Washington was a pretty Rapid Response this information had not been passed to the u. S. Government formal channels and they were unaware of this information. Has everyone been arrested in this little group that had no idea . The iraqi Prime Minister, again, this is what has my attention is the the specificity. When people speak very generally, there is not always a lot of truth to it. But he is talking with a number of specifics. He says we have arrested individuals but they are part of a network. So we dont believe that the threat or the plot has been completely thwarted. Why doesnt the United States know about this . Sort of a. There are a couple sorry to just jump. In there are a couple of explanations. One that its just bogus information, okay . Its bogus information and were vulnerable to that right now. Well, its bogus information and because of that it was not passed through these proper or traditional government channels. Number two is that there could have been what i would call sort of a ships passing in the night situation is which is the iraqi Prime Minister gets the information from baghdad. Is he is at the u. N. He is surrounded by reporters. And there is not really a filter. He releases the information, and it hasnt had a chance to get into the government channels. But the bottom line is that episode underscores the fact that everyone understands isis, their ambition is to hit the United States, if they can and do it domestically. Catherine, thank you. Youre welcome. So, why havent u. S. Officials confirmed the isis terror plot to take place on u. S. Soil . And what does iraqi intel know he that we dont . Representative peter king is on the Homeland Security committee, he joins us. Good evening, sir. Hi, greta, how are you . Very well. Prior to todays announcement from the iraqi Prime Minister, had you heard anything about a plot to hit new york or paris subways . No, i didnt. And from talking to everyone that i know in the intelligence and Law Enforcement community today, it seems to be no evidence to substantiate what the Prime Minister has said. And i mean, there is nothing coming from iraqi intelligence, as far as i know, the fbi, Homeland Security, nypd, now this would have involved a subway attack in new york, remember, we have 140 government leaders in new york this week, including every major world leader has been here. And so obviously you would have thought that somebody would have contacted the nypd and baghdad would have made this known. Right now it appears its misinformation. Obviously its going to be examined and you can be sure that our people are in very close contact with the intelligence agencies in baghdad. I guess i would love to believe that and then i sort of think is this bogus . But then i think look our intelligence people didnt catch 9 11. They didnt catch the terror plot in times square until that happened. The underwear bomber, he was allowed to bomb a plane with buying a oneway ticket without any baggage. Its like on the one hand i dont want to be an alarmist, on the other hand, there is some really bad things that have slipped through the cracks with our intelligence service. Oh, no, that can always happen. You dont know what you dont know. But, in this case if there were more to it, you would think that baghdad intelligence would have immediately told our intelligence agencies and they have their own Prime Minister in new york the city that could have been attacked. You would have thought again what should have happened is and in fact happens the 8999 out of 1,000 times. When a nation finds Something Like this or thinks they find something, even if its a tip or hint, they elm my i cant tellly pass it immediately pass it on to the intelligence communities affected. What i can find out the cia, fbi, Homeland Security nobody was notified by baghdad of anything. In fact, their Prime Minister was in the city at a time when they felt, according to him that there could be an attack on new york. It doesnt add up. But, again, everything has to be checked out. All right. Well i guess it would make a big difference to me i sort of guess as to whether this is real or not. Frankly we are in a position where we have to guess, regrettably. Does the u. S. Get like a bunch of these scary alerts like five a day so that this is just one of many or is this unusual so that maybe, you know, give it more attention . No. We get quite a few. You get people who come to embassies around the world. Some have been reliable in the past. Some havent. They will come in and say they think there is going to be an attack in such and such location. That happened several years ago before 9 11, the 10th anniversary of 9 11 we got information there was going to be attack on ground zero of 9 11 itself. It was all person alert in new york for those two days before and the day itself. And as it turned out it was either bogus or the plot was called back. But, again, we cant take anything for granted. Every hint, every tip is tracked down. And in addition to that though. Comes too late. Certainly the Christmas Day bombing. The times square bombing. We should have certainly with the Christmas Day bombing we he should have known more. But, again, all annualized and is looked at and also for the Prime Minister to the last thing he should have done is