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Were following todays dramatic revelations from today in paris. they now say the person who died during this terrorist raid in that terrorist hideout was not necessarily the woman who set off that explosive device. it was the man who did it and the chain the prosecutors say the suicide bombing took place during the raid and it did in fact kill those people. theres a mystery in fact what that woman was doing there. were back with our military, law enforcement and terrorism experts. evan perez, yo...

It doesnt necessarily mean that they think theres something on the aircraft, but it could definitely mean that there might be something perhaps in one of the passengers backgrounds that they want to check out a little more thoroughly. >> tell me what youre thinking as a pilot if you were flying those planes. what would you have done if you thought there was some sort of threat aboard that flight that might be coming from any number of reasons, perhaps a passenger, perhaps some sort of -- somethi...

To mayor giuliani, for example, i talked to him about this and others, and what they will -- what people like that will tell you is, look, syria is different from most of the countries we deal with. almost all the country wes deal with, because we have no database about their backgrounds, people coming out of syria. we have no people on the ground to check this out, which helps in iraq. we have no way to compare and understand anything more than what we get in the interview and what they tell us...

There would be no need to panic, especially if theyre watching very closely to see whats going on and diverting these two planes because of a security question. well find out exactly whats going on once the information is made available. but as you mention, theyre probably questioning those who are deplaning at this hour, is that right? >> i would think that right now that might be one of the major concerns is theyre going to look over who is on board that aircraft, whether they got a phone call...

Where the tourists trying to get in and blow themselves up on friday night in one of the operations. its a very mixed neighborhood. a lot of people from africa and north africa and also asian, south asian backgrounds live in that neighborhood. its, you know, some parts of it known to be fairly rough. this was a very quiet street. not exactly an alley but a quiet street between two relatively large thoroughfares with a couple of schools on it. a kind of place where probably the people in the inci...

Unbebecoming. >> mr. president, you can do it overseas, if you want to insult me. but i would encourage you, mr. president, come back and insult me to my face. >> the next president will take office after an eight-year draw-down of military power. >> at the citadel military college, bush accused the obama administration of gutting the military and said it will take u.s. ground troops in syria and he will lead an international coalition to destroy isis with overwhelming force. a separate poll in ...

The radar of u.s. intelligence but also in the cross-hairs of many western allies. clarissa ward here breaking it down for us. and when you look at men so young, radicalized. you have spent the last year studying these jihadi, talking to them. >> i think sometimes we dont give them a lot of credit. they are actually very technologically savvy. they know which messenger services to use. they use sure spot which is encrepted. they start secret chats which are encrypted also they are street smart. ...

Backgrounds. these people are refugees. and the syrian government scarcely exists and it has no relations with this united states. so its difficult to look into peoples backgrounds. but the way the process usually works is they do these background checks and then, once these people arrive in the united states, they are turned over to social service agencies, church groups, non-profit organizations that specialize in refugee settlement. those are the groups that interact with the states and they ...

Ability to search a persons background is only as good as the database that you have access to. there are some limited databases, but for the most part, syria is such a mess, that theres an inadequate database in order to search the backgrounds of the people coming here. im not talking about their medical back grounds, but their political and legal back grounds. >> thats how it sounded this weekend, when the white house was in sharp disagreement with pete king how good the screening process is. ...

You can see why governors are growing increasingly nervous about how to assess 10,000 of them in the u.s. 26 states moved to extend or restrict. >> they will find out especially when you know one of the terrorists as a refugee. >> we received no security information about the refugees on their backgrounds even possibly their names in certain circumstances. more than half of the states of the union the in turkey president obama said his strategy to fight isis is working. he called the terror atta...