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More attacks are coming, and maybe here in the united states as well? >> well, something were looking at. we dont have any specific and credible threat reporting suggesting that a paris-type attack is likely in the united states and washington or elsewhere. i know theres some discussion of that in the media i think the threat weve been mindful of lone wolves, inspired by isil. i think its worth viewers keeping in mind that the threat profiles a little different in the united states than europe. ...

Investigators telling cnn that they have found a cell phone on the scene, it not clear who it belonged to. but we know there was a text message on it that something to the effect of, okay, we are ready. once again, we dont know who was the recipient of the message and we dont know who sent it. whats important about this, wolf it could lead to important clues about a larger network needed to facilitate and orchestrate this. as you know, as viewers know, one of the toughest things for officials an...

Mathematical algorithms, code that u.s. officials say nearly impossible to crack. >> we dont have the break strong encryption. we will lose them, so thats a huge worry. >> reporter: apps like one called signal encrypt phone calls. telegram encrypt text. matthew green showed us another way terrorists can make their texts disappear on the telegram app. you can program them to self-destruct in a few seconds. i sent green a text to meet me somewhere. he reads it, then -- >> gone. just like that, you...

In january, right here in the situation room, we had a report from our paul krcruickshank. i want you to listen to this. >> wolf, a senior belgian official tells me that they think the ringleader was likely abdelhamid abaaoud, a belgian national who travelled to syria in 2014 and connected there in syria and iraq with the senior leadership of isis. >> all right. so back in january we reported that. we knew he was a threat. u.s. officials knew he was a threat. so why wasnt more done to target thi...

Existential threat. weve seen it with the attacks in paris. we are going to syria and we come back and we become afraid for our security but you see it also with the millions of migrants. so we are really -- >> the migrants? >> yes. the country is decivilized -- all of the european continent is destabilized by the crisis so we need to try to resolve this crisis. >> when president hollande says this is a war -- >> i think we are all threatened. russia is very close to syria. the u.s., in a sense,...

>> reporter: obama warned local troops supported by u.s. air strikes are a better option than a costly and open-ended u.s. occupation. military experts warn the current air campaign may dent isis, but without ground troops, it will never defeat it. >> you can fly things over the ground, make that ground a horrible place to be, but until you put forces on the ground, you dont own it and you cant change the conditions. >> reporter: putins plan suggest a dramatic shift against isis. >> see if this ...

Phone, hardest to crack for the intelligence agencies. use particular applications that are anonomized, the dark net. >> reporter: isis may have made one cyber enemy. anonymous, now vowing to unleash a wave of cyberattacks on isis in retaliation for the paris massacre. matthew green says people at anonymous are probably better hackers than the ones isis has. but he doesnt think theyre going to be able to do much damage to isis and he says they certainly cannot break the enkrep enkrepe encryption...

Against isis. enter vladimir putin who joined the fight and giving momentum to a new global momentum to fight isis in syria and beyond. today russian bombers pounded isis targets in syria, pairing air strikes with 34 cruise missiles launched at isis fighters. in all, 127 strikes of retaliation for the isis downing of a russian commercial jet. president putin promised this was just the beginning. >> translator: we will search wherever they are hiding. we will find them any spot on the planet and ...

Isis instructs operate ins to move from social media, once they recruited people, to these applications where they can encrypt and we cant even if we were to intercept the message tell what that message has to say. its still early, wolf, to tell what role that may have played in the paris attacks, whether encryption accounts for why intelligence agencies didnt catch this planning or that plotting. but nonetheless, given these instructions from isis, it wouldnt surprise me at all if we ultimately...

Redemption, a sense of purpose from it. but isis is also excusing, you know, all of their past sins, so to speak, flirting with girls, drugs, all of that kind of stuff and corrupted by the infidel west, heres your way out. heres your path to paradise. and the people in these gangs, isis has that same sort of violence and it resonates with them. as one belgian counterterrorism official was telling me, wolf, they are moving to syria as part of a supergang and coming back as gangs as well and, of c...