Now, I want everyone to understand what you're looking at your screen here. This is not a video. This is live. This is actually what is happening live right now near Moscow, right outside that shopping center and concert venue where this occurred. So you can still see some of the flashing lights. But I want everyone to understand that what you're looking at here is live. So it's 2:30 in the morning, and you've got a lot of traffic. You got a lot of cars going by here. And as that picture is zooming in a bit, you can see still the incredible amount of law enforcement and lights outside. Bob, the thing about this, and it is hard to have this conversation and not feel a little odd because we are in the context of a massive war going on in Ukraine. And yet in that context, the United States had told Russia somehow had had communications and told them to expect something like this, intercepting intelligence that was specific and spot on, saying that ISIS was determined to attack inside Russia. And then the US Embassy issued a specific warning last weekend. The Embassy monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow to include concerts, and US citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings.

And we understand this was also passed to Russian authorities. I mean, that is as specific and accurate as I've ever seen one of these things to be, Bob.

Oh, indeed, it is. I think it's been picked up from chatter. I don't know if it was actionable, but if they didn't know where the concert was, the venue, or the time, it would have been nice to have that. The Russians would have paid attention. But the problem is, Moscow is a big city. It's very vulnerable. And these attackers, keep in mind, listening to the gunfire, were very disciplined. They were executing people. This was not a pickup team. This is what should worry us. And what should also worry about us is what's happening in Afghanistan, because if indeed this is the Islamic state of Khorasan, which is Afghanistan, they are regrouped regrouping there. And the attack against Iran in January, a suicide bombing in Qatar, and Pakistan, it tells me that they are regrouping.

And that, of course, has massive implications for the United States as well. General, the context here is also the war in Ukraine and Putin's silence tonight. What do you make of his silence? It's Pescov who has come out and said, his spokesperson, Dmitri Pescov, that Putin is being briefed. But you have the biggest attack in decades on Moscow, scores dead, and Putin is silent?

Yeah, I'm going to address it in what you just asked Bob, Erin. The six nations, the six embassies that warn Moscow that this was coming on the seventh of March through classified channels, there's something called a duty to warn. When countries pick up, chatter, like Bob just said, on terrorist activities, even if you're giving the information to a foe or a competitor like Russia is to us, you still have that duty to give that intelligence to their intelligence agency. I would suggest the reason why Putin is being so quiet right now is he's a bit embarrassed. His intelligence agency has received this information. They knew something was going to happen. It was even as specific to say that it could happen in a concert venue, and yet they did nothing about it. As soon as this attack occurred, then other cities in Russia started to pay attention. They shut down a concert in St. Petersburg, hours after this started happening. In other cities throughout Moscow, the same thing started to happen. So I would guess at least one of the reasons why we had heard from Putin is he's a little bit embarrassed that he received information from the West and he didn't act on it.

Yeah. What is an incredible moment, and to think, again, what it does mean in the context of the war. Thank you both so very much.