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Have access to other peoples database? pakistan? saudi arabia, jordan, lebanon? and in any of the countries, are we sufficiently sharing data with other countries to enable us to pick up people that we with would not get in our own database. it is not going to help to search it if it is incomplete. >> and on the briefing you mentioned that there is a concern about the husband and the wife terrorist team being in touch with other people, and they have destroied the evidence. having destroyed some...

Some information that you can share? >> well, we had one late yesterday with mr. comey the head of the fbi, and the people from homeland security and department of state. right now what we have are more questions than answers. for example, what happened in the four hours between the attack and the time that these people were killed? something, they did something in that period. and secondly, the big question is who else were they in touch with? they destroyed the cell phones, and we dont have an...

You can compare it from traveling from the state of kentucky to the state of texas, four instance. there are no border controls. now this is in theory not a problem. but the problem is that all these intelligence services they really dont want to exchange information. this has changed a little bit. but the thing is that a lot of politicians think that this touches the sovereignty of the national countries. now one of the problems with the attacks on the 13th of november was that one of the main ...

>> what about those who say if the nsa program was in place, it was for years, while these two were harboring their plans. and it doesnt protect them. >> this misunderstands what the metadata program is. it is a data base from which you can identify the possibilities of attack. if you eliminate that, then youre never going to be able to get to the needle in the hay stack. by eliminating the hay stack, how do you find those cases? i think we need to use every tool. there is no evidence of a viola...

Isis. i want to play a montage for you of them warning about the dangers that exist in taking in syrian refugees and ask you a question out of that. >> sure. >> obviously, i wouldnt put it past the likes of isil to infiltrate operatives among these refugees. >> we can only query against that which we have collected. and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our data base, we can query our database until th...

Where we should have gone further, where we should have checked. >> do you think -- did you learn anything about tashfeen malik, the female terrorist in this attack that makes you think that she might have been on the radar of pakistani intelligence? >> well, the one thing we know about her was shes a graduate of a university in pakistan thats known as a kind of hotbed of terrorism, of violent jihadism. and whether or not that was enough to elevate her to put on that database, i dont know. that ...

>> what about those who say if the nsa program was in place, it was for years, while these two were harboring their plans. and it doesnt protect them. >> this misunderstands what the metadata program is. it is a data base from which you can identify the possibilities of attack. if you eliminate that, then youre never going to be able to get to the needle in the hay stack. by eliminating the hay stack, how do you find those cases? i think we need to use every tool. there is no evidence of a viola...

Learn from this in terms of whether there were red flags missed, whether there were tips that should have been picked up. >> yeah. >> for example, how do we do the fiancee visa? how do we do all visas for example? and, jake, heres where the problem is on visas. when you apply for a visa, whatever it is, whether its a fiancee or whatever kind of travel, they take your fingerprints and they check it against whatever databases we have available. the question is to what extent are other countries co...

In her screening. and cnns anna cabrera joins us. why was it not brought up during the interview. >> reporter: this is one of those instances hindsight is 2020. we know they were not on any radar or terror related database prior to the shooting so really there hadnt by any red flags. now beknow after the fact, after the tragedy investigators are digging into their pasts a little more.we know after the f after the tragedy investigators are digging into their pasts a little more. and they have had...

Isis. i want to play a montage for you of them warning about the dangers that exist in taking in syrian refugees and ask you a question out of that. >> sure. >> obviously, i wouldnt put it past the likes of isil to infiltrate operatives among these refugees. >> we can only query against that which we have collected. and so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our data base, we can query our database until th...