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Now no one around them spoke up and they were going to these firing ranges in the vicinity up todays before the attack last week. shawn, to you. the fact that we heard the fbi assistant director that there was no open case and no open file, nothing on the male shooter ahead of this. >> that goes to the point of self-radicalization. the concern that law enforcement, the joint terrorism task forces have with this phenomenon that people are in their living room, online individually or potentially a...

Point headquarters been look at or are being looked at, and that we have the resources so do that sort of thing now? >> well, truthfully, you make the resources available you. pull people from other cases, whatever theyre doing. this is the primary importance as we all know and we all agree. you have to make it happen and you have terrorism task forces, resources from them as well. so you take everybody that you possibly can and get to the bottom of this as rapidly as you can because you dont wa...

Significant period of time. what you get concerned about, its all about intel across our country and worldwide. we have joint terrorism task forces in ohio where they go to disrupt plots. but for some reason even though these two people we now believe have been in contact with a group of radical jihadists, somehow we have not been able to pick them up. that brings up one of the issues of encryption. are they able to communicate in a dark world where we cant find out who they are or what they are...

Response that we saw, jim. and it was swift. within moments of the first call, not just the police department, but multiple agencies responding. do you believe that had to do with the location, the timing? how were they able to have such a swift response from so many agencies at once? >> well, you know, its just the times we live in. and law enforcement is very tuned in to the mass shootings and working together. you know, we work together on so many issues involving violence. violent crime task...

Some may not, but the bottom line, checking all of them out. >> rene marsh, thank you so much. i want to talk about the threat in the swuds acrou.s. and acros globe. shawn, talk about the global warning, travel warning out from the state department. what goes into making that decision to issue that? what is the fbi doing behind the scenes to keep things safe. >> john, it is the totality of what were seeing throughout western europe and through the middle east. the fbi working with state and loca...

City and to the terrorists that they have the ability to respond or intercept an operation. >> meantime youve got these threat warnings almost all over the world that are coming out day after day. how do you distinguish, malcolm, between which ones are credible, that you need to deploy extra military or police. you need to tell people to stay off the streets in an atmosphere like this. >> everything in the terrorism world comes down to intelligence, intelligence, and when you dont have intellige...

There have been 600 raids here in france since saturday. targeting islamic extremists. but the prime minister says the nation face as long and permanent threat. another official says we cant cry victory over terrorism after the death of abaaoud. the situation is far more complex than one bad guy. >> rick leventhal, thank you. the fbi will maintain its heightened posture here in the u.s. through the holiday season. a law enforcement source tells fox news the bureau continues to urge vigilance a...

Offs like what about this? you have got to have a group of people that think this thing through, if you dont you could end up with a failed mission. we cant afford that here and we wont. we will be successful if we put together an aggressive battle plan, go on the ground and by the way in the short-term we should be establishing these no fly zones with sanctuaries to be defended by the jordanians. >> no-fly zones include russia. tell russia no-fly zone for them too. >> yeah. no-fly zone would wo...

We know that. director comey from the fbi said that there are investigations actively in all 50 states and there are hundreds of people sympathetic to the jihadi cause who are here among us in the united states. the key piece for disrupting these types of attacks is by the use of good intelligence. and the fbi, local law enforcement, the joint terrorism task forces have been successful at disrupting attacks in the past. we have a new adversary, they have new tactics. we need to continue to drive...

All hear echoed. thats something we need to take to heart. it is incredibly important, because theres somebody on the forefront collecting intelligence, bringing it to law enforcements attention. >> shawn, the tsa declined to give us details, but do you suspect theres a lot going on that we are not aware of, to keep the railways and passengers safe? >> theres no doubt about that. i can tell you that within the joint terrorism task force, the fbi, amtrak is a part of that, metro police officers a...