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>> let's bring in our senior political analysts. david, so far they seem to be giving the white house a pretty good grade. should they? >> they deserve high marks on this. john kennedy once said victory has many fathers. the local law enforcement officers in new york, the fbi, but particularly the vendors on the ground who stopped this before it blew up. but among those who should get credit is president obama and eric holder and janet napolitano. there was a well coordinated effort. they got this guy before he got away to dubai. i think they deserve high marks for that. >> wolf, i was speakin...

Intelligence, law enforcement, department of homeland security are what he called lashed up together right now. since the last event, which occurred at christmas with abdulmutallab where there was a great degree of criticism, that the agencies were not coordinating with each other. and this time it's very clear that there's been an awful lot of communication between them. and that's why we see such a great deal of success. the one question, wolf, that these folks seem to have is, how did he wind up on the airplane if he was indeed on a no-fly list? and that's something they have to really look...

They go up throughout this area. they've already shown a desire to attack. >> should we believe these statements coming out of some of these terrorist groups? >> i wouldn't completely -- i think they might have some credibility. they've shown a desire to operate in the west. they're very angry about the american drone strikes in the last year or so. so i wouldn't say that they are not credible. >> and the group that was involved in the mumbai attacks which targeted westerners and americans. >> david headily, a chicago resident, was recruited by them who killed a danish cartoonist.