john brennan put together the national counter-terrorism center, which is supposed to manage all the tariff threat. they are keeping track of this guy, umar farouk abdulmutallab, and it is said that they dropped the ball. others blame the cia for not letting the cf know about him. the national security agency and state department are also under scrutiny. each organization had an important piece of information about a potential threat, information like the warning from abdulmutallab's dad, or the intelligence of a possible attack on christmas day. but as we have learned, and nobody in the government to piece this together, even after eight years of reorganization. mike rogers says that he has problems with the way intelligence has been handled in both the obama administration and the bush administration. he is ranking republican in the house intelligence subcommittee on counter-terrorism and a former fbi agent, and he is on our guest list today. thank you so much, congressman, for being with us. let's begin with the current one. what problem? >> if we think there is a smoking gun out

john brennan, the assistant to the president for counterterrorism and homeland security will be our guest and obviously these are all questions to ask him. we have to take a break here, but when we come back, we will turn to the politics of national security, the finger-pointing has already started not just among the agencies but among politicians on both sides of the aisle as they try to turn the failed plot to their advantage. >> as president, i will do everything in my power to support the men and women in intelligence, law enforcement and make sure they keep america safe but it is also my job to make sure homeland security systems and the people in them are working effectively and held accountable. chris: president obama talking about the review that he has now ordered following the attempted terror attack on christmas day with the politics of national security beag waged at full volume, let's bring back the panel, so republicans have allowed these days to play out starting going after the obama administration, some g.o.p. officials making the claims and checking out the quotes that v

the white house homeland security and counterterrorism advisor john brennan has a horse in the race, one said, and the ntsc, which manages the watch list was his baby and he has a vested interest in seeing it succeed. chris: this story has a ways to go. >> it has some life. chris: as more information surfaces about the bomber's background, we learned that he was being recruited by extremists and they tried to prevent him from doing something dangerous. correspondent greg burke has more from nigeria. >> this is one of the nicest neighborhoods in the nigerian capital and this home behind me is one of the family homes of the suspect in the detroit bombing square scare on christmas day, that is umar farouk abdul muttallab. now, what everyone is trying to figure out, nigerians in general and even his own family is how could somebody growing up in a family as wealthy and important as this end up so radicalized? his father was looking to the americans for help, not only to warn the americans about what his son was doing and losing contact with his son, but also actually just hoping to get h

. >> john brennan spent the last week looking at whether the databases have been used effectively. abdul muttallab is one of half a million names on the list but that didn't flag him for extra screening. california senator diane feinstein said in a letter to president obama said the u.s. should deny visas to anyone who is reasonably believed to be a part of, acting on behalf or part of a terrorist organization. secretary of state hillary clinton has reportedly ordered everyone on the data base to be checked for vees saz. the former national security advisor elliott abrams says the state state department should not be granting visas. >> protection of our borders is the job of homeland security. that's why we created that department. >> still, some question janet napolitano's assurances that after the bombing attempt that proper procedures were followed. >> within an hour, all 198 flights in the air had been notified. >> there may have been that many flights inbound from europe but that's a fraction of the planes in the air. >> what this does for the captain who is the in-flight secu

>> john brennan, the president's senior adviser with in the national security council for counter-terrorism at home and security. the white house wants to emphasize just because he is the one collecting and conveying the latest information about the fort hood massacre to the president, that does not mean it is a terrorist operation. because of his portfolio, he has been assigned to collect this information and provided to the president. things being what they have been today, with the breaking news in our land, the president was also a price of that situation and is monitoring it through his white house staff, something he would not typically do for a police swat situation in a municipality, but because it happened in such timely proximity to the fort hood shooting, the white house wanted the president to know about it and he does. shepard: major garrett, thanks very much. we will get back to him. next, someone who intended -- who attended the same muslim community center as the suspect of the suspected shooter in the fort hood tragedy. the imam will be live with us. medicare. it doesn't co

