Terrorism actually presents . Another quick thing about what the book presents we have it for sale and is priced to sell here at the cato institute. 18 with a spine hardcover book. You are, quite certain you will not find it for lesson on top of that the office assured me they would be happy to sign it for you so those of you who are here with us today are very fortunate. Those of you who are watching on line at home ill bet you wish you were here but rest assured you will be able to find a book and other fine retail establishments on line etc. , etc. , etc. Let me welcome john and mark. Im going to deduce them in the order they will speak. John mueller is a Senior Research scientist and a member of the Political Science department at Ohio State University and is also my colleague and senior fellow at cato. He is the author of numerous books. I will mention only a few including overblown, atomic of session, war of ideas coming retreat from doomsday the obsolescence of war, war presiden
There steps out of the shadows with an answer that will surprise you. Sonys hacking nightmare getting even worse, embarrassing racially offensive emails from everyone from sang lean know jolie to the president of the United States. Hello, im john burma. That makes me michaela pereira. Welcome to thursday. It is a crucial day for the director of the Central Intelligence agency. In just a couple of hours, john brennan will face serious questions about the new scathing report on cia interrogation tactics after september 11th. The report says that the tactics including waterboarding, mock executions and more. The report says they did not work. It also says that much of what the cia was doing was kept from president bush. Brennans appearance comes as a key senate democrat, mark udall of colorado is calling for his resignation and as former Vice President dick chain nay weighs in to defend cia tactics now under increasing fire. Joining us senior White House Correspondent jim acosta and our j
Planned. Will president obama join the thousands coming to washington . Ill ask his press secretary, josh earnest, who joins me live this hour. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Lets follow the breaking news right now, including the frightening situation in portland, oregon. A school shooting, three victims. Prompted a lockdown as police look for the suspect or suspects. Were covering the breaking news much more this hour with our correspondents and our guests. Lets begin with our justice department, pamela brown, who has the very latest on the breaking news on this shooting near the school in portland. Pamela, what are you finding out . Reporter we know it is a very active scene there. The investigation is just beginning in this shooting situation at this portland, oregon, high school, Rosemary Anderson high school. Earlier today, right outside of school campus, there was a shooting. Three students were shot. Weve learned that right after that, they ran into the school and
They are holding perhaps 20 hos sages or many. At least 40 have been wounded. We also learned that two Police Officers have been killed in a shootout with the attackers there. Look at this map here and see just how close the sight of this hostage taking is. Hundreds of diplomats in this year, and it is among those that we are being held now by these attackers. Earlier police exchanged gunfire that threw explosive devices at them. Sources say least two of the officers are dead. As of now, the police say the terrorists have made no demands. Local bangladeshi tv are not broadcasting anything of what is happening live now after officials pleaded with the media to go into a blackout. They do not want to give away any details of the funman inside that could be listening and watching. The u. S. State department checked and all u. S. Personnel in that city, dhaka, are thankfully accounted for. President obama has been briefed on the situation. I want to repeat our headline here. The breaking n
Through the area. What more can you tell us . Reporter it has been a brutal weekend of weather so far in south georgia, and the bad news is things are not over yet, you mentioned there is a tornado watch for four counties, that includes much of that area that was hit so hard yesterday, about 9,000 people without power right now and that totals 11 people dead. And so far there is a possibility that number could go up, not everyone is expected for. About 23 feel injupeople injuret number could also rise, right now were seeing heavy rains on and off and some rains, no wind and hail yesterday. People are taking this tornado watch very seriously, especially in light of what happened overnight, but as you said, the second day of this brew tool weather as we head into yet another storm here this afternoon. We always wonder about Early Warning systems there, i know youre getting to the scene, but in your reporting, have you been able to detect if people got advanced warning . Reporter thats a