mentioned it publicly before he had told the american government. You would think something as serious as this he wouldnt mention to a bunch of reporters on a street corner. That is curious indeed. Thank you, sir. Thank you, greta. Very unnerving subway plot in the u. S. What could be done to prevent these attacks . Next agent Terrorism Task force jonathan guilliams. Thank you, sir. Good to be here. Says this is a specific attack on a subway in new york and paris. How do we find out whether this is the real deal and what do we do . Well, contrary to what a lot of people would think actually have a specific threat will help the investigation because it gives us specific sources that we he can query. It lets us look at specific grhreat may be coming from. So, basically what you will see now is ramp up the sources that data base checks and well see overall the joint Terrorism Task force, the dod intel groups will see if they can find any chatter or sources that they may know about this. At the same time see state and local Law Enforcement really amp up if they need to their security at those specific sites. What i find troubling right now is i think we are particularly vulnerable to panic. We just had two americans beheaded. A tourist has been beheaded. An aide worker has been beheaded. There has been a woman in iraq. Human rights activist who was just tortured and killed. We are pretty vulnerable and dropping bombs in syriaened a iraq. Who do we know . I mean, how does Law Enforcement, you new york, i imagine you get lots of these determine we cant chase everything down every second. What do we do . Lets look at it in a way everybody can understand. Bank robberies happen all the time in the United States. But youre not you dont see people panicked and running out of a bank because of fear. You have to be smart. You have to know that these things can happen. Its a gambling game. You know, the terrorists, they have the odds in their favor because no matter what defense we set up, they have the ability to wait, look at it, and go around it you know, its similar to a bank, you have to it be aware when you go in there there is always potential but you have to go there. If you have to go to work and take the subway. Beaware. Im sorry, go ahead, greta. You can be on a subway and 30 feet underground and between two stops and all of a sudden you think the person next to you has a package of c 4 plastic. You are really out of luck at that point. However say you are not out of luck like in spain when the bombs went off. You had individuals getting off. This is on video, they are riding the escalator. Turn around and look. I hear a bomb go off im running, unfortunately those people the next bomb went off and killed them. And, of course, its not the old days where you need a big fighter plane or bomber who drop a bomb on something. One person can do an awful lot of damage. One person seeing it and notifying somebody be can always make or break that know it, nothing can beat an aware human at beating a terrorist attack. We all feel deposit pew advertised by 9 11 to speak up or i hope so if we see something peculiar. Thank you, sir. Thank you, greta. British Counter Terrorism officials announcing the arrest of nine suspects in ongoing investigation. Grn reporter chris walker joins us right now. Chris, what happened in the uk . Well, an early whoop, 18 houses. One of our leading muslim fanatical preachers arrested. And strangely, in comparison with you, i mean, we have got the arrest but we havent got the targets. Nobody has been suggesting there is an immediate attack threatened on the london underground, though that has happened before. But these people have been absolutely outspoken in support of isis. Really saying the most terrible things in public about how they are not going to defend our hostages still alive and how muslims should kill christians and such like this has been cleaning up operation. I think its probably not circumstantial thats its happened along with whats threatened in paris and washington there is bound to be blow back. Next 48 hours it looks like. I suspect we will be getting our threats too. Chris, we only have 30 seconds left. Im curious why does the uk seem to be such a breeding ground for a lot of these terrorists . Very good question. The answer is i think we have got very little control over the mosques. There is the language, of course. And in fact, we have got huge numbers of them who live here. And seem to be very, very unrestricted in their movements. There is a growing feeling about this. How is this happening . We have heard three killed by us air strikes in iraq and syria this week. Thats three brits. Thats a huge percentage. Chris thank you. Breaking now, barbaric masked man speaking english with british accent and blaming the United States and england in the video showing beheadings of a two americans and. They will not reveal the executioners name. The u. S. And allies still pounding isis, launching at least 200 air strikes targeting isis in syria and iraq. The troubling question, is this enough . Baghdad is still relatively secure. I mean, there has been a couple of minor ied attacks inside baghdad, but the isf, the Iraqi Security forces in and around the capitol are still defending the capitol. Its not like isil has not posed