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Envoy. he says, well, we have a 65 country coalition. i said do you believe that? >> sure. we have it on paper. >> all right. >> its hard -- >> at least now the french have started bombing and theyve been bombing intensely with, by the way, intelligence packets prepared by the u.s. government. so i ask you, judge, why werent we the ones with that intelligence information who were bombing a long time ago? why did it take the death of 130 people in paris to start what we should have done a long ti...

Coordination is going? >> its going very well. its interesting to note this is the first time the three nations have gotten together in the last 70 years to accomplish anything. lot of people are worried about the relationship with putin, not the nicest guy in the world, does whatever he wants, and so on, but we have to remember that we have a common enemy, and i think operationally, were going to go through the routine to isolate those targets which we want to hit, who is going to hit them and ...

We know a couple of things. we know that the u.s. helped with giving france some intelligence information when they launched a new round of air strikes in the wake of the paris attacks. we know that president obama has said that he is going to intensify the strategy to fight isis which, of course, is focused on air strikes. what president obama will decide, what he will announce, that remains to be seen, but this is a critical meeting, chris. it is a chance for these two leaders to reaffirm thei...

We hope to find answers. lets listen in. >> see i want to salute all of the magistrates and all of the police officers in this. november 13th. and has made progress. the raid was a demonstration. everything lead us to think tha. because of their weapons and instruct and you are organization. they could lead another attack. i would like to give you the results of the investigation and surveillance. and it is testimonies. and also all of the intelligence

There. is it time to start profiling? >> can you profile behavior. can you profile ideology. those are things that they cant be prosecuted for. but its something that needs to be taken into account. if someone is out there saying that hamas is a legitimate group despite their suicide bombs or destroying caliphate that should be taking as indication that that is someone you can watch even if you cant prosecute them for that speech. >> new york city did a fine job in post 9/11. they got in to the ...

The one thing the u.s. can do best is provide intelligence information, human intelligence or intelligence gleaned from electronic surveillance, past cases. this is a thing the u.s. can do with their mexican counterparts. this is exactly what the u.s. did before chapo was arrested a year and a half ago, and what theyre willing to do now. this is not an easy task though, because chapo has a long history of hiding out in remote areas. he has the wherewithal, the money to buy protection and also to...

Make sure we keep the community safe in which we serve across the country. >> the big landmarks, those are the obvious threats, the threats you dont think about, the bridges or maybe a shopping mall. how does law enforcement tackle those, quote, soft targets. there are so many. what do you start? >> what you have to do is try to operate off intelligence information. if small communities or any commune receive any information whatsoever they utilize it. they go into action with it. of course one ...

And those are tools that we vitally need to continue the overwhelmingly successful record. not perfect but overwhelmingly -- >> not perfect? >> not perfect. >> its been good but the fbi its own inspector general essentially said that they cannot point to a single terrorist act that was stopped because of the provisions of the patriot act that senator paul doesnt want extended. >> i think looking for some piece of information that weve gleaned from the patriot act and making that the center point...

Right, ive had extensive conversations with the clinton campaign. and in private they say, look, these were unsolicited e-mails from blumenthal asking him to help as an outside adviser. however, that is true, that they were sent in to her. it was not her necessarily soliciting it. on the other hand, she forwarded the information. was she following up or saying this is one piece of information? it looks like intelligence information or something like that while he had business dealings, were told...

The cables of abu zubaydah and that this nation should never again engage in these tactics. let me now turn to the contents of the study. as i noted, we have 20 findings and conclusions which fall in the four general categories. first, the cias enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effective way to gather intelligence information. second, the cia provided extensive amounts of inaccurate information about the operation of the program and effectiveness to the white house, the department of...