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Shocked by events in paris tonight. our thoughts and prayers are with the french people. whatever we can do to help, the president of france also tweeted, but its in french. ill try to get that translated. if you were in the administration right now, if you were sitting in the white house situation room, i presume the white house has been notified of what is happening here. what would be happening? >> wed be offering our assistance to the french, although they have a very capable anti-terrorism ...

Latinos are disproportionately lower than the populations. these are the faces and names of others. dylann roof abdulzeez is dead after opening fire in chattanooga, tennessee. this is another man who has been in the news the past few weeks, james holmes convicted by a jury. he is in the sentencing phase of his trial. a lot of people will look at what happened last night in louisiana and wonder was it is copy cat attack and what happened in aurora in 2012 when he opened fire in the screening of "...

An attack in 2009. this is a copy cat attack. this is part of an isis strategy, don, for people to radicalize on their own and to attack in the west and europe and in the u.s. they dont need anyone to tell them from above that this is what they have to do. military and pliolice targets b the way have been on the top of isiss list now and are going to answer that call to jihad on their own. >> theyre beefing up security in times square and all across the country. >> no question about it. but, aga...

Is it like that in paris, too? >> not to the extent london would have. >> how could they have caught them so quickly? >> well again, every criminal will leave a trail. theyll leave signs of who they are and what they accomplished. simple things from what they may have posted on social media, how they can track that back. sources pick up the phone and make a phone call. all of those things are likely to have happened in this particular case which allows us to get to the first lead which in this c...

Origin. that is a threat to the security of our western european allies and ultimately to the united states in the years ahead that we must face together. >> do you think that you and the other committees are going to get some classified briefings later? what do we know about the threat level and whether there have been any related threats that could target american facilities around the world? >> we dont yet know enough about this exact incident to know whether raising our terrorist threat leve...

Up, theres not much they can do. >> peter bergen, you spent a lot of time studying terror threats to the united states. how worried should the u.s. be about a copy cat attack? >> i think the concern that we see are people becoming self-radicalized in countries that we live in. in the case of syria, 12 americans have gone to join can al qaeda. two of them are dead. people go there, they dont know how to fight. but people are self-radicalizing, and weve seep that in canada and australia, and to so...

Including australia and thats had a deep impact on isis followers around the world. we have seen a string of plots and attacks in north america. also plots in the uk. all these people were devouring this fact that there were religious obligation to launch these kinds of attacks. its going to be significant concern that there could be a copy cat attack by somebody somewhere the western parts inspired by what they have seen in australia. you remember back in october with that hatchet attack in new...

>> well sh, i dont think so. maybe if there was one, people joke about the rivalry of new york and boston,bon banner is o the logo, and we are truly one country and we may fight on the battlefield, but we are one country when it comes to supporting each other. and it makes me proud to be an american and proud to be the mayor of this great city of boston. >> well said. and commissioner ray kelly said he is worried about the copycat attack this year, and are you briefed on that security, and what ...

Irony of all this cabal here, the claimed cabal is that the nonpartisan or bipartisan senate intelligence committee has come out and basically cleared everything susan rice said on "meet the press" that day, everything about it being a copycat attack on our facility in benghazi that came about spontaneously from what was happening in cairo. people had ways of communicate manage the arab world. and not all they think came from that crazy movie, islamist movie out now. everything the administratio...

Airplanes were before 9/11. and now we have a new soft target and youre going to see, i think, almost inevitably some sort of copycat attack, whether its in africa or europe or the united states. >> okay. so what you just said is very frightening, bob. >> im very frightened. ive been talking about malls for ten years and nothing has happened. thats the drift. they are going to any target that they can get to and planes are out, malls are in. >> bob baer, nic robertson, thanks so much, i think. ...