Extremism, the ideology the networks, the capacity to recruit young people this has met aft isized and it is widespread and penetrated communities around the world. We do face a very face a extremist islamic terrorist threat in america and across the world and we have to be incredibly vigilant in terms of that threat and strengthen our police and security we ought to make sure we do everything we can to keep our country safe and that involves annin he had credibly an np incredibly hard and discipline add poach. Chris jansing is live at the white house. What was the takeaway from the News Conference today . Reporter a couple of big things. Lets start with terror because obviously the timing of this meeting, the 14th between the two men, comes on the heels of thwarted by Belgium Police of a terror attack that could have been on the level of what happened in paris, ore over several days 14 people were killed. And including over belgium, france and germany and this proposal that this push by David Cameron, he wants American Tech Companies like google and twitter and facebook to allow more access so they can intercept these terrorist communicates. This is obviously raising controversy on both sides of the atlantic. How do you balance privacy concerns with the need for homeland security. And you heard the president talking about how theyve been working on this issue and he thinks in some circumstances that the threat of big brother is overstated. There are very good safeguards in place but this is an ongoing debate and conversation. I think there are a couple of pieces of news on iran. The president saying he would veto legislation that would impose further sanctions if some assurances were not made that rye ran is not developing a nuclear weapon. And we found out David Cameron made calls to u. S. Senators and le make some more not to interfear with the u. S. Government, but to make his opinion known on par with the preds that to do what some members of congress are suggesting would really hurt any chances they have as slim as they might be for them to be in a Nuclear Agreement with iran. Joy. Thank you, chris jansing. A lot going on at that press conference. And an arrest in belgium have set much of europe on aenl. A shootout with police led to the death of two suspects. The suspects were plotting to attack and kill Belgium Police. In berlin two turkish men are in custody after German Police raided a dozen homes and a mosque. They are believed to be part of a terrorist cell. Katie is monitoring this. Are the police making connections through the groups or individual raids. They are not making connections between any of the groups. As of now they are isolated raids but they are looking into potential connections. Yesterday there were two dead and one arrested in the belgium raid that turned violent and we have more information on what they found in the apartment, specifically four ak47s, bombmaking materials and Police Uniforms. Now Authorities Say they were able to stop a largescale attack pretty imminent from the people they raided in this specific raid. They do believe they were targeting police and that would be underscored by the fact they found Police Uniforms within the home. The people had been under surveillance for quite sometime. Even before the Charlie Hebdo attacks in paris last week. And they had just recently returned from syria. No timeline though on exactly how long they had been under surveillance or exactly when they returned from syria. Today though more arrests across belgium. The raids were being conducted all night. 13 in total. They are still looking to see if any of them had connections to each other or connections to the paris attacks. That is still being investigated at the moment. And belgium is on the second highest alert level, three out of four and a number of jewish schools were closed today out of fear of the attacks. Also a lot of other stuff going on across europe other raids and arrests and tension and anxiety, speaking to the fact they arent sure who will be a threat and who will not be a threat as of now. Joy. Nbcs katy turn. Thank you. And at least a dozen arrests were made overnight as france tries to take into consideration freedoms. Ron allen is live in paris with the latest. Ron . Reporter good afternoon, joy. This morning started off with a bombthreat at one of the main train stations during the commuter hour it. Turned out to be nothing but they vaticanevacuated the station. And later in the day we had a hostagetaking [ inaudible ]. I believe we have lost ron allen. And well try to get him back and bring you more of the report. And here the Republican National committee has wrapped up and they plan nine primary debates and three possibly late in the primary season. Mitt romney will speak at the winter meter. Last week he announced he is considering a third run for the white house. His speech comes a day after potential candidate ben carson made controversial remarks of american revolutionaries to isis. A bunch of rag tag people defeated the most powerful military force on the planet . Why . Because they believed in what they were doing. They were willing to do for what they believed in. The british were not. Fast forward to today and what do we have . Weve got isis. They got the wrong philosophy but they are willing to die for what they believe, while we are business illy giving away every value for political correctness. We have to change that. And after that carson said he wasnt equating the two and called such a comparison ridiculous. Casey hut joins us from the rnc winter meeting in california. My head is spinning casey, from the ben carson comment. How did those comments play in the room . We heard scattered applause but how did it play when he said it . Reporter there was some scatter add plause scattered applause in this group. This isnt entirely his crowd. This represent the party establishment. And while carson polls fairly well, he gets more support from