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christine brennan, thanks as well. coming up next, serious news for parents, teens are less afraid of certain drugs than before. we'll tell you which drugs are on the rise and why. >>> plus the italian prime minister still in the hospital after an attack. the latest on silvio berlusconi's condition ahead. you can build walls that separate people from people, but it is impossible to build a wall that separates a man from his freedom. because freedom always finds a path... to build peace. this film is dedicated to aung san suu kyi, still prisoner in burma. >>> a couple other important items to cover. erica hill as a 360 bulletin. >> more american teens are smoking pot. according to an annual survey of 14,000 students. the national debate over medical marijuana makes it seem safer to teens. fewer teens view prescription drugs and ectasy as dangerous. >>> the u.s. supreme court will determine how much of your messages you can see. at issue whether he violated a privacy rights by looking at text messages. so the messaging w

actually brought to the white house council and the white house segment i think so adviser, because john brennan, the white house adviser on homeland security, was actually the interim chief of an organization called the unanimous as i say corporation, a national security consulting firm that apparently did some work in had consulting on the creation of the nctc, the national counterterrorism center, that is so much in the news in the last days. if you remember, chris, it was after 9/11, and after that high-profile 9/11 commission report, a series of hearings and then recommendations and a big fight in congress to restructure this nation's intelligence community, and create, among other things, the nctc, and the director of national intelligence. and now a lot of people are saying, wait a minute, we had this argument five, six, seven years ago about a failure to connect the dots. about a failure to share information on the part of national security agency. the cia. the state department. which should have had a notification many people believe when his father, the suspect's father, approached the

reasons why justice stevens would not necessarily take the same position as justice marshall and justice brennan and justice blackman in terms of dissenting from denials of certain, preventing stays if there were other considerations, equitable considerations or so forth. but if it were actually squarely presented to him, i don't know from his opinion in bath what the answer to that is. and i just wonder what your instincts are. >> well, from his opinion -- he says very clearly in baze that he defers to the precedent of the court. and he is very much a judge who has put a great deal of value and weight on precedent. and so i think it isn't -- i think it was very intentional in baze, even though his conclusion was clear, and even though i think what could make the argument that it was the moment to dissent, that he did not because of precedent. so i guess i would say i remain hopeful but not optimistic that he would necessarily take the blackman step. and one reason which i'm really ill-qualified to speculate about but others i think have alluded to is that he continues to be an active member of

one says that brennan has a horse in the race because he basically put together the national counter-terrorism center, the agency that manages watch lists. some are questioning his objectivity. rick: we are now learning that there were various pieces of information, things that we knew, that our federal agency knew about abdulmutallab said they had collected on him prior to that plot. what exactly did they know? >> we know that in august intelligence officials picked up the phone the intercepts from al qaeda in yemen discussing a plot involving somebody they called it the nigerian. in november, the suspect's father went to the u.s. embassy in nigeria's saying he was worried what his sons extreme religious views, he might be in yemen. the cia ever could desk was preparing a report on the suspect but did not send it to the nctc because they were waiting for pictures of the suspect. apparently those phone calls about the nigerian from yemen did not get linked to the information that the cia had from nigeria. rick: it should not come as a surprise to anybody, but there is a lot of finger-pointing

this is from security advisor john brennan. clayton: some 1078 things may not surprise us at all. early points about what this will look like number three on the list is that look fog finger pointing and leaking among enter agencies especially aggressive among these agencies the cia may want to point fingers at other agencies. we have already seen that certainly seen that from agencies who don't want to name claim to this the t.s.a. and everything else. another point on the list likely to see the u.s. government receives several worrisome warnings about mutallab, including a warning about the man's father. his name didn't surface until november. so all of the things will come out in this report. dave: the cia will be at the center of that apparently information going back to august, the cia knew of some plot emerging from nigeria. that was based on communication. another thing looked at is the national counter terrorism center. people don't know about that. created post 9/11. eventually a clearing house for all our agencies, the n.a. save to share information. if there were red fl

i spoke about that and a bit more earlier to night with christine brennan of usa today. we have learned, christine, that his wife actually apparently was up, though. she heard the crash inside the house. came outside, used a golf club, somewhat ironically, to help get him out of the vehicle, break a window. do we know what was happening with them beforehand? had she been up or just heard the crash and it woke her up? >> erica, we don't know. i think that's the one things that surprising, several surprising aspects to this story, of course, on a slow "newsday." one of the things is tiger woods is controlling of his image as anyone on the planet. not just athlete, anyone in our culture. i mean this guy guards his image, his website, everything about him, it has been controlled from the get go. from when he said hello world as a young new pro which is part of the nike campaign in the mid 1990s. this is so uncharacteristic to have this kind of thing for a guy who never colors outside the lines. i think that's the part. i think tiger will be giving us answers, erica, simply b

