Week In The News: Terror Threat, Summit Canceled, A-Rod’s Punishment (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/08/09/week-in-the-news-terror-threat-summit

Two years after the killing of Osama bin Laden, suddenly al Qaeda seems capable of hitting us again – enough that the Obama administration closed 20 embassies. now, a new threat in Pakistan. What’s happened? And what about that reset with Russia, now that the president canceled a planned September summit in Moscow

Here at home, members of Congress are back in their districts are trying to figure out what to do about the budget. And baseball suspends Alex Rodriguez – but lets him rejoin the Yankees lineup anyway.

This hour, On Point:  the roundtable goes behind the headlines.