Colin Powell quickly realized his bigmouth slip-up while being interviewed, so he reassured the American people that "we don't even KNOW about" a certain something that is unknown (except that it's a crisis scheduled for certain dates after the inauguration).
I didn't get to see the videos that youtube has of the interview (my computer doesn't play videos well), but the economy in America right now seems to allow no other alternative than drastic change (civil unrest/chaos). Northcomm has troops in the U.S. meant to deal with civil unrest (it was even an article in the New York Post 12-23-2008).