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Trump as bumbling character. he gets to decide what's secret. >> it's true. assume the rumbling we are hearing is true, melissa. that what happened here is that israel told the united states that isis had developed a new battery and computers that is a perfect bomb to bring down a commercial airliner. why wouldn't the president of the united states share that with russia? we have an enemy in common. isis is the enemy in common. the president of the united states is the person that gets to decide what is classified or not. that's an executive function. it really irks me. for the first time i am...

Computer bomb. it was about a month and a half ago where there was a travel restriction that was placed on people bringing personal devices on to planes from ten particular airports which were named. we know that al qaeda of the arabian peninsula has a bomb maker who is developing a technology that is possibly being shared with other terrorist groups in the region. so there happens to be a whole lot of information that is available on open source, that's well-known. the real question is what was provided beyond that? i don't know the answer. >> to answer that question, some of your colleagues ...

Intelligence officials i talk to say no one should be panicking here but this is just an abundance of caution getting the information out there to airlines. >> i want to bring in former homeland security adviser fran townsend currently sits on the dhs external advisory boards. you've been there, fran, when threats like this come in. why go public with this? does that surprise you? >> it's interesting. as you talk to folks inside the law enforcement community and homeland security community, they say they've been watching this, right? we've heard about al qaeda and its affiliates, particularly ...

For the underwear bomb, the cartridge in the computer bomb, they're very adaptive and capable. there is an assassination attempt against the head of saudi intelligence. i think he's right. they seemed obsessed with aviation targets and how they can get a bomb in there so i think mike is correct that the greatest operational threat, direct operational threat is from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> if that is the case, nick burn, how do you counter it, yemen is an ally but yemen has a lot of this unrest and sort of political uncertainty as does much of the region after you watch tunisia an...