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Militias nominally answer to iraq's prime minister but actually answer to iran. iranian officials have been meeting with u.s. officials to try to clarify what this intelligence is that's been driving this and trying to deescalate tensions. and there is the possibility iraqi officials say that this could be faulty intelligence and you only have to remember back to 2003 to see where faulty u.s. intelligence gets iran. and to that end, "the wall street journal" is reporting that the two sides may simply have misread one another. iran believed the u.s. was about to attack it, and took measures to ...

And most of them are shia, some of them directly funded and armed by iran. it's reported that a couple of weeks ago, the leader of iran's al qods force briefed those militias to be ready for anything, to prepare for any kind of conflict. but this was after the u.s. designated that revolutionary guard a terrorist entity and after iran designated the u.s. central command a terrorist entity. so we've got both sides issuing threats and therefore, both sides on alert and in the middle, you've got iraqi officials here who are are desperately trying to be intermediaries if you like warning those mili...

Is this something that changes year after year wholly or do we see the nypd responding to threats that they've seen over the course of the year? >> effectively, what you have is a constant evolution of trying to prevent terrorist attacks. so, for example, in 2014 with the emergence of isis as a terrorist entity and caliphate for a short period of time in syria. my time as commissioner we significantly enhance what my commissioner kelly has put together in terms of counterterrorism capability after 9/11. we added to that almost 1,300 uniformed officers and you are showing the officers equip wou...

Like saudi arabia and our friends in the gulf. and so we do worry about how to effectively maneuver pakistan out of support for the rebls or the taliban in afghanistan. and so far no administration has figured out how to do this. >> so is the president right when he says we're losing the war in afghanistan? and if he is right, what does winning look like? >> well, i think we're basically in there for intelligence purposes to prevent the emergence of ungoverned spaces in which a new terrorist entity like an isis could take form and then muster resources to threaten u.s. interests elsewhere in t...

>> i would think, sean, it would on be if there were some time of imminent threat to the united states of america. a direct tie or close tie to a terrorist organization, terrorist entity, someone with known connections to terror. maybe under those circumstances. but i got off the phone with two former cia officials right before i came on with you. both of them, they don't even know each other. but both of them said that her comment that, well, when i see something interesting, basically i ask for more information. both of them said that's just not how it works. you have to have a specific reas...