it was already well aware of richard brennan. in 2007, he was misused -- he was accused of misusing client money. instead, he used the money for travel, expensive cars, a home in montgomery county, and company debt. >> when somebody promises to pay your creditors and you use it to pay your own newseeds, i thik you're stealing. >> he was ordered to stop selling debt management services. he continued selling debt settlement services. the attorney grievance commission disbar him. in april, a judge found him in contempt of court. he released only after turning over bank records. >> it was rather humiliating. >> we spoke with him outside of his montgomery county home. >> the way this was presented by the attorney general's office is that you ripped off your clients. is that what you did? >> no. >> he claims that his clients average debt was $19,000. he was charging clients $2,500 to $3,000 toward an initial consultation. there were additional fees of $4,000 to $6,000 for attorneys' services and to reach a settlement. it was all spelle

in many brennan do not have health insurance. -- and many right now do not have health insurance. the emergency room does bill people. about half the people who get a bill from the emergency room do pay it. another person said as soon as we get on this health care we will not use the emergency room. that belies the statistic that happened in massachusetts when they did basically the same thing. their emergency room utilization increased 22% because people now have a health card. people will not wait to go to the doctor. people will not be subsidized as much as they used to be by just blowing off an emergency room bill. host: if you go to our website c-span.org that we put together all of our health care coverage. you can also watch the debate that took place yesterday and all the committee hearings on line. a couple of scheduling notes -- the house will be in for a provisional meeting, a short session, tomorrow at about 6:00. but a ostensibly they will be out for the veterans of the day recess. the senate also taking up the debate with the vote that could come as early as thanksgi

republican congressman james sensen brennaner acknowledged the either is warming but the danger is overstated voted against the creation of the committee on energy and climate change. he says e-mails in question poke a hole in conclusion that the question of human influence on climate change is settled. >> these e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation, and secrecy that was inspired by ideology condesession and profit. they read more like scientific fascism than scientific process. >> reporter: the head of the democrat, ed marky, has written legislation designed to reduce global warming gases. >> they sit here using a couple of e-mails as a reason why we should stop all efforts to deal with this catastrophic threat to our planet. >> reporter: at center of the e-mails, professor phil jones of the university of east anglia who led the climate research unit. jones stepped down from his post while the university investigates. in one efrmth mail he writes about a trick and later mentions hide the decline but it isn't spelled out. the president's top science adviser -- >> i haven't read

. >> joining me now is jeffrey toobin and sports columnist christine brennan. so, jeff, legally, as you say, this is done. i mean he doesn't have to talk to police. >> he doesn't have to talk to the police. no american ever has to talk to the police. >> in every state, not just florida. >> not just florida. if the cops want to talk you to and say go pound sand, you have every right to do. that but what makes this situation even more -- what makes this situation even less likely for him to have to talk to the police is what's there for the police to investigate? this doesn't sound like any crime took place. it was sort of a bad fender bender. the front of the car is pretty damaged. but so what? >> right. >> there's just not much there as far as i can tell. >> christine in, terms of public relations, though, is there a problem for him not talking to police, do you think? >> i think it s as you know, anderson, from friday morning until sunday, there was this big vacuum. we didn't hear anything really from team tiger woods. and this is a smart group of people. tige

>> well, on christmas eve, i got a call from john brennan, and then subsequent to that others in the briefing, both to myself and also to members of the staff of the committee. >> okay. and so you are satisfied, it was christmas day just to clarify here. i want to bring up something here that a lot of people have been talking about, and that is obviously the lack of communication that the intelligence agencies have not been able to connect the dots, if you will. i had a chance to talk to one of the 9/11 commissioners, and he said that he explained that this is a difficult situation to correct. here's how he explained why. >> there has always been in washington this intramural kind of feeling of possessiveness about information that is developed within an agency by its sources. so, there is a tendency to stove pipe, to hoard information and not share. >> do you believe that is the problem here? >> i don't believe so. we have the information not yet to even make a judgment on that. if you will let me, i want to make two points. >> sure. >> the system that is in place right now is the s

