And dont say a word until you know who you are talking to. I wont say much tonight because i dont know you that well but i know you have an interest in the topic of the day extraordinarily important to all of us and i want to encourage all of you to pick up this book that we are introducing him. Ive traveled as i said all over the United States many times. But theres one state in particular that you just cant get past. Its always stood out. Its way down south but among all the states those are the friendliest people in the whole country. There is no getting around even when it even when i was a student at Duke University we would go to South Carolina to buy fireworks and they were always friendly to us. That might have changed nowadays but the important part is the people. The people were always hospitable and each which way. You couldnt imagine more friendly people even those of the opposite political persuasion. They would hope they could change your mind that in but in our family of her mind was made up mostly because the president on the corner over there is the one that persuaded the nixons way back to change from democrat to republican and my dad never could get it out of his system so weve always been republicans in name at least and the rest of it comes naturally. As a followup in the northern part of South Carolina that introduced me to a whole spectrum of people who travel in from greenville all the way through columbia and down through the coast up to the places we visited when we were at duke the whole state is an amazing amount of of thinking people. They are willing to argue with you but they are also willing to listen which was important in our family. Im just amazed when i see them showing up tonight. We have our authors family, his wife, their three children jackson trey and camille. But you will notice that we also enjoy those double names. They like to names for any given name. In our family that wasnt so. Julie and tricia were just julie and tricia. And since we got to this point of meeting somebody in other parts of the south, i discovered a very important person who my friends, life personal assistant in the 72 campaign and her husband. And those folks just gather you in and you have to do this and that and you have to get acquainted with them. So i almost became a politician by meeting them but they did introduce me to this fellow can i tell you he has hosted me every time i go to South Carolina driving across the state in his fancy jaguar. I dont know if he still has one of those but it was a beautiful ride. Anyway, i want you to know that he is one of my closest friends and i watched him on television every chance i get and you want to get accustomed to doing that ourselves. Hes a very important thinker and he thinks before he speaks and when he does say something, pay attention. Its extremely important. What hes done tonight coming out with this book is extremely important for everybody in the country to read. Everybody else in the world ought to read it too to cause we have to wake up. Its too important to ignore anymore. Please come up and tell us about what your ideas are. [applause] thank you and i think we ought to get you back down to South Carolina. I know they great store i want to take you to. When you talk about hospitality i want to thank the Nixon Library and the staff here for the tremendous hospitality that youve shown me here tonight and all that went into doing this book launch. And my dear friend i appreciate you being here. I think its appropriate and let me also thank everyone for being here we have friends and family. A few years after 9 11 i was asleep one night and left the tv on and all of a sudden they were showing the last interview of president nixon before he passed away and one of the last questions was mr. President as we approach the 21st century, what should americans be most concerned with . President nixon didnt bat an eye. He said the rise of islamic fanaticism. I got a chill up my spine but i shouldnt have been surprised because president s nixon and one of his last books seized the moment and wrote, and i quote when he was talking about islamist fundamentalists they are motivated by a consuming hatred of the west and a determination to restore the superiority of islamic civilization by resuscitating the past. They seek to impose the sharia court of law that recognizes no separation of church and state. And i could go on and on. Richard nixon was one of the best foreignpolicy president s the country ever had and he was a visionary. [applause] the launch of this book of the new terror is characters on how to fight it and defeat it is being held at the Nixon Library here tonight. Why a book about this . Those of you that know me, i wrote a lot of articles and and tv appearances about iran and north korea and the link between the two countries on the missile technology, the nuclear programs. A good friend of mine worked in the Reagan Administration and said a lot of books on north korea and iran. What we need and what you can do is a book about the totality of the threats to america and what its going to take to keep america safe so that the project ive been working on the last several years and thats why im here tonight. One of the things youre dealing with in terrorism and this fire that we live in today, you can never take anything for granted. You cant expect the expected. The story is told through back in 1948 was favored in all of the polls to defeat thenpresident harry truman. On election day with the latest poll predicting the win by a landslide proportions he went to his wife and gave her a blank check and said i want you to go out today and buy the most expensive lingerie laundry that money can buy because tonight you are going to bed with the president of the United States. [laughter] and the polls closed in the early returns