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Problems here. i sat at the threat table every morning when eric holder became attorney general. there was only about 12 of us sitting around that table. he's got to think first about the thing that you mentioned that is volume. in my old world of counterterrorism, three people, five people, that's a lot of people to follow. now you're talking about dozens or hundreds who may have received training overseas. so the volume issue is significant in the terrorism world. the second issue i mentioned is time. we're in 2014 now. what if this goes into next year, the year after? the war in syria is no...

Threat table at the fbi, to be in washington as a politician, and to screw americans into the ceiling about a threat that's comparable to pre--9/11, i don't buy it. we ought to be concerned but don't overreact. >> you hear president obama saying al qaeda is on its heels. i think that's the quote. do you believe that's still the case? is one interpretation, that peter -- one idea that peter forwarded, is that this is a sign of desperation on the part of al qaeda central, trying to tell al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to do something? is that your read on it? >> my read is that al qaeda is on ...

>> yeah, they've devastated about 30 of the top leaders in yemen senior operatives. unfortunately, they've yet to find the extremely capable bomb maker, but this bomb maker has not been able to implement any successful attack against an american target, as capable as he is. >> and yet despite what peter is saying here, you do have this travel alert, you have all these embassy's closing. you heard a lot of politicians over the weekend saying, the chatter is reminiscent to the chatter we heard before 9/11. from what we heard today, does that seem right to you? does that seem to be compared to th...

Unfortunately, they've yet to find the extremely capable bomb maker, but this bomb maker has not been able to implement any successful attack against an american target, as capable as he is. >> and yet despite what peter is saying here, you do have this travel alert, you have all these embassy's closing. you heard a lot of politicians over the weekend saying, the chatter is reminiscent to the chatter we heard before 9/11. from what we heard today, does that seem right to you? does that seem to be compared to the same chatter before 9/11? >> i don't think it's related at all. we have a serious ...

Threat table at the fbi, to be in washington as a politician, and to screw americans into the ceiling about a threat that's comparable to pre--9/11, i don't buy it. we ought to be concerned but don't overreact. >> you hear president obama saying al qaeda is on its heels. i think that's the quote. do you believe that's still the case? is one interpretation, that peter -- one idea that peter forwarded, is that this is a sign of desperation on the part of al qaeda central, trying to tell al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to do something? is that your read on it? >> my read is that al qaeda is on ...