Transcripts For FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz C

FBC Countdown To The Closing Bell With Liz Claman November 24, 2015

At the moment we need to stress it is not 100 sure, in fact, not even 50 sure any of this is related to the deadly terrorist attacks on november 13th in paris. Amazing that its right there on the border between paris and belgium where there are checkpoints galore. You can only imagine how tense the situation is. Right there in that town it is actually where one of the ringleaders of the paris attacks is from. I want to get to Ashley Webster. Ashley, youve been grabbing headlines, what do we know right now . Reporter yes. Well, to your point, liz, very uncertain at this point. We do have a quote from french media, from a Police Officer on the scene who says he believes he is 9 9 sure this has nothing to do with the paris terrorist attacks, that its to do with a bank robbery, but these headlines change quickly, its a very fluid situation, so well keep an eye on it. There is, perhaps, a coincidence that it is happening in the same town as one of the believed bombmakers is originally from, making those bombs for the paris attacks. We should also mention its not that far from belgium, right on the border, not far from brussels where belgian authorities announced they are after a fifth suspect. Theyve already arrested four in connection to the paris attacks, now they have a fifth who is on the run. Hes 30 years old, he was seen driving with Salah Abdeslam, they were seen together in a car at a gas station heading towards paris two days before the november 13th attacks. So he is considered dangerous and probably armed, say the belgian authorities. We know that now as the pieces are put together of what happened prior to november 13th, its believed that abraham and Salah Abdeslam hired three cars in belgium over a period of time, the three cars that were used in the attacks. Alabama rah him iowa rah ham detonated his vest, but salah apparently didnt. Pieces are coming together, the question is, is it 11 days too late . Liz ashley, interrupt us if you get anything. Amazingly, and i know youll perhaps be surprised to hear this, the dow and the s p are actually holding up under very, very extreme stress on these breaking news hits. We just saw the nasdaq turn negative. Its down by only two points, but i like to stress this because perhaps as the nasdaq goes, so go the rest of the markets. The russell is still up just half a percent at the moment, and the s p is clinging to gains of just three points as we look at the markets right now. That apparent im stressing apparent false alarm in france just highlighting the fear of terrorism around the globe today. Especially it comes on a day that the fight against isis was complicated by an International Incident as a nato ally shot down a russian fighter jet. That is a picture of what happened, the aftermath. French president Francois Hollande at the white house today trying to convince president obama that working with russia, with russia to destroy the Islamic State, is indeed in the nations interest. The french president seeking a, quote, grand coalition to take on the terrorist organization thats using black market oil largely to fund its socalled caliphate in syria and western iraq. President obama saying today that the terrorists are a scourge that threaten all of us. Okay, we knew that, but dodging the question of working with Vladimir Putin and the russians to stamp it down. Calling russia and iran a coalition of two, two nations supporting the regime of syrian president bashar assad which we mow the United States would like to see removed. Two of the smartest men in the room are reading between the lines, bob hormats, cliff may as we look at that, gentlemen, the increasing threat of terror attacks prompting the government to issue a Global Travel warning. Were going to take you live to jfk in just a moment to see how International Travelers are taking the news. Its so much to swallow here as we watch all of this. I want to get right now to bob hormats because this is a situation and, again, were talking both of the questionable hostage situation and whether theres any relation at all to whats going on, thats the breaking news right now. What happened today at the white house . Did it clarify anything . Calm anybody down . Did you hear anything new, because we did, only one thing, and it came from Francois Hollande, shut down the border between syria and turkey. Well, i think that is one element of it, but its a very complicated set of issuings. On one hand you have the russians and iranians who support assad. On the other hand, they have a lot of firepower in the region if they were to turn it to isis, that would be very useful. But the fact is for the moment many of them really seem to be aiming more at our friends who are antiassad than isis itself. Thats one complicating factor. The other is you need turkey, and the United States has to be demonstrating its support for the turks. Theyre a nato ally. Shutting down the border would help, but that is something the turks liz i mean, we can show this plane going down again, and it was a russian jet who was warned ten times in five minutes by, with all of the details of it, turkey saying it shot down that plane as it crossed into territory from syria. The two planes, there were two of them, ignored several