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The state of emergency here in france. >> right. >> theres talk of -- means extending the rules for police and for intelligence gathering. >> right. even more controversially than that, going to parliament to say to extend the state of emergency and can normally keep for 12 days for 3 months. thats a really long time and a lot of power giving the authorities and already worried some people, particularly within his own party. he is a socialist and on security questions they dont always speak with...

Advantage of sew sigh tall institutions. they take advantage of the infrastructure to plan their plots. this is just going to be part of the way -- >> why does not -- okay. you tell me. do you believe in the research youve been doing? is law enforcement as aptly prepared and as savvy as say, the bad guys quote, unquote? you know it seems we always have to stay a step ahead of them or are we generally playing catch up. >> its always a case of catch up. communications migrate with terrorism, espec...

He described is as a training and equipping the iraqis and standing up syrian partners. but we know that both the training and equipping of the iraqi has not worked. so far the iraqis, other than the peshmergas, have fled any engagement theyve been involved with. and the syrians have only been a handful. five or six people for all of the money thats been spent. they have so far not trained syrians on ground or gotten syrian allies on ground. so there has been a lot of criticism of that military ...

On a global stage? >> no i dont believe so. i think the united states is carrying much of the burden of the surveillance and the intelligence gathering. i dont believe there is enough intelligence cooperation between the various governments. the iraqi government has proven over again they have faulty intel. if not intentionally faulty intel. we cant trust everything they are saying without deep examination of the legitimacy of what they are saying. i think we need more intelligence cooperation b...

This, the saber rattling when they want to attack the west. this was well coordinated. it took a lot of time. this was weeks or months into the planning. and jim sciutto mentioned this was a large network of people. this is a game changer for us in terms of isis capabilities and how theyre going to try to impact not only western europe but the united states. >> youre a former fbi agent. you know the fbi. theyve issued a directive to all fbi field offices here in the united states, "make sure you...

Meeting to see -- toen a n e e the situation, to see if the threat level in the uk might need to be raised, as well. it may not be a france-specific incident. of course this is the second terror attack in france this year. authorities will be asking a lot of questions about what went wrong with the intelligence gathering, why they did not know, there was no warning will attack a appeared, why they did not know about it in advance and take any measures to stop it. >> after 9/11 and similar other ...

That emwazi was quilled, how does that play into the broader fight against isis? >> yeah, thats a good point. i dont think it changes the situation on the ground very much at all. he was not really in the isis leadership. but he was the face of isis for a lot of people. so taking him out was a symbolic victory. and i think it means a lot to the families of the victims. we all saw the brutal executions that he was involved in. so i dont think its really going to change the situations on the groun...

Their airport security and technology methods are actually effective. that includes the agencys terror watch list and technology used at the check points. a hearing on capitol hill a congressman said the tsa has become bloated and has lost its focus. >> you need to get out of the personnel business is and back into the security business. turning tsa back into doing the things that will save us, the intelligence gathering, setting the parameters for someone else, youre not a very good personnel a...

Each others secret. cyber espionage is a new factor in traditional spies that the u.s. is saying theyre going to have to pull out now. the bodies on the ground versus the underworld or the new war zone which is the west t. difference as you say is crucially that president obama and the u.s. ha says, look, we know this goes on as far as intelligence gathering is concerned. one expert i spoke to last week said, look, the united states is the best in the world at intelligence gathering, so they can...

Baltimore. the atf, for example, offering to trace shell casings and identify suspects. the fbi meantime helping out with intelligence gathering. officials say they really hope this works. >> we expect to enjoy successes with bfed. we know our federal law enforcement partners bring tools to bear that we necessarily dont enjoy, federal assets and other federal investigative techniques we think will help us close more homicide cases. >> now, to be fair this is a nationwide problem. many other citi...