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Different countries, not necessarily from those seven muslim-majority countries that are being blocked due to terror risk in the president's executive order? what do you say to critics who say, look, we just heard from the department of homeland security and this intelligence report that says otherwise? >> you know, i trust the people at the national security agencies, i trust the people at the state department who looked at the data, looked at the research and came up with this group of seven nations. i don't know how they came about it, but i trust what they did to do that. this was very -- ...

There's one step beyond that, critical. that means it's imminent. that's when they have information pointing to a specific plot they think is about to be launched. during the debate here in which many people, many politicians did oppose the government's move to expand air strikes into syria, they argue one of the reasons why it wasn't a good idea, because it would raise the terror risk here to britain. both here in the uk and abroad as well. the government argued against that, saying the assessment of the intelligence services here is that britain is already among the top level of internationa...

Even less hope. >> our thanks for that very moving report. here to talk about the brutality of isis is a terror expert and managing director of terror risk. looking at that, it's heartbreaking. it is a reality, though. the yazidi people have been under attack for some time by isis that. report focusing on the women but they have killed over 6,000 men, women and children. how do allied forces combat that kind of terror? >> well, you know, that kind of terror is part of this isis strategy to let's say send the terror, to terrorize, also to recruit. they use violence as a way to impose their auth...

To jump in quickly, lone wolf attacks when you are seeing this online social media outreach from isis? >> i'm afraid it is. there's been a tremendous evolution in the nature of the terror risk to the homeland. that is from large-scale planned attacks that require years of planning and training to small ball attacks, where an individual can just use what he has around him, a hatchet, make a pressure cooker and coordinate very effective attacks. just in the recent past boston was shut down during the boston marathon as a result of a horrendous attack. we've seen the attacks in france. you have t...

High temperature in new york, 48. 50s in raleigh and atlanta. let's head back inside. >> thank you. let me tell you what's coming up in the next 20 minutes of this hour. you heard the president say al-qaeda is on the run, right? now a shocking admission from both sides of the aisle. terror risk is higher than before 9-11. that story next. and it sounds like a scene from eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. what if you could erase all of the painful memories in real life? we got details on a new breakthrough. >> first, the aflac trivia question of the day. born on this day in 1981, this p...