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You can hear more about the economy from Federal Reserve chair janet yellen in testimonye week on tol hill this cspan. Org. And now joining us on the washington journal is a guest weve had on relatively frequently. This is Linda Robinson on the wy rand corporation. Shes also an author. I linda sirobinson, where were yo last . I think were going to this about isil today, so i have been out in the region this year. Ive been to iraq, jordan, and d kuwait. In iraq, ith visited all the various units that were doing k. The advisory and training work y out ou wthere. Now are you working with the pentagon in your current role . So rand is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. It works for bulk anyone, but d say probably the bulk of its work is for the u. S. Governmente and of that the biggest part is u get dod research. So when youre out in the field, do you get a sense of ....
Now. Welcome everybody. Im david asman in for neil cavuto. And our top story. Cdc director tom frieden saying the u. S. Should rethink its ebola approach after a second ebola case is confirmed in texas. The cdc saying we should expect more ebola cases to come especially in texas. The former office if more do pop up, get ready for stocks to go down. Do you think weve already seen a little bit of that steve. Theres certainly the volatility and markets hate uncertainty. Youve got government officials, Health Officials running around saying dont worry this ebola thing is not going to come over here. If it does, its not going to be contagious. Oops. It is. Its here and its contagious. Dont worry about isis theyre the vrjv. Well theyre outside of baghdad. One thing you learn in leadership is you need to be straight with people. You have to tell them whats going on. You have to tell them the risk. You cant say dont worry everything is ....
Now. Welcome everybody. Im david asman in for neil cavuto. And our top story. Cdc director tom frieden saying the u. S. Should rethink its ebola approach after a second ebola case is confirmed in texas. The cdc saying we should expect more ebola cases to come especially in texas. The former office if more do pop up, get ready for stocks to go down. Do you think weve already seen a little bit of that steve. Theres certainly the volatility and markets hate uncertainty. Youve got government officials, Health Officials running around saying dont worry this ebola thing is not going to come over here. If it does, its not going to be contagious. Oops. It is. Its here and its contagious. Dont worry about isis theyre the vrjv. Well theyre outside of baghdad. One thing you learn in leadership is you need to be straight with people. You have to tell them whats going on. You have to tell them the risk. You cant say dont worry everything is ....
Of the abuse of kids through the internet and selling of kids through the internet. The answer is yes. We have prosecuted the people behind an outfit i think called redbook that was in california. We locked up the proprietor of it winning it, that shut down the site. We may have taken civil action to shut down the site, so yes we have. Followup. Since the online facilitated exploitation of children is evolving prioritized threat, what is, help me understand your allocation to that area of investigation. How does the internet crimes against Children Program fund fit into that . We have task forces that focus on this, i forget the number but more than my number of field offices so we have two in someplaces. We do this in every field office. We do operation i hope you heard of called operation Cross Country. I have. Great. It works with local partners to connect with the cyber ....
Enforcement. But you should do it in a consistent, predictable way, and those that are violating our trade laws, those that are being required of enforcement, that it only helps the businesses that are in fact playing by the rules and that have that level playing field. So we need to do a better job in that. I heard from congressional leaders about the importance of enforcement also. And the Critical Role that we play in protecting our markets. We have made some strides. For example, cbp and immigration and customs enforcement, we have a new director, as many of you know, sara saldana. She was the United States attorney in dallas so she clearly understands enforcement and prosecution issues. So working closely with ice and homeland investigations, were trying to do more training for each of our components, were trying to understand and work through the processes and the operati ....