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To think that okay, i'm going to look at a man and i'm going to say he's a military age muslim man, that then he's inside my target set. the intelligence processes that we use and the way that we collect both inside the united states and outside the united states actually gives us the ability to draw down and try to isolate targets on the basis of the ideology that they're bringing in. this is why the fbi has over 900 active investigations. they are watching the people who are consuming isis ideology through the internet or who are spouting off that ideology. that's a more focused profile whic...

Might be radicalized. of course, also some people were demanding very strong reaction, especially after the fact that isis claimed responsibility for these ating thes and the french government itself also said it believes isis is behind the attacks. and we're getting information that three of the attackers seem to have been inside syria and possibly had contact with isis there as well. michael? >> yes. >> of course, many people wondering what the implications might be of france declaring this an act. earlier we spoke with cnn military analyst about the french air strikes. >> this was a hando...

>> let me jump in there. do we know, they do the little secret meeting as i mentioned at the top. do we know what they look to? they look to their evidence and data and we have the board minutes, right? >> we do know. >> do they look to commentary and what larry summers thinks? >> looking at economists and opinions about the economy. one thing is inflation. you know? they have a 2% target set for that. we're not there yet. we know what think look at and discussing. probably reading a lot of same academic research people on wall street and journalists like we are reading, as well. at the end of...

So this is an effort to get a target set, that's a little bit from their perspective, a little bit more legitimate than just a an innocent civilian. >> where do they stand as far as you're concerned, in terms of a threat within the organization these two? >> chump change. >> chump change. >> chump change. there's two sides to this coin. there's the good side of this. if you look at the criminal complaint and i've read it these are no-talent clowns they made every mistake you could make. i feel like i should run a seminar for terrorists on how not to get into the claws of american security serv...

Probably, which indicates clearly there was intelligence to indicate that al- shabaab was planning these attacks. when you look at the target set, a university it's very very difficult to protect that and in essence, there's too many soft targets in the area and just not enough military or police to protect them all. >> talk to us, fred, about the strategic importance, the symbol symbolic importance of them staging this attack at a university. the only university in fact in that region. >> well it certainly resonates around the world. as evidence of the news coverage of the attack. when you lo...