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The first of february. so make sure you tune in for that. im brooke baldwin here in washington. thank you so much for being with me. were going to send it off just a smidge early to my friend jake tapper. "the lead" starts now. thanks, brooke, an emergency message overseas, "the lead" now. a terror alert for americans in a major european city while here at home new details about the terrorist couple who dropped off their baby before murdering 14 innocent people in san bernardino. the fbi now l...

Organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home. but it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization embracing a perverted interpretation of islam that calls for war against america and the west. threat from terrorism is real but we will over come it. we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. in iraq and syr...

Organization overseas or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home. but it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization embracing a perverted interpretation of islam that calls for war against america and the west. threat from terrorism is real but we will over come it. we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. in iraq and syr...

Continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. in iraq and syria, air strikes are taking out isil leaders. heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure. since attacks in paris, our closest allies including france, germany, and the united kingdom, have ramped up their contributions to our military campaign which will help us accelerate our effort to destroy isil. second, we will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of iraqi and syrian force...

Continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. in iraq and syria, air strikes are taking out isil leaders. heavy weapons, oil tankers, infrastructure. since attacks in paris, our closest allies including france, germany, and the united kingdom, have ramped up their contributions to our military campaign which will help us accelerate our effort to destroy isil. second, we will continue to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of iraqi and syrian force...

San bernardino. i know we see our kids in the faces of the young people killed in paris. and i know that after so much war, many americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. well, heres what i want you to know. the threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it. we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our success wont depend on tough talk or abandoning our values or giving into fear. thats what groups like isil are ...

>> reporter: facing criticism that his strategy is not working and needing to reassure anxious americans in a rare address from the oval office president obama laid out what he says the u.s. and its partners are doing. >> we will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. our military will continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it is necessary. >> reporter: still tonight critics say president obama only defended existing strategy including air strikes, ...

It is one where we have seen them use social media, for instance, to recruit, to radicalize and indeed to plan and plot. which is why we are applying relentless pressure on isil in iraq and syria and other areas so they cannot establish a safe haven, which is exactly why you have seen our military take action, take lethal strikes against leadership targets in iraq and in syria. including against jihadi john just last week, the brutal murderer of, we assess, of american citizens, of american jour...

And al qaeda terrorist plotters wherever they are. >> why do you think this paris plan slipped through the cracks here? obviously you guys have been very aggressive. do you have issues now in monitoring cell phones? do you have issues that youre facing that stood in the way of you being able to break up this plot? >> well, time will tell as the investigation of the paris attacks continues. and obviously the french are leading that and are very focused and were working very closely with them, sha...

The fbi director saying there are now surveillance operations under way in all 50 states against suspected isis or other terrorist plotters. thats pretty shocking wink about that as well. >> well it is pretty shocking although i do think we have to put it in context. i would imagine probably almost any year we have investigations in all 50 states of a variety of terrorism cases. what makes this unique is that these are isis related terrorism cases. i was in the u.s. attorneys office back in the ...