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It the place it is? >> sure. well, look, all over europe there are multi-cultural cities that have immigrant neighborhoods, many of them filled with muslims. the vast majority of whom are normal hard-working people who have absolutely no interest in this kind of extremist jihadist activity. so i hesitate a little bit when we hear words like hotbed being applied to these places. we know -- >> this molenbeek neighborhood in belgium is truly a fact of life. >> there are many little molen be molenbe...

Attacked. now, belgium appears to be the central, extremism, second of all, the weapons pipeline. when did belgium become a hot bed of weapons trafficking and second of all extremism? >> look, its been a while that we have known about molenbeek as a hotbed of jaud jihadi terrorists. even last year you can see the proof was in the pudding they say when they attacked brussels and that already links to molenbeek. so its been springing up. you also have the fact that belgium represents proportionall...

President obama was briefed by national security aides today about the attack on the radisson hotel in mali. six americans were staying there. theyre now safe and accounted for. the president is currently in malaysia attending a summit as part of a ten-day trip abroad. nbcs ron allen traveling with the president and has the very latest. >> reporter: kate, the minute this happened, the president was informed there. traveling here in malaysia attending regional summit meetings, a majority muslim c...

The ability to just go in and do a search of a private home. it also allows them to confiscate any kind of gun or other kind of weapon, whether or not they have been obtained legally. so they have confirmed for us that using these powers they have gone into this home. why exactly who they think might be there, we dont know. this is not a hotbed of terrorist activity as far as we know. a quick search finds that what this town of 60,000 is mostly known for is a yearly marionette festival. it also ...

Thats how we learned about it, that police had detonated an explosive to get into that artery. this is something weve been seeing again and again or at least been hearing about, more than 400 of them. we dont often get the details because police dont tell us. they just give us these numbers. in this case we dont know exactly why they went into this apartment. this is a place that is not known as a hotbed of jihad or terrorism. they have a yearly puppet or marionette festival. but this is part of...

Themselves here and they had come from somewhere before that. did the people they came from before that, is it all in belgium? others around france? we know one lived in a suburb of france until relatively recently. so, theres clearly a lot more digging to be done to get the full explanation of where they were prior to that. >> the good news is there seems to be two men who can provide them these answers. the bad news is they dont have them yet. but the manhunt is big. nic robertson, thank you v...

Resistance and inpoliceman may gos. >> black could have he too no sweetener no milk. >> the time is 45 minutes after the hour. belgium the new terror greeting ground? the alleged terrorist mastermind is from there. how did it become a hotbed for radicalization. >> bible van the hotel kaying to pressure from atheists. >> steve doocy is here with whats coming up on "fox & friends." >> good morning to both of you. our conditioning coverage of the french terror attack. also we are going to have the ...

This such a hotbed for recruitment? >> well, belgium falls into this pattern, if you will, its a town they have a town molenbeek and brussels has a large muslim population that has been a source of radicals that attack the jewish medium there, that sources for the madrid bombing. the charl"charlie hebdo" bombine from there. >> going to syria out of the 600,000 muslims in belgium, over 500 have gone to syria, 190 have returned and many of them, as you can see, with this cell, returned to use belg...

Going almost door-to-door in this neighborhood. they feel its unjustified, unfair. 99% of the people here dont warrant it, they say. and this is unfair to them. at the same time, this is clearly a hotbed of terrorism. they sent more than 300 people back to syria from this neighborhood. its a real problem for not only belgium but the rest of europe. the belgian president said saturday after the parisian attacks, said it was clear it was time to crack down on this neighborhood and clean it out. th...

The gulf. we dont know if these were carrier-based or land-based aircraft. how many of them, how many sword difficults, how many ordnance was dropped except they were in action again in the skies over syria. were happy to be joined in the studio tonight by evan coleman, chief of research and development for an organization called flash point. they do intelligence consulting. he is also a long-time msnbc terrorism analyst. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> to begin with, as were all g...