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Been motivated and inspired, the type of funding or resources that they were provided in support of this horrendous event, nicolle. >> juan zarate, can you take us inside of what all the european capitals and what all of the intelligence services in europe are doing in concert with our intelligence services? you know, obviously, the paris attacks are something that you talked about dodging a bullet but obviously something that intelligence officials in spain watch closely. were there things that...

Fits all of the molds. >> juan zurate is an nbc security analyst who joins me now. london, nice, stockholm. this has been the preferred attack overseas. why is that? >> its simple and weve seen now over the course of many months and many geographies the terrorists of whatever brand can use vehicles to hit multiple types of tourists and targets and to do so in a way that is not only terrifying but is hard to stop. and i think thats why youve scene al qaeda over the last couple of years, the islam...

A social media perspective and media coverage perspective and weve seen it and heard theresa may talk about this. terrorism begetting terrorism. its the demonstration effect of all of these attacks. nice looks like berlin, christmas market looks like westminster bridge and london. these actors, be they individual small groups or even organized organizations like isis or al qaeda, learn from each other. they see how we react and constantly trying to both copycat and adapt. i think thats really da...

There was the one that was iran acting against the biggest saudi oil company and there was an attack we believe the north koreans did on south korea that bears a lost technical resemblance that the fbi pointed out. that is why the president felt he had to respond. >> coming up with a proportionate response is not easy. >> you do do a return cyberattack on the north koreans. we are the most wired vulnerable society on earth. everything is connected from our tv networks to our financial networks a...

Writing that on her own, all that stuff would be gone. >> in terms of the substantive legacy of the cheney vice presidency, and especially with regard to war. as the president and congress grapple with whether or not the united states is going to do something else militarily in iraq now, is there substantive legacy of the way that cheney changed the approach to war as american policy? that the united states now has to decide whether to walk back or continue with? >> well, one of cheneys big stra...

Americas enemy, hes either blind or indifferent. hes -- he seems to be ushering in iran into iraq. theres always some little bit of a hedge, if liz chaining were writing that on her own, all that stuff would be gone. >> in terms of the substantive legacy of the cheney vice presidency, and especially with regard to war. as the president and congress grapple with whether or not the united states is going to do something else militarily in iraq now, is there substantive legacy of the way that chene...

>> its not a -- >> hold on. i got to clear this up for everybody else so this isnt a bush versus obama deal. george bush was exhausted in 2008 and putin made the calculated move that after seven years of war, he wasnt going to step on the gas and get involved in something like that. jeffrey, the question im asking. >> let me answer it by analogy. in 2003, when the u.s. invaded iraq, the iranians froze their nuclear program because they thought they were next. 2004 and five they saw america get b...

A necessary imperative. >> president obama last year called for an increase in the minimum wage. this year hes going to do it again. he lets issued an executive order in increasing the wage for federal workers. that affects a small number of people. no current contracts, i understand, just future contracts. is todays executive order just for show? >> no. i think it has an important demonstration effect. i think it is an expression of values. it may affect contracting at some point in the future....

From the europe. >> explain that. >> a small economy, 2% of the overall euro zone. the problem is the demonstration effect of greece. if greece leaded euro and converts to drachma, the economy goes into freefall and governments in spain and italy, hopefully in france where you have a new socialist president are going to take a look at what happened. >> it will be ugly. >> it will be ugly when countries leave the euro zone when they try to, sort of float on air and ignore fiscal restraint and it ...

Secretly wishing a greek exit from the europe. >> explain that. >> a small economy, 2% of the overall euro zone. the problem is the demonstration effect of greece. if greece leaded euro and converts to drachma, the economy goes into freefall and governments in spain and italy, hopefully in france where you have a new socialist president are going to take a look at what happened. >> it will be ugly. >> it will be ugly when countries leave the euro zone when they try to, sort of float on air and i...