For an International Event of this magnitude, which russians clip quote russians had to deal with. Of course, that is after having invaded afghanistan, which, of course, led to the essentially the creation of the muhajir dean of the mujahedin and much of the problems we have today. So the answer is no. One can juan can speak to this more effectively. We never know the number of successes in preventing terrorist attacks. We only know about the failures by simply the fact that we saw significant failures in volgograd three times at the end of last year, one in october and two december. Two in december. The daily bombings and problems that there are in the north caucuses, its not the frequency that we are seeing in iraq right now. We listening were listening to the radio and there are 25 car bombings a day, approximately. So magnitude, for sure, is a no. The capacity of the fsb is very, very hard to say. To get back to juans point earlier, you know, the fact that the russians have been re
Once you get into philanthropy a little bit, there is a lot of it. There are a lot of causes. How does the veterans piece of this fit in . The colonel that used to work for me started the dixon center here in town. He is focused on these kinds of issues. I dont think there is anybody in the country that knows more about this space then he does per se. It is that consolidation that we see. I will give you a specific example. We convened a group that focused on scholarships for kids, for military kids. 30 or 40e organizations there. There were some organizations that couldnt figure out how to get a scholarship. There were some organizations that had nothing but fellowships and didnt have the money to get it. Of these people. How do we get them to Work Together . That was the idea. You can do that in education, health care, employment, all of those kind of things. I think leaders in the community and these charitable organizations need to figure out how to help us get to some consolidated
Threats to the olympics posted by the center for Strategic International studies. This is a little more than an hour. Good morning and welcome. We will confine all questions about Richard Sherman until after the briefing. Thank you for being here this morning. We have some weather coming into washington so it is good to have such an excellent turnout. A very timelysly briefing and we will get to it. Im joined by my colleagues dr. Andrew kutchins and jeff minkoff. The deputy security advisor in the bush administration, a key arson on counterterrorism and many other issues. A key person on counterterrorism and many other issues. We will open it up to your questions. Thank you for coming. Good morning, everybody. Said, you braved the rumor of a snowflake in washington, d. C. Later today coming in this morning. It is always wonderful during a press briefing to just check the news. So i checked the moscow times was good and the title of the story was potential suicide armor in sochi. You gl
Upcoming elections this year. This roundtable includes a closer look at some of the congressional and governors races generating national attention. This is one hour. Washington journal continues. To focus ont Midterm Election politics. Joining us is Jennifer Duffy and nathan gonzales. Good morning. Talk about house races. How many are truly competitive and how does this compare to previous election cycles . We have 52 house races out of 145 on our list. It roughly falls for the target is for midday election cycles. Compare to past wave cycles, previous to election day there were almost 100 seats on our competitive list. Now were down to 50. Part of the explanation is we have a round of redistricting under our belts where there was somes and there was uncertainty. Depending on what the National Political environment is, we could see that number grow. This could roughly be the field we have for the next 11 months. How many truly tossup races and how many are we onlyive now . Guest have