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Suspect in that they made that ride last night and then in the middle of the night, the threat level raised up from three to four belgians highest level, somewhat unprecedented here. >> and finally, why belgium? >> reporter: belgium has been the weak link by all counterterrorism expert animal sis analysis, this country has not been doing now share information and has not been doing enough to get its own information. the prime minister and other security officials vowed to put more manpower and m...

Beefing up its ability to rapidly respond to terror with a new permanent unit that by years enwill have more than 500 officers. that move has been in the works for a while, but it adds resources. the brussels subway system is closed today and threats by isis to hit new york city and washington, d.c. so how safe are americans and how difficult would it be to mount attacks here while many analysts have called the paris attacks sophisticated and coordinated, my next guest disagrees, saying they wer...

Terrorists that did the attacks there last week used the crisis created by the syrian conflict to slip into the country. look, we have an obligation to protect americans. now, i think what congress did was reasonable. slow down this process. make sure were vetting them. we let those who meet the criteria into this country. i would say the president has impose ad reverse religious test in some ways that opposite of what some have called -- >> how so? >> when you look at -- when you look whose com...

>> today france put forward a resolution that may be voted on at the u.n. security council tomorrow. it calls on every country in the tworld take action to eliminate isiss safe haven in iraq and syria. tomorrow e.u. ministers will meet in an emergency session to address sharing intelligence to try to stop isis attacks in europe. today police raids continued across europe and specifically in france. officials say there have now been more than 600 counterterrorism and police raids in france in the...

He was there. how on earth was someone like that, that specific guy of all people, able to get into paris undetected? this is just an unimaginable intelligence and law enforcement failure given how high-profile he was. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel today interviewed a french government terrorism adviser. and richard, put it to him that that seemed to him basically like finding out after 9/11 that osama bin laden himself was hanging out somewhere in new york city even after the a...

Most notorious wanted islamic extremist terrorist in belgium and france. the top french prosecutor today said that french authorities have thwarted six total terrorist attacks since the spring. he has been known to them as being involved in four of the six. excuse me. the french sentenced him in absentia in france to 20 years in prison this past july. in france there is not a more high-profile terrorism threat or terrorism suspect or counterterrorism target than this man. and that has made it ve...

Himself french police named another suspect in that attack who was not himself arrested. same guy named suspect -- from the church attack in april. and the reason that named suspect was not arrested after either of those two attempted terrorist attacks even though he was a named suspect in both is because police couldnt find him. they did not believe he was in france or even in europe. right after the "charlie hebdo" attacks this past january police chasing down the source of some of the weapons...

Osama bin laden himself was hanging out somewhere in new york city even after the attacks, having personally been on scene to orchestrate them. >> yes, these guys were able to move all too easily from one country to another, one city to another. >> it almost seems as if osama bin laden who was killed in a raid in queens just outside manhattan, he was right near the spot. >> yeah. >> what does that say? >> that says that its very difficult to keep track of more than 10,000 people who have been li...

Says the organizer of the paris terror attacks was himself at that raid and killed in that raid, which means he was in paris. he was there. how on earth was someone like that, that specific guy of all people, able to get into paris undetected? this is just an unimaginable intelligence and law enforcement failure given how high-profile he was. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel today interviewed a french government terrorism adviser. and richard, put it to him that that seemed to him ...

Directly by the security services of other countries in europe. and we did not do what was necessary to keep track of them. >> consistently france has known who the actors are and said oh, yes, we were watching that guy. and they still managed to carry out attacks. >> absolutely. this is where you get into the complete disconnect between the scale of the threat and the level of the resources. >> what does this say about the foreign fighter problem? all of these militants whove come from europe, ...