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Well they do. but there s a good plan in place and i think it will start pretty quickly. these units, these free syrian army units, are we training them to go after the syrian regime of bashar al assad, his military or to go after isis in syria? our intention is this is our initial problem is isis and isil. these units are being built to help us to put pressure on isis and we want to put pressure on from multiple fronts. this allows us to open another front against isil. so that s the intent of us training these forces. we will have more of my interview with general odierno coming up but i want to get back to our top story, the breaking news we are following. the fbi has arrested three men who allegedly planned to fly from new york to turkey with the goal of crossing from turkey into syria to join isis. the suspects are also said to have discussed attacks here in the united states. let s discuss what s going on with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, our ....
This is the biggest economy clearly. also increasingly politically the most important country. this whole row is really poisoning the relationship. reporter: relations with germany are already suffering following the revelations of leaker edward snowden, that the nsa had hacked angela merkel s phone. she s already under pressure at home. many germans want her to toughen her stance against the u.s. these latest allegations will make it harder for europe s most powerful politician to justify close ties with the obama administration. fred pleitgen, cnn. a lot of people asking why, why would the united states risk damaging ties with such a critically important ally. joining us, bob baer, our cnn national security analyst, a former cia operative. well, what s the answer, why would the u.s. risk damaging a relationship with germany, a nato ally? what would be your answer? well, it goes back a couple ....
you might lose the cell phone or won t be able to get on the plane. thanks, pamela brown for that report. let s dig deeper. joining us our cnn national security analyst bob berry, former cia officer. our cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director. what do you make of this public rollout? why make all these announcements right now? why not do it? my concern turning on the laptop like that is if it s an explosive device, what if it explodes right in the line and kills all the people around you. true it didn t get on an aircraft, but if designed to go off that way, it s not a good thing either. how do you deal with that? if you have a design used in the past like the printer cartridges where you excrete the explosive in the laptop, that is a possibility, too. ....
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonat ....
this scene played out across scandinavia earlier today. people pausing to remember the victims of that attack. as norway mourns we are hearing more from people who risked their lives to save others. our cnn s michael holmes caught up with one of them. it s not a huge boat. how many people did you put in here? the first round i believe it was 14. reporter: 14. yes. and then i had to address the oldest one and said you have to stay ashore. i promise i will come back and get you. they respected that. i said, sit down and wait. i went to the mainland. i went back again and they were agreed upon sitting there and i just waved to them like this and they waved back and we made a contact and got them in the boat. well, the clock is ticking on the debt limit crisis. there is no deal, if no deal by august 2nd, that means higher interest rates for you, a financial mess for the country, and the talks over the weekend, well, essentially they didn t go anywhere. so now re ....