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Going to go back to new york city for more on three men accused and the terrorist concerns highlighted by these arrests and details about jihadi john's life before joining isis. >> jonathan deens the and ayman mohyeldin and michael sheehan, served as deputy commissioner of counterterrorism after the 9/11 attacks. thanks for being here. jonathan, what is the latest you are hering from investigators there in new york about the arrests of these three men suspected of wanting to join isis? >> what we've heard from prosecutors, two of the three men confessed, admitted they were indeed intent on wan...

Terrorist concerns go. the alert level was raised from medium to high this fall. there were terror raids across the country. tell us what's been going on. >> reporter: absolutely. australia is part of the war on terror. obviously when the united states launched the campaign against isis, they called for allies. australia was one of the first to step up. there are hundreds of australian troops there in iraq training the kurdish forces as well as iraqi forces helping them so they can fight the war against isis. the australian fighter jets involved in the aggressive air campaign in iraq and syria...

Reach. lebanon, jordan, turkey, what do we do now? is there anyway to save iraq? is there anyway to -- at this point, are we going to have to shed more blood? do you support air strikes? what would be the best thing to do? >> to recognize that the administration's policy, they're in place with respect to the feds, with respect to recognizing there is a problem, terrorist concerns. >> is to reverse course in the defense budget. we ought to use this excuse, not that we need an excuse, but the specific situation in order to turn things around at the department of defense. they've now moved toward...

Reach. lebanon, jordan, turkey, what do we do now? is there anyway to save iraq? is there anyway to -- at this point, are we going to have to shed more blood? do you support air strikes? what would be the best thing to do? >> to recognize that the administration's policy, they're in place with respect to the feds, with respect to recognizing there is a problem, terrorist concerns. >> is to reverse course in the defense budget. we ought to use this excuse, not that we need an excuse, but the specific situation in order to turn things around at the department of defense. they've now moved toward...

This is a fox news alert. sunday we'll reopen 18 of the 19 embassies and cons its in the northeast and africa closed the last several of days. only the embassy in yemen will remain shut because of the terrorist concerns. lahore, pakistan closed yesterday due to a separate threat and will remain out of service, we're told. that brings us to today's press conference at the white house. here's the president talking about what he said previously about al qaeda. >> it's entirely consistent to say that this tightly organized and relatively centralized al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 has been broke...