in moscow is built many times the property around the mosque is bought. muslims move into the homes and will result in the store fronts, everything is in arabic and you say this neighborhood has changed pretty rapidly. but this has been the blueprint in europe and all of a sudden you have a self segregating islamic enclave within the major western city. not in all cases but this has happened time after time i've witnessed it firsthand in britain, places like sweden people would never believe there are no go zones for police in these large muslim enclaves in europe and even a place like deer born in america developing into that. but - hub, the center activity in the cases is yes, the mosque. >> host: you mentioned there going of the country. one of the things you talk of it is the islamic center of murphy's work tennessee. we've been fixated on the ground zero mosque in manhattan large facilities in northern virginia. but this is on 52,000 feet in a tiny suburb of asheville. why? what is the strategy? because you spend a lot of time talking about this in t

the broad geographic scope, the mega moscow building in this country, murphy's third tennessee, this is the buckle of the bible belt. alaska broke ground on the first mosque, a rural wisconsin, northern kentucky, places you'd never expect and the key thing is the a very small muslim communities. murphy's third tennessee which i described in the book i was on the ground at the mosque, there's no more than 250 muslim families in the hole. yet they are building as you said a 52,000 square foot moscow over 15 acres of land, multimillion-dollar projects, absolutely massive. i was there on the ground and saw what they are going to do and there's multiple buildings. why? why do you need such a large structure for such a small community and that is the question in these projects are around the country. i investigated many of them and i outlined in the book. why? what is the endgame? what is the goal and i talk to the local activists and murphy's byrd and they said look, we feel like they are targeting us because this is kind of the center of the bible belt. nashville is a place where gospel

unsuccessful but as follows the successful attacks you to overseas in spain, the committee, moscow and elsewhere and the ground infrastructure, bridges, transportation in the areas or hubs which can also be attacked and of course the consequences of an attack on any one of these systems in our country could be devastating. a critical component of the tsa security efforts in passenger rail is our partnership with industry and local and regional stakeholders. the dhs comprehensive transit security grant program is the primary vehicle for the assistance and hansel to eligible transit agencies supporting the state and local government initiative to improve security. the work to fund projects that most effectively mitigate risk at the highest systems for example in 2010 the award nearly $274 million to the transit passenger rail industry bringing the total since to those of six to nearly $1.6 billion. in addition to grant funding tsa supports the mass transit systems by deploying visible prevention response teams or fiber teams to augment local security efforts and as you know we've 25 dedi

and medvedev went on to reiterate a warning issued by the foreign ministry that moscow may pull out of the new start disarmament agreement in response to the united states position on missile defenses. this is what many of us predicted would happen if we ratified the new start treaty in december. i didn't think twho happen so -- it would happen so quickly. this point was reiterated by president medvedev following the g-8 summit in france when he said -- quote -- "we're wasting time f. we do not reach agreement by 2020, a new arms race will begin. i would like my partners to bear this in mind constantly." the russian -gs -- russians are threatening a new arms race if the united states does not reach some agreement with them relative to missile defense. what they mean by that is the united states reduces our capability to defend against missiles that could theoretically come from russia. so i just have to ask, is this the new reset relationship that the administration promised? did it manage to reset our relationship right back to the cold war? it appears from the president of the russia

our allies suffering from attacks in london and madrid, and when we see 400 plus -- 40 plus hotels in moscow, 200 plus fatalities in india, and there's a national security issue, it seems the rulemaking should be different than the rulemaking with regard to the construction of toys or a new way of looking at labor laws. but in conclusion, let me just observe, mr. chairman, that somebody must be doing something right, in the fact that we've not had these incidents as i mentioned in the other four locations, as something to be proud of. it's not to say that something won't happen this afternoon or tomorrow, because the threat is ongoing. but we, i think we are very fortunate in that we have escaped this type of attack for as long as we have. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thanks very much. i think it's fair to say that we have been diligent, that we have intercepted many plans for people who want to bring destruction to the system. and i congratulate all branches of the area that are concerned, whether it is gao or the amtrak police. mr. pistole, the tsa, your people are hard at work. i generally

in fact, just that past march one of the largest of the moscow show trials had taken place and ended with the executions of all 21 defendants. so newspapers in america piled on. the conservative chicago daily tribune wrote that if fdr succeeded in his own purge, the only people remaining in the democratic party would be hitler yemen or stalin communist. and another famous columnist announced that roosevelt resembled hitler because he was demanding absolute personal power and a purely nominal legislature. fdr's purge expedition started in early july, just two weeks after his fireside chat. he traveled comfortably in his own ten-car air-cooled train. eighty other passengers joined him onboard; secretaries, assistants, cooks, military aides, a few friends as well as radio engineers and announcers, newsreel cameramen, photographers and 30 reporters. more reporters traveled with him that summer than covered his 1936 re-election campaign. so during the summer of 1938 roosevelt's train zigzagged across the continent making stops at rallies in ohio, kentucky, down to arkansas, west to oklaho

