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Burnett. Outfront breaking news. A new arrest in connection to paris attacks. Reuters is suspects ties and the brothers of course are behind it. Al qaedas recruiter in europe tied to two of the terrorist. A western intelligence source says the whereabouts tonight unknown. France on the highest state of alert searching for more possible accomplices terrorist from last weeks attacks. More than 13,000 troops are deployed as there is no doubt more accomplices are out there and an International Manhu...

Bloodbath. Bally. four of the hostages wereu as well. All four terr scst, the hostageokt takers and boumediene, the woman on the run, are said to be part of al qaeda in yemen. That groupxd claimedu responsibility yesterday with an email to news organizations. I want to find out more about that deadly al qaeda cellfno first let us go to jakei] cammer who is in pariz still investigating. What can you tell us about thexd link to the underwearco bomber . Reporter yes. Were hearing new details of the...

The differences between the civil and military trials. the issue isnt just with these trials but the interrogations as well. >> thats right, shepard. you wouldnt know it from all the rhetoric, but this terrorist tug of war does agree on certain things. first of all, richard reid was handled by the federal courts and as you said pled guilty, is in prison for life. the abdul mutallab case has many similarities. why? plenty of evidence he was wearing it as richard reid was. lots of eyewitnesses to ...

The fbi runs in the united states, to make sure we have eyes and ears throughout this country in the event there are sleeper cells out there. very close corroboration between the fbi and local law enforcement. weve been able to stop individuals, nazy azazi and others. we have dedicated a lot of resources to uncover them. >> talk about this political fight over national security as well. scott brown, the 41st republican senator. on the night he was -- of his victory, when he was celebrating, he s...

Administration. in december of 2008, that was when those guidelines in put in place. so the procedures and protocols were exactly consistent with what was done before. now, after this incident, the president asked us to take a new look and see whether or not those processes are ones that we are comfortable with and whether or not we can enhance and strengthen them. thats what were looking at right now. but those fbi agents and others acted appropriately. quite frankly, im tiring of politicians u...

Cooperation. during the following day, it came out that it was starting to flow from mr. mutallab. the press was all over it. this network went out and provided that. we wanted to make sure we were able to provide to the networks and the media the correct rendition of what happened and how instrumental abduls family was in getting him to cooperate. it was a successful activity on the part of the department justice and the intelligence community. what we did was make sure the facts were out there...

Joint terrorism task forces that the fbi runs in the united states, to make sure we have eyes and ears throughout this country in the event there are sleeper cells out there. very close corroboration between the fbi and local law enforcement. weve been able to stop individuals, nazy azazi and others. we have dedicated a lot of resources to uncover them. >> talk about this political fight over national security as well. scott brown, the 41st republican senator. on the night he was -- of his victo...

In december of 2008, that was when those guidelines in put in place. so the procedures and protocols were exactly consistent with what was done before. now, after this incident, the president asked us to take a new look and see whether or not those processes are ones that we are comfortable with and whether or not we can enhance and strengthen them. thats what were looking at right now. but those fbi agents and others acted appropriately. quite frankly, im tiring of politicians using national se...

We have to be very circumspect as far as whats going to be shared. the premium the president puts on the law enforcement community is to disrupt future attacks and protect the american people. >> when you speak to some republicans about how he was going to be treated, were they on board with the administrations decision? >> on christmas night i called a number of representatives. i spoke to senator bond and hoekstra. i explained that mr. mutallab was cooperating at that point. nop of those indiv...

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