Karen Gibson

It is Friday and we love you and we'd love for you to be with us.

And Lieutenant General Karen Gibson is going to join us.

And we're going to talk about the Army General says America's next war could take place on U.S. soil.

We know, and we're waiting for that.

So we'll see you down there, okay? All good.

Hey, Chris Swecker is on the show, former FBI.

We're going to talk with Lieutenant General Karen Gibson about the danger on the homeland, about what's going on in the Middle East.

You know, we'll check in with NIAF.

Analysts also weighed the choice facing the president on Yemen.

Retired Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, a former Central Command intelligence director, told Fox News that American strikes alone might not compel the Houthis to change course and that deeper involvement could draw more vessels into the group sites near Bab el-Mandeb.

She also said the economics of this kind of fighting had shifted, with attacks cheap and defense very expensive.

A Houthi political bureau member, Mohammed al-Bukhari, repeated that any American involvement would bring a swift and painful response against American interests in the region.

The President Donald Trump speaking with the Saudi crown prince as the Iranian-backed Houthis expand attacks across the kingdom, launching more missile strikes and striking the Aramco headquarters.

Let's build on this story with General Karen Gibson of Academy Securities writing, "Although Iran's threat perceptions might be heightened right now, it's worth noting that its rebuilding and refortification programs have continued throughout the conflict." General Gibson joins us now for more.

General, welcome back to the program.

Do you see US involvement on the horizon here?

Welcome to the How to Succeed podcast.

And today we're talking with Karen Gibson about how to succeed at leading teams.

My guest today has led at altitudes most of us only read about.

Lieutenant General Karen Gibson spent 33 years in the U.S. Army.

She's one of the highest ranking women in its history, running intelligence for Central Command in the middle of two wars and serving as deputy director of national intelligence.

Then after she'd retired, she was asked to do one more thing, walk into the United States Senate as its sergeant at arms in the aftermath of January 6th and take charge of a security team that was demoralized and defeated.

The question now is why that Omani co-pilot who attacked him and was co-piloting a passenger jet full of Israeli citizens was in that plane when his own home country had banned him from their skies for, quote, radical ideological views.

The former director of intelligence for U.S. CENTCOM retired Lieutenant General Karen Gibson joins me.

General, this is a massive failure, isn't it? How did this co-pilot get into a fly-to-buy flight with a plane full of Israelis going to Israel?

That's certainly a significant security shortcoming.

We

shall see.

Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, I appreciate you coming on tonight.

Thank you.

Jeremy Diamond, thanks so much.

I want to bring in retired Army Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, former director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command, former FAA safety inspector David Susi, and CNN global affairs analyst Brett McGurk, author of the upcoming book Brink Inside the Race to Free the October 7th Hostages.

David, is there any sort of playbook for what to do if the copilot attacks the captain in midair? I mean, do airlines train for that sort of thing?

Well, they do train for what can happen in the cockpit, but it's not necessarily about, we work a lot on crew resource management for how to get the pilot and the co-pilot to work together, communicate well, but we don't really go to that extent to say, how do you get out of an attacker? But I'm really, really impressed with the fact that the pilot was still able and had the presence of mind to get that door open so that people could get in.

raised questions given the ongoing conflict with Iran, the status of which is still very much in flux, as the president suggests it won't be resolved until after the midterms.

And it's with that in mind now that we turn to Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, who is back with us on Bloomberg TV and radio.

She's now a member of Academy Security's geopolitical Intelligence Group and is former Deputy Director of National Intelligence at the Office of Director of National Intelligence.

Lieutenant General, welcome back to Balance of Power.

It's in the aggregate.

And what we need to pay attention to is are these truly readiness moves or do firings and removal of people from promotion lists or petty actions like taking General Milley's portrait off the halls of the Pentagon contribute to an environment in which officers no longer feel they can offer best military advice or honest testimony before Congress without jeopardizing their careers? That's the danger.

Lieutenant General Karen Gibson, General, we always appreciate spending some time with you and very much on this day of days.

Thank you for your service with operations coming to a conclusion in Iraq.