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Potentially was an intelligence failure. what do we know jim? >> in retrospect, it was an intelligence failure. the question is was it an avoidable one? this is a question thats asked a thousand times a year. and theyre looking hard for people just like this. the question is will they then act out with violence? thats a difficult judgment to make. youll remember in the "charlie hebdo" attacks, the kouachi brothers had been under even more severe surveillance because theyd traveled overseas to tr...

Failure, daveed? >> i think we need to ask that question. i agree with what juliette was saying you have a large number of cases. but this wasnt just a case of connecting the dots these were dots that were flashing bright red. he had a photo of anwar al awlaki and he started tweeting about the women of paradise. he was in touch directly with isis members and terrorists overseas and then 25 minutes before the attack he tweeted that he was about to carry out an attack. so i think that we have to a...

Koreas refusal to disarm the arsenal, theres no clear path to this reconnecting and moving forward. >> will ripley reporting from north korea. thank you very much. isis threatens america after a terror attack in texas. an isis recruiter is warning, you aint seen nothing yet. how big of a role did he play in that attack and is something else in the works. one was under surveillance. was this an intelligence failure? at 62,000 brush movements per minute philips sonicare leaves your mouth with a ...

Investigations there are. just to give you a sense, our largest database of targeted officials, of people people that were worried about, its called tides. it has a million people on it. so if you can imagine the vast amount of activity and thats what the challenge is for the fbi, is where should they dedicate their resources. in hindsight, its obvious they should have paid more attention to simpson. but at the moment that they have all of this information, theyre compareding it to thousands of ...

That directed the bomber who almost took down that airliner over detroit. the third stage is what you see now. im going to say 2007 and 2008. not an affiliated group but an individual that raises his hand that says i never met an isis person but i like the ideology and i want to participate in this war. the problem is you dont have a central target to direct intelligence resources against. you have 300 million people in this country and people talk about looking on facebook or twitter to find pe...

You look at elton simpsons profile you see red flags everywhere. like what? >> well a number of red flags including number one he was an open isis sympathizers. number two, he had a previous conviction in a terrorism related case for making a false statement to authorities. number three, in the days before he carried out the attacks he started talking about the bride that youll have in paradise. and then number four obviously 25 minutes before he carried out the attack he said he was going to do...

Facility. in the example the president gave no more than a sniper firing on a crowd does not get immunity or a shield against being taken out by a s.w.a.t. team in the united states. they were not targeted. they were in the military facility. if the united states decides to take action against a american there are additional protections the president laid out. that was not the case here. >> had we known there were americans there the drone strike would have been at least delayed until they got t...

The u.s. said isis killed weinstein in january after the first strike at the compound when the u.s. observed four bodies being removed. the final contact came with them earlier this month when the family asked for proof of life. proof of life they never received. the white house appears to be aware not only of the intelligence failure here but also a communications failure with the weinstein family. who complained of poor treatment by u.s. officials. the white house now says it may create a spec...

President obama now says the white house will review its drone program following the accidental killing of two western hostages held by al qaeda. will their deaths be the catalyst that turns the public against the highly controversial program. joining me former new mexico governor bill richardson who served as u.s. secretary of energy ambassador to the united nations and u.s. congressman. welcome to you sir. nice to se you as always. i would like to ask you, is this cause to reconsider the drone...

So partly it shows limitations of intelligence because its always difficult. but it shows an intelligence failure here. thats why you have the cia inspector general investigating. >> it raises questions about the programs at play here. thank you so much. we have more major terror related news this morning. happening as we speak, terror raids across italy with targets including associates of osama bin laden. officials say that suspects were picked up on wiretaps. suspects who had planned attacks ...