warnings that they were nearing turkish air space. I mean, as im telling you, ten warnings in five minutes, planes kept going, did not retreat. The incident marked the first time i think, bob, in half a century that a nato member has downed a russian plane. Russia is insisting that the plane stayed over syria. President putin said turkeys action is, quote, linked to a stab in the back delivered to us by accomplices of terrorists. I cannot qualify what happened today as anything else. But you look at that, and you say, well, were not going to have a friendly relationship right now are with russia to say lets all band together against isis. No, were probably not. And the white house has been very doubtful about working with the russians in any case because it may well be that their primary be objective, which is to keep assad in power, is not consistent with our primary objective which is, a, to deal with isis, but also weve concluded that assad being in power gives ammunition to the sunnis in syria who are supporting isis because hes going after those sunnis. Liz and its horrible to say, but it is the truth, folks. We had two terrorist attacks today alone in egypt and in tunisia. Cliff may is with the foundation for the defense of democracys president. Are we defending our democracy enough . Because these situations are seemingly spreading and creep, theres terrorist creep, as i guess im going to call it here. Does it come to us . Yes, it has come to us on various occasions, not just 9 11, the tsarnaev brothers, of course, in boston. We have seen over the recent years terrorism spreading into more and more countries and more and more groups being involved in terrorism, and they are not enemies, they are rivals. You have alqaeda, isis which is a splinter of alqaeda, and you have the Islamic Republic of iran. Iran is the arsonist that is now pretending to want to be a firefighter, and part of the problem here is that russia has aligned itself with iran and with its puppet, assad. And i think what bob said is very key. If you want to fight the Islamic State, you have to have sunnis in syria and iraq on your side, and they will not if the prize for fighting with you is that they will be dominated by shiapersian iran. Liz and as we look at, as we look at the creep because youve got thanksgiving two days away, people are terrified, very concerned about this, you wonder whats going to happen. We still have the Syrian Refugees lapping down our doors. Banging down our doors. Canada is saying they will only accept refugees who are parts of families, women, children, no single, unaccompanied males. Do we need to do that . Yes, we need to have a pause, i think thats right, and i think we need to have a very robust more than we do now vetting process. There may be among these refugees people that will be very useful to us because theyll want to work with us in terms of intelligence and go back and fight, that sort of thing, but we cannot bring into the country people who either are agents of the Islamic State or are likely to become agents and be recruited later on. Right now is not the time to have massive immigration from the middle east, from syria, but not just from syria, from other places too. I think this is a time for us, and i would say the europeans, to be very cautious and think about other things you can do about whats going on in the middle east beyond simply letting hundreds of thousands of people into your country who may pose tremendous problems in the days, months and years to come. Liz let me get our viewers caught up here. We now see the market tacking on another ten points, the Dow Jones Industrials up 54 at the moment be, perhaps on the news that this latest hostage situation by the way, involving kalashnikovs, people shot, hostages taken at the border between belgium and paris still happening right now but may not be related to any of the attackers who were in paris november 13th. Bob, former undersecretary of state, the u. S. State department has issued a Global Travel alert. Cliff outlined the sort of panoply, weve got alqaeda, isis, lets not forget boko haram in nigeria, but our markets are holding up, and yet we do have terrified people in this country who are wondering how do we keep ourselves safe . The president said i finally understand how you feel, you know, he mentioned that during the meeting with hollande. But what do we need to see versus hear . Well, i think weve got to see a number of things. First of all, this is metastasizing. There are, theres a lot of evidence that isis is not just in the center of what it calls its caliphate, but has these what they call distant or foreign provinces. So theyre actually adopting relationships developing relationships in sinai, theyre developing relationships with boko haram, relationships all around the world. And they doubtless have cells or people here who are influenced by them. We have a global phenomenon be here. We cant simply fight in the region, although i think we have to deal with the power thats at the center which is syria and iraq. But also were going to have to work very hard with other countries with good intelligence to go after them wherever they are. And theyre in a lot of areas. Liz well, the word metastasized is really disturbing, but i think it accurately portrays whats going on. We want to thank you and cliff so much. Breaking news is developing as we