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This hateful talk. this is not helpful in securing our country, addressing the very real threat of isis that has been growing under this administration's failed policies for the last 17 months. we need to do more to address military the threat from iraq and syria, close the loopholes of the foreign fighter travel, over 30,000 terrorists that have traveled into iraq and syria from 100 countries. we need to address homegrown extremism happen, investigations in all 50 states, 900 investigations. we've got it address this threat that is a generational threat. this kind of discussion of somebody wh...

Combatting terrorist and foreign fighter travel. congressman, thanks very much. michael leiter, let me start with you. we thought only al qaeda was capable of some sort of global reach. what did the intelligence community that you were a member of consistently underestimate about isis. >> it's not clear to me that on the strategic level that they did get this wrong. there have been a lot of warnings that isis wasn't just going to stay in its caliphate in syria and iraq. the tactical community clearly missed this attack and they clearly missed the attack in egypt and i think people that have be...

With foreign fighters going into to fight assad. we know a year ago 20 of their diplomats were taken hostage by isis. that was a wake-up call for turkey. they have ramped up security at the airport. 40 million people go through this airport. it's the epicenter for foreign fighter travel. my biggest concern, biggest security gap i saw was the outbound screening. that is foreign fighters going to the region and leaving through turkey to europe and possibly to the united states. that screening is virtually non existent existent. >> what about u.s. carriers. what can we do? faa and tsa have obliga...

He's on the task force on combatting terrorist and foreign fighter travel. sir, good to have you on the program. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> before we look at how he was able to evade the government let me ask you about identifying this individual to be jihadist john. what does it do for the u.s. and the allies in the war against terrorists? it will gives us someone to focus on. it gives the ability to look at his known associates of previous travel, it gives us a target to go after. so identifying him is a good thing. and, you know, this is one of the most difficu...

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