there's another step -- so just before that, we heard from various sports columnists including christine brennan and her reaction is that she thinks it is finally acknowledgment on the part of tiger and his pr team that this was the best thing for him to do. reaction from his sponsors starting to come in. it said the following -- but then we have this reaction from another one of his major corporate sponsors, ea sports. it chose its words more carefully. it said -- the pga also offered its statement of support saying they are stand behind tiger at this time. but did he do the right thing? not all crisis managers believe this is going to go away any time soon. listen. >> i think it show that tiger and his team is starting to get how big a deal this is. the fact he used the word, infidelity. >> still, others think this will not go away any time soon. one thing is for sure. the golf tour, which is really starting to kick in right now, will not be the same without tiger woods. they always have a dip in viewer ship when he is not playing in a tournament. will it have a permanent impact? that has yet

. >>> joining us now is abc news consultant christine brennan joining us from washington. christine, other than the written statement on his website, we have not heard from tiger woods. is this the right strategy? >> it's a great question, robin, obviously tiger woods and his people are very controlling, disciplined, maybe the most disciplined athlete on the planet in terms of his image so they think it's the right strategy. i don't think his sponsors will leave him. i don't think his fans will leave him but such an incongruous image from the man we're seeing from the man we know. >> it's sump a different world. you know that, christine, with the internet and anything can be said. so how do you confront the things that are being said in blogs and -- in the atmosphere? how do you confront that. >> tiger, of course, said it. it's a private matter and accepted blame and said his wife was khoury rajsz and doesn't like the fact the rumors are out there. they're hoping that's the end of it of the he may or may not show up on his own golf tournament in los angeles. if he does tha

christine brennan, greg doyle, lola, thanks for joining us. >>> hot air. global warming is a complicated issue with massive worldwide complications. this week the media boiling it down to a fight involving an out-of-work politician, sarah palin and the newspaper op ed that sparked an outcry. and there's a train that got a whole city moving again. somewhere in america, the toughest questions are answered every day. because somewhere in america, 69,000 people spend every day answering them. siemens. answers. >>> the media absolutely positively loved to cover sarah palin. when she weighed in on global warming, she was certain to produce some hot air. the wake of those embarrassing hacked e-mails that showed some scientists talking about manipulating their data, a former vp candidate wrote, in the his inaugural address, president president declared his intention to restore science to its rightful place. the president has upped the ante. >> that drew a frosty response from mr. "inconvenient kruth asking al gore about the palin piece. >> palin calls it junk scie

christine brennan from "usa today" and jeff toobin, thanks. what do you think of tiger woods' accident? join the live chat right now. is it a story or much to do about nothing? >>> next, breaking news about the white house party crashers. the reports tonight the couple got into another formal event this fall that president obama also attended. we'll have a live report from the white house coming up. >>> payday for serena williams, over $80,000 but she's the one who owes the money. we'll tell you why, just ahead. , and it compared plans for us. it was easy to find the right plan for the prescriptions i need. your cvs pharmacist can help, too. come in today, or go to cvs.com before december 31st to find the best plan for you -- at cvs/pharmacy. >>> tonight the wanna be realities, the salahis crashed another party this fall. the couple be, i think we have a picture of them posing with vice president biden. they gave investigators e-mails that claim they were welcome at the white house. the obama administration so far disagrees. and today they off

hundreds of others filed consumer complaints with the attorney general against this man, attorney richard brennan. he's accused of taking millions from debt-strapped families and doing little or nothing to help them. >> the way that this was presented by the attorney general's offices, you ripped off your clients. is that what you did? >> tonight at 11:00, with this now dis-- what this now disbarred attorney has to say. the lavish lifestyle he supposedly led and what the state is doing to get the money back. for the 11 news i-team, i'm barry sims. >> 5:23. 48 degrees on tv hill. coming up, another look at your morning commute, traffic and weather together. >> plus a show depicting drugs and violence on baltimore streets will soon be used as a teaching tool. >> don't forget to e-mail your answer to the "watercooler question of the day" what do you think of a bill that would give pet owners up to a $3, 500 tax break? email your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. so, what is this thing again? it's fidelity's guidance -- it shows you ways to spend in retirement that can help your money last, whateve

