is that he was somewhere in syria and iraq. but again, in a situation like this, it's constantly evolving, constantly changing. and if he is in europe, the dragnet around him is going to definitely be tightening, which is a good thing to take a player like this off the battle space. >> congressman, what does it say, the fact that all the conventional wisdom was that he was in syria or in iraq and that he moved into paris, into france undetected? >> well, we don't know if we can confirm that he actually has moved into paris. i haven't seen that level of intelligence. and i think the important thing is in looking at all this to figure out how we can use this in the future. one of the things that -- you know, i sat on the task force to look at the threat of isis to the homeland. and one of the things that was pretty shocking to me is the lack of information sharing amongst our european partners. we were sharing tens of thousands of names of known terrorists. and many of our european partners were not checking known travelers against that information.