came in and it didnt look good for tom dewey and it only got worse. While by about midnight it was obvious that he had won the election so he goes up to his hotel suite in there with all of her beautiful lingerie was his wife and said am i staying here or going over there . [laughter] you can never expect the expected and dont take anything for granted. Make no mistake the threat of radical islam is the challenge of our time. We are not going to solve it by giving these people a job. It was a graduate of the London School of economics. Bin laden came from a very prominent family and in the book what i do and what i want to talk about tonight i think its important that we understand the history of radical islam, what motivates the islamists and then look at the threats to the country from cyber things we need to do to secure our border and how can we do this to keep america safe and also in such a way that we dont go broke in the process doing it. Its important to understand the history behind and what motivates the radical islamists. Since the 15th century the scholars have wanted to return to the good old days and the caliphate. Their belief, the islamic nation but spread its influence in the entire world infidels with comfort the comfort and live as secondclass persons or be eliminated. They declined and ceased to exist in 1258. Isiss is declared a caliphate over one third of roughly a series and iraq. And they are big on dates. September 111683 the turks were defeated at the gates of vienna. Thats what they are trying to do. That was a humiliating defeat almost as much as the 1492 spanish when they drove them out. The presentday situation, what do we do . I think with King Abdullah, the recent events present a unique opportunity for the United States. We now have the moderate arab countries willing to take the fight to radical islam. King hussein knew what he was doing two or three days before he died when he named abdullah to crown prince. He had been the commander of the special forces of jordan, he had the support of the jordanian military. His wife was palestinian and thats important to realize because 70 of the population of jordan are palestinians. He was the one who could hold it together. I first met King Abdullah almost 20 years ago when he commanded the special forces. And later on i was invited to go to the palace. When you go to the palace before you see him there was a family tree on the wall hanging up that begins with the prophet prophet mohammed and goes all the way to king hussein and they are very proud of that. It was put together in research by a british colonel in the 1930s and i remember sitting there looking at this i looked up and i saw one of his kids into the wind came straight down. Saw another line here if you go to generation or two and see the relatives and so forth and i made the comment it looks like this one has more of the prophet mohammeds blood to which they said you mustnt say these things in the palace. I took it pretty quickly. But with him stepping up to the plate with the pressure he beat out the president of egypt we have the moderate countries stepping up to the plate and who better on behalf of the moderate reform muslims to take the fight to radical islam. To borrow the line from president nixons book, this is the opportunity to seize the moment for the United States and show real leadership. The fbi director testified just a couple of weeks ago that in 49 of the 50 states in the United States right now there are active investigations of people with connections to isis open cases. We have to delegitimize them so that they do not reconstitute themselves. He was a great friend of mine it was probably the best army that we had when it came to psychological operations. The vendor became the time when there was a humanitarian Christian Organization out of Seattle Washington that actually when the pakistan earthquake occurred back in 2005 they wanted to get the supplies. I called up centcom and he said we will get it over here. The problem was two days later they called me up and said youre coming over here with them arent you and i said i was trying to get the airlift and they said im not going to give you the airlift i want to see you over here putting up those tense, so we did and it was a great experience for me. I will never forget one day we were going to a pretty bad area of pakistan to get their and as we made the turn in the village all of a sudden the van i was and we couldnt go any further so about 100 people surrounding the van with signs and tens and it didnt look like a good situation. We have a guard with us is that it lets me see whats going on and he did. He got out and he got back and. He said they are doing demonstrations to thank america for what they are doing for them. I will never forget he was a big fan of the network that our state department has to compete against some of the middle east networks but spew antiamerican than him 20 for 7. We need to do more to support this network which features a lot of young people in that part of the world exposing them to the western values and ideals. Another thing was interesting. General davidson was a big fan of a guy named lloyd austin. He said watch out for lloyd austin, he gets it. General austin is the commander of centcom today. In 2010 we had about 90 of isiss predecessor organizations capabilities wiped out. General austin wanted to leave a small residual force to be ridges rule for stomach sure to didnt reconstitute. The president didnt listen to general austin and now we have a much bigger problem on our hands. The 9 11 Commission Said that 9 11 was a failure of imagination. We keep fighting the last war. We keep responding to the last terrorist attack. We have to get ahead of the curve. Isis is a cancer that is spreading. At the cia estimates that isis has 31 or 32,000 