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Level of sophistication there, jake. >> all right. pamela brown, thank you so much. joining me now cnn national security analyst bob behr. what do you make of this news cautioned as it were with caveats from u.s. intelligence suggesting that they believe isis or one of its affiliates in all likelihood placed this bomb, a bomb, on a russian airliner over the sinai peninsula? >> well, jake, it's looking more and more like they're convinced of it. they don't go on the record like this downing straight and u.s. intelligence it was a bomb unless they have pretty good evidence. by the way, a lot of ...

Affiliates. let's bring in cnn justice correspondent pamela brown. now, pamela, you have new information on why u.s. officials believe this is almost certainly what happened. >> that's right. we're learning that some of the intelligence that officials are basing this theory on, this bomb theory on, is chatter that they picked up after the plane went down. this is chatter from isis in the sinai peninsula that would indicate perhaps they were responsible for bringing the plane down. we know that isis has already come out and said it was responsible, but now there's been additional chatter picked...

Why do they say this? they are not sharing the intelligence they do have, but we know that they have been monitoring isis internal communications, not the public claims of responsibility, that has added to the picture that they have. this has developed over the last several days is our understanding from several sources. and we have seen it really come into public view in the last several hours as the british took their steps to stop flights back and forth to sharm el sheikh, ireland as you say following suit. the u.s. embassy in cairo issuing its warning. the focus now is what was the securit...

President right now, what do you think you would do? >> well, jake, first of all of course our intelligence community has to be put on high alert. i mean, one of the things that's absolutely critical is to have robust intelligence to tell us when these things are going to happen. and it seems as though listening to the report that sharm el sheikh did not have the security even though there were intelligence reports that were indicating there was lack security. we need to make sure we have robust intelligence. and, jake, the fact is is that we don't have all the human intelligence that we need....

To get information off the flight data recorder, but they're having some problems with the cockpit voice recorder because it's slightly damaged. >> all right. rene marsh, thank you so much. if investigators ultimately confirm what u.s. intelligence is saying is now likely that a bomb blasted this russian airliner out of the sky and that device was planted by a terrorist with isis or an isis affiliated group, that would be evidence that the terrorists could potentially have the capability of doing this to a passenger plane from the west, perhaps even the united states. something that would no d...