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Access to local intelligence and contacts in the city's immigrant communities. >> what you lose when you take away the local police department is you lose that on the ground knowledge. >> that limits both sides' ability to connect the dots to share data and gain access to potentially vital leads. >> information must flow both ways on these cases. that's vital. and that should transcend any politically -- any political beliefs held by the mayor or the administration of san francisco. >> agents tell us it's the seamless sharing of data and manpower that has kept us safe. san francisco is the onl...

Geographically it is very difficult, isn't it? >> yeah. it is certainly one of the most austere places that i've operated out of. you've got obviously the desert plain, but then the hindu cush as well. the capabilities of the taliban with ground knowledge was something we didn't quite get our heads around. they know the lay of the land incredibly well. getting around that part of the world, getting around helmand province is something very difficult to do and on what the brits and the americans had to do was they had to literally pour a significant amount of helicopter capability in there in o...

Expand smaller caliphates elsewhere and hope for attacks in the west. who you might see, by the way, this is what the evidence is pointing to right now, you have some french nationals, one french national, somebody who was -- somebody a french citizen, who joined perhaps with people from syria who had been there and you had in the immigrant flow, training, expertise, training, knowledge, meeting up with somebody on the ground knowledge inside of france. that's a possibility based on what we've seen from the most of the reporting so far. >> it's a terrifying reality playing out across this glob...

She doesn't really have the on the ground knowledge of the state that somebody like grimes does. >> bill clinton, saw the ear marks of bill clinton, the fingerprints. he likes this candidate grimes, secretary of state, because he liked her father, who helped him. this is so clinton. makes perfect sense. >> first of all, bill clinton regards kentucky as a sub jurisdiction of political power. he won that state twice, last democrat to do so, he feels very much at home there. when i went to that dinner in kentucky that led to my story about judd, clinton was in charge. jerry lundigrin, father of a...

She's very ambitious politically and has been for many years, certainly since she's went to harvard to get a graduate degree. she's ambitious for public life. that's number one. number two, i think liberal democrats and democrats in louisville are for her, the congressman from there and a lot of money in louisville and money in louisville that was very important for barack obama. barack obama raised a lot of money in louisville. as a matter of fact, the guy that was the finance chair of obama's reelection campaign is based in louisville. >> might end up being the next ambassador to new england...