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Economy as you just said. ivan watson live thank you so much. there is a growing cyberthreat when it comes to isis. fbi director james comey says they are using encrypted programs to prevent law enforcement from accessing its communications and he says his agents dont have the tools to stop it. jim sciutto reports. >> this is an enormous problem. >> reporter: the top law enforcement official gave congress a frank, sobering warning. terrorists are going dark in cyberspace. >> sometimes people w...

You cannot deny the loss of u.s. presence there. there were special forces on the ground. theyre no longer there. you had an embassy there, which is a diplomatic function. thats now closed down. many of those intelligence gathering assets are gone. there were still some there. they carried out an air strike earlier this week a drone strike rather. so they still have some capabilities. as you heard from the new defense secretary, saying yes, we have other means, but granting this is far from idea...

Given that code. it changes periodically. i cant tell you how often. you put the code in and you have 30 seconds to enter when that code -- if something happens and you dont get in, it locks itself back out. >> reporter: you cannot get back in. the pilot on the inside if she or he wanted to make it possible so you cannot get in with a code. >> correct. there are two other buttons and the lock. it does the same thing as the deadbolt. >> reporter: the question is based on what we know so far about...

Hospital had to turn away patients. what numbers are you talking about, and where did they go? >> its difficult to give exact numbers. i of in liberia in -- i was in liberia in august and september when we were turning away people. a lot had to go home. we gave them material to keep their families safe basic training so this they would reduce the risk of infect. these people had to go -- risk of infection. these people had to go home. that was difficult. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it....

Themselves decide its in irans security interest not to acquire a bomb to go down a non-nuclear road and to reengage with the west. this reengagement with the west also opens iran up to greater western influence and this could have a beneficial impact on its other behaviors that we continue to disagree with. >> joe, sobering, thank you very much. appreciate the conversation. >> thank you alex. ahead, how swedish furniture retailer ikea is taking over the world. the ultra-personalized research ...

Should and can resolve. what the united states can do and barack obama can do is to work with multilateral powers, with the united nations, the international community, the european powers, regional pourers, invest leadership capital in order to help build institutions and also bridge the divide between the contesting and contending forces in the region. >> fascinating conversation, sobering, but very enlightning. thank you very much. lets take this issue to the next step. how does the united ...

>> fareed, i think what barack obama is doing is the right thing. you know im very critical about american foreign policy. ive written extensively on foreign policy in the middle east. barack obama is correct to basically keep a distance from the killing fields in the middle east. barack obama is correct to let the region develop its own instruments of government. the reality is this is a crisis that only people in the region should and can resolve. what the united states can do and barack obama...

This will take time for the villagers to say we dont like maliki. we like the initial security isis provided. months, a year down the road they will start to say well, maybe not so much. >> youre talking about a time frame here thats years, maybe even a decade, and youre talking about the biggest hope for the u.s. and its allies in the region maybe being isis the terrorists overplaying their hand here over a decade. thats sobering. thats bleak. >> the issue here, weve been talking about morale a...

Malikis behest. okay. then you are fighting against sunnis. then on the other side. through turkey, you are -- giving money and arms to sunnis. if that confuses me covering the region 20 years. i think it would confuse a lot of people in the region who would say, really have no idea what the u.s. strategy would be right now. >> vis-a-vis iraq, syria, lebanon. we will be hearing more about lebanon in the coming days as hezbollah and iran and shiite militias get more and more involved in this. >> ...

And syria. and iraq. so if he, lets say he backs, the united states decide to back maliki, starts bombing somebody, where, i dont know. how, i dont know. but they start bombing at malikis behest. okay. then you are fighting against sunnis. then on the other side. through turkey, you are -- giving money and arms to tsunni. if that confuses me covering the region 20 years. i think it would confuse a lot of people in the region who would say, really have no idea what the u.s. strategy would be righ...