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Successful in coordinating. what do you think of getting rid of all that and again restructuring the intelligence agency? >> i think it's important that they give this some time. >> that the trump team read in, connect with the transition teams at the department of defense, at the cia the state department, other agencies. really think about this. not take a leap into the unknown, as you say, andrea, one of the reasons for the creation of the director of national intelligence were the intelligence failures that led us to be unaware and defenseless on -9/11 in washington. he has received high ma...

There should be a reggistry for muslims in america. >> there are questions of the attackers coming in from syria. it is known that the ring leader was not thought to be in france. see he clearly sneaked in and got in under the radar and put the attack together. >> this is the big question and the point that mr. bedford made about screening folks. the problem is the director of the fbi said, they don't have good intelligence in syria. and see if you check the terrorist against the database nothing may come back. we are seeing intelligence failures that happen in france in particular led to this...

Failures leading up to friday attacks. this needs to be considered an intelligence success. based on cell phones found on friday and the wire taps in the last few days. >> they moved quickly. they got intel from belgian officials. with the intelligence failures, you are not acting fast enough. in europe, you are not sharing intelligence quickly enough. in this case, things moved forward quickly. we don't know how much of that is connected to the fact of the emergency measures in place. legally makes it easier for them to put in place surveillance and take people in custody and conduct these ra...

Not something any western society should engage in. in fact, poppy, when you look at any of these kinds of incidents there's always integs in the system that wasn't properly processed. think of the boston attacks where the fbi knew tam lan tsarnaev who was part of the attack, they questioned him and then dropped the assessment. similarly before the 9/11, cia knew two members of al qaeda were living in cal. the fbi knew there was an islamist militant who is getting flying lessons in minnesota. the list goes on and on. i mean, this is not to excuse these intelligence failures. it's to say that i...

They kept a better watch, this plot might have been nipped in the bud. there are huge questions about intelligence failures. >> let's take a look at that. we have two big attacks. everyone here will say the specifics of france's situation, the geographics, the demographics, make it too difficult with what they are dealing with and yet at least two of the men in these attacks here on friday were people known to police. one of them even on a watch list. how do you balance the responsibilities here in terms of what should have been done? >> it's a good question. it was also the case in general wi...