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reflect the, quote, new phase of the terror threat. johnson said the system will reflect the current reality of when not having a specific credible piece of intelligence specifying a plot isn't the end of the story. joining me now to discuss, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn's peter bergen. why have this terror system that we've had in the past, right? >> you've seen several levels amongst american citizens about the terrorist threat between san bernardino and paris and the taking down of the russian metrojet airliner. it's the most lethal attack on u.s. since 9/11, and most lethal attack in paris and most lethal attack on aviation. so the government is trying to assure americans it's doing everything it can. sometimes the threat environment, you don't have particularly, you know, streams of intelligence that points to something, but you do want to say something to the public
important. they're a bunch of killers. and we fight them and we beat them. >> reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. >> i discussed with president putin in a brief pull aside his need to recognize that he needs to go after the people who killed russian citizens. >> reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s., despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. >> refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores.
and we fight them. and we beat them. >> reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. >> i discussed with president putin in a brief pull-aside his need to recognize that he need to go after the people who killed russian citizens. >> reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s. despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. >> refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores. >> reporter: the president also appeared to have choice words for donald trump. >> i want surveillance of these people. >> reporter: and the gop
>> reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. >> i discussed with president putin in a brief pull-aside his need to recognize that he needs to go after the people who killed russian citizens. >> reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s. despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. >> refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores. >> reporter: the president also appeared to have choice words for donald trump. >> i want surveillance of these people. >> reporter: and the gop front-runners' proposals to conduct more surveillance on muslims in the u.s. >> we must absolutely reject
don't know who the male wearing that suicide vest was. how does this all change the narrative, if it does? >> well, i mean, i'm not sure it does. there was a lot of attention paid to the fact that this could have been a female suicide bomber and it's somehow unique or counter intuitive to have a woman blow herself up when in fact it's fairly common especially in russia in the caucuses. i mean, you have various insurgency groups including those loyal to isis and they have a term for it, the black widow. in fact, before metrojet, the russian airliner that isis blew up a few weeks ago, you had had in 2004, two commercial airliners taken out in the skies above russia by these black wido widows. it is a fairly frequent occ occurrence to see where jihad is m is predominant that women will be repurposed for this kind of attacks and creates a false
fighting isis in some instances but cold in the sense that look, isis has had a banner quarter year in the last three months, look at the attacks they claimed credit for. the bombing which killed over 100 people. the metrojet airliner in sham el-sheikh that killed over 200 people. the worst bombing in lebanon since the close of the civil war and now this gruesome paris atrocity. al qaeda feels left out like they are the j.v. team to coin a phrase and trying to catch up and regain the narrative and regain the sort of luster. and as i have also said, there is a generational divide here. the cooler brand, believe it or not is isis. they are younger guys. they are not your grandfather's jihad. al qaeda feels like it has to keep pace with what isis is perpetrating and as isis is
siege, including a woman who blew herself up. eight others were arrested. but what about the two chief subjects of the manhunt, salah abdeslam and abdelhamid abaaoud. here's paris prosecutor françois molins at a new conference. >> now the identities of the people arrested in the building have not been formally established but i must say that abaaoud and salah abdeslam are not part of the people -- are not part of the people in custodies. >> so not in custody. but was abaaoud one of those killed? the prosecutor said french forces neutralized the cell in saint-denis and found a weapons stockpile, suggesting it could have moved to carry out another attack. and the suspected perpetrators, isis, are putting out more propaganda, this time related to the metrojet airliner, that
matthew matthew? >> reporter: chris, thanks very much. this is the first time that it's been confirmed that it was a bomb that took down that metrojet airliner at the end of last month, killing all 224 people on the sinai peninsula. the head of the russian fsb, the former kgb telling vladimir putin on state television that a search of the luggage and fragments of the plane that's been recovered has found traces of foreign-made explosives. they believe it was a bomb on board, a terrorist act, a bomb with at least a kilo of tnt or the equivalent contained inside it. that would account from the fact that the debris from the fuselage was spread across such a wide area this again, the first time it's been confirmed that it was a bomb that caused the crash of that metrojet airliner in sinai at the end of last month. vladimir putin was swift in his response speaking on state television saying of the culprits we will search for
welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. coming to you live from paris, france. we continue to cover the isis terrorist attacks just four days ago. but right now i want to turn to russia. there was a major announcement from the kremlin earlier. the kremlin now acknowledging that it was a bomb. they say two-pound bomb that brought down the metrojet airliner last month over the sinai peninsula killing all 224 innocent people on board, including 25 children. isis, as you know, claimed responsibility for that attack as well. cnn's rene marsh following the developments. today russia confirmed what western intelligence sources have been saying literally for weeks, the crash of metrojet 9268 was no accident, it was because of a bomb, the amount of explosive material used, of course, ensured an extremely
on the latest in the investigation into that metrojet airliner crash that crashed last month killing 224 people on board. we can say now, i'm quoting him, we can say unambiguously this was a terrorist attack. explosives were found in the airline debris and the passengers' baggage. the homemade device on board was equal in power to one kilogram of high explosive tnt. this is the first time to be clear it has been confirmed that it was a terrorist act and a bomb that caused the downing of that metrojet airliner on october 31st killing all 224 people on board. swift reaction from the kremlin. vladimir putin at the meeting. he addressed it saying we will search for those responsible everywhere no matter where they are hiding. we will find them in any place