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European allies to send military forces to syria passing the target set for friday. where are we? >> well i think the journal may be a little bit behind the curve on that i can tell you ive spoken to my british and french counterparts this past week and they are looking to pry and participant, we havent formalized it yet a lot of work remains to be done chairman of the joint chiefs of staff joey d unford and his colleagues at the pentagon have been moving heaven and earth to try and get this acc...

Here in washington covering the same area, the professionals say theyve built up their own relationships and theyre there to work with each other, no matter who the president is. and much of the intelligence community, and much of the diplomatic community, theyre made of career people who know that they will be here after donald trump is no longer president, and after macron is no longer president and they sort of build up their business. on the other hand, what is happening at the top has got a...

President, secretary of state, attorney general, first lady sitting member of congress. there they all are, and a billionaire for good measure, an actor, one of these devices went to cnn across town. was this in your mind a full-on assassination attempt? >> well, assassination is just one of the techniques that terrorists, you know, thats encompassed within terrorism. i immediately called it what it was, which was a terrorist mail bomb campaign. we dont know what the objectives are. at that time...

There they all are and a billionaire for good measure and an actor. one of these devices went to cnn across town. was this in your mind a full on assassination attempt? >> well, assassination is just one of the techniques that terrorists -- that are encompassed with terrorism. i call what it was which was a terrorist mail bomb campaign. we dont know what the objectives are, we did not know whether these devices were real or not. we have to assume they are real and work back and let the bomb tech...

First lady and sitting members of congress, there they all are and a billionaire for good measure and an actor. one of these devices went to cnn across town. was this in your mind a full on assassination attempt? >> well assassination is one o f the techniques that terrorists that encompass with terrorism, i call what it was which was a terrorist male bomb campaign. we dont know what the objectives are, we did not know whether these devices were real or not. we have to assume they are real and w...

I wonder what youre making of this. >> the forensic side and then trying to get into the mind-set of whoever these people are. were told now, several of these devices have been transported from a new york area back to virginia, theyll undergo analysis. were learning about some of the characteristics of these devices, we saw some of the initial reporting that there was some type of isis flag on the devices, we talked to some of our sources that are telling us now that law enforcement is not givin...

This. >> the forensic side and then trying to get into the mind-set of whoever these people are. we have been talking to sources since it began. were told now, several of these devices have been transported from a new york area back to virginia, theyll undergo analysis. were learning about some of the characteristics of these devices, we saw some of the initial reporting that there was some type of isis flag on the devices, we talked to some of our sources that are telling us now that law enforc...

What is it about this target set, the fact that they didnt explode. they will try to come up with a profile or who this person might be. >> good reporting. lets bring in our correspondents, this is an ongoing threat, but has it been over shadowed to a certain degree by president trump and the way hes been handling this, the things he has been say something. >> i think those in the brynn print and brad cast media have done a good thing keeping it where it should b. you seen whats going on from a ...

That local authorities and the government keeps of people. what can you tell me about the profile of something pllike thi matching up with somebody on a list? how do they do that? >> they have in place a number of policies with local law enforcement working together to prevent people from getting certain materials that would be precursors for bombs and for doing this kind of thing. at this low level, we are not talking about somebody who is buying a lot of ammonia nigh trait, some of the straigh...

Provision. there is, for your position. there is definitely a danger in po sighties where that starts to diminish, right? we have seen under this administration attacks on the judiciary, attacks on the fbi, attacks on the deep state and attacks on journalists. you are a student of history, malcolm who knows when this happens, it often portends very dangerous things. >> it portends very dangerous things. whats happening is we are asce descending from improper discourse to a term were using in the...