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This big, a potential target for terrorists. >> it's a very good target. it has a good target value. but there are more than sufficient security plans in place to offset any threat. starting, of course, with our intelligence community. >> so you feel comfortable? everything's fine when it comes to the super bowl? >> i don't think there's anybody or anyone better on the planet at protecting our people than the united states, between the intelligence community and the technology, both what we've seen demonstrated through the nsa and our ability to surveil people, whether we should be or not, as ...

That was sited in a place that has this kind of regional conflict that has this kind of concern for security that we're seeing here? >> not in recent memory. i worked all these olympics, athens and china. we've not seen specific threats like we've seen here. that said, some of the plans that the security plans that the government's talking about we did for every olympics, so an extraction plan to get the athletes and americans out in an emergency. that's kind of standard planning, emergency planning. you hope you never have to use it but it's good to know that the government is thinking about ...

Devastating. >> joining me is head of security for major league baseball and a lead security consultant to the los angeles olympics and four-time olympic luger. thanks so you both. cameron, i want to start with you, do you agree with that sentiment that really -- don't think about canceling but definitely think about your safety. >> i don't think canceling the games is within anyone's sort of understanding of what the possibilities are at this point, but absolutely. athletes should be concerned about their safety, but of course every single athlete who is going to compete in sochi has been tra...

Would be mainly surrounding the lgbt community because of russia's anti-gay laws. but the threats are clearly much broader than that. new video surfaced friday exactly two weeks before the games posted by an al qaeda ally comparing this year's games to those held in hitler's germany in 1936. along with a warning of terrorist attacks to come in sochi. and just yesterday a new warning came from the same group responsible for last month's suicide bombings in volgograd. american authorities don't expect these threats to dissipate any time soon. on the heels of a state department warning to all ame...

Games. >> reporter: putin says he will do whatever it takes to keep athletes and visitors safe. he is pledging that russia has adequate means of security. security around the olympic venue on high alert. metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs visible as the games get underway in over two weeks. russian officials are not revising security plans because they believe they already have everything in place. when the olympic flame arrived here this morning, there were more police officers and members of the security forces than members of td public. it seems the lesson from the volgograd attacks is ...