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The question is whether we can deter it or whether we can use this in time and i dont know whether we can do that. martha: no you cannot protect every building in every city, it simply cant be done. but we did hear quite a bit about those that went to syria and the middle east to train with some of these groups. i often asked myself what the follow-up has been and how good of a job that we are doing on figuring out his people are before they walked into these buildings. >> heres a question. i do...

See him putting his hands up in the air for mercy which he did not dead. we are learning the victims identities. moments ago, how speaker john boehner addressing congress. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the people in paris this morning. this vicious terrorist attack is a reminder that we must always be vigilant against the enemies of freedom. bill: there will be a lot of reaction coming up through the morning. martha: the editor of this newspaper had many run-ins even with the french goern...

Bill: catherine what do you expect from the french government and french president? >> reporter: main thing is track being down the four attackers. theyre still loose in the paris area. we have airports railway stations and schools major shopping centers under police and military protection catherine, to be clear you said four gunman, not two. has that number changed? >> reporter: what the police were saying two possibly three entered the building. there was another one waiting outside in the ca...

We have a massive manhunt underway because people who did this got away. we watched them escape in a getaway car in a very well-orchestrated moment. watch. [gunfire] [shouting] martha: horrible. that is the moment when a police officer was executed after he had fallen down, being wounded on the sidewalk. i mean it is just horrific to watch these images play out. the white house condemned the attack. but last time the obama administration said anything about terrorism was december 19th before the...

Catherine, first off what do we know at this point? >> reporter: martha, u.s. intelligence and counterterrorism officials are deeply engaged on the paris shooting this morning and based on conversation what is has their attention is this level of preplanning and premeditation the attack appears to exhibit involving multiple assailants with the eyewitness accounts that the gunmen asked for individuals by name as they storm the that office building n at digs the assailants showed killed and ruthle...

Demonstrations being planned around the city in support of charlie and against muslim, there is hashtag repeated, i am charlie. a number of people holding up pieces of paper around this police barricade showing their support. bill: talking about using a child to gain access to the security code to get inside. what he reports ask what weve heard from catherine last hour. they were looking for people by name, individual who work for that newspaper finding them and killing them. martha: he also men...

68% from our polling four weeks ago. its a bipartisan bill. for whom is the president speaking on this when he says he will turn it down? >> bill, what the president says we should actually have, that we already have, in place a well-established process one that predates this administration for evaluating infrastructure projects that span international borders like the keystone pipeline. so i dont understand why congress weighed into a process that already ongoing where we are able to separate p...

Live within us. unless we do it, we are going to continue to see this and unless we call it what it is radical islamic extremism, we are going to give them the ability to do this. martha: as we have seen this morning, this is a concerning situation. thank you. bill: bringing in kelly ayotte now from capitol hill. good morning to you. your reaction on what we are hearing so far and what youre hearing from your colleagues in the senate. >> this is a horrible terrorist attack and our prayers go out...

From where you are at this point? good morning. >> reporter: good morning, martha. as you say it looks like a very well-planned, very well-organized attack. we know among the dead are two police officers. 10 people were working at "charlie hebdo" in paris. they were gathered for a weekly editorial meeting. we understand three men now the french police say were hooded. they used can lash that could have automatic weapons. there were seeing two men climbing into that vehicle and speed off. now the...