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Earlier, the president of the united states giving his comments earlier today as well. well show you a lot of this reaction to this terror event in france. in the meantime, peter bergen, if i can bring you into this conversation, oftentimes when we see these kinds of terror attacks, it is not typical that the gunmen get away. in fact, its usually a suicide mission. in this particular case, i want to ask your expertise on the notion that there may have been a very weak plan "b," meaning the getaw...

>> this is a fox news alert. suspected u.s. drone strikes on militant hideouts in pakistan killing at least seven fighters. defense one executive editor kevin barron joins us now. kevin, give us the latest on this. >> well, this looks like this is the retaliation for the attack on the school that killed over 160 last week. this is -- this comes today along with a raid by pakistani forces that they say has killed the leader, the master behind behind that raid. >> how important do you think this s...

Condemnation from around the world about what they have done. they have claimed this is a revenge attack they launched against the pakistani military for coming against them, but the u.s. view very strongly is that it wants to see pakistan succeed in putting these taliban leaders completely out of business. the u.s. security interest here of course is to have a stable pakistan, and the pakistani taliban interest has sewn as much havoc as possible. >> thank you very much. and the attack in pakist...

But add some caveats, this san investigation. they have a number of clues. theyre trying to connect those clues as best they can. theyve had clues, for instance yesterday those satellite images that turned out to be a false lead. but what gives them confidence is they have more than one clue that leads in the direction here. really one of the key ones is that radar data. theyve had more time to analyze that radar data to get more confidence that this is the heading the plane was on when they los...

What happened on the flight? investigators across several countries are scratching their heads, trying to answer that very question. think of the timeline. it vanished early saturday night. 239 people on board. malaysian officials dont know what happened to the plane and where to look. lets bring in the chief national security correspondent in washington with more on this. jim, you got a lot of sources. what are they telling you? >> its confusing, frustrating for all involved. you say scratch yo...

Leaving the door open, not to those passports being a terrorist event. because thats the same information we have been getting since yesterday, that it fit a pattern, u.s. intelligence officials have told me, of human smuggling, rather than tied to any terror event. so to be clear, the cia director, leaving though open another tip, possible terror connection, separate from those two iranians traveling on those stolen passports. just another point i would make on that, wolf. i spent a lot of time...

Biometric data from these two men that travelled on stolen passports, including their thumb prints which have now been received by the fbi, and the fbi will now run through a u.s. terror database, to make sure that nothing turns up, that these people and based on their biomet trick data were not tied to or suspected to having ties to terror. theyre keeping all lines open, but the read im getting from u.s. intelligence officials, they have more and more indications its not a terror event. >> pres...

The investigation. more and more signs are being reported that it is not a terror event. they keep all lines of investigation open, malaysian authorities passed on to u.s. authorities, some of the biometric data from these two men that travelled on stolen passports, including their thumb prints which have now been received by the fbi, and the fbi will now run through a u.s. terror database, to make sure that nothing turns up money these people based on the biometric data were not tied to or susp...

Collecting phone records on millions of americans is one thing. saying you are going after conservative groups and then its more than a few. then a lot more than just groups. its individuals. expanding this to go after fox. there is a steady, systemic pattern of invading peoples privacy to use the full weight and power of the united states government to be a pain. >> there is arrogance. the notion that this is monitoring phone calls from here to yemen, 170 million customers are calling yemen? cm...

France today, paratroopers reenacted the invasion of normandy without the fire. as veterans of the war watched below. at the american military cemetery, overlooking omaha beach, volunteers raiseded american flag and placed others on the graves of the lives lost. its it was on the beaches of normandy that the allies, 60,000 troops stormed the shores and began the march to liberate western europe from the nazis. joining me now, democratic senator from montana, john tester. thanks for being with us...