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His decisions and causing a lot of tension between the president and his top military advisers to where they believe as president biden told us earlier today he believes he is firing his senior advisers or placing them under house arrest because he is so displeased with what has been happening in ukraine because of course remember going into this the u.s. had assessed putin believed they could take kyiv in about 72 hours. obviously that has not happened. they have tried. it has been fruitless for them so far. so the white house believes there is a sense of frustration between the president and...

Do you know if they were specifically trying to target this guy called jihadi john we now know his name or the leader of isis abu bakr elleal baghdadi? >> i don't know the answer to that and at this point i'm not able to even confirm the identity, the united states and britain aren't making any confirmation of these press reports. that's not something i'm able to confirm. >> that's what i don't understand. i assume you have been briefed on all this but now that the name is public and we know the british and u.s. governments have known the name for months and months without giving us any classi...

>> i think this points up one of the real dangers here is that they don't have to have a direct link. they don't have to be taking orders. i think one of the greatest threats we face is what they call lone wolf. people who are in america who have been radicalized. they can't get over to join this army. they do something on their own, go to a mall or an airport or whatever. i do think though if there's any good news in all of this both in the london case -- in the jihadi john case and in the new york case law enforcement and intelligence and cooperation between our countries worked. we tracked ...

That's his name. we all know now that's his name. do you understand what's going on here? >> well, kwie offquite often when you have a non-confirmation they don't want to reveal operational details or give away knowledge that they have obtained order how they obtained it. there's usually some reasonable basis for that. as you say, it's pretty widely known. i'm not going to confirm it. but i think it's an operational intelligence reason for not owe fushlly ly fishl -- >> if you can't confirm it you don't have to confirm it. we know his name. senator, we have a lot more to discuss. stand by, if ...

That they can try to talk to people who have been held by these groups in libya, perhaps they can try to gather some intelligence there. obviously now we are at the very beginning of the isis presence in libya and they don't know nearly as much about that group as they do the one in syria and iraq. >> tom fuentes, they have known, uk authorities, u.s. authorities, his real name his identity for months and months. after they saw the video. apparently it was not all that hard to find out who the masked man really was. >> right. they have known that. but they didn't want to alert his partners in ...