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The premise seemed to be that this region was somehow disconnected from pressing global events. i could not disagree more. this regions not a distraction from the worlds central challenges, like terrorism. the asia-pacific is absolutely critical to promoting security, prosperity and human dignity around the world. >> that was president obama speaking earlier this morning from malaysian where he responded directly to critics of his choice to remain abroad as terror attacks have heightened securit...

Journey. asia is important, as julian just said. china is the lead trading partner of most of the asian economies. the united states has to get a greater stake in the political economy game in asia but also the south china sea and the creation of these islands by the chinese. its a security concern. and so -- >> but theyre already talking about there wasnt enough tough language to say china, back off, china, back off. >> well, this is where i think when you talk about a void and the noise fillin...

Would that be an inaccurate description? >> i think of it as a containable virus. it is a virus. temperatures the ideology. the ideology itself is viral and it affects a population thats is susceptible to that. as we say in terrorism, the criminals, the crusaders and the crazies. however, this is not -- this is a continuum. we have been faced with this threat for almost 30 years. its just that those of us in the intelligence profession, weve seen these waves come and go. 1990s, the year 2000, 9/...

Success of another group. its just that there is now a competition for the global jihadi movement which of course stemmed from al qaeda and al qaedas operatives in somalia and the islam ic, they feel the are not getting the press or getting the resources and the money that actually comes with them, much less the manpower for jihadis who want to join them. it is incumbent upon them to carry out more and more sophisticated attacks that are more brazen an daring. and after "charlie hebdo," it is ve...

Rhetoric over so long, while hes been out there, hes trying to really be the calmer in chief say, look, we have a plan, we have a coalition, weve had over 8,000 air strikes militarily, but dont blow this out of proportion anymore. which really reflects his entire thinking of the use of force, of the use of the military and the ability to fight to victory somehow against isis, against ideology. theres a lot more to come. i im very curious to see what happens when obama gets back, when this moment...

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Against a wwe wrestling event at an arena in atlanta today. the hacker group anonymous says it uncovered information that isis was planning to attack the event as well as other locations in the u.s. but the fbi says it does not have any specific or credible information about of attack an this time. turning back overseas as the terror attack unfolded at the radisson blu hotel in mali on friday, experts quickly suspected it might be al qaeda acting in response following the isis-led attack in pa...

It. we are just now receiving that again in the west. >> how much of a difference does it make? i was looking at an ap piece that was written actually some time ago already. they are estimating that isis pulls in $50 million a month from its black market oil operations. if you have territory and you have a means of collecting capital, you have a viable business. they have a business model going there. >> they do. as a matter of fact, the black market of oil is everywhere in the middle east. i ju...