grassroots conservatives, people who dont necessarily show up here. So his speech over all was mixed. And in addition to making the comments tipped through a list of other things he said have caused consternation on various subject and defended himself point by point which is something i dont think rnc members here thought was productive. That is called repeating the things that got you in trouble and getting into more trouble. And lets go on to mitt romney. Not the first choice for the movement, but what are we anticipating hearing from him tonight. Or he is considering it. Reporter he is considering it. And were going to hear his first comments on the uss midway docked off the coast here in san diego. Were not sure how far he will go in considering this bid, but his core of supporters have been calling and wering the hallways here. And the reaction among those one or two circles away, maybe they worked for romney or for a long time and the skepticism is intense and im hearing from members, they expect or feel like they need him to make it very clear what he is doing and to sort of outline a rational for this because people here are saying this didnt go well in 2012, there are people who felt that romney didnt care about them as we saw from the exit polls in 2012 and they are not sure how he will fix the problem or explain that away. And casey, is there a sense if rom any is not romney isnt the cup of tea or ben carson. Is there anyone getting a groundswell support from a plurality of anybody who has a buzz among the rnc. Reporter i think there is interest in jeb bush candidate assy and among donors and those with longstanding ties to the bush family. I think there are people here supportive of chris christie. And you also have Governor Scott carson who just hired someone to help run a campaign. He spoke last night and got a warm reception in the room. So i think there are so much just so many potential faces for the establishment, they are not interested if a rerun of something that didnt work in 2012. And lastly casey, i dont know if you follow the john boehner twitter account, but what is this taylor swift business going on where they are using gifts of taylor swift dancing around to make a point . What is happening there . Reporter apparently the speaker disagrees with the president s plan to offer two years of Free Community college. He said americans need to shake it off. Nothing is free in life. And i did read to the end of the press release which i cant say apologies to the speaker that i read to the bottom of every john boehner press release. And when your dad tries to be cool when using pop references and it doesnt come off. It is like that. I wont ask you to respond. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. And after the break, a deep dive into the many al qaeda offshoots that are taking place in the middle east with lathal cory. And a Police Department is under fire for using actual mug shots for target practice. The picture has bullet holes in one of my forehead and one of my eye. I was speechless. But ferst secretary of state john kerry enlisted a friend to pay tribute to the friends of the terrorist attacks. [ music playing ] all you have to do is call and ill be there jame taylor performed you have a friend with french officials. And even they even though they have to have someone step in for help it was a beautiful exchange. Whats in a can of del monte green beans . grown in america. Picked and packed at the peak of ripeness. With no artificial ingredients. Del monte. Bursting with life. Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know you that former pro Football Player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything . Unhuh. Number 44. Whoooo fortyfour, thats me get some cold cuts. Get some cold cuts. Get some cold cuts pay tribute to the friends of exchange. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. Whoo fortyfour ladies, thats me whoo. Gonna get some cold cuts today nice grreat a shot like that. Calls for a postgame celebration. Share what you love with who you love. Kelloggs frosted flakes. Theyre grrreat at ally bank no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like mute buttons equal danger. That sound good . Not being on this phone call sounds good. Its not muted. Was that you jason . It was geoffrey it was jason. It couldve been brenda. Welcome back. With europe on edge about possible sleeper cells and president obama moments ago saying that violent extremism has metastasized, it is important to keep track of the differences between the terrorist groups like al qaeda and isis which have not only different structures but often competing objectives. Laith alkhouri is from flashpoint Global Partners and thank you for being here. So let as go through it. And lets chain the groups and their differences. Lets start with al qaeda, which was the original terrorist group in 2001 that people knew about. Talk about the branches. Indeed. Al qaeda has established branches throughout time. It didnt happen all at the same time. But we know the origins in afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden established that and with his mentor and his mentor was assassinated in 89. Bin ladin continued on and it was focused on the soviet forces and continued on with the taliban. So al qaeda central leadership which is in afghan region pakistani borders. And then you have al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, because the roots go back to saudi arabia. And later on in 2008 they established aqap in southern yemen which has try the to carry out attacks in the western europe. And then we have al qaeda kind of stations in southern algeria, although it does commit a few terrorists acts in neighboring countries like mali and and sometimes we heard of al shabab which is an al qaeda affiliate in somalia. Yes. In somalia. And they have pledge add leithance and has walked in the footsteps of al qaeda, dominating certain