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Angry at russia for helping the shia in syria. and you put all that together and it just seems to me that cocktail is likely to be a bomb. >> congressman, one of the reasons why people were reluctant to believe isis after they initially claimed responsibility was people didn't think they were capable of such an attack. are they? >> well, it depends. i think what you're finding is there's a lot of allegiances and terrorist groups out there that are drifting. some have gone from al qaeda to isis. some have both. we know that over half of the al qaeda affiliates in the world have pledged at least...

Leaders of the pack, senator ted cruz, what is his path to the republican presidential nomination. good afternoon everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin today with our world lead. if this was indeed a terrorist attack, it is in some ways working. flights have been canceled. officials are on edge. tens of thousands of western tourists are stranded as the world now reacts to the strong possibility that isis brought down a plane pulling off the worst terrorist attack in the skies since september 11th, 2001. today we're waiting for definitive word from the u.s. go...

Boots on the ground in every conflict across the globe in an effort to lean forward and show how tough they are. i don't think this is a game of risk. i don't think it should be politicians moving armies about. i think it should be driven by the national security imperatives and the military needs on the ground. right now what we're doing is utterly ineffective. i've spent a lot of time consulting with senior level military advisers both active duty military and retired generals admirals. >> right. you're on the senate armed services committee. >> and i believe our approach to isis should be t...

An egyptian navy ship that really raised alarms. people really saw this was an increase in their capabilities that really had not been seen much before. and we've seen just since they've pledged allegiance to isis in november 2014, we have seen an increase in their propaganda, their sophistication, being able to carry things out. and so that's one reason why there's a lot more attention on this group. >> last year when we were covering the war between israel and gaza there was a lot about sinai and the illicit smuggling and trafficking of arms. that could be relevant here too i suppose. >> it ...

On board, many here are asking if it can happen on american soil. congressional testimony detailed an undercover operation where tsa failed 95% of the time detecting fake explosives at u.s. airports. >> failures included technology, tsa procedures and human errors. >> reporter: but the larger threat may be beyond the security checkpoint. >> you may have someone who has gone through all the security checks, has passed all the background checks but has been successful in hiding their true loyalty or allegiance to al qae qaeda, muslim brotherhood or isis. and this is the ultimate threat, the insi...