not going to and i do not compare his conclusion in bays to the dissenting opinions of martial and brennan or to justice powell's a statement after he had retired and had come to believe the death penalty ought to be abolished. time permitting, i will discuss some of the broader implications of justice stevens' concurring opinion, but i think that time will not permit. one could argue that there is ample basis and justice stevens would in some manner in someday come to the conclusion that justice blackmun reached in calends when he the roahe conclt the death penalty had failed. it is notable that the league and are cut -- the liebman article begins in 2005 on the occasion of the third marshall award. in the address, he catalogued the flaws in the death penalty, wrongful convictions, inadequate legal representation, the process of death qualification which produces guilt-prone areas, and creates cross- section of the committee that will not serve on capitol hearings. there are releasedç several reasons independent of the folly of prognostication why it would have been unwise for profess

. >>> for more on this, let's turn to abc news consultant, christine brennan. thanks for joining us again. if anyone, you cover sports, if anyone deserves the benefit of the doubt in any situation, it's a guy who has built an empire on self-discipline and focus. so, is it naive to think there could be a reasonable explanation for this that doesn't involved the violent and mart tall spat? >> no, bill, i don't think it that's naive. i think that's certainly within the realm of responsibility. there's a logical explanation. everybody will believe it. tiger will move on and make more money. i don't think that this is a going to irreparably harm his image or his endorsement opportunities. you mentioned the self-discipline, such a polished image, a marketing and pr team, that's probably the best we have ever seen for a single athlete, bill. we haven't heard anything for 48 hours. that's the part that surprises me from the tiger woods' camp. >> but, at the same time, he's fiercely, fiercely private. one of the best stories to give credence to that, he named his yacht,

he also serves as the little director of the brennan center for justice which is located at the law school. he is an expert in constitutional law. he is a member of the american academy of arts and sciences. he received his undergraduate degree from cornell and did his lower get my, marty alma mater, harvard. one of his more recent and provocative worksh, "the house was quiet and at the world was calm. the reader became the book, reading the bill of rights as a poem." that is the subject of today's talk. our next guest, priprofessor barnett practice law as a chicago prosecutor, most notably gonzalez verses reacach. professor barnett has published more than 80 articles. he received his undergraduate degree from northwestern and also that his law degree at harvard law school. professor barnett's scholarship spans several areas of law. most prominently, he has written several books on contract law and constitutional law. most recently, he has research topics on the constitutionality of law, structure constitutional, federalism, and the presumption of liberty. the topic for today's panel is pr

others filed consumer complaints with the maryland attorney general against this man, attorney richard brennan. he's accused of taking millions from debt-strapped families and doing little or nothing to help them. >> the way that this was presented by the attorney general's offices, you ripped off your clients. is that what did you? >> tonight at 11:00, what this now disbarred attorney has to say about the money he got from consumers. the lavish lifestyle he supposedly led, and what the state is doing to get the money back. for the 11 news i-team, barry sims. >> 6:21. 47 degrees. another check on weather and traffic is straight ahead. >> and how about them ravens? they get back on the winning track in a huge match-up against the formerly undefeated denver broncos. keith hills has highlights. >> and e-mail your answer to the "watercooler question of the day." what do you think of a bill that would give pet owners up to a $3,500 tax break? e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. - ( music playing ) - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected t

we didn't rip off clients. >> brennan claims his clients' average debt was $19,000. he admits charging for an initial consultation and additional fees of $4,000 for attorneys' services and reach settlements and said it was spelled out in letters to clients. >> at no time did we say we will pay your debt every month. >> he had no right to charge consumers fees because he was providing fees that he either couldn't perform or he was exaggerating what he could do. >> there are hundreds of people from maryland and other states complained about paying for his services and not getting their debts paid. brennan blames his trouble on poor accounting and ladge of management experience but does admit living large. >> i did like spending money on nice things for myself, but as for a true lavish lifestyle, that is overstated. >> when the state caught up with him, brennan said he was forced to sell his cars, borrow on his home and everything else he owned to try to save the firm. when did you realize it wasn't tunching around. >> when the bar came and said we want your license and

