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Crazy like president rouhani is not crazy or everybody is not crazy because some of those things might sound crazy to our viewers. >> i'm sure there are crazy iranians. what i'm saying iranian government what we've seen from their behavior is not reckless and not crazy. i'm glad you brought up the plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador which at the time i thought was really striking. the more we dig into it, the iranians probably did know what our red line was. we didn't retaliate for that. i think that says something about president obama and their assessment of president obama. my guess is...

Long-term, is not going to be anything significant. people will continue this rushr their shoulder over it. >> thank you for joining us. leon panetta warned his team that al qaeda will almost likely retaliate for bin laden's death. ken pollock is director of the sa vaughn center for middle east policy at brookings and serves as an analyst with the cia in the past. do you think it really matters in terms of the threat who -- whether or not we got bin laden? does it matter or is the real threat now in yemen and elsewhere, dispersed around the world? >> yeah, it certainly does matter. let's not...

Whether or not bin laden is with them or not. >> ken pollock, thank you very much for being with us up next what does the daring raid tell us about intelligence and threats to come? the man in charge of the house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers joins us next. if i ask sheila out? of course not. we broke up 6 months ago. but i don't think she'd go for a guy like -- [ ping! ] she says she'd love to. [ ping! ] she can't wait to see me. [ ping! ] she's wanted me to ask her out for over a year now! [ ping! ] she just sent me a video. [ girl's voice ] hi stephen, can't wait for our date!...

Situation abroad. ken pollock worked as director for the national security council and joins us this morning. ken, nice to see you. right now i want to talk about yemen. i want to talk about these other hot spots. and there's always a major uprising under way in yemen. many experts have said there's a lot of instability there. also all of us in the united states say it's a proving ground. i think all of us remember what happened to the "uss cole" so why would he get involved in libya instead of doing something more proactive in yemen. >> i think it's a greet question. in the case of yemen we h...

Mubarak himself and his sensitivities. they had to be much more direct, i think. it's the conclusion that people i have interviewed today, nicholas burns and ken pollock, people far more experienced than i am in foreign policy, because they actually practice it for a living, they are saying that the administration has to move more quickly on that. at this stage, though, now that things have turned and become violent, and you have in the last 24 hours a completely different situation starting at around 8:00 eastern time new york, east coast time, it really did change. and once that happened, ev...