Its a good thing we did. As awful as stalin was, we pulled out a victory in world war ii because we worked with him for a time. I am not saying we should Work Together with bashar alassad, but if we happen to be going against the same people or some of the same groups, such as i. S. I. L. Or others, then i think thats just the way the dice fall on that particular play. On a broader for a broader perspective, we launched drone strikes in somalia, targetting alshabab terrorists there. Is that where our focus should be, or do we have no choice, we have the taliban, boko haram in nigeria, al qaeda in pakistan, possibly in yemen and afghanistan. Do we need to go after all of them . Not ourselves. We need to work with allies. The kurds are a good example in one part of the world. And to move effectively with them and by that i mean helping supply them with weapons, quickly, supply them with intelligence, supply them with cruise missiles and drones. There are a number of things we can do to help without putting a handful of boots on the ground ourselves. Where we can, some of the terrorist groups of the sort you described ought to be dealt with by our allies. We shouldnt have to do all of this. We need to pull things together, and by what the president once called leading from behind, its difficult to pull things together. A quick final question for you. You were the head of the c. I. A. Soon after the soviet union disintegrated. As you see what is happening in ukraine, did you think wed be back at this point in a confrontation with an expagesist expansionist russia. It brings back memories of the cold war. It does, i headed of a convention of armed forces it europe in 1991, which had a treaty with russia that all of europe signed among other things it would have kept and did keep people from one country troops from one county outside the borders of another unless they had permission. We had legal instruments and the rest that we negotiated to keep europe secure and stable. But russia is completely ignoring them. They are not close to going along with the basics of these treaties. I think we have to begin to think of russia much the way we thought of them during the cold war. Putin is behaving very much, except theres no holocaust, the way hitler did between 1933 and 1939. Hes grabbing europe a bit at a time, which is what the nazis did. Strong words from ambassador wallsy, former head of the c. I. A. Joining us in new york is general anthony zenny,former commander in chief of zentcom. Retired as a 4star general and coauthor of before the first shots are fired how america can win or lose off the battlefield. The main theme of the book is that we need to put more thought into what we are doing before we use force around the world. We say too many times weve not had enough sound analysis and we moved too quickly. A question as to what is going on in iraq and syria are we moving too slowly . I do think we are moving slowly. Theres time and space, where we see the beheadings and atrocities near genocide, my big concern is is may get into baghdad, they can infill freight and cause infiltrate and cause chaos, giving the iraqs and kurds a chance to reform, and give space for the new government which has to demonstrate they are more inclusive. Its hearts and mines, we want them to reject the form of extremism that i. S. I. S. You need the sunni tribes to rise up against them. Thats right. You said the battle is ongoing, and you said you could put a couple of brigades, but you know that the American Public does not have much willingness to have fighters in iraq or anyone else at this point. Its something you address with the book. You raise the concern about american isolationism. When do we find the right balance as to when we do use the force you are talking about . Thats the job of a president. The power of the bullied paul pit. We had the beirut disaster, advisors said not to go no grenada. I spoke to an aid saying regan asked a question are americans in danger . , they said we have medical students that could be in danger. He said there was no question, he wouldnt play into the politics, sensitivity and made the case to the American People. We know from the fdr talks, the fireside chats, it was a difficult war. Wed been attacked. That was the job of the president. He has to explain and make the hard choices. You mention in the fireside chats you write about it in your book and talk about Franklin Roosevelt and say what kind of emotion do we want in our president s. We dont want them to react solely out of emotion but do want them to reflect the passion we feel. Iraq, is that perceived lack of passion one of the problems that has led to this kind of these multiple International Crises . I believe so. We want to see in our president someone firm, but isnt rash, someone who makes the case pointedly and simply, tells the American People where our interests lie. I want to say one thing thats more important, to express the strategy. I would take you back to the gulf war, the first gulf war and president hw bush. James baker, we go to the united nations, get a resolution authorizing the use of force. We build two coalitions, one with the islamic countries. We were able to get the turkish base to say operate, cooperation in the area. You saw the whole of government involved, a strategy that wasnt just the military piece of this. You saw a strategy that brought in diplomacy, cooperation, the ability to get international legitimacy. You think thats one of the issues now, we around getting the saudis and others to do as much as you think they should he . I just saw a release from the ambassador from the United States to saying willing to stand up and be part of a coalition. Its our job to structure this. I go back to desert storm, desert shield, where we structured, helped structure it. They need international support, legitimacy, a