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Disputes about territories and what does that do with the south china sea and the concern that some of america's closer asian allies have. there's some concern by japan and seoul and folks in seoul about how committed is the united states to asia. are they willing to push back at china if china starts doing some similar making some similar changes to territories or changes to boundaries that the russians have been doing? i think that that's where you see a little bit of a connection there and where you'll hear background chatter or blind quotes from supposedly friendly places. >> and chuck, sp...

To suggest one direction or another. they've all got to be checked out to see which of those actually leads to the truth. right now, isolated data points and a lot of theories. >> isn't it true that a dramatic turn like the one that is hypothesized could have been done by a pilot just as easily as auto pilot? >> i think that's correct. but again, we don't know. look, i learned in my old profession in intelligence there's a difference between a secret which is something you really learn hard to discoverable and knowable and a mystery. >> when we think about the idea of terrorism, is there any r...

We saw helicopters constantly circling over the venue. that's a feeling of a ring of steel here. of course that background chatter of threats persists ashleigh. >> every time i see a headline about the sochi games, it is security threat related, or a disaster, debacle, nothing is ready, a mess. what is it like to be there? does it feel like what it sounds like? >> reporter: a lot of people are waiting for the joy to kick in. i think we'll see a lot of that in the opening ceremony. we saw a practice run of the fireworks. you're right, there's a background noise of problems. the security is cert...

Happened at benghazi, a lot of lessons were learned. there was a strong internal review, and one of that was to the extent there is at least background chatter about the targeting of hard targets, which would be an embassy, we ought to alert our embassy officials, close it down at least -- close the embassies down on sunday. there's another reason for the administration going this public. >> why is that? >> and that has to do with disrupting a planned attack. if the terrorists know, if these cells know, that we're aware they're planning something, you know, if they wait until another day, that...

Confirmed that, that for a while there's been background chatter the last couple months suggesting something is being planned and the last couple days and what would explain these alerts is more specific information. that is coming from foreign intelligence agencies in yemen and elsewhere, so it's a combination of the monitoring of communications as well as what foreign intelligence agencies are telling us at this stage. so that would explain both why the specific embassies are closed but also the worldwide alert. >> we heard earlier from the former u.s. ambassador to iraq saying this is unpre...