come. then from the white house briefing areas, pictures off the walls. just like when you move into your new house, pictures taken to have walls, including iconic photographs of president obama taken to every the years. a lot of people passing in and out and asking what is next for you as the new administration gets ready to take office, donald trump here in dc today. antee, they are letting folks cross the street, go now. it is a spectacle. i mean this is something that happens once every four years. every four years. especially when it is a new administration when it s not the continuation of an administration. there is a level of excitement. you know dc well, do you feel it here or is it different. there are mixed reports on this? i would say it s different than other transitions that i ve been through. why? it s probably the divisive nature of the political climate today. part of it may be the new reality of how we communicate. we communicate digitally. we don t talk. we
not something any western society should engage in. in fact, poppy, when you look at any of these kinds of incidents there s always integs in the system that wasn t properly processed. think of the boston attacks where the fbi knew tam lan tsarnaev who was part of the attack, they questioned him and then dropped the assessment. similarly before the 9/11, cia knew two members of al qaeda were living in cal. the fbi knew there was an islamist militant who is getting flying lessons in minnesota. the list goes on and on. i mean, this is not to excuse these intelligence failures. it s to say that it is extremely rare in this kind of incident that somebody involved or many people involved in the plot haven t come to the attention of authorities. wow. peter bergen, thank you very much for that. stay with us. carol, i ll send it back to you in new york. still to come in the
this much for a heart. however you feel about abortion julie, it is horrifying. it really is. to bring this to politics in washington we ve seen from the white house, it s an effort to try to keep distance from this. i mean they do not want to weigh in on this in a robust way. i was going to ask you, this week did this gain any traction at the white house? it didn t. the one thing we heard was the brief on friday where the press secretary said things in line with the statement we saw from planned parenthood. i think from the republican perspective, the republicans have had trouble in recent years talking about abortion. they have said thing that have been offputting to a lot of women and voters. they see this video the whohorrific nature of what is being
a lot of these recruitment centers are in shopping malls and a weapon might go off inadvertently. you have to ask the question when isis and other radical groups urged people in this country to go after military people and have given their names, do you want to leave them defenseless? it s a broader question. if the military is fighting isis or another group overseas, there s a risk to that. we a all know that. if there s going to be a sign that isis is trying to recruit people in the united states and pushing attacks, there will have to be a broader review of this policy. these are types of policies that a country that s not serious about defending itself adopts. right after september 11th, president bush says we will not tire, falter or fail. it s clear the obama administration is tired of american leadership in the world. the foreign policy is intellectually bankrupt as we
salad while she talks in these terms. i understand that you re against abortion period. but taking that out of the debate, given the fact this they say they re not profiting here, what s wrong with what s going on? it s not true they re not profiting here. there were pamphlets given to planned parenthood clinics that use the word profit in terms of profiting here. there were pamphlets given to planned parndhood clinic specifically using the word profit. they are not profiting. they are giving it at cost to a tissue middleman. i m not saying the middle man isn t profiting, but the yeah planned parndhood specifically used the word povertiability and the word profit to the clinic. chrissors are being used to snip the back bones of children that have been delivered. this is what you have a culture that says life is not intrinsically valuable. and i think it cause as lot of pro choice people to reevaluate. because it s horrifying.