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Event like this. remind the nations law enforcement agencies of what has happened here, urge them to keep a close eye. at this point, the theory is that this was an attack against this target because of its -- what its written and said about the prophet muhammad and about islam and about islamic jihadist leaders, so there doesnt appear to be anything beyond that at this point, based on what they know ari. >> pete n your expertise, how do u.s. officials evaluate that kind of claim from isis? >> t...

Paris jewish business leaders. many of these parisians are now fleeing paris. secondly its important to understand the french feel like theyre being overrun by muslims. theres a backlash thats developed. the political context is very interesting. the number one politician right now in france is madame marie lapep lapenne, who leads the right wing paeshgts anti-immigration party. she is polling in the polls in france far more than sarkozy, who is thinking about running again, and hollande. theres...

Working to determine whether they have any connection to isis. france, of course is a major u.s. ally fighting isis in iraq and syria with us. what happened today have the french rethinking their role, perhaps, ramping it up? joining us at the table with his perspective is ambassador marc ginsberg former white house middle east ambassador and ambassador to morocco. ambassador, i wonder if these attacks, as weve seen several throughout the west do these attacks and work and quite often the answer...

Restraint here in washington because when something really bad happens, as they say theres a lot of pressure on politicians to act as though we have the silver bullet to make certain this doesnt happen again. and weve got to be vigilant with homeland security. we have good border protections in place. we dont have the pourous borders they have in the european community. lets protect our constitution. lets protect the first amendment. lets be vigilant about protecting our people. >> congressman p...

Islam come at us with suicide attacks. this was clearly not a suicide attack. they wanted to get away. they planned how to get away. they very calmly moved to the car, not sort of feeling a need to even run. what do you make of all that? >> this was clearly not a suicide attack. they wanted to get away afterwards. had a plan to get away afterwards. i think we still dont know what this is. ive been saying for a while, there are three types of attacks we should be worried about. its possible that ...

Defender. >> thank you very much for that. any minute the president is scheduled to take the podium for a previously scheduled economic speech in detroit. were watching to see if he has anything new to reveal about the attack. france has had a long and tumultuous relationship with its muslim population. how does that play into todays events? your dogs definitely got your back. but whos got your back when you need legal help? we do. were legalzoom, and over the last 10 years weve helped million...

We are back with our breaking coverage on the terrorists behind the attack in paris knew what they were doing. they had a plan. they had precise targets. they had ak-47s and knew how to use them. we have two military experts on how these operations work. michael kay is a retired colonel from british air force and doug olivant, senior fellow at new america. good day to both of you. doug, lets start with the basic idea here. were seeing a very sophisticated style attack although one that is relati...

They support what happened. >> pete williams reporting from washington, thank you very much. president obama just landing in detroit for a planned economic address. now, before boarding air force one, he spoke about assisting the response to this attack. at the white house, the president advisers have been huddling since early this morning. nbcs kristin welker is on the north lawn. what can you tell us? >> reporter: intelligence national security officials have been in contact with their count...

These front line places. but that doesnt mean they were dispatched by a terrorist group. and i think if there was an organized terrorist group behind this its a legitimate question to ask, why did they aim so low, especially given the fact they have people willing to carry out suicide attacks and they did this? >> we say that obviously with no disrespect to charlie hebdo, a very important institution. >> oh, no, no. >> obviously, not the most strategic. >> you had an attack the other day by a lo...

Qaeda hit list of sorts in their "inspire "magazine. does that detail tell you anything or do you read anything into that detail in terms of the nature of this attack? >> well, that could then indicate that aqap al qaeda in arare yan peninsula could have carried out the attack if he was listed, as you indicate inside inspire magazine which is their magazine down in yemen. so, we know from past foiled attacks as well as successful attacks that aqap has been a very expeditionary affiliate or arm o...