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Today, what's your sense after this meeting in the oval office about the financial relationship and the counterterrorism relationship? >> the whole idea of the meeting was that we should be on one page. the mistrust which has dogged our relationship -- pakistan, was it an ally or was it an enemy? attacks by an ally. all this mistrust in the past, we want to actually reset our relationship based on understanding that we are on the same page, we want peace in afghanistan. pakistan will do everything to help the taliban, and the dialogue table so that there is peace. i think we struck that unders...

Areas around raqqa, and quote, thank god no one was harmed and this is a translation from the islamic state outlet saying they didn't hit anything. the second part of all of this that we're following is this report in the wall street journal that the united states is stepping up its help in terms of its intelligence to the french particularly in targeting where to make those strikes. colonel jack jacobs is still with me as is the vice president at the center for intelligence policy. aki, how significant do you think it is and what do you make of the fact if this wall street journal report is c...

Regional threat. i think too often people say, we're dealing with isis -- the pakistani taliban is more of a regional threat. well, they're not. they've said they're going to target the united states and they've taken credit for the failed times square bombing. so i think we have to remember, it's important to work through this counterterrorism relationship with the pakistanis because we have our own u.s. national security interest at stake here. >> tom, what is the fbi doing? what do they do about this? >> try to have the closest relation possible with the pakistani military police and isis, ...

That they apparently knew about from wiretaps between the mother and tamerlan, and also another person. you think the russians have been completely frank with us from 2011? and should they be doing more here? >> no, i don't think they were completely frank. but look, i mean, i head an intelligence service. sometimes you don't give an allied service, even one that you want to help you, all of the information that you have. i think the russians here were far more than a brick shy of a load. and let me just add, when the russians come to you complaining about chechens, i mean, there are a lot of ...

Power and in the end, we brokered a deal with egypt to get get him out. >> actually the fact is while he's not the president of yemen, his nephew is the head of the counter terrorism unit. vice president is now the president. and the -- he said very clearly the vice president who is now president, said clearly the counterterrorism relationship with the u.s. will continue. if you look at u.s. military funding of yemen -- dramatically more than any civilian funding on the ground. usa fund sing a tiny portion of the military funding the u.s. gives to yemen. >> a debate about the left? >> no. it i...