brennen, the terror expert to talk about worries about a christmas attack. do they have any real hard evidence that there may be something in the offing or was this just to show that they're on the case? >> no specific or credible threats. he is the counter terrorism adviser here at the white house. this was a reassuring thing. if you recall last year when the president went to hawaii for his annual holiday vacation and int dentally we expect him to leave within the next day or two, as soon as all this senate business is done, that the christmas day bomber struck -- it was something that was viewed as a falling down of the american intelligence community. it did not speak well to the communication between these various agencies that was supposed to have been rectified. and then another controversy yesterday, mark, when james clapper, the new director of national intelligence, was asked about the european arrest, the takedown of suspected terrorists in europe in a broadcast interview he had no idea, completely caught flatfooted.