a threat there. Oliver north good to see you. Good to be with you. Im concerned with us and isis and whether it is spreading. I think catherines comment about how we came to know this threat about washington new york and paris transportation infrastructure is always going to be a prime target visuals are compelling. They are savvy knowing how to use that to their advantage. If you are riding in beltway. Silver lining goes out. Goes over the beltway and if you think about somebody getting Something Like two brothers, assembled in boston before a marathon and carried that on to a subway leaving town. You would have a visual that would be very, very effective as a recruiting tool for the most radical jihadists on this planet. Here is the problem with what we are doing. We are giving them a safe haven of 15 to 16 hours a day because were only bombing at night. Now, the idea, of course, is to take out targets of opportunity. What we really need to have is 24 7 coverage up over top of syria. If we are going disrupt and disable and eventually destroy isis, you cant just do it with nighttime strikes. Then why arent we doing 24. Im hoping somebody will ask admiral cure buy that because he is after all an admiral. Why we dont have a second strike group out in the mediterranean and the persian gulf. You cannot maintain a sustained air operation. The talk missiles being launched on the screen. You cant do it without more ships. Were also told you cant do it without boots on the ground. Im not advocating that if you are saying we dont have a 24 7 air power and even if we did that wouldnt do the job . No. Ultimately, someone, rough men with rifles have to go to take terrain, capture bad guys and free hostages. Cannot do it with airplane. Unfortunately, we have got a mystical belief in the power of aircraft dropping bombs precision guided munitions. I mean, look at those visuals that we are getting out of the pentagon. I mean, goes right down and takes out the antenna. Building kind of stuff. The bottom line of it is if we are going to take the fight to disrupt them before we destroy them, somehow with 5,000 people trained in 10 to 12 months in saudi arabia. Will now have to go back into the fight against not only isis but also against al assad. I dont see how this works. I mean, i had it described to me yesterday by a former marine general as there is not a snow balls chance in hell of this succeeding the way its being fought. Thats encouraging, i say very sarcastically. Sorry. Thank you. Nice to he see you. And developing now, those barbaric islamic exextreme i. S, strike again. Not a journalist, an aide worker or a tourists. 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Sleep trains inventory Clearance Sale is on now your ticket to a better nights sleep more bad news for president obama his numbers are in a free fall a new gallup tracking poll shows president president obamas job approval dropping two points just yesterday. 42 of voters approving of the president s job with 53 disapproving. Karl rove is here. Karl, what would you tell the president to keep his numbers from tanking further . Well, first of all, forget the numbers. Stop looking at them. The president. Maybe he isnt looking at them. That was just, you know, my. Yeah. Well, if he is, and im confident he is this president polls too much. Pays too much attention to the polls. Stop looking. Is he a war time leader. Whether he likes it or not. His numbers are bad because, and they are not recently bad, the last time his favorability outnourished unfankt was essentially 53 weeks ago. And the president has been upside down since then. When putin moved in to crimea and then began messing with ukraine. When isis spread across northwestern iraq. President obama began to have real deep problems with how people viewed his ability to handle Foreign Affairs, terrorism and whether or not he was a strong leader. So, excuse me. His problem is that people are looking at his policies and saying they dont work and he is not a strong leader. Work on getting the right policy and be a strong, effective leader and the poll also take care of them. Its been a Long Time Coming it will be a long time getting out. Tell me if im right or wrong on this. When there is a Foreign Policy crisis, the party in power does a little bit better. I mean, thats a terrible thing to say. A crisis and Foreign Policy and americans sort of rally behind the leader. Yeah, there is temporarily and i suspect the president is going to see a little bit of upward movement at some point but probably not a lot and maybe not at all for the following reasons. People dont think that he is a strong leader. He has got this great irony that about 60 of the people support bombing syria. 70 of the people support bombing isis in iraq. 60 o think the president is not stroong leader and 38 Approval Rating on handling Foreign Affairs and a 41 Approval Rating on handling terrorism. There is a gap between they sort of like the policy but they are not certain its going to succeed. But they think he is weak and feckless and not a strong leader and those things are going to take a long time to change because they have been basically six years in the making. What is your thought on attorney general eric holder announcing that he will be resigning as soon as the presid