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In, we did get it back. isis claimed responsible for two of the major terrorist attacks that happened yesterday and sunday. up with of those claims is a surprise for a specific reason. we will talk about that later on this hour. in terms of american politic the transition tried to pull off an amazing, oops, we didnt mean that, involving two of the president-elects adult children. thats an incredible story. and on this show this hour we have two really great journalists, both will be here, both o...

Yesterdays terrorist attack in berlin, which left 12 people dead. while no proof was provided, the city remains on high alert as german authorities continue to search for a suspect. meanwhile in turkey, russian and turkish officials have accused u.s.-based cleric of masterminding the assassination of the russian ambassador in turkey. last night donald trump on his first full day as president-elect swiftly condemned those incidents, plus a third in zurich as, quote, terrorist attacks. he also iss...

I know its right before christmas and everybody is supposedly going on vacation. there is lots going on in the news, including tonight. today and into tonight, we got our drone back from the chinese government. we dont know the condition its in, we did get it back. isis claimed responsible for two of the major terrorist attacks that happened yesterday and sunday. up with of those claims is a surprise for a specific reason. we will talk about that later on this hour. in terms of american politic ...

>> reporter: he will be meeting with michael flynn, his national security adviser. and hes getting briefedly ten officials with the military who are essentially giving him the latest information on the attacks overseas in berlin in particular. so the focus today really on national security. throughout his time here hes been holding transition-related meetings. today all about getting up to speed in terms of the latest terrorist attacks. this as we are getting interesting news from the world of t...

Recruiting, especially in europe. if you look at most of the people conducted terrorist attacks in belgian and france and now this guy, they come from north africa. isis, 6,000 members, of the foreign fighters who joined isis are from tunisia. tunisian have been the largest area. he definitely fits the profile. i am not buying the whole idea that he was just inspired by isis. i think there is some sort of control. remember, ali, hes the only guy that isis claims responsibility for his act when h...

Im wondering how this is being viewed within the trump camp. what do we expect? >> we saw on the campaign trail as a candidate, strong words in a series of tweets in the wake of those terrorist attacks. mr. trump tweeted, he was assassinated by a radical islamic terrorist and he called it a violation of all rules of civilized order. then in the wake of that berlin attack, he tweeted, isis and other islamist terrorist groups continue to slaughter christians in their communities and places of wors...

And from the united states perspective, i have to say, we are entering holiday season, what were going to learn from this is to try to fortify some of these more public places in the weeks ahead. because we know this is -- you know, as michael said, this is so easy to do. the runway of radicalization for these guys is relatively short, theyre not leaving long trails behind them where they can be captured before they do something like this. >> jill, the state department warned americans it was la...

They talk about how theyre now both fighting the same enemy. russia has had terrorist attacks in the past as has turkey. so youre talking about fighting the terrorists together. some of that language came out in todays joint declaration after this meeting. theyre talking about going after the terrorists in syria in joint operations. >> so what about the evacuations? apparently they could end as early as tomorrow. what are you hearing? >> in fact, that timeline might be moved up a bit. there are ...

The past year some, a few of the refugees that have come in to germany have been responsible for attacks. but in large main thats not the focus of the problem either in europe, certainly not here in the united states. two factors, carol, one is as the islamic state the pressured by the iraqi military and u.s. military, were leakly see the islamic state resort to these terrorist attacks just to keep their organization alive in front of their supporters and second syria is disintegrating. 12 milli...

Summer has isis written all over it. president obama leaves office in 32 days and he is going out with this belief and almost every country on earth sees america as stronger and more respected today than they did 8 years ago. in other words, by so many measures our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. >> but is that true? joining us from washington brad sherman democratic congressman from california, senior member of the house foreign affairs committee. so random ...