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Russia announced it would no longer comply with the United Nations-negotiated pact to allow the export of grain from Ukrainian ports.

Person did that, it may make no sense. >> i want to bring samantha into this. out of abundance of caution, police in new york are increasing security at various news organizations right now. i suspect thats going on elsewhere as well. >> it definitely should be. this should be standard operating procedure based on the fact that we dont know what this individuals motives were, we dont know for example if he was in touch with other individuals who may have been correct directing attacks against ot...

Given only to a select group of the president and his top advisers for their eyes only. after they read the document they were instructsed to put it back in the envelope, send it back to langley via courier as soon as they finished reading it, it was that sensitive. so sensitive, in fact, that the initial meetings excluded some very senior top officials, including the secretary of state and the secretary of defense. thats how sensitive this was, and how restricted this information was held withi...

Most sophisticated bombmaker lives in yemen and builds his bombs in yemen and he made the underpants bomb that was worn by the nigerian attacker who flew into the airport in detroit in december 2009 at christmas, tried to detonate his pelosi. it didnt work, but the bomb came from yemen. but you know, international diplomacy runs on a different track. it runs on working together. counterterrorism officials in one county and intelligence officials working in one country with another. it works on a...

Directing attacks. and i think everybody is trying to figure out how deep it is. & and isis in western europe. there appears to be a network that is under the surface and the intelligence community cant seem to get at it. >> there is a network. it is much more significant in brussels and paris and weve seen in it previous attacks. having said that, going back one other point. while there was, it is clear it wasnt lone wolf. >> the cell takes initiative to do on it its own. they may not have know...

Leaders are well aware they are making some changes to their own security. isis leader abby backer al baghdadi is believed to be in raqqah but the u.s. has intelligence showing some isis leaders are trying to get out of raqqah, cnn has learned. leaders moving their operations to safer locations outside the city. >> it shows the effect that our air strikes and the pressure that were putting on isil is having. >> reporter: the hunt is on for bagadadi and including this man, an isis commander the u...

United states. keep in mind theres a bit of competition going on here. aqap losing some supporters to isis like isis, directing attacks against the u.s. including against the u.s. homeland. one thing i will tell you, erin that even though u.s. counter terror officials say a lone wolf attack inspired by isis may be the most likely attack in the u.s. they still say the most capable terror group in terms of more spectacular attacks is aqap. >> they have the training. they have the history. somethin...

Analysis doesnt fit the way the politics work. >> lets look at "the wall street journal." in its news today, quote, mr. santorum doesnt come with a type of political baggage that gingrich had, said one obama adviser. he has the ability to go farther and is much more likely to be a potential nominee. directing attacks against mr. santorum is under discussion at the headquarters in chicago. see we have evidence they are under discussion. it doesnt sound like they are moving very fast. my thought i...

>> yet hes leading the national field. so sometimes the most rational analysis doesnt fit the way the politics work. >> lets look at "the wall street journal." today mr. santorum doesnt come with the type of political baggage that romney had. he has the ability to go further and is more likely to be a potential nominee. directing attacks against mr. santorum is under discussion at the headquarters in chicago." it doesnt sound like they are moving very fast. rough up romney and maybe beat him. bu...

believe me, that is saying something. this has been the worst fire season in texas history, and this is the worst of more than 35 fires burning right now. its southeast of austin in bass strup county. and 1,000 other homes are threaten threatened. firefighters are attacking on the ground and in the air. and chris welch is in the thick of it. are they making any headway at all? >> caller: not exactly. this is a very bad day for fighting a fire to put it lightly. officials here caution, ...