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I think it has been less solid with our allies in asia and you re. the president has tended to downplay our lingss. tole, that s the source of american strength in the world. our alliances. so i think the trump administration needs the reassure the allies, and not just keep focusing on the terrorism issue. for instance, the survivability of the you re penal unieuropean. how does donald trump navigate it? it is one of the biggest existential threats u.s. faces. no question. one of the most difficult problems he faces, the meeting with xi jinping will be critical. president trump has tweeted and let people know tha he wants chinese cooperation on this. sns diplomacy, rather than a long leader publicly, he tweets, pressuring lank merkel in an ....
None of them alleged to have been in any form of terrorist activity. they have to go through rigorous screening already. it is one of those sounds good but as a practical matter is not making a difference to the terrorism issue which is overwhelmingly a domestic terrorism united states problem. 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign born arab terrorists. we conceive of it as a problem that comes from outside when in fact it is a problem that is internal to the united states. the chilling observation i remember from reading your book is that they re leading those that are here and causing terrorism leading seemingly normal lives. they re married, jobs, not necessarily loners. we think of people engaged in terrorism as poor, very young, guys without family responsibilities, but the general picture you see from ....
Event that you might relate to what we saw in brussels? or is this something more from somebody that had mental issues like virginia tech shooter, the newtown massacre and movie theater attacks in colorado. i mean, what really is this? and people automatically and you have to look at the terror angle at the very beginning until you can pretty much dismiss it. and then find out what that motivation and why the mental illness if that s the issue and why he got the gun that he got, when did he purchase the gun, was he allowed to, did he have a criminal record? those are all going to be looked at monday morning quarterback as the weeks go by as to what happened here. yeah. certainly with the terrorism issue you still have questions as to whether or not this would have or could have been isis inspired or terrorism inspired or coordinated or even directed from overseas or what have you. all right, peter ahearn, great to talk to you. thank you very much for joining us this hour. ....
Terms of himself that is a mental health issue, a sad one, that needs to be treated. but in terms of the fact that isis raises its ugly spectre even in the area of mental health, what do we make of that? i think what the mental health professionals might tell us, richard, is that this person was looking to explain his, his homicidal ideology by the most oppressive group he could think of. isis was the one he thought of. if isis hadn t been there, it would have been al qaeda. if it hadn t been al qaeda, it might have been a white supremacist group. in other words, we need to be thinking of this as a mental health issue, not as a terrorism issue, but i suggest to you, steve, whatever you look at it, we can no longer continue ....
You at all? not so much, but it is a civilian organization. it s run very differently than the pentagon. you re dealing primarily with civilians. you do have the coast guard as part of homeland security. but you ve got to be able to multitask. on the same deal happening with a terrorism issue, something happening in the air with a terrorism issue, you ve got to deal with cybersecurity, which is an emerging threat that no one yet is adequately dealing with. are there any of the cabinet picks you ve heard thus far that you do have issues with? well, you know, i think senator sessions as the attorney general, that s a troublesome pick. he s had such extreme views on so many issues that come before the department of justice. you mean modern day or things he s said decades ago? both. i would say both. and i ve testified before him many times. he s very anti-immigration. ....