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On 9/11 and want to take down aircraft. the intelligence is clear on that. >> sandra: catherine herridge is live in washington with more. >> the acting secretary of homeland security spoke at the u.s. embassy in london providing a snapshot of the current threat intelligence. they hope to have a major 9/11 attack. they need to keep finances flowing and visibility high and need to keep their members engaged so they're using small plots and happy to have small plots creating terror is their goal so an attack causes terror and continues to disrupt the world. doesn't mean they've given up on a majo...

Sharing classified information with a foreign adversary. this is difficult to keep all of the difficults under wraps. i absolute ly agree it's damagig to the investigation. in the united kingdom, they're focused on trying to undue what's in place here, whether he's working with somebody else. any detail that the bad guys can see means that they can get ahead of law enforcement. and so that's the problem but it's a different matter. >> let's look at the matter as it pertains to israel and if they do change how they are going to share information with the u.s. how does that affect things? the u....

Some secrets about an aviation plot with lavrov. how big a deal is this? >> look, it's not as big a deal as many people in the press are suggesting it is. it would appear that the information that he passed on had come from an israeli source. that was sort of the concern, was this might undermine israel's ability to continue with some of its intelligence operations. that does not seem to be the case. also, by the way, we do share intelligence with russians. the obama administration did it as well. given the relationship between the united states and russia vis-a-vis isis and some actions in sy...

>> a number of the crit nal hijackers came into the kcountr prior to president george bush coming into the time he came into office. it was planned over a period of time. and there was no actionable intelligence that pointed specifically or specifically to the aviation plot that we saw. >> and let me correct you on this, because it did say from the august 6th, 2001, and a couple of months before 9/# 11, the presidential daily briefing of bin laden determined to attack u.s., and it is patterns that indicate patterns of suspicious activity conis tent with hijackings or other types of attacks inc...

Taliban have changed their tactics i think in recent years, the last couple of years, since mumbai in particular, where they're trying to train north americans and europeans who are familiar with western ways and western ways of operating and can pass in the united states or in, say, the united kingdom. so i think the situation has turned around from the spectacular 9/11 or the aviation plot of 2006 which emanated from the united kingdom to be able to strike at a high target like broadway in new york city is -- even though it's a failed attempt, it, again, arouses the feelings of those zealots...