speak. Bob and cliff both really articulating the concerns right now, but its a global, jittery atmosphere as we have a hostage situation underway in paris right now. As soon as we get more details, we will bring them to you. Its right there on a very tense belgian France Border at the moment. Those terror attacks in paris and mali and todays new attacks in egypt and tunisia prompting the government to warn American Travelers as i just mentioned heading overseas to be wary of another attack. Fox business spanning the globe with reaction from travelers here and those who have already arrived. We will be right back. Dow jones industrials up 56 points. Boy, that sure looks like a peaceful picture. Find some way of working with the russians and iranians even if its uncomfortable if for us. I have asthma. One of many pieces in my life. So when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my longterm control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. Oncedaily breo prevents asthma symptoms. Breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. 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As you know, as youve heard ashley talking about this terror attack, but nonetheless, inspiring unbelievable fear. Reporter thats right. And i have to tell you, you would think there would be fear here at jfk, but we have spent the morning talking to people about how they feel, what they make of this new alert from the state department. They are undaunted. They want to travel, theyre going to travel. Let me tell you about the state department alert. The state department telling americans who are traveling overseas that groups are planning attacks in multiple regions. Who are those groups . Isis, alqaeda, boko haram. Heres what the state Department Says you need to do if youre traveling internationally or at all exercise vigilance in Public Places like the airport, and be aware of your immediate surroundings. They say dont go to places where there are lots of people gathered. Now, that is going to be super difficult this holiday. Over thanksgiving, people want to go to Public Places, they want to go to sporting events, parades, they want to see their friends and get together. So one piece of advice that the state department is giving that you shield to hear, enroll in their smart traveler program. You can find that at step. State. Dove. You enroll there, and then you get texts to your phone, information about areas that might be in trouble, places to avoid, where you dont want to go. And you can also tell embassies in other parts of the world that youre an American Travel anything their country, then our country will know where you are as well. So just caution, steps to take as you make your plans for travel over in this holiday season. A lot of people are worried, but ive got to tell you, liz, the americans here at jfk are undaunted and are continuing to fly. Liz theyre thrilled to be here, thank goodness. Im going to alabama for the alabama awe bush game. [laughter] auburn game. Reporter all right. Go, baby. Liz gerri knows, if i ate chipotle yesterday, im still going to alabama. [laughter] wu unafraid and undaunted at fox business. As you look at, for example, we thought wed show you the international, specifically the International Airline carriers, they are moving lower today after the u. S. State department issued that Global Travel warning of increased terrorist act tifd around the globe. But weve also noticed the regionals like southwest or jetblue are also moving lower at the moment. Everybody down about 2 at the moment. The closing bell, were 41 minutes away, and we are keeping our eye on that developing story as well as whats going on around the globe. But a hostage situation still underway on the border of belgium and paris, and were watching it. Its not possibly related, we have to stress that too, all of the terror thats going on. It could be a robbery gone bad. Just stay with me, and ill keep you posted on that. 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Get a great offer on the car of your grownup dreams at the mercedesbenz winter event. Its the look on their faces that makes it all worthwhile. But, hurry, these offers end soon. Thank you santa liz boy, these guys on wall street have pretty strong stomachs, because the market is holding up under extreme breaking news at this hour. We are actually now getting new details on the november 13 beth attacks that aaged paris, so were going to get back to Ashley Webster whos got some breaking news. What is it . Reporter yeah, liz, it makes for some pretty interesting reading. The paris prosecutor saying that the ringleader of those november 13th attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud, does, indeed, have blood on his hands. Its believed he was in a vehicle that plowed down dozens of people prior to the attacks the gun and bomb attacks on the cafes and bars of northern parts of paris. Its believed he then drove the car that was involved this that, dutched it off on the outskirts of paris and came back into the city center on a metro, on a subway train. And at that point he started to walk around and look at those terror sites as they were being targeted, looking at the handiwork, if you like, of his colleagues including cell phone records that show he was outside the bataclan music hall while

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