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Test-based approach makes a lot of sense w. the guidance from last week from health care workers, they shortened the quarantine period but added a test requirement if you were asymptomatic. i think with this new guidance both shortens that period and gets rid of the testing requirement. it goes a step a little too far. i think its a step in the right direction. i just really wish that the rapid test would have been a part of this. >> dr. bell, theres a lot of confusion around what these updated ...

Afghanistan, and he assured us where you are very capable of easily defeating the taliban and i when all else fails, he blames president trump. i have a number of sources that have told me that extraordinarily harsh and very clear language was used from the president, from president trump, i will ask about them in a moment. to the taliban if they dared step a foot, 1 foot into any other region and that was in part of the agreement, can you confirm or deny that? >> i can confirm that and tell you...

Complicated. they can be made with very simple materials. he made a very good point. the initiator is probably the more difficult component, but that can also be made. pipe bombs, improvised explosive devices are not complex. complexity is that in the united states, most devices that detonate are detonated during the process of making the device. if you dont do step a, b and c, and you do step a and c its a self-critiquing event. most detonations are for people attempting to make these devices. ...

Of course. what weve seen since november has alarmed us and caused us great concern for obvious reasons. >> youre also getting an uptick in bomb threats? >> yes. in january there were three waves called in against jewish community institutions, jccs across the u.s. 65 separate incidents and 55 unique jccs that were targeted. the fbi is working on this. there are challenges to the investigation, even though the fbi has terrific technology and terrific man mauer to tackle this, the challenge has b...

Understand that particularly with regard to the national security team, secretary of defense, cia, homeland security, it would make a lot of sense to have those folks in place on day one. and i hope we get to the point where that will be possible. >> thank you. >> thank you. [inaudible] >> yeah, we are going to move forward with the obamacare resolution first and well take the second step a little later. >> how much later? >> i will call on my colleagues here as well. >> i think the vice-preside...

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