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Shocked by events in paris tonight. our thoughts and prayers are with the french people. whatever we can do to help, the president of france also tweeted, but it's in french. i'll try to get that translated. if you were in the administration right now, if you were sitting in the white house situation room, i presume the white house has been notified of what is happening here. what would be happening? >> we'd be offering our assistance to the french, although they have a very capable anti-terrorism force. we wouldn't want to get in the way of that. but i think something we did when we saw this,...

Latinos are disproportionately lower than the populations. these are the faces and names of others. dylann roof abdulzeez is dead after opening fire in chattanooga, tennessee. this is another man who has been in the news the past few weeks, james holmes convicted by a jury. he is in the sentencing phase of his trial. a lot of people will look at what happened last night in louisiana and wonder was it is copy cat attack and what happened in aurora in 2012 when he opened fire in the screening of "dark knight." it's something investigators will be looking at. this is a name and face we have been ...

An attack in 2009. this is a copy cat attack. this is part of an isis strategy, don, for people to radicalize on their own and to attack in the west and europe and in the u.s. they don't need anyone to tell them from above that this is what they have to do. military and pliolice targets b the way have been on the top of isis's list now and are going to answer that call to jihad on their own. >> they're beefing up security in times square and all across the country. >> no question about it. but, again, as i said during the july 4th weekend, it could happen anywhere within the united states. >> ...

Is it like that in paris, too? >> not to the extent london would have. >> how could they have caught them so quickly? >> well again, every criminal will leave a trail. they'll leave signs of who they are and what they accomplished. simple things from what they may have posted on social media, how they can track that back. sources pick up the phone and make a phone call. all of those things are likely to have happened in this particular case which allows us to get to the first lead which in this case it sounds like it compounded very quickly to the identification of one and once you get one, it...

Origin. that is a threat to the security of our western european allies and ultimately to the united states in the years ahead that we must face together. >> do you think that you and the other committees are going to get some classified briefings later? what do we know about the threat level and whether there have been any related threats that could target american facilities around the world? >> we don't yet know enough about this exact incident to know whether raising our terrorist threat level is an appropriate response. i am expecting a classified briefing to be provided to all senators t...