to cue from kuwait. he tried to fight with the terror group al shabab. they knew who he was talked to him a number of times but somehow he slipped through the cracks inded up ended up in syria fighting for isis. isis has been on center stage in capitol hill over the past several days with different messages coming from cabinet level off fishicials. first take a listen to the director of national intelligence yesterday. when the final accounting is done 2014 will have been the most lethal year of global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled. just 24-hours before that it was secretary of state john kerry with a very different message for congress and the american people. we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to americans and people in the
into syria, and join the fight with isis. jonathan dienst thank you so much for being with me this morning. here s the question. are we more at risk than we used to be? even members of the president s own administration seem to disagree. john kerry testifying wednesday on the terrorist threat and the director of national intelligence testifying on the same topic the very next day. we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to americans and to people in the world than normally less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century. when the final counting is done 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled. i want to bring in ambassador mark ginsburg former white house middle east policy adviser. ambassador, good to see you this morning. good to see you, jose. what do you make ambassador of this apparent contradiction
the nfl says they plan to appeal that ruling. vanderbilt basketball head coach kevin stallings playing defense. stallings apologizing after telling one of his players i ll bleepin kill you. he was upset over poor sportsmanship after a recent game. the player said he didn t take any offense to the comment. great. this week john kerry says saying the world has never been safer. we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to americans and to people in the world than normally. less than 24 hours later the nation s top intelligence official saying something entirely different. watch. when the final accounting is done, thowrt thowrt 2014 will have been the most lethal year
remember it was just last year when the president of the united states said that the world has never been safer, and that s why you know, the rise of isis, everything else, and people thought okay, what s he talking about. then on wednesday secretary of state john kerry was in front of the house foreign affairs committee, and he said this about the state of terror. our citizens, our world today is actually despite isil despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to americans and to people in the world than normally, less deaths less violent deaths today than through the last century. really? sounds more like the secretary of state of denial. according to many, he may not be reading intelligence reports because the
see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to americans and people in the world than normally, less deaths, less violent deaths today than through the last century. with all due respect to secretary of state kerry, he would be better served by developing a strategy to the islamic terrorists rather than an attempt to provide dubious perspective. once again, talking points will state that the isis savages are running wild because the world is a cowardly place. the jihadis know they can pretty much do thinking any want and the world will not unite against them president obama should leave but other countries should encourage. refuses to attack isis where it lives. in syria. meantime thousands of christians are being slaughtered. young children are being raped and forced into military situations. women are being sold into