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Liberals and conservatives. in fact, many conservatives have argued we should be engaged in a much more extensive and expensive effort to fund moderates and delegitimize radical and violent islam. under both the bush and obama administrations, there have been active efforts worldwide to support muslims who are trying to rescue their religion from extremists, fundamentalists and jihadis. this means supporting mosques and community leaders who share a future and pluralistic vision of islam. except...

Me, well, then, why is he blaming everyone else except himself for afghanistan? he blamed the previous administration, the afghan government and everyone except himself. meanwhile, we have still hundreds of americans stranded in afghanistan that are fighting for their lives to get back. and afghan allies that were trying to get back here to this country. so -- >> and they are get being back here. they are. >> they are not getting back here. >> there were stories of americans, flights that are le...

Almost serves as a kind of reflection point as to where weve progressed in the war on terrorism, and there has been many successes in terms of a lot of plots are disrupted on a weekly basis. they perhaps dont get the attention that perhaps they could. but it is a behind-the-scenes effort by counterterrorism agencies, cooperation, intelligence sharing has also increased. but unfortunately, what remains to be a big challenge is the fact that terrorists are still able to operate in the dark, whethe...

Get out of this pandemic and to stay open. and i want to applaud president biden for trying to think outside the box as to how we increase vaccinations. i was impressed with a lot of the content in yesterdays speech. i did take issue with some of the delivery because i think it fed into the culture wars. i am part of the covid collaborative with mark mcclellan, with andy slavitt, with people from several administrations and we issued a letter on covid-safe zones and workplaces. and heres what we...

I think we saw leaders put emotions over our values, the desire for vengeance over a desire for justice. we know from the afghanistan papers, the presidents of both parties, officials from both administrations, bush, obama, trump, lied to us about our progress in afghanistan. and i think look at what we did. look at what we did. bin laden was never an existential threat to the united states. thats clear today, as you say, chris. it was clear to some of us on 9/11, that this guy in his cave with ...

Steps, tom, that have to be taken. first of all, we need to look at our intelligence gathering take capability. we know we need to look at the security measures and standards at our airports. and then of course, we do have contingency plans for striking back. there really are not of easy answers in that regard, but we do have contingency plans. all of the administrations ive served have had those plans. this administration has them. and im sure they will implement them. and we are pretty good at...

Liquor licenses to restaurants that require proof of vaccination. how does that save lives? >> well, it doesnt. we need to calm down on the political rhetoric. i want to be clear as a doctor. vaccines work. as you say, they work damn well. they are our number one tool to get out of this pandemic and to stay open. i want to applaud president biden for trying to think outside the box as to how we increase vaccinations. i was impressed with a lot of the content in yesterdays speech. i did take issu...

Recall that homeland security was set up to combine our various departments and operations in charge of keeping us safe and coordinate it all, but the stuff that comes across, the homeland securitys desk and sometimes can be pretty scary, and doesnt jay johnson know that. kind enough to join us today. secretary, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you, neil. neil: and every time we talk, could something like this happen again? could something like this happen again? >> neil, i believe throu...

Day, we believed we would be under assault for a certain amount of time and we then for 20 years really pushed i think a lot of the, lets just say a lot of the anger and a lot of sense of vulnerability into afghanistan, and of course later to iraq, which is sort of an unwritten piece, and were not talking about it as much, 20 years later, as we probably should, the extent to which the war in iraq really changed the effort against terrorism. >> i have a documentary that is airing tomorrow night o...

>> flight 93 is 18 minutes from washington d.c. when terrorists purposely crashed the plane into the ground because they knew the passengers and crew were about to regain control of that plane. their heroism save hundreds, if not thousands of lives and i agree with you, this national memorial is taking and i encourage everybody to come, its my first time and its incredibly moving. jon: its a little bit out of the way but place everybody ought to see. thank you. twenty years and four administrati...