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I want to bring in our terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. max foster referring to a report from the police chief for the city telling germanys public broadcaster that the reason for the stadium e evacuation is that, quote, there were serious plans for explosions. a press conference on the matter is eminent and well bring that as it happens. but this is not uncommon, i would suppose, if this turns out, and its very early information and police do not have accurate information early on, nor do we...

Look at boston, look at the boston bombings, you had two guys there who were about the biggest losers you could come up with, using a magazine in english that they al qaeda in yemen without ever speaking to anyone from al qaeda in yemen, these guys came up with a real terrorist plot and hurt and killed quite a number of people. so just remember, two guys with no connections to al qaeda or isis did that. they were able to build bombs that killed and wounded a whole bunch of people. it doesnt take...

Its very, very tricky to make in almost all of the cases weve seen, the people who have managed to make it actually got training overseas. this very much is consistent with this being isis with there being training somewhere like syria for this attack. the other significant thing is that back in january with that terrorist plot that was thwarted in belgium. they had all of the substances necessary to make tatp. they were planning to make exactly the same kind of explosives. and weve now seen rai...

They can. there is sole sort of coordination here and some sort of -- somebody knows what they are doing. >> paul? >> i agree and really points towards an established terrorist group isis or al qaeda over 1,000 french nationals have traveled to syria and iraq, many joining with isis. more than 250 returned. europe-wide a staggering 6,000 extremists traveled to syria and iraq. 1 ,500 back in europe. security services stretched very thin. they just cant monitor any but a few all the time, th24/7. ...

>> 65% in good airport security. bob baer, thank you so much. stay tuned to cnn. wolf blitzers going to have a lot more on this. thats it for "the lead." im jake tapper. "the situation room" starts right now. happening now, breaking news. bomb on board, cnn is now learning that u.s. intelligence suggests the crash of that russian passenger jet in egypt was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by isis. is isis responsible? sources telling cnn that internal communications and increa...

Administration were going out and telling people this was a spontaneous attack led by a handful of people not an organize terrorist plot to kill americans. >> we had the announcement yesterday by joe biden. youre no you in double digits in many polls. would you prefer to run against hillary? do you think a person thats viewed by 60% of america as dishonest could be elected president? >> i dont. she has always felt and the clintons have always felt that they operate above the law. i think credibi...

And telling people this was a spontaneous attack led by a handful of people not an organize terrorist plot to kill americans. >> we had the announcement yesterday by joe biden. youre no you in double digits in many polls. would you prefer to run against hillary? do you think a person thats viewed by 60% of america as dishonest could be elected president? >> i dont. she has always felt and the clintons have always felt that they operate above the law. i think credibility is the most important thi...

Dead. hundreds are in emergency shelters. a 5.4 magnitude aftershock was also reported. massive delays in the u.s. at airports, in fact, yesterday. a computer system outage grounded american airlines flights in chicago, miami, and dallas for several hours. all told 291 flights were delayed and 6 were canceled. understandably the passengers were not happy. its all crazy, and hectic. i dont know whats going on, and its a little frustrating. im getting aggravated. >> a quarter past 2:00 in the af...

Remain silent about his friends deadly scheme. terry nichols is the only one remaining to help mcveigh carry out the terrorist plot, but he, too, starts to lose his will. >> in the last week, as mcveigh is really going fully operational, terry nichols is withdrawing more and more and more. so theres several occasions where nichols is supposed to meet mcveigh and he just doesnt show up. you know, it ultimately comes to a head on the sunday before the wednesday bombing. >> i mean, he calls this gu...

For sure. and were very lucky that nobody got killed, especially spencer. >> we can also now tell you that president obama just called them and personally a short time ago thanking them for their heroism. nick robertson is live for us in fran france. with me here in new york is paul cruickshank. paul, you have some new reported on the suspected gunman, what the motivation may have been and where he may have been headed. >> according to a senior european counterterrorism official, they believe th...