and news consultant, christine brennan in washington. as a lawyer, i would tell tiger, say nothing, because you want to preserve your rights if there's litigation. howard, you were on last week. you said he needed to talk. now, how do you feel? >> last week, he had a big p.r. problem, chris. i think it's changed this last week. now, my gut is he's got a life problem. there's some major issues that he has to confront. and we don't know the truth yet. but potentially, prescriptive drug addictions. it's gone beyond p.r. and an interview to clean this mess up. i think he needs a game-changer, chris. >> chris, let me bring you in this. we heard riley say he will be a better golfer. >> i respect rick and work with him for 25 years. it would be interesting to see. i disagree. the aura of invince blts, chris, that tiger had, how does he get that back again? other golfers would quake in their shoes on the thought of playing tiger in the final round on sunday. now, he's the laughing stock. i have to believe that's going to impact his ability to be

brennan let us take a look at seven day forecast. everything is " this morning. only 40 degrees. tomorrow morning, 19 -- 34 for the beginning of hanukkah. this has been a very wintry december. coming up, more tips for you. >> it is therapeutic wrapping packages. >> the surf is up and up in hawaii. we will show you how some brave surfers took on monstrous waves. >> in washington, the president accepts the nobel peace prize >> most versus would have the opposite direction with this wall of water. not these people. this is on the shores of hawaii. some of the waves were as high as a five story building. no one was seriously injured. >> stints at the university of wisconsin decided to make the most of their snow day taking part in what they hope will be a record-setting snowball fight. it was court made it through facebook invitations for each dormitory. those crazy college kids. >> i love it. but will take a look of the morning's headlines coming up. >> minor delays developing in your morning commute. >> the coldest air of this season is on the way. we will lead to know how cold is

now to talk about this, sports attorney david cornwell and "usa today" sports columnist, christine brennan here in new york. welcome it you both. woods canceled his appearance at his own charity golf tournament. why would he do that? >> one, i think he's not feeling great. you know, he said he's sore and if the accident caused him to not feel good, he does want to play golf this week. it's clear, campbell, he'd be asked quite a bit about what went on over the weekend, what happened on friday morning. it sounds like he wants to avoid that. his managers, his people, they are on message. that is he does not want to talk. the last thing i wants to do is have a press conference on tuesday where everyone will ask him just about that. >> could it also be as simple as some have suggested of him not wanting anybody to see his injuries. >> well, i'm sure it has something to do with that, because the fact that the air bag didn't deploy in the car gives us some reason to suspect whether or not facial lacerations were caused by the car accident. tiger's probably going through a tug of war right now. pr

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it's been a big week for brennan i can, named "time's" man of the year yesterday. the dow stands this morning at 10441 after losing ten points yesterday. the nasdaq added 6 and the s&p climbed about a point. >>> bank of america has tapped senior executive brian moynihans to chief as the chief executive officer. he will replace ken lewis who presided over a rocky period for the company, receiving and recently repaying $45 billion in bailout money. lewis will get $53 million in pension benefits an retirement but the company's stock price is below the level it traded out when lewis took over in 2001. >>> this could help you get the last-minute shopping done. today is free shipping day. hundreds of retailers are participating offering free shipping and guaranteed deliver by christmas. it can be found at freeshipping.org but read the fine print, some ship to their stores and others to your house. >> yeah, definitely read the fine print on that. you are saving us more money in the next half hour. >> that's right. when you go 0 the store they often offer the extended warr

john brennan, his former counterterrorism adviser made a speech in august, where he said the president has made clear we're at war with al qaeda. he hits him on releasing detainees from guantanamo. >> i know. >> well, guess what, al qaeda in yemen -- >> i've got to go. more on cheney the next show. i think the guy is back like freddy krueger, he's never going to leave us. clarence page, thank you. mike isikoff, happy new year, to both your families. from all of us here at "hardball," have a happy new year. "countdown with keith olbermann" starts right now. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? dick cheney emerges from his undisclosed location to accuse president obama of trying to pretend we are not at war with terrorists. dick also accuses the president of making the country less safe in response to the recent attempted attack on a civilian jetliner. but how has this administration's actions been any different than what the bush administration did after shoe bomber richard reid tried to blow up an airliner in 2001? hypocritical, much? >>> speaking of which, th

