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Usually a bit more transparent on the counterterrorism side. they generally dont when it comes to other activity. >> paris, should jared kushner be running the peace process? should he be requesting as ware told he is, more than anyone else in the white house, classified information and research if he cant get a permanent clearance? >> i think like the president said thats up to the chief of staff general kelly. but i dont think theres anything improper about what jared is doing given the portfo...

Background investigation because the applicant of security clearance may be the subject of another investigation. muellers looking into kushners financial ties, and it may be a situation where the fbi cant put a stamp on the investigation because there may be ongoing issues. i know the relationship between the fbi and the white house is usually a bit more transparent on the counterterrorism side. they generally dont when it comes to other activity. >> paris, should jared kushner be running the p...

Mortality were lost long before, good riddance." how do you protect the people who are leaked to represent the american citizens? >> christine, i read that, theres no doubt in my mind that is an overt threat. theres nothing implied there, that is a direct and overt threat. its difficult. i go back again to the resources. i think that were going to have to take a look at this and were going to have to -- again, it goes back to money. were going to have to staff up law enforcement agencies to inve...

And identity and ethnicity of the background, i dont think theres any doubt from an outsiders perspective that the fbi is taking, what they said very seriously, that it is a potential terrorist attack. >> reporter: absolutely. and you know, an individual in the law enforcement community in d.c. that has a lot of stuff on the counterterrorism side of things messaged me that the last name thats being reported by the l.a. times and by the fathers being true, and i was told by law enforcement, it ha...

Counterterrorism side, security side, you are trying to find out who were these two individuals who were traveling? >> absolutely. i think youre really looking at four things if youre the counterterrorism guys today. one, you really want to know who those two are. and you -- those are the hardest people to identify because they had false papers. >> right. >> two, youre still going to look at the other passengers, what connections they had. three, youre going to look at all the intelligence, befo...

Or plot. >> passports. theres essentially, i guess, a black market for stolen passports. if you get a passport, this is just sort of a basic question, okay, someone sells me a stolen passport, what to people do with a stolen passport? have to cut out the photo, presumably, to get on an airplane? >> used to be much easier before we have what are known as machine readable passports. now when you come through a border, the customs officer slides that through and provides him with data. you have to ...

These tickets. >> right. thats right. he came forward, actually, yes. >> i think that makes it much less likely that he was somehow involved in some sort of scheme or plot. >> passports. theres essentially, i guess, a black market for stolen passports. if you get a passport, this is just sort of a basic question, okay, someone sells me a stolen passport, what to people do with a stolen passport? have to cut out the photo, presumably, to get on an airplane? >> used to be much easier before we hav...

Where are we with the other, to defeat al qaeda and the taliban. >> defeat al qaeda is going -- according to military official, pretty well. thats really the counterterrorism side of things. there have been many, many air strikes, both here and in pakistan. drone attacks that have decimated a lot of the al qaeda leaders. the dash counterinsurgency strategy fighting the tabl, trying to build up the government as an alternative to the taliban, that has been going. slower. even slower than expected...