Next week, the White House is planning to host a summit on countering violent extremism.

It was originally scheduled for last year but got delayed and then put back on the calendar

after the Paris terrorist attacks in January.

What should we expect from a summit like this?

A last very little of a positive nature.

I view this principally as a media event, I hope I'm wrong.

Just in case the summit does turn out to be primarily a media event, we thought we'd

take this podcast which technically is a media event and turn it into a terrorism summit.

We'll talk about what's known and what's not known about terrorism, we'll talk about

what's working and what's not to prevent it and what we should be thinking about but aren't.

Now how do we accomplish this?

Basically, we asked some people who know a lot about terrorism to tell us what they'd

say if they had the ear of President Obama and other world leaders.

Many people might think that we couldn't make the problem worse.

Oh yes, we can make it much worse very quickly as we saw with the rack.

Problems we can never get rid of terrorism 100 percent in the same way that we can't get

rid of school shooters 100 percent.

So we have to have to be resilient as a country to be able to recognize that the outlier

attack doesn't mean that it's doomsday.

Leadership is taking people to a place they wouldn't have gotten to already.

You know, if you see a parade going down the street and you run up in front of it, they're

not actually following you.

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