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Transit, that shows you that there is, again, very massive intelligence failure to took place in france. the mere fact that abaaoud was able to travel into syria, into europe, into syria and back into europe, just shows you, while his name and picture was everywhere, he was able to sneak into the country and plot such terror attacks. >> what he had bragged about in previous videos. >> he did in isis english language magazine, while saying my picture and my name was everywhere, while they tried t...

Saw in france was a massive intelligence failure. the ring leader, abaaoud, has not only traveled between belgium and france, but he traveled to syria, fought on behalf of isis for a pretty long timei would say well over a year. and he returned back unnoticed. then he went back again to syria after plotting several plots in europe, then returning yet again to western europe to be involved in this latest attacks. he was named already three times in terror investigations in france. and he bragged ...

As for this chief kingpin, mastermind, linchpin, whatever one wants to call him, abdelhamid abaaoud, this possibly represents a colossal intelligence failure on behalf of the french authorities. they had said that he was in syria. thats what wed all been told. it appears that he was the target of this raid. now if thats true, either they werent telling us that they knew he was here, or they simply didnt know. having said that, the operation, as you can see, is still ongoing. the casualty figures...

Military advisers in iraq helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure, its biggest policy failure, the biggest underestimation was not the strength of the self-styled state but the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and ran away. remember, this was an army that the united states had spent more than $25 billion building up, an army more than 200,000 ...

Continued. some people in the building were also injured. weve been hearing numbers of 5, maybe more people were injured in the building. another person was killed in the area during the raid according to medical officials. but this was -- it seems something they were expecting just when you consider the amount of force that they brought to this area. they were clearly preparing for a fight, jose. >> and then the whole issue of abaaoud and whether he is here as they were saying that they thought...

After hillary clinton of being soft on terrorism? do you make that a centerpiece? >> well, two things. yes, you do. >> so you think she is soft on terrorism? >> sure, she is a part of the obama administration that has been pursued this strategy and she was one of the architects of his foreign policy in the first four years. she needs to take responsibility for it if she doesnt like his policy then she should be speaking out now. not waiting until the general election and speaking out now against...

Look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a specific time. but the question is then, you know, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. underestimate isis.ite house did and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing increasingly strident. >> our strategy wil...

This is an evident on the part of the terrorist group to make people extremely uncomfortable. but the president is telling us we are not as big a threat. of course, we have to be ready. but we are not in as big a threat as europe. is that dangerous language from him? >> the president lives in a fantasy world. he sees the world as he wishes it were rather than the way it was. this is the guy who said thursday isis is contained. then friday we had at he tacks in paris. is are is not contained. is ...

Was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that i think they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. >> do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no. no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know? the president has to decide who hes going to listen to and what information hes going to use. and i think tha...

Specific intel could have led the united states to warn france ahead of time. end quote. jesse, i come to you. so maybe not exactly the place but there was so much juicy specificity, they had at least had to chat about, maybe they did. >> thats true. i remember president bush was killed for bin laden determined to attack the united states. and people were talking about impeachment and he really dropped the ball. now you have the name of this guy. you have the target. this president does not have...