information may have come from u.s. officials and passed to the russians. so that's a good sign. but look, you've got to be concerned. the closer we get, this is a dangerous region. clearly officials are hearing more threat information and it's concerning. >> do you see any indication -- there's the one bomb -- maker that a lot of people link these creative bombs to. is there any link to him on this? >> we haven't heard any of that. but as i say, often times, even if there's not a direct link, that sort of expertise gets shared throughout the jihadi community. >> is it fair for me to look at what's going on with the hotels and those types of preparations and see it as a correlation to the level of preparedness in general in. >> probably not. i can remember in the runup to