thank you so much. peter. well, the russian ambassador says is he not worried about empty seats at the game. saying they have already sold 70% of the tickets mostly to russians. joining us to talk more about the potential security threats. director of advance, now security expert steve of the command consulting group. good to have you here today. thanks for having me. working and doing what you have done for the white house, you know just how specific threats can be. how you do something of this magnitude though, how do you even begin to assess the threat and get plans together as russia has been doing for years? they announce the winter olympics would be in sochi almost six years ago. ever since then, there has been a full effort underway by all the security agencies russian government to leverage all their capabilities to ensure the safety of the games. it really starts as any good security plan does, at the outer most perimeter for our country which would be their border. in l
in just last ninth days the federal government has posted 6471 newly proposed regulatory actions. three years ago, president obama issued an executive order that was supposed to scale back the scope of federal regulations, so how is it played out? according to a report from the american action forum, final rules resulting from that executive order have actually added a net $10.2 billion in regulatory costs. and 1.5 billion hours worth of paperwork. the forum study has been numerous cuts but that they are far outpaced by regulatory measures. also on the regulation front this week. a group of nuns was handed a partial victory on the h.h.s. contraception mandate regulation by the supreme court. an order from the court will continue to block the government from forcing the nuns to comply at least while they re underlying legal challenge plays out at the tenth circuit. up next, the olympic dreams
primarily for overseas military is my understanding. so is it your understanding no one is involved in the taskforce that s involved with any company that would in any way profit from the recommendation made by this report if it was carried out nationally? i don t think so because nationally if this is carried out, schools are going to make decisions as to who in their school, are they going to expand school resource officers. those are relationships with the local sheriff s office, the local police department. but congressman they re training, you interrupted me. go ahead. their training is provided by local law enforcement, the law enforcement training center, for example, for the state. if you go to armed school personnel, i hope they utilize the private sector, not just a state function, generally would be state by state that would provide this training. and how much were you and the taskforce members paid for this
looking at they re recommending 40 to 60 hours of training for anyone who utilizes for a school resource officer, for enhanced training for them, for enhanced training if you have armed school personnel, it would be very substantial training. so that s the expertise we brought in for this review. i am looking at the members now. rbt solutions is a company, there are 13 members of your taskforce, five of them work for that same company. another company that is not listed on here, six people are affiliated with, command consulting group. rbt solutions is actually in the business, isn t it, of training school security officers. they would make money, a lot of money, if these recommendations that they voted for on your taskforce were actually carried out? well, i doubt that. they re actually they do work
they re actually they do work primarily for overseas military is my understanding. so is it your understanding no one is involved in the taskforce that s involved with any company that would in any way profit from the recommendation made by this report if it was carried out nationally? i don t think so because nationally if this is carried out, schools are going to make decisions as to who in their school, are they going to expand school resource officers. those are relationships with the local sheriff s office, the local police department. but congressman they re training, you interrupted me. go ahead. their training is provided by local law enforcement, the law enforcement training center, for example, for the state. if gu you go to armed school personnel, i hope they utilize the private sector, not just a state function, generally would be state by state that would provide this training.