Less. Bottom line up front. Okay . There in the back. Theres microphone so we can all hear you. Thank you. My quick question really here is comments on lebanon and how its impacting this current fight. Nobody seems to talk about it much. Nigel i know just did an article about drone usage by hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. Oh, lebanon. Okay. Yeah. Well, there is a small contingent of militants inside of lebanon who have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them. The number of them particularly down south have been coopted by the government. Ere were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria. In fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. That is still a worry and the longer that the war goes on the more that worry increases. But i have been really surprised at lebanons resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we dont like, like hezbollah keeping a lid on things, or whether yo
And a live picture from outside the white house this morning where the president is expected to speak before flying to new york for the u. N. General assembly meeting. Military Officials Say the u. S. Launched eight airstrikes. The military also used air power against Al Qaedaaffiliated group that had imminent attacks plotted against the u. S. The Associated Press is reporting that the u. S. And five arab nations attacked in nighttime raids using land and seabased u. S. Aircraft, as well as tomahawk cruise missiles launched from navy ships in the red sea and the northern persian gulf. Washingtonorts that informed bashar alassads thernment hours before americanled Coalition Counter the extremisthealth strongholds. Again, with four president obama to make remarks on those airstrikes against isis this morning. Wait for the president , we want to let you know that this morning we will take you to the Bipartisan Policy Center look at a new threat assessment report being released by that gro
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To understand the nature of the threat were facing from this group and also syria, which is involved with the group, you need to see that his is one of the few times we have watched a different affiliate in the greater Al Qaeda Network in order to carry out a specific threat against the United States. We have other sources we can look at and say, they have been quite grating or coordinating with each other on local issues. There are all sorts of reports of alshabaab members in africa or even in yemen helping out with fights there, and you have also reports of aqim pretty much all over north africa, cord knitting with different grips. This is the first time we have seen a specific plot against the United States where two different groups are coordinating with each other. But this is not the only place we are seeing this. We have also had a threat from both aqim and together to the United States for their attacks on isis. This is again an unprecedented that we have these huge groupings o
Here is how you can respond different lines this morning. If you think the u. S. Will be better off. You can also reach out to us on twitter. If you want to make your thoughts known on facebook, and if you want to give us an email. The Associated Press did a survey taking a look at folks and asking about 2015. When it comes to those sayings 48 or so saying the u. S. Will be better. 11 of those responding said next year will be worse and 39 said not much different in 2015 then 2014. That is how we parsed the lines. Be sure to tell us why when you give us a call. Gallup did a poll as well as asking about the new year and their optimism, here is how they responded saying americans are now slightly more positive than negative of the economy cost direction with 49 saying the economy is Getting Better and 45 saying it is getting worse for the week of december 2228. This is a relatively good rating and aside from two weeks in may 2013 when the measure was in the net positive territory, last w