. >>> this weekend on "meet the press," david gregory asks deputy national security adviser john brennan why they were not caught before the plot. also guests michael chertoff. >>> chest pains like those that usually would indicate a heart attack. doctors are still running tests to determine exactly what happened. limbaugh was rushed to the hospital yesterday for chest pains while on vacation in hawaii. paramedics say he was in serious condition when they first got to him. limbaugh turns 59 next month. >>> right now police in finland say a gunman who opened fire in a shopping mall in helsinki has killed himself. >>> passengers bound for jfk, the plane made an emergency landing in bangor, maine, after the pilot told the passengers there was a water leak in the bathrooms, creating a block of ice that damaged the right engine. another aircraft to bangor, and that flight landed safely in paris. >>> security on high alert in new york's times square as huge crowds are expected to ring in the new year. thousands of police officers will be deployed to the area. yesterday there was a security sca

the president spoke with his counterterrorism adviser john brennan today in hawaii as well as homeland security secretary janet napolitano. earlier this week the president ordered reviews of airline security procedures, and reviews of the nation's terror watch list. president obama says he will meet with relevant agency heads this tuesday back in washington. >>> today, secretary napolitano announced she is sending senior officials to meet with leaders from major international airports to review security procedures used on passengers traveling to the united states. meanwhile, director of national intelligence dennis blarp writes the president was direct in his assessment that intelligence failures were a contributing factor in the escalation of this threat. in coming days he will review what information was available to whom, determine what mistakes were made in assessing and sharing that information, commend those who did their jobs well and hold accountable those who did not. nbc's mike joins us live from the white house. mike, the president himself, at least the white house has put o

john brennan, president obama's homeland security adviser was the first chief of that unit and helped to put the rules in place. john understands very well the importance of this information sharing, but it's not just a question of information systems. it really is a question of will and breaking the cultures and requiring the sharing. it's incredibly frustrating so many years after september 11th with so many changes in place we still have this. >> why do you have to require sharing? these people are sworn to protect the united states, whether they're dia or cia or fbi. >> you understand on the inside here in d.c. one of the things that happens inside the beltway and sometimes it's about a need-to-know question. certainly on the intelligence side. that sort of stays with the culture that i think is broken, because it's our information. we will figure out what this means, and we will determine whether or not we're going to share this out. that is a failure. it really has been in the past. i know they have try heed to fix this, and they've talked about fixing this and spent billions of

our second panelist is margaret brennan, and anchor and reporter for bloomberg television news in new york. she was a general assignment reporter for nbc and a contributor to nbc's today show and nightly news as well as an best nbc. she is also a graduate of mr. jefferson's university of virginia. alan murray is managing editor and executive editor on line for the wall street journal. he was previously managing editor of a wall street journal and author of the weekly business column. he has served as washington d.c. bureau chief for nbc and the wall street journal. we are very fortunate to have alan on our governing council at the madison of public affairs at the university. a member of distinction for many years. next we have robert sanders, contributing editor of newsweek and the washington post where he has written about business and economic issues since 19707. his articles also appear in the los angeles times, boston globe and other reading newspapers. his latest book is entitled the great inflation and its aftermath, past and future of american capitalists in case you are wonder

spoke again this morning with attorney general eric holder and janet napolitano and my advisor john brennan. i asked them to keep and continue monitoring the situation and to keep the american people and members of congress informed. here is what we know so far. on christmas day, northwest airlines flight 253 was on route from amsterdam to detroit. as the plane made its final approach to detroit, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device on his body, setting off a fire. thanks to the quick and heroic actions of passengers and crew, the suspect was immediately subdued and the fire was put out in the plane landed safely. the suspect is in custody and has been charged with attempting to destroy an aircraft. a full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable. this was a serious reminder of the dangers we face and the nature of those who threaten our homeland. the suspect succeeded in bringing down that plane. it could have killed -- if the suspect succeeded it could have k

to do that, do you have to have a complete success with the counterinsurgency, so that there are no brennans left of taliban? >> i will let the president go through some of that. >> two congressmaen put in a bil calling for a surtax in 2011. i understand you have not heard any discussion on it, but when the president meets with centrist tomorrow, will he give them any guidance on that? >> [inaudible] >> will they try again to engage iran, continued a process that started a few months ago, or should we be at a turning point with the announcement from iran yesterday? >> that is a question for the iranians. the iranians should quite clearly understand their responsibilities and obligations under international treaty that they signed, okay? the iranians have been rebuked for their actions with a single -- by a single international voice through a strong vote in the iaea board of governors. if they make the decision to fulfill their responsibilities and obligations, then the international community would welcome back. if they decide not to fulfil those responsibilities and obligations, then all i

