I love the mormons. I love i do love virginia. I love you. I love you. I love you. Thanks for watching special report. Im shannon bremen. Good night from washington. On the record is next. This is a fox news alert. Terror raids underway in brussels resulting in arrests. Fox news Shepard Smith is standing by with this brand new information. We go live to shepard in brussels in just moments. Also, france, just stopping a terror plot. France arresting a man in advanced planning stages. That plot now luckily foiled. Also breaking a new manhunt for a second suspect who may have slipped away in the brussels bombing. Police believe the metro bomber may not have acted alone and hisaaccomplice could be on the run. That metro bombs is where 20 innocent people were murdered. President obama takes heat for dancing the tango in argentina in the aftermath of this attack. The terror brothers who carried out this barbaric attack, they were on u. S. Watch lists. Also today, victims of the carnage are now describing that horrific attack. I found myself on the ground and there was ash everywhere. It was all gray. I was covered in some brown stuff. It stank of burnt pig. So i got up and i got out as fast as possible. Then people told me i was burned. So i figured that out. I was past a mirror i half saw myself burned i didnt want to look it was burning. It was burning. I didnt feel that so much. It was the brng that felt worse. Fox news Shepard Smith has brand new information on those ongoing raids. Shep . Greta, coming in now and over the last 10 minutes there have been two separate raids happening here. One in the neighborhood in brussels near where the spot where they found the bombs in a home and two other locations as well. The federal prosecutor has
announced in just the last couple of minutes that there have been six arrests that that are connected with the investigation of the bombings that happened here three days ago. We knew these raids were underway there were pictures on social media throughout the night. We saw groups of Police Officers in what looked like heavily armed, maybe military gear, unclear. But clearly they had surrounded a house. We now know threeii people were arrested in front of the federal prosecutors office. And three others in two separate locations. Prosecutors will say at this moment only that they are connected to the investigation. Some live pictures coming now from one of those locations. Prosecutors will say only that they are arrested in connection with, in connection with a bombings that took place here in brussels. Beyond that they say further information will wait until tomorrow. There was no question that the raids had been ongoing throughout the day. They have lowered the terror alert level this afternoon. And then all of these raids happened. We didnt understand how the two mixed. But progress tonight on all
fronts. Shep, is anyone saying anything from the authorities about the fact that turkey, at least, sent one of theseek people home and warned belgium about one of these terrorists . Well, they have mentioned that on the side. Nothing in a news conference, greta. The discussion guar been going on quite vibrantly over the past few hours. The turkish admission that they did this and then questions about why they couldnt tie them to terrorism. Why there was no way to bring them into custody. The brussels Authorities Say they knew of their criminal record. They knew that one, for instance, had been sentence to do nine years in prison in connection with the jacking of a Currency Exchange place while a cop was shot during that. The sentence of nine years, town to two thirds because in belgium for time served and Good Behavior you dont serve but two thirds of your sentence. He was out. Those two brothers, both with criminal records but no terrorism connections were the ones who carried out the bombing here. How that got lost in the
ether still remains to be seen, greta. The thing that still worries me, shep, if the turkey warned belgium about this guy and belgium did nothing and this happened, has turk request warned being ignored tonight . I mean, i know that the terror raids are going on and thats great. I hope they catch everybody. But is belgium basically up to this task . We have asked those questions. And turkey says we make warnings about people who are on the Syrian Border all we dont really have the capacity to follow up on what it is that the people that are warning do with that information. They are like we want to give them all that we have and help in any way that we can beyond that there is not much we can do. Of course, we learned through this process that there are a number of people that they wanted to watch but couldnt. You asked if they are overwhelmed. I think tauthorities are clear t that. That this caught them to some degree offguard and they ever overwhelmed. Have the names of those killed been announced . Are americans making up some of those dead . We have no information about any americans killed. We know the number of americans who were involved in one way or anotherjn has gone up. There were three mormon missionaries about whom we spoke. A member of the military and four of his family members, two other people from new york city who were here on vacation. Two other bankers from the United States who were working here but are United States citizens and now today from the state department we learned that there are others who are involved in one way or another but because of privacy issues, the state department couldnt give us details. Somewhere around a dozen americans, whether any of them are dead we dont know. Four at least are unaccounted for at best, greta. Shep, thank you. I know you are exhausted. You havent had much sleep there is a lot going on. If something does happen of course we will go back to you. 3gtiu u now, there is breaking news out of france. Their interior minister says a frenchman in the advanced
