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Striking chemical sites. you could have an aftermath that would let even more agent loose in the atmosphere. that is always a worry. perhaps one of the big questions is, are they thinking about expanding the target set going after assads own regime, headquarters, commanding control, intelligent, would they go downtown damascus and just how complicit were the russians in all of this? will there be an attempt to address this with the russians? john? >> barbara, very quickly, was there any response...

Talk to me about what youre thinking in terms of what they may know at this point and what questions they may have going forward. >> well, look, its so early in this process that theyre going to be looking at everything thats coming in trying to understand, first of all, is there any possibility of a continued danger from anybody who may have been a co-conspirator or somebody who may have known something that is an imminent safety issue or was somehow a part of this. in terms of the motive, its ...

The demonstration effect of these kinds of vehicular attacks, something they have called for in their videos including a publication to do precisely this is now upon us. it is the new waive of terrorism. it is effective, easy to do. it can be done where pedestrians are congregating. it doesnt rely on a mass event or a government building as a target set. so this is the new wave of terror and they are scrambling to figure out how to do this as we have seen in spain over the last couple of years b...

Attacks, something they have called for in their videos including a publication to do precisely this is now upon us. it is the new waive of terrorism. it is effective, easy to do. it can be done where pedestrians are congregating. it doesnt rely on a mass event or a government building as a target set. so this is the new wave of terror and they are scrambling to figure out how to do this as we have seen in spain over the last couple of years but how to protect civilians in these kinds of areas a...

Actually telling somebody every step of the way, get the vehicles here, get your target set in this place, those are all things will be finding out in the next few hours, the next few days, but so far, the target set alone is indicative of a being a terrorist attack. this is a heavily traffic area. weve seen this before but people who were remote-controlled or inspired by isis. its all lining up and unfortunately, its one of these incidents where people are going to be asking questions like how ...

La ram blass is exactly that. it has two parallel roads but right down the middle is a pedestrian walkway. it literally means to ramble, the place where you ramble. and you cannot put in enough safeguards to stop of this type of act. in washington, d.c. after 9/11 there was a very sensitive infrastructure planning around the key sites along the wall. and theyve put up what are known as ha-has, which are knee high bare yors and bull ladders which line most of the streets. new york city has done t...

Its a very difficult target set from just a technical military perspective and it is one in which the way in which you go about finding targets and making sure you can dpo after targets requires a great deal of rigorous thought and that becomes something that this administration has to work on, quite frankly, in order to achieve desired foreign policy goals. as president obama told president trump, the most difficult area to deal with. >> this is one of 16 intelligence agencies who has come to t...

Assume that youre not going to get them all because the koreans have spent years, decades, burying all of the stuff. they have got bunkers, caves, everything like that. its a very, very difficult target set. you also have to assume that there will be some sort of retaliatory action. the koreans have also planned for that for decades. so theres nothing easy about this. the military options we have right now are not good. but if ordered to do them, of course, the pentagon would do it, but the cons...

Burns brought up missile defense. people talk about military options in dealing with north korea and often theyre talking about offensive military options. now that they have tested successfully apparently an icbm, the defensive options here arent that great either. >> well, they never have been. until we get a viable ballistic missile defense system, were going to be vulnerable as they continue to develop this icbm. looking at their engineering and physics capabilities, its only a matter of tim...

Operations no order to affect what was happening in the united states. it is much bigger, much bigger than just collusion. >> steve, has someone who follows russia, you know, closely, obviously, and has a long career with the c iia, involved with russia, do you see anything that the president is actually doing about future hacking? because, you know, other than this cyber security executive order, which made no mention of russia and seemed focused more on updating i.t. systems in the federal gov...