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So the real question is, will the men and women of the u.s. olympic team be safe after the torch is lit along with all those who descend on sochi to watch them? i want to bring in amy knight, author of several books on russia. she has been watching the ramp-up to the winter games closely. and peter brooks, former cia officer and deputy assistant secretary of defense who works with the heritage foundation. amy, i will start with you. after these two attacks, should we believe putin when he says t...

Nuclear program objected but ta rain will allow inspectors to visit a key enrich. site. those plans do not include sites u.n. teams have wanted to visit, sites where they suspect nuclear weapons are being developed so what should the u.s. do next? peter brooks is a former c.i.a. officer and senior feel owe for national security affairs at the heritage foundation. good to see you. >> good morning. arthel: so what should the u.s. do next in youve got the french foreign minister saying this is a fo...

The new new hampshire republican wants a bipartisan group to convene about the problems with the website and the law. there are serious concerns about obamacares long term financial liability. early numbers from state exchanges, nearly all of those enrolled are being funneled into medicaid, not insurance plans that the system will depend upon for financeing. >> look, the system will never look unless there are five to seven million people in the private side of this exchange, not the medicaid si...

Today in tehran marking the day the iranian hostage crisis began back in 1979. demonstrators burning the american flag and stomping on images of our president outside the former u.s. embassy that still stands today. its a museum in part for iranian students to visit. now, ties between the two countries have been severed since 1979 when those americans were taken hostage inside the embassy after the islamic revolution. 52 americans were held hostage. the crisis lasted 444 days. the hostages were ...

What about that? >> well, of course, you know, you want something like we have off of somalia, theres a joint task force. the chinese are there, sometimes they cooperate with us. but i think that theres, you know, things that need to be done at the international level to try to get a coalition of sip ships -- coalition of ships, europeans, americans and others to try to provide a presence there. a lot of this activity is taking place in the places close to the coast, theyre not out at sea which ...

Private oil ship, separated the crew by nationality and took the americans for ransom. peter brooks is a former cia officer, a senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation and former deputy assistant secretary of defense. thank you for joining us. >> good to be here. patti ann: most of these cases are regarded as criminal enterprises, a ransom dropped from a plane to where the pirates are in the water, they divide it up, release the captives, its business. in this case ...

Hezbollah, its a state sponsor of terrorism. and my sense is that we just dont have a comprehensive policy for dealing with the trouble there. besides the whole humanitarian disaster and the chemical weapons. i mean, we really should have had a plan for a long time. now we dont have a lot of good choices. i have been calling and my colleagues have been calling for us to have developed a moderate secular force that could have supported american interests in syria years ago, and this washington po...

You know, jenna, the president talks about pivoting to the pacific? well, he cant get out of the middle east because we have so many interests there, and we have to have a policy and plans for advancing and protecting american interests in that part of the world. jenna: peter, great to have you on the program. its nice to touch base because we covered syria a lot, and for a couple days now being so involved with the government shutdown, we havent talked about it ourselves, so its nice to keep th...

Peter, you know, we were led to believe that the chemical weapons take was the bottom of the barrel, so to say. this was the worst of the worst that could happen. but you say in your piece that the worst may be yet to come. why? >> yeah. well, jenna, i was bothered by the fact that people were kind of distracted by the chemical weapons deal. i mean, its great that were getting chemical weapons out of there if we can actually do it, but the killing continues. in fact, the assad regime picked up t...

Jenna: that plays into the next part of the story. new reports say that the cia is expanding a covert training program for so-called moderate rebels to help them regain lost ground in syria. however, sources tell "the washington post" its not really enough to make a significant impact. this as there are growing concerns about the rise of extremist groups in syria and the threat they pose to the entire region overall. syrian rebels initially welcomed al-qaeda-linked fighters as allies in the war ...