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on the threats facing the united states. this is two hours and ten minutes. good morning. this hearing of the senate committee homeland security affairs committee is called to order. this is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. i want to welcome my witnesses. i d like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and houston, texas. in florida. throughout the caribbean and puerto rico. maybe it wasn t contemplated when we set up the hearing on the other enormous threats. there s real threat to human life occurring now throughout the nation. and we ll acknowledge that. all the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. i m sure everybody joins me in that. we are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of the department of homeland security e lain duke. director of federal bureau of investigation christopher wray. the director of the national counter terrorism center nicholas rasmussen. we want to thank you for your service. the threats are growing. e ....
states. this is two hours and ten minutes. good morning. this hearing of the senate committee homeland security affairs committee is called to order. this is our annual threats to the homeland hearing. i want to welcome my witnesses. i d like to start by acknowledging the victims of the hurricanes and houston, texas. in florida. throughout the caribbean and puerto rico. maybe it wasn t contemplated when we set up the hearing on the other enormous threats. there s real threat to human life occurring now throughout the nation. and we ll acknowledge that. all the individuals are in our thoughts and prayers. i m sure everybody joins me in that. we are pleased to welcome the acting secretary of the department of homeland security e lain duke. director of federal bureau of investigation christopher wray. the director of the national counter terrorism center nicholas rasmussen. we want to thank you for your service. the threats are growing. evolving. i do not envy any of you ....
at duke university and he also directs the american grand strategy program and the triangle institute for security studies from june 2005 to june 2007, peter was on leave as a special adviser for strategic planning and institutional reform on the national security staff of the george w. bush white house. he s the author or coauthor of five books including pain, the human costs of war. published by princeton in 2009. and to my far left, dr. hal brands is the henry kissinger distinguished of global affairs of johns hopkins school of advanced studies. he s also a senior fellow at the center for strategic and budgetary assessments. his most recent book is making foe lar moment, u.s. foreign policy and the rise of the post cold war order from cornell. the title of their article is, was the riefz isis inevitable and it s a counterfactual question that touches on some actually the most contentious issue of u.s. foreign policy in this century. these include whether it was ....
country. next, two authors talk about their work on the conditions that cause the rise of isis. they look at whether different american policy choices could have thwarted the rise of the so-called islamic state. good. welcome to the america s office for strategic studies. my name is dana allen. i m a senior fellow at our london office and also editor of the iiss journal, survival, which is the reason that we re here tonight. because i have next to me the coauthors of the lead article in our june/july issue. professor peter fever and professor hal brands. peter fever is professor of political science and public policy at duke university and he also directs the american grand strategy program. from june 2005 to june 2007, peter was on leave as a special adviser for strategic planning and institutional reform on the national security staff staff of the george w. bush white house. he s the author or coauthor of five books including pain, the human costs of war. publis ....
nonstop flights are available from most major airports. more information for your vacation planning is available at aruba.com. and now, bbc world news. laura: this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. there are multiple fatalities in new york city after a truck strikes people on a bike path in lower manhattan. one person is in custody. law enforcement says they are investigating the case as an act of terrorism. we will go live to the scene. and the russian revolution led by vladimir lenin was 100 years ago. in the soviet era, thousands of statues meant he was omnipresent. wherever you went in the ussr, there was at least one lenin thinking about you, taking care of you, or just watching you. laura: welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. we begin with breaking news out of new york city. i talked has plowed into people plowed intok has people on a bike path in the lower manhattan, and the ....