Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
A trap ba woman in that apartment during the big raid. Abcs matt gutman has the very latest for us this morning from the french capital. Hi, matt. Reporter hey, good morning, paula. Just moments ago turkish officials telling us they arrested a Belgian National suspected of being the lookout on one of the attacks here in paris, that as they learn more about how some members of that terror cell infiltrated europe possibly blending in as refugees. Overnight we learned two of the three bombers who initiated that grisly series of attacks blowing themselves up through greece on the same day, october 3rd starting off in the same greek island of leros as so many syrian refugs. Since the attacks more than 800 raids in france alone hunting for Salah Abdeslam believed to be the man blasting away in this video obtained by dailymail. Com. Friends of abdeslam tell abc news he called them this week asking them to on the run from western authorities and according to those hearing retribution from isis
Tracking the storm. Hey, good morning. We have two developing stories right now. Officials say theyre hunting for more than three suspects in the african country of mali this morning after armed gunmen stormed a Luxury Hotel Opening fire. Coming up were going to tell you about the American Mother who was killed in this attack. But we are going to start here with thth breaking g ws out of belgium. The capital city of brussels is on a security lockdown with the government warning about the possibility of a coordinated Terror Strike similar to what happqned just a week ago in france. The country directly to the south of belgium. In brussels this morning the subways are closed, heavily armed soldiers deployed and lama hasan is right there. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, danan attack here in brussels is being called credible, serious and imminent. In fact, just a short while ago the belgium Prime Minister saying there was a threat of attacks using arms and explosives to be carr
He moved in to help, and he wound up on the wrong side of a gun, even taking a bullet. The woman got away. Now the hunt for the shooter. And midwest mess. The first big snowstorm of the season. Over 20 million americans in the bullseye. Driving, treacherous. Flights canceled. All of this just before the holiday. Were in the middle of it tracking the storm. Hey, good morning. And we have two developing terror stories right now. Officials say theyre hunting for more than three suspects in the african country of mali this morning after armed gunmen stormed a luxury hotel there opening fire. Coming up, were going to tell you about the American Mother who was killed in this attack. But we are going to start here with the breaking news out of belgium. The capital city of brussels is on a security lockdown with the government warning about the possibility of a coordinated Terror Strike similar to what happened just a week ago in france. The country directly to the south of belgium. In brussel