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You would be hard pressed to think this was some kind of thug. there has to be an ideological motivation. indeed, its worth remembering belgium in january of this year busted up a -- as many as 20 sleeper cells of pro-isis terrorists who were running around belgium. these guys, the belgian intelligence services accused of plotting terrorism attacks in france, in the netherland, in germany. >> so, michael, let me jump in because i want to give you details just coming to us. this has been coming t...

>> senator barrasso one of the challenges for the french experts is that these individuals apparently spoke fluent, unaccented. theres a very easy way for people to get from the middle east to europe and back. thats a particular challenge that europe faces more so than we do. >> youre absolutely right. thousands that have gone from europe pretty easily into the fight with isis in iraq in syria. when you take a look at those beheadings of the american hostages, that seemed to be a british accent ...

O older broer the, but he is a terrorist, and so would you argue that is the best way to get justice in the case and the best way to offer peace to the families? is. >> i dont have all of the facts. the constitution clearly require n s that the government permit a defendant like mr. tsarnaev to introduce whatever mitigating circumstances he believes would justify a lesser penalty. in the case of another man who was convicted in new york for his terrorism attacks, he was sentenced to life rather ...

The rest of the world. it seems like inside the walls of the vatican, that is where the big change is coming. if what weve heard is the truth, he is going to shake things up in the vatican in a way they have not been shaken up. >> and save the church. >> and hes trying to get people on board as he does that. you can see that process going on. >> number two. >> number two, a sad story we all obviously all remember too well. but talk about this. >> whats interesting, there were a lot of horrible t...

Funding, cr x were always hearing of. its an inefficient way to fund the nation and the process costs extra. our next guest has seen this up close and personal, how ugly the budgetary process can be. he served as an aide on the super committee which was the last time congress tried to hash out a long term budget. thanks for being here. >> glad to be with you guys. >> lets start with the evolution, travis, how do we go from annual budgets to piecemeal crs and what does it look like on the inside ...

Nation, we may be weaker. and that is because of the debt. in part because of money that we have spent in iraq and afghanistan, money that i dont think we need to spend, not to that degree. >> terrorism is an instrument of the weak. terrorism is an instrument of a weak group, al qaeda. this is a very weak organization. but it uses terror to try to attack our psyche. and if we overreact to terrorism attacks, we empower them. we embolden them. we amplify their power, and we fall into their strateg...

Last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> its a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- its logical this program is effective. youre collecting so much data that if it didnt turn out that it resolved or prevented any terrorism attacks, it wouldnt make any sense. on the other hand, if you look -- if you step back and you look at the numbers, you begin to wonder how effective it actually tr...

Thank you congressman jim himes of connecticut. >> yeah, i hear you. thanks, chris. >> lets turn to sam stein with the "huffington post." sam, reading this as a gist journalist and looking at this stuff and the presidents presentation to charlie rose last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> its a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- its logical this program is effective. youre colle...

The activities of the last ten years have made the u.s. safer, a lot safer, a little bit safer? not safer at all? >> i think our homeland is safer because of our efforts against al qaeda in particular. but i think that overall as a nation, we may be weaker. and that is because of a debt, in part because of money that we have spent in iraq and afghanistan, money that i dont think we need to spend, not to that degree. >> terrorism is an instrument of the weak. terrorism is the instrument of a weak...

Need this money for training purposes to be ready in the event of an attack it seems on the face of it like a good idea, right? >> well, these are called urban area security initiative grants. the whole idea was to take the top cities in america that were most likely at risk for terrorism and harden them, and help the states, and those cities, get them to a point where we had a markedly decreased risk for terrorism attacks. the problem with the administration, a lot of this money has been well s...