troops. When you talk to the kurdish pittsburgh a whos been fighting them and others is as high as 200,000. It is a cancer that is spreading. You have to think outside the box. In my book i talk about the country of niger that is one of the Worlds Largest uranium reserves. What can uranium be used for . To make nuclear weapons. And i talk about the need to work with france because they got their independence in 1960, the need to work with the french to get those uranium reserves and deposits. Thats in the book. Two weeks ago guess what happened . The perfect or indirect affiliate of al qaeda in a terrorist organization its terrorist organization that is trying to mimic and copy isys tactics began border attacks. We have to think outside of the box and get ahead of this. What i would like to do is talk about some of these threats and things we can do and then also talk about how we do it in such a way that we dont go broke in the process. Border security is so important. [applause] the fbi director said in 2011 to 59,000 people were apprehended coming to the United States from countries other than mexico. They included yemen, somalia hawaii, and i could go on and on. 59000 apprehended. My question is where are the ones we did not pretend . Where are they today and what are they doing in america . Thats why Border Security is so important and there are things we can do to improve Border Security. The Department Inspector general several years ago looked at the center of technology they had to detect people coming across as well as that of substances such as radioactive substances to come across. They found that 96 false alarms. The United States military has a great sense of technology with unintended ground to central central programs, Congress President they need to direct the pentagon to words the customs and Border Patrol and get that kind of technology in the hands of the customs and Border Patrol so that we can have a better capability. There is also Great Technology thats been developed by the oil and gas industry. That can go a long way to come by and pick up some of these and about titles are increasing in frequency. We saw precisely the situation with france and of the european radical muslims get mad because they are doing a cartoon of mohammed. Do you remember a few years ago the danish cartoonist who called for the assassination of actually there was an e. Mom who called for his assassination who had been banned from france and had been banned from canada and called for the assassination of the danish cartoonist . We called him and you know where they caught him in the back of the trunk of a bmw coming across the mexican border. Border security is so important to this country. We have to know who is coming in here. Another thing i think that we can approve a lot is port and harbor security. Several years ago a report on television where i think it was British Intelligence had reported that they had indications that al qaeda had gotten underwater devices from the north koreans. What would you be doing with underwater devices . Remember with these folks it is all but inflicting harm on our economy. There are 250,000 minds out there right now. I talked in doing research on the book i talked to a friend of mine that commanded the minesweepers and i was shocked to see we dont have much of a mine measure capability on the east coast of the United States or the gulf of mexico. We addressed that in the book and also talk about the need to use these underwater Autonomous Vehicles kind of like an underwater uav if you will to do periodic tests and routes of the sea beds in the ports and harbors to look at the underwater ieds. Cybersecurity. It is the fifth dimension of warfare. We have air, water, now we have cyber. Unlike the other dimensions is efficient and i will tell you tonight, the United States is the most unprepared than any threat facing this country. Its almost like a death by a thousand hacks if you will. The total that this is taking right now on the Financial Institutions of america, the increasing attacks on wall street and the Financial Institutions is getting out of hand. And in the book i distinguish between the different types of psychic attacks the chinese usually it is part of espionage. They want to steal your ip. The islamists, uranium is about sabotage. They want to take your systems down. So how we deal with the different types of Cyber Attacks depends on who is doing the attacking to deal with the threat. The russians, the chinese love to do it through a proxy, someone out. 90 of the chinese hacks we can trace to two groups one is called the group from beijing and the other from shanghai. And to put me tell you strong ties to the Chinese Military to the Chinese Government says they have no connection with these two organizations. I say great. Youve got no connection and we are kind to take you at your word and declare both of these organizations have cyber terrorist and go after them since you have nothing to do with them. And let me tell you that will get their attention. And we have to fight what i call a preventive war instead of preemptive. The International Rules and laws of the preemptive war basically would say that you can preempt an attack only when you have reached the point of deliberation where there is nothing else to you could do. Theyve already gone in and wiped out and shut down banks. And if we think that the almost financial collapse in this country was bad in 2008 i believe that a cyber attack is one of the most vulnerable that we have to deal with. The iranians we have to be strong and say if you do this we are going to cut your optical cables and we are going to mess with the transponders on the the satellites and you are no longer going to have the internet. These are the kind of things i think we have to do. One of the top Cyber Security exper