guest: i think the problem is larger than that are there was a speech given by john brennan, who is a home security adviser and said that jihad does not mean holy war but it means peace and love. that was a carryover from the michael chertoff memorandum from 2007 that said they would not use the word jihad. i think that is a tremendous mistake. if we cannot define the enemy as to who he is, we can never expect to defeat them. the reality is that the apologists for jihad want to define it in terms of spiritual good struggle. it can mean that but for the holy warriors, and they know who they are, jihad means a holy war or struggle to impose islam. host: next up is our line for independence from springfield, virginia. caller: i want to ask about the right wing politicians like dick arfmemey and bill like -- and te like -- are they considered homegrown terrorism? i'm talking about undermining the president of the united states. they undermine him with their rhetoric they accuse him of being a socialist and accuse him of not being born in the united states. they are undermining the preside

in his early years, there was no justice with him he disagree more often than justice brennan. justice scalia considered justice brennan his best friend on the court. >> this is a tradition that was nearly pushed by justice o'connor when she is on the court. it stuck. >> justice o'connor insisted that we have lunch everyday when we were sitting. now clarence, you should come to lunch. she was really sweet. i came to lunch. it is one of the best things i did. it is hard to be angry or bitter at someone and break bread and look them in the eye. it is a fun lunch. very little work is done there. it dishes nine people or eight people having -- it is just nine people or eight people having lunch. >> i try not to miss the post argument lunch. you never know what my colleagues will be talking about. let's it is the role that we do not talk abut the cases. >> we will talk about the offer. some of us will talk about the baseball game or the golf tournament. some will talk about the good movie they had seen. it is the kind of things that everybody would talk to their colleagues about at

and that's why i sent this letter to john brennan to find out what happened. i want the results of the investigation ordered by the president. several of us were briefed yesterday morning, senator feinstein, senator sessions, myself and others, on what is happening. i think -- in fact, i know that you want to find out everything that happened. not only what happened there, but what may have gone right, what may have gone wrong prior to that. we're both former prosecutors. we don't want to compromise a prosecution. what resources is your department using to learn whether steps were missed that could have been taken to avert this tragedy? >> the fbi is certainly intimately involved in the investigation in working with the military investigators, the military prosecutors, who ultimately try the case. all of the resources of the justice department that have been requested have been made available and will be made available in order to determine exactly what happened at ft. hood and also to try to deemergency rod determine how we can prevent future events like this

also with us christine brennan, sports columnist usa today, best in the business. elizabeth lambert really went for it. are young ladies becoming more violent? let's start with this soccer case here. what are you seeing? >> what i'm seeing is violence in sports, which has also been there. what i'm seeing is more women are playing sports and more girls are playing sports. so girls and women are starting to display the same kinds of aggression in sports boys and men already have. they do it for the same reason. they do it, one, because they think they will get away with it. and two, because they somehow think it will help them win. in other words, they will be rewarded for it. if it goes unwshd and they are rewarded you'll see more people and violence in sport. >> you're saying they are emulating the guys. this is a societal message we're giving girls the green light to become more violent, it's a strakt sports thing. >> i don't know if it's a strict sports things. in many sports you see lots of aggression and foul play. if it's caught it goes punished, if it's not i

to say that is to sound like bill brennan. he is not that guy. what we are seeing now is the fallout of this sort of this still notion that clearly in his view the roberts court is doing something wrong but there is no word for it because we do not have a way of talking about it. i think it is that disjunction that plays out. i think this is a failure to have an ability to say what the roberts court has done in its views toward certain classes of people that course traditionally protect is wrong. but we don't know how the say that sphere. >> [inaudible] i would like to complain about justice sonia sotomayor's handling of the hearing. >> the handling of -- >> that is to say -- >> [inaudible] >> she got what we wanted but she disappointed me by failing to engage in the issues without sending off [unintelligible] souter did it brilliantly. i am older than you are. >> [unintelligible] [laughter] >> now that was a hearing. >> without going too far, it was very engaging. >> let's give someone a chance to respond to that. >> i sat through the hearings.