u. N. Resolution gives them that. They need to know the world is with them. They need to understand the plan, what the strategy is, what were trying to do. These countries have seen us stand up to iran, they join us and then see us back off, draw a red line in syria and then back off. Theyre confused where we stand. Clarity one of the big issues here . Were seeing the secretary of defense, secretary of state, Vice President joe biden very forcefully talk about i. S. On wednesday, but then the president said degrade and destroy, but oh well, a manageable problem. Those are the wrong words, this is the enemy. I honestly believe you are not going to totally destroy isis as a movement. You can damage them significantly, degrade them, if you will, but, you know, we watched two americans be beheaded. The threat to take other americans and potential tourists, embassy employees and others around the world. There needs to be a sense of outrage and you need to see the power and might of america applied pretty forcibly and directly and pretty soon. A final question on slightly different topic that you address in the book. You are not happy with the whole con kept of the pivot to the pacific, you think that is a mistake that we need to focus on other parts of the world, but what about the chinese, the expansionism. Youve seen exchanges with American Air Force planes. The chinese are playing a dangerous game. You cant think regionally anymore. Were globalized. You cant look at china and say they just exist within its borders. Chinas trade interests, areas of influence, ability to stretch around the world, if you map that out geographically, you would see its tentacles all over the world. We are now in a world thats shrunk significantly. Its a smaller world. Were interconnected, cyberspace, space, the sea lanes, communications that are vital to us. Borders and geography arent that significant anymore. My complaint is we need to global strategy, not a regional one. Id ask the president how does this pivot work right now . I see europe, i see the middle east, i see our own Southern Hemisphere of greater importance right now. Thought provoking questions that you raise in the book. The book is before the first shots are fired, how america can win or lose off the battlefield. 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Many fear that could be a critical blow to the citys already shaky status as a gambling destination. For more, were joined from southfield michigan, by the editor in chief of casino city, a website dedicated to gaming, as well as a publisher of trades on the gaming industry. There were 12 casinos in Atlantic City at the start of the year, four are closing. 2006, gaming revenues were 5. 2 billion, 2011, theyd fallen to 3 billion. Gaming revenues nationwide are going up to 37. 3 billion in 2012. Whats wrong in Atlantic City . You had competition rising a you will over the place. Since 2004, 26 new casinos have been built in the mid atlantic in the new england area. About 2025 within within hours drive, our and a half drive itself, thats a lot of competition. So whats happened is the feeder markets to Atlantic City have been cut, so pennsylvanias now a billion dollars Casino Market in its own right, maryland is becoming a Casino Market in its own right. The aqueduct racetrack there, the racing there, youve got a bunch of new competition, gamblers who have role alternatives. You have the fact that Atlantic City has never been good at figuring how to get people to come to Atlantic City. Thats a big issue. Vegas has figured out how to do it. Its become a resort destination, but it also has nearby competition now. Theyve got indian casinos in california, elsewhere in they have perfect, so theres competition for vegas, too. We saw what Atlantic City did try to do with this revel casino. It was pretty spectacular. It was a pretty nice resort. They expected that to follow in vegass footsteps. What went wrong there . Well, this is completely a problem of execution. If you look at lotvasion, the strip right now, you have a 5050 split between gaming revenue and nongaming revenue on the strip. On weekends, the nightclubs in las vegas make more money per square foot than the casino floor. You have high end restaurants, retail, all sorts of things and reasons for people to go to vegas beyond gaming. Atlantic city failed to diversify in that mix. Rebel was supposed to be the solution, have the great restaurants, the great nightclub, and they were supposed to have the great hotel. They were supposed to have that mix. The problem was they never delivered on the execution. If you went to rebel, the restaurants were terrible. They didnt have very good shopping. There wasnt a reason to go back. Thats a failure have execution. It goes into a wide are failure for Atlantic City. Atlantic city has failed to diversify. Theyve known what they needed to do but havent done it. Its a failure at the political level, the casino level. The local governance, they failed in everything they needed to do to make this a resort casino. What does this mean for the broader world of gaming. It has changed dramatically. 23 states have commercial casinos. Theres some type of gambling. Lottery in all states at this point, how long can it last, much money is out there for people to spend on gambling especially at these commercial casinos. The important thing to remember is this isnt a battle for the casino dollar, this is for the entertainment dollar. Everyone in the United States lives within a couple hours drive of a commercial casino. Going to a casino to gamble is just normal entertainment, as normal as going to the movies or out to a restaurant to eat. This is a battle for the entertainment dollar. Take the mid atlantic. Since 2004, gaming revenue overall is up 40 . Theres a demand for casinos and gaming. The moneys going into differen