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I think you can assume they've done just everything they could possibly do to keep the olympics safe. and that's not a guarantee. >> sochi is a fairly small place. it is a contained place. so i agree with ambassador negroponte, they probably can protect sochi. whether they can protect the whole country, whether something else can happen during the olympics in another russian city, it's a totally different question. >> nick? >> the one thing putin is good at, it's cracking down on his own country. i think sochi will be safe. >> nick burns, john negroponte, dmitri simes, thank you for coming. ...

Were complaining about toilets that didn't work for bathtubs that came up out of the floor. and he said we have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall, and leave the room for the whole day. now, setting aside whether they're doing that, they have since said this was a mistranslation of what he actually said. but talk to me about the surveillance inside sochi. can everyone who is there just assume it is complete in the sense that in your hotel room, wherever you are on the street. what is the level? >> as a diplomat when i used to ...

Bags. in russia they've banned it. what has happened today is the homeland security department says this could be an issue so they've asked the airlines to be on the lookout for it, erin. >> to your point, we talked about liquids. i'm thinking people think that you realize that toothpaste, at least in most airports i've been in, you don't have to have it in the liquids bag. that might be one reason why they would target that. what flights are they the most worried about? >> one of the things i think they're most worried about is flights from europe and neighboring countries going into russia. ...

Stop it. >> i know there's only so much you can talk about. have you been briefed on threats that are as specific as the toothpaste and cosmetics bomb threats? >> there are threats. the emirate caucuses, the more extreme faction of the checken rebels that have trained in syria, for instance, there is a concern that with that kind of training and trade craft that they can travel from syria into the sochi area. that is of great concern. the aviation sector is another area of concern that we believe they may be attempting to bring these explosives onto airlines. >> in terms of 57% of americans se...

Bottom of it. they have identified officially the two suicide attackers and arrested two other people who they accuse of helping those suicide bombers travel from dagestan to volograd. so a lot of attention on this group, because it has showed they're capable of at least carrying out large-scale attacks. it has promised there will be more to come, especially during the olympics. that's what it said in a jihadi video claiming credit for the volograd attacks. and indeed, despite all the security around sochi, the so-called ring of steel, disturbingly, what this group has shown, terrorists do not...