stages of a terror plot has been stopped. Is he now under arrest. Fox news chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is here. Catherine . Thank you, greta. This has really been breaking within the last 60 to 90 minutes. We had confirmation from frances interior minister that they have arrested what was described as a high risk, high value suspect that has known connections to a terrorist organization. What we dont know at this point is whether it does have a connection to belgium. Can i tell from you my experience two things are going on here. The threshold to pick people up is much lower. For the thench authorities to mo, this is a guy they have been watching for a while. They are more likely to pick people up now than they would have, lets say, a month ago. Every time you have a major arrest like did you last friday with abdeslam, you take the stick and poke it in the hornets nest and you cause people to move and you cause people to talk. That is the kind of event that causes people to act
and accelerate plots which is what happened on tuesday. Abdeslam is he n talking . Is owe in the position to know things. I dont want to give the viewers bad information. The reports are he is talking. Anything he is saying would have to be corroborated by a second or third level source because what he says cannot necessarily be taken at face value. All right there is a video thats come out. Its nine minutes in length. I have watched it in its totality. It has the feeling of being prepackaged. Preproduced and sitting on the shelf waiting for an attack to unfold. There is new video of it on the brussels attacks. It bookends the video so the beginning and the end. And in the middle they showcase belgian foreign fighters. There is no interviews with any of the known suspects. Its kind of like a propaganda pile on. They want to amplify what happened tuesday and then they warn that more are coming ahead. Quickly, there is a reference to donald trump in the tape there. Is a reference to donald trump thats in the first
half of the video its about a five or six second reference pulled from American News report. Part of montage with overseas reports and then reports from this country. Catherine, thank you. Youre welcome. Well, what do you think about this . Very bad objects . Your president videotaped dancing the tango in argentina just days after hundreds are injured and dozens slaughtered in the brussels terror attack m rw÷ and the outrage from critics coming very quickly. Where is president obama baseball camp while brussels burns and now is he on the
dance floor doing the tango in argentina. Im not so sure he should be doing that where everybody is worried about where isis is where are they going to kill next and are they going to come over here. Mr. President come home cut your trip short and come back to the white house. I would have cut the trip short. Leader of the free world appears to be73nh uninterested. The advanced person who let him do the tango that person ought to be looking for work on somebodys campaign very, very far away. That wasjz a tremendous mistake. Pennsylvania congressman scott perry goes on the record. Good evening, sir. And the president , if he were here would say we dont want to send a message to the terrorists that they can disrupt us. And that we should go about our lives. What do you think about the president staying in argentina, staying overseas, rather, on his trip, going to the baseball game in havana and getting caught on tape doing this tango last night at the dinner . Good evening, greta. I would say this instance, if it were the only instance, conduct state business, you never know when something is going to happen around the big globe. To stop everything every single time i think is unrealistic. Unfortunately there has been a pattern when these attacks happen, when somebody has been killed on tape or Something Like that and americans in peril or our allies in peril the president often mb Something Else whether its releasing a 30 second statement and going and playing golf or what have you. The bigger issue here for Many Americans and many people in the free world is that the leader of the free world while he says that this is, you know, this is a priority, defeating isis and this radicalism and terrorism is a priority, it seems that too often saying its the priority, why do you think that he did this . I mean, he had to know the cameras were running. Yeah. I have got to tell you agenda than most of us as
americans and certainly former president s do regarding the International Situation that the United States finds itself. In my opinion, i think the opinion of many, he has spent the last seven5n dismantling, 60 to 100 years of work and relationships around the globe. And thats not by happenstance. I just think he finds it relatively unimportant, quite honestly. Do you think that maybe he is just, you know, he is a continent away and just doesnt have a thought of how its playing back here in the United States and how a lot of people are reeling from the fact of what went on in belgium because we are watching the video of people injured in belgium3k explosions . I dont know. I think he probably gets how people feel in the United States. Certainly, he is aware during San Bernardino, traveled there after the fact and has heard the criticisms but here again, he called isis the jay vee team and time again. [broken audio] we have calls greta not only in the United States and around the world. The president , if you ask if you ask any american is to defeat this scourge to make sure it doesnt come to our shores and embed itsselves in our communities and around the world, i think we would be hard press to do find one single american that can do it. There is a reason for that because the president hasnt articulated it because there isnt one. I should note because viewers, im sure, we have a little audio problem with you, sir, and its not on your end. Its our audio issue with your mike. Alle right. What should the president be doing about belgium, if anything . Well, certainly, look, saying that about that you cant bring people to justice that blow themselves up. Its not really appropriate, right in the condemnation, its meaningful but only if you do something. So certainly supporting our allies and Law Enforcement and in military action when necessary is key. But in the homeland, and
