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Have been filed in connection with this. >> oh, we just lost paolo there. he froze there mid-sentence. for now i want to bring in a former inspector general for the u.s. transportation department. mary, nice to see you. first of all, what is your reaction to what played out there? >> well, it's so familiar looking because i was at the detroit airport on christmas day in 2009 when the plane with the under wear bomber land at detroit and the response was very much the same. the plane taxied into the far end of the runway, met with emergency vehicles, fire and police and passengers an emergency d...

I would value your latest assessments of the battlefield situations in afghanistan. last year we came under fire in eastern syria. this prompted a retaliatory strike that killed dozens of pro regime forces. in afghanistan, a series of attacks in kabul left 150 dead last month, suggesting to me after 16 years of war the insurgency is nowhere near folding and the government remains hard pressed to provide the security needed for its own people. i particularly value your unvarnished appraisal of where progress is being made in afghanistan and where it's not. admiral rogers, cyber is clearly the m...

Them in syria. there was a plot just last year in spain, that included chechens. that we have to be concerned that this conflict in the southern part of russia is moving beyond those borders and may affect our security and we don't know that we can't say for sure, that affected our security in boston but there is reasons for, that is one of the alleys we need to go down to be sure if we have a new threat vector coming at us. jenna: i have only 30 seconds here. >> right. jenna: the bigger story this week was about $100 million plus going to syrian rebels to fight against assad but we know some ...

Regional groups that share the ideology and tactics of al qaeda have to be taken as serious threats to the united states homeland security. >> what does it say about how big a threat of u.s. citizens aligning with foreign terrorist groups? what's the strategy. >> to get people who do not need pass ports and can move back and forth between training camps overseas and places in the united states to per p united states to perpetrate terror attacks. another dwrup thgroup that focu themselves on india. we have a new threat vector. the tactic s are evolving and changing.

Helped finance faisal shahzad's plot. john brennan says the group is closely tied to al qaeda. francis townsend calls it another wakeup call for the united states. >> i think what we take from this is, these small regional groups that share this sort of ideology and the tactics of al qaeda have got to be taken serious as threats directly to the united states homeland security. >> we have to understand that we have this new threat vector, the tactics are evolving and changing and we have to be ahead of those tactics, on top of those tactics, on top of the people that might be perpetrating terro...