joining me now, cnn contributor, michael weiss, a senior editor for "the daily beast" and co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror." let me start with the news we led with this segment, the idea that there was someone arrested outside the u.s. embassy firing shots into the air. we don't have any real information beyond this, other than that the man was shouting and shooting. is it the type of thing where officials are on higher alert, when we see copy cat cases, when he we see follow-up attempts at terror, typically, like this? >> yeah, and also, the fall of aleppo, remember, this is something the cia and the joint chiefs have said, is not just a humanitarian catastrophe for the syrian people, but also a veer krou counterterrorism threat to the united states. why? if you look at what's taking place in aleppo, this is not the assad regime that sacked the city. this is iranian-built militias backed by russian air power and russian special forces on the ground. this is going to be a rallying cry for sunni jihad for generations to come, this