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December 26, 2014
Hack. our global affairs correspondent elise lavin is here with this part of the story. is north korea going to respond to this? >> reporter: no one really knows right now, but they are expecting it. its been very quiet, even today a diplomat saying were not going to have a physical reaction. but anybody that studies north korea knows that the regime will not stay silent for long. it may not be this weekend but at a time of their choosing, north korea likes the element of surprise. people are ex...
December 26, 2014
>> i come down on the dark side of this. i think were going to probably get hit at some point. there are people that know how to make bombs that will take down airplanes, we cant capture them all. there are a lot of western europeans in syria fighting learning how to make bombs. how long is it going to be before one of them comes here and blows something up? and the american people will say, you have to do something about this. but i agree that this is an intergenerational conflict. i call it th...
December 26, 2014
Only have the hard core terror suspects, and some who are still deemed a risk not able to be transferred, if you have several dozen left at guantanamo, maybe its shown to be so expensive, congress will have a change of mind and let some of those people be transferred to the u.s. prison system. >> how can the u.s. ensure they dont just go right back to the battlefield? >> this is the big problem right now. in fact, dozens of prisoners already have been approved for transfer will not be because th...
December 26, 2014
Sea of blue weve seen. weve seen thousands of police officers come to this church. some waiting for hours at a time to go inside and pay their respects. later this evening, a memorial service followed by a final farewell tomorrow morning. >> present arms! >> reporter: the time salute for one of new yorks finest officer rafael ramos, his casket brought for his wake to his familys church. attended by his brothers and sisters in blue. >> its one thing to pray for something in another part of the co...
December 26, 2014
Different labs that are different levels of security and something like ebola is supposed to be in a lab with the highest security. its sort of someone who took this technician, took a sample and moved it to one lab and theres no excuse for it, because all of these samples are color coded. its almost like putting something yellow next to other things that are red. how does that happen? >> it happens because of human error. scientists make mistakes, but thats why its so important to have these pr...
December 26, 2014
Probably be able to get in front of that and pick up good intelligence in advance and get ahead of that activity. what you have with a lone wolf is awfully hard to stop and it creates terror that causes us to have conversations like this and to kind of cease normal activities. thats the big challenge. >> i want to ask all of you this question. we were just listening to congressman brad sherman and he was saying something that a lot of people in his party believe, which is that there shouldnt be ...
December 26, 2014
How these infect us. but its also difficult to continue to track these organizations all over the world because they are like gangs everywhere. >> tell us, general marks, what is the bigger threat here, people who might be inspired by something like "inspire" or an attack that could be ordered from the top down? >> brianna, the bigger threat for us is the lone wolf or those that are being recruited that have probably already been recruiting on theirself, radicalized and they have a capability lo...
December 26, 2014
Retired generals mark hurtling and spider marks and former cia operative, bob baer. bob, the president vowed to do everything he can to close gitmo just recently. but given not just that there is a republican-controlled congress -- do we have sound of that? we have sound. lets listen to this. >> will guantanamo bay prison will closed down by the end of next year? >> im going to be doing everything i can to close it. it is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the wo...
December 26, 2014
Terrorists. it talks about bomb-making. it highlights possible targets, gives tips on how to bypass security. how do you stop this? is there any way to curb something like this? >> well, "inspire" has been around since july of 2010. and its actually given some tips to aspiring jihadists, both single source ones and the ones who theyve asked to act on their own. and weve seen results with major hasan as the congressman pointed out, with the boston bomber -- that was a direct result of a magazine ...
December 26, 2014
Texas, her answer was: you are not going to win she is too popular. and the reason i mention that is mothers political prognostication hasnt been all that good. and she is speaking, guess, as a concerned mother. and every time she says dont do something, her children tend to want to do it. >> one last question about your mother, she told me, i dont know if this is true or not that when she got her heart valve replacement it was a cow that used to oink around her with. >> a pig. i said mother i h...