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Combat experience? >> to a point it did. you know being in those kind of situations and going through that sort of training it does help you prepare for situations like this. the difference is is when youre in combat, youre in full gear and you have a weapon in your hands and youre more ready for it. when youre out in a civilian community, its not something that youre ready for on a regular basis, but the additional training and experience has definitely helped us and my team react the way we we...

Were sitting in my office. >> yes, exactly. right. if you look at this the war in iraq which has produced the chaos in iraq and then isis you know its hard to think we keep creating our own enemies. then how do you break that cycle? >> well, i dont know. thats a good question. i dont know the answer. i do know this. we got one now. whether you call it isis or dash as the arabs call it. its a large capable force. its probably got 25,000 fighters. it controls cities like mosul with a million peopl...

Sanctuary. it already is where people from around the world go to get trained, get combat experience and then go back home and i think thats a threat to the united states. >> i can never be convinced by anyone whatever actions we take militarily arent going to produce the next incarnation of the next threat is. >> it could well be. it could well b. but for now we know we got this threat and i think we need to do something about it and it doesnt mean lindsey grahams crazy, who am i suggesting we ...

Creating our own enemies. then how do you break that cycle? >> well, i dont know. thats a good question. i dont know the answer. i do know this. we got one now. whether you call it isis or dash as the arabs call it. its a large capable force. its probably got 25,000 fighters. it controls cities like mosul with a million people it controlsal large swath of land. more land that dozens of countries have. more people than dozens of countries have and it is going to be a terrorist nation sanctuary. i...

Night. and, you know i think the big difference between monday night and last night is monday night you had the police on the street that basically became spectators as people started looting and setting buildings on fire and throwing rocks and bottles. and throwing rocks and bottles at firefighters cutting fire hoses. but they didnt have any backup. they didnt have anything behind them so they took no action. last night, you know all day yesterday you saw more police rolling in. and you saw the...

Pocket charging at the officer. when you look at how this officer responded, did he make the right call or did he really risk his own life? >> oh he absolutely risked his up life poppy. in retrospect okay he makes the right call, because he is still alive and the subject is still alive. but he came within a mike with crow second of being dead himself if the subject chose to draw and fire. he put himself in extreme danger and it doesnt take but, you know a tenth of a second for a person to draw t...

Order as well as step up the antiterrorism campaign. at the end of the day, if you have an open sore like somalia, where you got the shabab armed and trained and getting combat experience you can never entirely protect yourself from attacks like these. >> whats your assessment of this? they have looked at al shabab as being weakened, try bing to compete with the likes of isis and aqap, for example, the attack 147 killed whats your assessment of the strength of the terrorist organization? >> the ...

Weapons, as well jim reese, who youll speak to they carry their weapons in such a way with a level of confident and confidence that indicates not just military training but possible combat experience. i want to show you the next picture. this is the most gruesome image i imagine some have seen. its the moment when one of these attackers kills, murders, executes a policeman on the ground. what did you notice tom? >> you have the cover person here with that tactical vest that has the extra magazin...

Assassinating this policeman on the ground that they were dressed in matching military-type uniforms and they had the same kind of equipment and extra magazines with ammunition and they also moved around held their weapons and fired their weapons with comfort which shows both a level of training but also jake the possibility of combat experience that of course relevant because the chief concern in europe is the possibility of returning foreign fighters from syria and iraq coming back to europe a...

Trained in combat in terms of the organization they had, but also with the ruthlessness with which they shot people got back in their vehicles and the methodical nature of it all. it certainly looks like they have combat experience. as of the briefing this afternoon that we received we still dont know who is responsible and the french is further along than we were a couple of hours ago in the briefing, but if theyre foreign fighters coming back it is some of our worst fears realized. >> the fren...