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Security preparations at various agencies, police departments, federal agencies, go through to prepare themselves and the city security wise? >> subsequent to 9/11, security for that event, which i worked for over 20 years when i was a boston police officer and ultimately boston police commissioner. after 9/11, it all changed in terms of the security. it was not just crowd control any longer. it was before the fact, looking at intelligence, working with the fbi, the counterterrorism entities and...

Israeli leader benjamin netanyahu said we have to think military sanctions. what does he mean? >> its a linguistic trick. he talked about being in a red zone, not crossing a red line, but being in a red zone. what hes doing is preparing president obama for the thing that netanyahu is going to ask the president when he visits israel. >> what is that? >> hes going to say to him, okay, you say you are against containment, you are stopping iran. we know iran is getting this much closer. may and june...

In the streets and in the government. and it is deadly. more than 40,000 people have been killed. according to human rights groups. when i have that much chaos and that much destruction and so many possible branching outcomes with this many lives at stake, you turn to an expert. and we have one. joining us now from cairo is ayman mohyeldin, foreign correspondent for nbc news. thank you. its great to see you tonight. >> thanks, ezra. >> give me your broader take for a minute. where are we on the ...

That much destruction and so many possible branching outcomes with this many lives at stake, you turn to an expert. and we have one. joining us now from cairo is ayman moyadin, foreign correspondent for nbc news. thank you. its great to see you tonight. >> thanks, ezra. >> give me your broader take for a minute. where are we on the scale of regime collapse? >> wow, thats a very tough question. i think by anyones estimates including intelligence analysis and even opposition activists its very dif...

Many possible branching outcomes with this many lives at stake, you turn to an expert. and we have one. joining us now from cairo is ayman mohyeldin, foreign correspondent for nbc news. thank you. its great to see you tonight. >> thanks, ezra. >> give me your broader take for a minute. where are we on the scale of regime collapse? >> wow, thats a very tough question. i think by anyones estimates including intelligence analysis and even opposition activists its very difficult to gauge that. those...

We have. if the rebels take over, then what? who are among the rebels? al qaeda elements in there? securing those places will be very important. it will take a lot of intelligence analysis. we will have to share that information certainly with the israels, the russians will be very much concerned about it. all countries should be concerned about should the chemical or biological agents end up in the hands of terrorist groups. we are ought at risk. >>jonathan: for skeptical americans, how do we t...

Taking al-qaeda references out of the talking points was an injustice to what happened. >> the substantive changes including the decision to pull references to al-qaeda were made by the u.s. intelligence community specifically the c.i.a. citing the need to protect sources and meths there. may have been legitimate reasons they find this puzzling. >> any attack happen against any american interest around the world, the first thing comes to evens mind is maybe al-qaeda. >> they are seeking e-mail t...

At the time that ambassador rice made these assertions, there was conflicting evidence that its true. bewe had the president of libya saying that 50 people had been arrested, that people -- terrorists from other countries had come to libya, and that the attack was premeditated and planned. i asked ambassador rice why she did not qualify her comments more in light of this contradictory reporting from the president of the country. her answer was that she relied on our intelligence analysis. i dont...

She was given from the administration. the president himself said that he should take responsibility, and he does, because thats the talking points his administration gave to ambassador rice. so she imparted the information that she had. again, these were limited initial reports, based on limited intelligence. i believe she was doing the very best she cowl at the time. intelligence analysis and collection is in many ways an imprecise science, if you will, art. it takes a lot of time and effort t...

Disposal. the president arriving. mitt romney has been here a couple days in florida, took a brief break for football on the beach but the president just now arriving, as you see, in florida and the white house as he arrives is on the defensive, as you just heard, about benghazi. that topic is sure to come up in tonights debate. at issue of course, security and supposed intelligence failures. congressman mike rogers chairs the house intelligence committee and joins me now. so security, we have s...