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Hala, we are waiting. was it abaaoud? >> the big challenge is in order to conduct dna tests, you have to test it against dna of abdelhamid abaaoud. presumably not on any database. they have to find relatives. it will take time. challenge number two as well as what happened in the apartment, explosives were used. there was resistance. there is an entire floor in the building that is not structurally sound. it takes a lot of effort and a lot of planning and some risk involved as far as the investi...

People of syrian descent carrying greece fake passports. they passed that information to u.s. law enforcement. what im told is happening is the suz tryiu.s. is trying to p information with access to database of false documents, including passports, stuff that they can also get from interpol and they are trying to get these countries to do more to try to prevent people from flowing through those countries and ending up in the united states. a top concern is the type of thing that we saw in paris,...

Immediately after the paris attacks, intelligence officials looked over everything they knew and had in their database to see whether there was, in fact, any link to the united states. the fbi director saying today as far as he is aware, there is none. wolf? >> deborah feyerick in new york for us. thanks very much. i quickly want to go back to jim sciutto in paris. i understand youre getting information about the massive manhunt and the terrorist that may be on the loose. >> reporter: thats righ...

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...

Immigrants coming across. in syria, we dont have the data base. europe doesnt have the data base. aassad, you cant trust that data base. we just dont no. secure the southern border, revoke passports and these are in the power of the administration to do it we need to act. >> cia director john brennan said the paris attacks were not a one-off. isis likely has more attacks in the pipeline. john kerry called the attacks an aberration and said they are not the new normal. its concerning to the ameri...

>> it is one of the problems yes and they are asking for additional and more say first kat -- sophisticated system. if there is a previous record, unless there is cross country cooperation, which there doesnt really exist between say a database in europe and the syrian government, then really even if you do try to reference these fingerprints, thats a bit of a moot point and that is just one of the many issues here but then you run into this bigger picture problem, this fear that people will try...

Present the 1700 are connected to terrorism or any reason to suspect they are? >> look, after last friday night, i think for those of us who have a keen interest in protecting our country, we ought to hit the pause button, rethink what were doing. >> just on that question -- >> right now we dont know. >> just to -- >> the fbi said they cant vet the people because they dont have a data base. dont you think we need a data base first? >> congressman, is it your understanding, as it is mine, that th...

>> just on that question -- >> just to -- >> the fbi said they cant vet the people because they dont have a data base. dont you think we need a data base first? >> congressman, is it your understanding, as it is mine, that they carry it out in paris are european nationals, belgium citizens, frenchmen, and are you in support of stopping visa waivers for belgium and french citizens? >> put the pause button on people from syria when we have no idea who nay are, why they are coming here, or what the...

To hit the pause button, rethink what were doing. >> just on that question -- >> just to -- >> the fbi said they cant vet the people because they dont have a data base. dont you think we need a data base first? >> congressman, is it your understanding, as it is mine, that they carry it out in paris are european nationals, belgium citizens, frenchmen, and are you in support of stopping visa waivers for belgium and french citizens? >> put the pause button on people from syria when we have no idea ...

Claim to be. its a far from perfect system and thats why the mayor was saying they wanted more representatives here on the ground to help them with the screening process, people that have more experience than the coast guard and the police here do have because as you were saying, they are one of the paris attackers did come through here on a fake doctored documented. he was fingerprinted but at this stage no red flags were raised and that is of course of great concern and more and more people wi...