so when the president of the united states goes anywhere, a thorough advance has been done ahead of time. i don t see that in this situation. it doesn t appear that the japanese did much of a security advance in this particular instance. the american secret service has learned the hard way going back to john f. kennedy. we no longer drive presidents through downtown areas in an open him mow. neil: right, right, good point. after the reagan assassination attempt where john hinkley was standing squarely in the middle of the white house press pool, we no longer allow people in the area that have not been checked, evented and screened. and so the japanese, unfortunately, have learned the hard lesson in this situation and, hopefully, they will revamp their training and procedures. neil: dan emmett, thank you so much. there s still so much we don t know. obviously, beefed-up security not only for the president, congressmen, senators, governors and the like, even former