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Investment, why to you need america? we can get you china. of course, theres india. where one of our trump cards could be, fine, if you guys dont want to deal with this terrorism problem, we will let india be more involved, and that will drive the pakistanis nuts. >> so just to add one layer to this, the pakistanis perhaps properly observed to the afghan government, over the next 50 year, who is going to have the wealth and the capacity to exert strength in this region? its not going to be the u...

Counterinsurgency advisor in afghanistan, and also michael hanlin senior fellow at the brookings institution. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> shannon: you have spent time there and youve seen each other in the region. youve been busy. what do you make of the situation now and what the president needs to lay out tuesday night to not only speak to american audience and the iraqis likely to be listening as well? >> i think he needs to mark two things. first, he needs to mark how much this imp...

Cross-borders and so this is a reminder we cant take it for granted. >> it seems like the last couple of weeks, in the summer, weve been hearing a lot about terrorism lately. we have the suspected terrorists who were arrested in europe. we had eric holder saying that he was going to prosecute some other suspected terrorists as well. whats going on in this war on terror? >> what i think were seeing, real examples of -- and you mentioned some of them -- al qaeda is determine tlud its affiliates to...

Originate in pakistan. so should we be doing more to prevent pakistan from exporting jihad? and does the pakistani government support the taliban or not? we welcome in the man that can make sense of all this, former c.i.a. guy, counterterrorism expert and analyst and former head of the bin laden unit with the c.i.a., michael scheuer. michael, we understand the secretary of state said if it turns out the times square bomber was in pakistan training to bomb us, there will be consequences. we know ...

Shahzhads father, also a retired senior air marshal in the pakistani air force. joining us now, former cia officer peter brooks, a senior fellow of national security affairs at the heritage foundation. and former cia intelligence officer ralph moett larson, a senior fellow with the bell forward center. thirteen times in the last ten years or so, peter. does it suggest he should have been on some kind of a watch list? >> well, certainly since 9/11, pakistan has been a major terrorism problem for ...

Administration realizing this and the sooner they rip this band-aid off and put this aside and behind them, the better off theyll be. they have another terrorism problem. one, the threat against us at all times but they have this inquiry into how abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber was handled when he landed in detroit and was charged as a criminal defendant after 50 minutes. theyve got a bigger problem on their hands so i think that this is -- the khalid sheik muhammad military commission trial...

I went back, and the first time he talked about general pershing, there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years. so the last -- the first time he said that was in north charleston, south carolina, the day before the south carolina primary, which he went on to win. he talked about this story, this internet hoax. were going to talk about it later. >> we might have -- >> we might have it. >> video. we do. lets hear him. >> sure. >> february of 2016. >> february 19. >> you were there. lets l...

Statement by not doing that? >> i think his lack of speaking with clarity and emotional punch sends a clear message that he just does not feel that these people ought to be singled out. he continues to see this as a law and order problem, not a terrorism problem, and he continues to see it as -- theres violence on both sides. and to be -- lets be fair to the president, there is some violence -- there is some hatred on the part of the people who came as a counter protesters, we saw in a just in t...

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He has been done before. >> the access hollywood tape, fighting with the pope. it goes on and on. >> i forgot that one. >> the list goes on and on, and i went back, and the first time he talked about general pershing, which he tweeted today, there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years. so the last -- the first time he said that was in north charleston, south carolina, the day before the south carolina primary, which he went on to win. he talked about this story, this internet hoax. wer...