areas in somalia and traying to trying to carry out national attacks in uganda and other places. Lets talk about syria because it has to do with the syrian civil war. Al nostra was established in iraq which today is isis it. Was an extension that spread through syria. Basically in about april of 2013, the Islamic State in iraq isi, automatically decided to expand into syria and once they expanded they broke the they went out of obedience. They disobeyed the al qaeda top leader and in april in february of 2014 they were officially ex communicated and disowned by al qaeda. And they have their own separate branch. And lets talk about the branch which was al qaeda in iraq. So if we can go to the next graphic. That is the former al qaeda in iraq is now what isis is. Exactly. So in february 2014 they were disowned. Isis, which stands for islamic estate in syria. And isil, and some know the area as lavant and it goes back to the origins being part of the greater branches of al qaeda stationed in iraq. But once they disobeyed the top al qaeda leadership they are ex communicated. And lets talk about where isis is. We have a map. That area that is yellow and orange what is the significance of that . Isis has main strong holds in iraq and syria. And we know that in syria, in rat car, it is their main strong hold but they have operational control in al bad and other places in northeastern syria. And they have the little region between the boards in western iraq, and syria. So they have control over the borders there. But also it has found acceptance and actually a number of groups pledged allegiance to albaghdadi from algeria and the brigade in libya, we have the Barka Provence in eastern prove lense and benghazi and then egypt, which is a Nascent Group that hasnt committed any operations but we have [ inaudible ] that has been around for a number of years and committed acts of terror against israeli and Egyptian Security forces. So the significance is that people who declare them to be loyal to islamic, and so they pledge allegiance and try to expand this caliphate around the world. Expanding territorially and establishing a provence. And we have groups that pledge add leithance from pakistan and afghanistan and who used to be part of the taliban or part of al qaeda and local factions. And there in lies the answers. The two leaders of the group. Albaghdadi said he is the boss of all muslims and then you have alzawahiri. Once he took over alzawahiri said albaghdadi was a soldier and of course he was ex communicated by the leadership and at this point he is a rival of al qaeda because now it is expanding not only internationally but in areas where al qaeda has operational control. Right. In areas like yemen. We do have to wrap it up but i want one more question. Because people will ask why isnt boko haram on this list . Is it an ally of isis or al qaeda or neither . They have never pledged official allegiance to albaghdadi but they do believe it to be part of the Islamic State and does have a harmonious state of albaghdadi and he has quoted him. And we know about the Group Operating in mali and he was part of aqam in algeria and formed his own group. And this is important, because some in america is benghazi benghazi. And in 2012 they accused of attacking the american consulate but it does have some connection with isis links in libya. Very complicated. But we can get a picture of it. Laith alkhouri thank you very much. And coming up the outrage over oscar snubs and diverse thinking at the idea. Ill have more coming up. Stouffers mac and cheese with real aged cheddar now in a convenient cup. New Stouffers Mac cups. Made for you to love. Latte or au lait . Cozy or cool . Exactly the way you want it. Until boom its bedtime your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. Enter the sleep number bed. Save 300 on the final closeout of the c3 Queen Mattress set. Hes the softy. His sleep number setting is 35. Youre the rock, at 60. And snoring . Sleep numbers even got an adjustment for that. Only at a sleep number store. Right now find the lowest prices of the season plus 36 month financing on qualifying purchases. Hurry ends monday know better sleep with sleep number. Your eyes really are unique. In fact, they depend on a unique set of nutrients. Thats why theres ocuvite to help protect your eye health. As you age your eyes can lose vital nutrients. Ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. Ocuvite is a vitamin made just for your eyes from the eye care experts at bausch lomb. Ocuvite has a unique formula thats just not found in any leading multivitamin. Your eyes are unique so help protect your eye health with ocuvite. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. Transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. Transamerica. Transform tomorrow. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat . Campbells healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. Great taste. [ mm. ] [ tapping ] sounds good. Campbells healthy request. Mm mm good. ® parents help their children discover the world animals, seen those before but sometimes they do it on their own mmm foot wow food for giants oooo no wonder no one has eaten this sandwich kids discover the world with their mouths keep laundry pacs out of reach and away from children brought to you by tide it is time for twee people and many of you cant stop talking about the love for selma on mlks birthday and the Academy Award nominations. The hash tag oscars so rate is trending at 95,000 tweets per hour it. Took off on black twitter and went viral and sparked tweets like this. It is so white, they have asked aggie adistillia to host. And not to be outdone. Oscar is so white they ask to touch my hair. And even jimmy fallon tweeted this years nominations are so white they have just become the 2016 nomination. Trip your waiters everyone. And april is with me. Thank you for being here. Thank you. I think you could be a comedy award wi