around around the world belie when he says its a priority, bringing in unvetted syrian refugees, unvetted syrian refugees, most people see that as incongruent with saying thatv extremism as your top priority. Not even naming islamic extremism. There are many free, peaceloving americans in america and around the world but there are also those who want to kill americans and westerners and they keep doing it not addressing it is the problem. Congressman, thank you, sir. Sorry about that audio problem. Thank you, sir. Thank you, greta. The on the record panel is here from the daily beast Betsy Woodruff and matt visor. We are going to see a lot of that tango video. Yeah. Many people who have emailed me are horrified by it. I think the image in contrast both with the baseball game the other day and tango last night sort of juxtaposes what is going on. It is not a good contrast. I think there are two things
going on with5p the white house and their thinking the way they have approached things like paris, he was criticized similar for immediate response. He didnt wait a second, paris, he didnt show up. Every other major nation showed up. He didnt show up. Right. He was criticized for it. When people are marching in solidarity, he wasnt there and he was supposed to represent us. He is our president. And whereas San Bernardino when it was on u. S. Soil, he traveled there. He was much more engaged. He gave an oval office address. So i think the contrast is when things happen overseas and its not directly on u. S. Soil his response is different. We are probably going to find out americans were killed in belgium. So i dont know, you know, i dont know how they are going to do that hair splitting if it turns out that in that dead list there are some americans. It recalls Herbert Hoover eating seven course meals at the white house when the Great Depression was unfolding. Keep spirits up and act like everything is normal and try not to stoke fear and
anxiety often that totally backfires. He wasnt trying to keep the nations spirits up but his own spirits up while he is there dancing. He wasnt spending sending a message back to the United States. I cant speak to what was going on in the president s head. The most charityiblable is that the president was trying to indicate some sense of normalcy. Thats a charitable explanation. In terms of a reaction that could have been wellintended but probably had the opposite of the desired effect. I watching that he doesnt care about his job. Because his job really is to represent us. American people we want to send a message to the belgians that we stand with them. He does hold the job. Its like him dancing, you know, and at leastjf we could have video of him in a meeting with the president of argentina. It gets back to a comment that he made also about not watching enough news feelings. Do you have to watch the
news . I mean, what kind of education do you have to i mean, there are all these people murdered by a terrorists. I mean, do you have to watch the news to know its really bad and bothers people. No. You shouldnt have to. For him he is in argentina. He is doing his thing. He is in this bubble. He gets a Daily Briefing every day oneu that plane. There is a cia is down there briefing him. Or they better be. You think if he isnt watching cable tv one of his aids or advisors would keep an eye on it hey this is kind of a big deal. People are stressed. A couple dozen innocent folks just got killed in a western nation. His next stop is a result in the andes. Stick around. Are drawing on every other topic in the campaign trail. You have radical islamic terrorists all over the place. Its not going to be the end. We will have it over here, too. My focus is on stopping
islamism. Its not about patrolling neighborhoods. Its not about shutting our borders down. What America Needs is strong, smart, steady leadership to wage and win this struggle. We have no paperwork. We have no idea who they are, where they are, where they come from. We need a president who knows his first job is to be commander and chief and keep america safe. Alabama senator and Donald TrumpsNational Security chair senator jeff session goes on the record. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Senator, with all the terrorism thats just happened in belgium, the president has not come home and he has not used the termczj radical islam, which general flynn last night on our show said was very important to identify the enemy and use a term like that. Tell me your thoughts on him, number one, not cutting his trip short and coming home and, two, not using that term . Well, it is a worldwide crisis. Its not as big as 9 11, of course, but its very, very big to our friends and our
neighbors, really in belgium. So, i think it is a legitimate concern that the president is not seemingly taking this seriously enough. This whole idea, refusal to address the reality of the threat we face does contact our ability to defend america and to help . 1 the whole world see the nature of the threat we face which is very real. I guess it arises out of Political Correctness where you just dont want to say anything bad about anybody or raise any questions. But that kind of intimidation of free speech is dangerous it makes it harder to fix. He did say in havana on the 22nd of march we stand in solidarity and condemn these attacks. He doesnt use the term radical islam. It should be used. It just is there has always
been a strain of this many times its very quiet and not arising. We are now seeing a longterm trend of rising radicalism and islam. It needs to be confronted first by our islamic friends they need to condemn it vigorously and the United States has to be on alert constantly. We have no obligation to risk than we ought to. A