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More attacks are coming, and maybe here in the united states as well? >> well, something we're looking at. we don't have any specific and credible threat reporting suggesting that a paris-type attack is likely in the united states and washington or elsewhere. i know there's some discussion of that in the media i think the threat we've been mindful of lone wolves, inspired by isil. i think it's worth viewers keeping in mind that the threat profile's a little different in the united states than europe. you have thousands that have traveled to the battlefield in syria, that have european passport...

Investigators telling cnn that they have found a cell phone on the scene, it not clear who it belonged to. but we know there was a text message on it that something to the effect of, okay, we are ready. once again, we don't know who was the recipient of the message and we don't know who sent it. what's important about this, wolf it could lead to important clues about a larger network needed to facilitate and orchestrate this. as you know, as viewers know, one of the toughest things for officials and investigators when it comes to drilling down on this network, men are very technologically savv...

Mathematical algorithms, code that u.s. officials say nearly impossible to crack. >> we don't have the break strong encryption. we will lose them, so that's a huge worry. >> reporter: apps like one called signal encrypt phone calls. telegram encrypt text. matthew green showed us another way terrorists can make their texts disappear on the telegram app. you can program them to self-destruct in a few seconds. i sent green a text to meet me somewhere. he reads it, then -- >> gone. just like that, you got no record of the communication. >> reporter: telegram has an avenue, similar to facebook and ...

In january, right here in the situation room, we had a report from our paul krcruickshank. i want you to listen to this. >> wolf, a senior belgian official tells me that they think the ringleader was likely abdelhamid abaaoud, a belgian national who travelled to syria in 2014 and connected there in syria and iraq with the senior leadership of isis. >> all right. so back in january we reported that. we knew he was a threat. u.s. officials knew he was a threat. so why wasn't more done to target this guy to find him? >> well, you know, we do look for the high-value targets. here in the united sta...

Existential threat. we've seen it with the attacks in paris. we are going to syria and we come back and we become afraid for our security but you see it also with the millions of migrants. so we are really -- >> the migrants? >> yes. the country is decivilized -- all of the european continent is destabilized by the crisis so we need to try to resolve this crisis. >> when president hollande says this is a war -- >> i think we are all threatened. russia is very close to syria. the u.s., in a sense, you're protected by the ocean. but maybe sooner it will also come here. so we have to work togethe...