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Line blown out of the sky, 224 people dead, icy claims responsibility. this week, twin bombings in beirut, isis says, it was us. yesterday, six-prong massacre across paris, ice isis takes responsibility. is this a centralized group or a series of terror groups saying, and pledging allegiance to isis. >> poppy, it's both. it's centralized group but also a group that has franchised out, an ideology that has affiliate groups that take direct orders or act on their own. under a broad umbrella of a global jihad. an ideology that they share. it could come from something as simple as twitter accounts...

Into al qaeda affiliate groups across north africa, into east africa and arabian peninsula. he promise ad $5 billion counterterrorism training program. think that was the right point for the president to make. jenna: seems, am bass do, you believe most of the cases the actions are following the words appropriately but, bret, brings up another question as well. not just how we perceive the president's words and policies but how do you think our enemies perceive what he has to say? >> i think the big challenge, the president needs to translate a speech into effect tiff action. he needs to raise ...

Added security at their installation there. the state department did not. as you just heard from senator feinstein, there's also some suggestion that the ambassador didn't want that added security in benghazi. he had requested additional security in tripoli. to me, the big news here is about the language, and clearly, the republicans are still stuck on this business about affiliated. and the key argument would be sort of, does that mean they were under the control of al qaeda? the core group that threatened the united states, or is it simply some, you know, distant linkage you can draw on, say...

This extremely skilled bombmaker in yemen who has smuggled you know, are bombs on to a variety of planes. the underwear bomber of christmas day 2009 that was supposed to blow up over detroit. october 2010, two bombs that were put on a cargo plane's eventually headed to chicago. luckily those plots were interrupted. clearly this is a skilled bombmaker. he's still out there and that is a problem. >> when she says there are more groups than ever and there is, in her words, huge ma lev lance out there against the united states, do you agree with her on those two points? >> i certainly don't agree ...

Senate committees on intelligence, mike rogers, dianne feinstein, we saw them talking about this doom's day scenar scenario, where mr. snowden is partly to blame for making things much worse in our national security situation. take a listen. >> so you think about what's happened with the recent disclosures. we now have three the al-qaeda affiliate groups have changed the way they communicate. means it's less likely we're going to be able to detect something prior to an event that goes operational, meaning that they have already started the final planning stages to blow something up or shoot so...