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Or do you think it was more likely that people were doing it because he made it very clear through some of the public statements i showed and private conversations that this is what he would want? >> so we know what his modus operandi is. he'll go to a third-party until he gets results. if he doesn't get results, he'll go directly. so he had placed people in the justice department that would be his lap dogs. and it was in fact a violation of his obligation to recognize that the attorney general's office was not his private attorney and that it belonged to the people of this country. so we'll f...

>> yes, let's start with the modus operandi. this looks like perhaps you want to try and capture these guys and i don't think that's going to be an option here. these guys, if it is an attack, are going in to die. and billion a decade ago they went in, took all the hotel guests hostage and fought to their death and it played out on cable tv for three days. we saw this in kenya with the west gate mall attack. similarly, gunmen went in, took hostages and fought to their death and it lasted 48 hours. and then the context that you mentioned, ana, isis has called for attacks during ramadan.

Modus operandi is. i appreciate matt's optimism about the need for a constructive agenda. i think the democrats will look and maybe at their own perarall and look back to 2010 and say how did republicans win back the house in that year? republicans won by being anti-obama, by saying we're going to stop his agenda at all cost. we're not going to collaborate with this president. we'll vote against the stimulus bill. we'll vote against the health care bill. and it worked. now that might be the wrong lesson to draw, but it is the closest parallel. and you get the sense from democrats tuning thrill...

Just awful. this is a very high degree of collateral damage. we haven't seen this in a long, long time. so this is pretty bad. i want to, though, stress some of the points that barbara has already made, frankly. isis' m.o., their modus operandi is, indeed, to use human shields, is indeed to store ammunition among civilians. so i would not rule out there is this kind of issue. obviously, this is particularly sensitive, because you have a shia-led iraqi government, you have a lot of sunnis in the area, with great suspicions of the iraqi government. and frankly, suspicions of us, because we helpe...

Have to make sure that you contain any casualties, any damage that is there. the other thing that you have to do is you have to make sure that the terrorists don't escape. if you can catch them, that shortens your investigative time and it also makes it possible to find out more about the terrorist attacks, what their modus operandi is. >> let me bring in peter better again. this is an unfolding situation, peter. we don't know exactly what is happening right now. we know there have been explosions and sounds of gunfire, people wearing masks reportedly on the second floor of this hotel complex....