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As you mentioned, five suspects who were arrested on sunday. four were french. one was moroccan. one in strasburg and one in marsailles. he offered a couple of clues. the strasburg group, the commandos based there were actually old friends. many knew each other for years and a lot actually had long criminal records with the french police. now this group, they communicated amongst each other using a dedicated closed telephone system and hay didnt communicate with the fifth suspect, the moroccan, ...

Suspects had traveled to the turkish border back in march of 2016 and at least two of them had long records with the police. police are hunting with the so far unidentified puppet master that you mentioned behind this operation. prosecutors did not provide so many details. the paris prosecutor made an announcement that all five of these men received detailed identical instruction over encrypted texted app. now, the coordinator even went so far as offering gps co coordinates the suspects would kn...

Christmas market and disneyland theme park in paris. in a zeshsearch, they found an arsenal of weapons and computer analysis detailing how isis guided the group remotely from syria or iraq. for more on this new development, we turn to nbc foreign correspondent matt bradley. what more do we learn about this plot and even down to the specific date of that these suspects were allegedly planning to strike? >> reporter: good morning. again, the specter of isis terrorism spooking france. this country ...

Would tweet, and do press conferences? everybody marvelled at how he was so good at manipulating the media. and every single message he wanted to put out, you all soaked it up and put it out there. he was playing the media like a puppet master. guess what, its now reversed. it seems like he just completely forgot how to manipulate the media, because guess what -- >> no, he -- >> he is not in a position where he is winning. and that is the difference between when he started and where he is now. h...

Political philosopher friends, a machiavellian president who lies and deceives about her e-mails, she is the politician you dreamed for, but behind the scenes she is misleading the american people. it makes me sick. >> drain the swamp. >> that was from matt. >> if he talked about that, it would be different. here is what is ironic. remember when he first started helps campaign and he would call into shows and tweet and do press conferences, everybody marvelled how he was so good at manipulating ...

Steve bannon does, too. he orchestrated paula jones and others to turn up to the debate. on some issues in terms of thermo nuclear war against the republican party kellyanne is more cautious than steve bannon. there are tensions along those lines. >> we are out on the campaign trail all the time. you hear a wide range of reaction to this from supporters. i want to play some now and then talk about it. listen. >> probably rise up. take it as it is. if youre in the south. we are all second amendme...

Do they want their daughter back? of course they do. >> he took his trump card, it was perfect. art had no more control, he couldnt be the puppet master. mac took it from him. >> anyway, were done. >> i dont like what you said to me. nobody cares what happened. >> i didnt say that. >> drives me crazy. >> art, youre missing -- >> clearly, macs trick psychology had gotten to ream. the killer who had kept the zarzyckis in the dark for 22 years. now the tables were turned and he sputtered at his los...

Youre happy with the story that is told, right? >> right now? yeah. >> at first, it seemed like ream wasnt taking the bait. the two sparred. >> if it doesnt matter what happened, it doesnt matter. it doesnt. >> it does matter. >> why would it matter? if you dont care, the family dont care? nobody cares -- >> no, we didnt say we didnt care, we just said we have closure. >> mac stuck to the game plan, pretend like its all old history. >> i said im fine with it, im going to move on, and this guy wa...

That is the problem with the small attack groups with the small groups is they are hard to detect even if there is a puppet master on the other end radicalizing the individuals. they are hard to detect. we have to increase the surveillance capability at home. >> jon: how do we do that? >> we have a larger umbrella issue but having all of the groups not talking and not exchanging personal is a shortcoming. we have the fbi surveillance teams that are short-handed. we focus on meta data and the big...

Chrisoffing with columnist for "the new york times." how does bush 41s assessment of the power structure and george w. bushs administration square with your reporting and of course your authoritative writing in "days of fire"? >> well, in fact what president bush 41 is saying, talking to jon meacham whos written this new biography, cheney was given too much license to operate. some ways it is not that different from where are his son came out by the end of his administration. his son was always ...