it had -- even more than moscow. and it was considered a combat zone even though 1973 paris peace accords, we're no longer at war, it was still considered a combat posting. so jim keane and his top, tom valdez, his master sergeant, his noncommissioned officer in charge of these msgs, they triedering they could to dissuade -- tries everything they could to dissuade ambassador martin from trying to continue to think he'd negotiate. we've got to get the evacuation going. i mean, the evacuation that finally happened was like plan z. plan a was fixed wing from every airfield in south vietnam. well, that -- they were counting on way city, they were counting on ben ho, boom, those airfields are gone. there was one airfield left in our hands in saigon. so plan b was an evacuation by sea. well, we saw what happened in denang. it was a cluster hump. and that's not the word the marines used. we can't do that. plus the navy, the north vietnamese cut off access to the coast so quickly, quicker than we had expected, that we can't,

many of the hospitals in moscow didn't have running water, far less usable hypodermics and that sort of thing. in cuba what you have is a two- tiered system. they have an excellent health care system for europeans with money, americans with money that choose for whatever reason to go down there. for the ordinary cuban, health care is not wonderful and universal and free and all that. this is a fantasy that so many liberals find it hard to part with, communism delivered a good life for most people and it's simply not true. brian lamb: do they think communism was good? >> no. but they don't fully appreciate how evil it was. brian lamb: why not? >> there are many reasons. there is a tendency among people to want to discount threats, to want not to believe that something is as dangerous as it really is. we saw that during the nazi rise. the english and french found millions of reasons to suppose naziism wasn't as dangerous as it proved to be. i think there was some of that in this country not wanting to believe they were as dangerous as they really were. i also think there is a continuum

some of the bad news came directly from moscow. chip bo lin, the american ambassador, cabled that the soviet mood had become more ominous and that he feared soviet leaders were prepared to take action unless a cease fire was quickly achieved. the staff hastened the president's return by flying him back instead of having him drive from gettysburg. ike arrived at the white house at 12:38 p.m. following a short briefing, he strode into the cabinet room where 18 men were waiting. the vice president and the top leadership of both the state and defense departments including the joint chiefs. this was a could council of war. admiral ratford briefed the president regarding the steps of the joint chiefs. we're prepared to assure readiness for fighting a major war with the soviet union. eisenhower reviewed each step urging careful and deliberate implementation. then his son broke from behind, and the president was informed in the middle of this meeting that british prime minister anthony was available by phone. eisenhower interrupted the mee

so they decide to try to crack the code in the cable traffic between moscow, washington and new york. it took them until 1946. is a very difficult code. what they discovered is no, there wasn't talk of peace, but there was a lot of evidence of the aggressive effort on the part of the soviet union to recruit spies in the government, and in technological fields, and that's how -- the way we found the soviets atomic spies was through the known. but it was so top secret. it was only released in 1995 that we never knew. the soviets knew because of the moles who were in washington for them, but anyway, the point being jack got kind of caught up in that even though he wasn't involved in that, but there are -- there was evidence of soviet spy rings in the u.s. and the truman administration was trying to bat back all the soft claim and communism's of the republicans actually had effectively countered this and got people out of government. there's an excellent book done by the chief counter espionage agent from the fbi about that whole thing. robert lamphere is his name. .. >> and there's nothi

he was station chief in moscow. he was station chief of berlin during the cold war. he ran the cia war against the russians in afghanistan. he was the one who was in charge of the smuggling of the arms and one of howard's most remarkable stories when he was in iran when khomeini took over, the revolutionary guard found him shortly after he was paying off a double agent who was in the shah's secret police and started stomping him to death and they were well on their way when howard pulled out a gun and killed them both and he made his way to the embassy and he didn't complain about his injuries because he wanted to stay on the job. eventually got out and when he got out and back to america and the doctor looked at him and said, the only time i've seen internal injuries like this was a head-on car accident and those guys are dead and he lives in incredible amounts of pain. he's a very, very brave man. but in any event, bob and howard really tireless in helping me, you know, get things right. >> well, among the people you credit in the book as well, leon panetta, the ci

interest to terrorists and al qaeda affiliate's as we looked at what happened in london and madrid and moscow. we have been publishing on the tactics and techniques used in these attacks on rail to our law enforcement and public sector partners to help them think through the appropriate protective measures for some time. i will turn it over to dan for specifics. >> we have specific analysts that look at rail specifically and passenger or freight rail and they do annual assessments of classified and unclassified level and probably would be better if we go ahead and have a closed-door session and walk you through the classified findings that we have with him the rail assessments we have out there especially in light of bin laden's wrote. >> i want you to feel confident we have been looking at this for quite a while. >> i want to express my appreciation to this distinguished panel for your patience and your excellent testimony and the preparation that went into it and for your service. all of us appreciate that you are on the front line and you are on the front line in what is now a very precari

directly and more just military uniform but families of the military because they did an attack at a moscow which is basically attacking the families of the military who recall that incident a couple of years ago this is an attack on muslims praying in a mosque in the military sector so now the terrorists are attacking the military so i think the perception is changing as to what is the terrorist threat to pakistan. now let's ask about specifically the isi role in the taliban. a lot of people have written that the taliban is a covert action of the isi. to have a lot of evidence to support the thesis, and there were some quotes if you read seth jones he has a series of quotes which is documented basically the isi created the taliban. the taliban after the russian withdrawal. but i would present some contrary evidence because it is a wilderness of mirrors it's hard to say with certainty anything yet in my conversations with the former taliban they don't mention the isi at all. the only talk about what they did organize themselves. on the isi, their view of themselves is ahmed -- he was a form