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I appreciate you being up so late in paris. i want to go to our counterism. >> they said they need to be prepared for anything when referring to chemical weapons, aspiration of isis. how big of a concern is this? >> the concern isn't high if you are looking at conventional judgments about terror groups. there are very, very few terror groups that get into the chemical biological game. the problem is the 1% in the intelligence business. if you chase conventional plots and 1 out of 100 is true, it's inefficient. if you trade one out of 100, it's a high rit rate. you have to focus on these. the p...

Principles we want to apply in syria, we'd like a transition and we're going to have to sacrifice those in the effort to find stability. we're going to have to figure out a way to work with the russians to bring this place under control. >> because these encrypted communications, these apps these terrorists are using, the law enforcement in europe cannot monitor it? >> that's right. the people in california will say, look, we can't give you the information on what is happening on our websites, on e-mails, for example, because we don't control it anymore. it's encrypted. we have to have a conve...

They said four people were shooting in the theatre. well, if four people were there, that leaves four for five other sites. they also said that seven were wearing suicide vests. well, the four in the bataclan were not wearing suicide vests. so there are -- the numbers aren't adding up. >> let me ask you this, clearly, the fbi has a great amount of experience in this kind of thing. the fbi, american intelligence. help me understand what assistance will be given at a time like this certainly on the intelligence level, helping the french sort through this. >> this is going to be a huge matrix. th...

>> sure. a lot of people developing drones these days. there's an explosion in drone technology around the world. in the intelligence business they are ideal to dwell over a target like what the russians are doing. if the russians are looking for example at an isis facility there's no better way to get intelligence from the air than to sit over that target with the drone. my question here there are other countries that could do this, israel for example, iran, but the russians have an interest in flying in this area. it's not clear to me whether they violated air space purposefully though or wh...

Information that deals with signals or intercepts, if that turns out to be the case what would the punishment be for that? >> well, i don't know, it is a felony i think and there are some ways of dealing with this, putting something in the wrong place and making a mistake that are only a misdemeanor. but we've had now several of my successors in the intelligence business at senior levels be, plead to charges and, be in situations where it is clear they violated the law, around some of those things look very similar to what has happened here. martha: ambassador woolsey, we're short on time, obv...