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Cops as possible. So the country here certainly is on edge. Theres a heightened alert, a terror alert has been set up. And out of precaution the jewish schools all over this country, like in some other countries by the way as well have been closed for the day. Chris . Fred that use of uniforms you and i have seen that with greenonblue attacks that have happened in iraq and afghanistan. Thank you for the reporting. Lets go to france where all the recent activity started. In paris we have new and troubling developments 12 people now in custody, suspected of helping in the recent attacks. Just this morning, a new attack many of frances media sites hacked. Taken offline. Lets get to john berman live in paris. John . Good morning, chris. Yes, 12 suspects in custody. These 12 individuals officials tell us are linked to amedy coulibaly, the man who attacked the kosher market killing four french jews. This is some kind of logistical network, a support group that perhaps helped him plan fund carry out this attack. These suspects now in custody. A Security Source here in france tells me the number 12 makes sense. That could be the size of a cell the right size to plan this type of attack. And that information comes, chris, as you mentioned, were learning most of the major media french websites are down this morning. Now a lot of these sources do share one server that server a company that runs it tells cnn they are investigating what caused this crash. But it comes as news of some 19,000 cyberhacks in france over just the last week. This is a greater number than this country has ever seen. An enormous amount of concern, that its not just the physical that something targeted here in france right now. But remember terror is an attack on ideas as well. When you go after Media Companies, when you go after publications you are making an attack against thought and ideas as well. That is being investigated as we speak. And of course the u. S. Secretary of state, john kerry, he is in france today. Meeting with french leader Francois Hollande and the foreign minister here, he came to the site a few moments ago, about an hour and a half ago, laid a wreath at the memorial of those killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. We expect to hear from the secretary of state within the hour. Alisyn . John thanks for that background. Al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claiming responsibility for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in paris. They said this attack was years in planning. But still, one big unknown did the kouachi brothers actually meet the terror groups lead anywhere yemen . Was al awlaki the mastermind of that massacre . Cnn is the only tv network in yemen, lets get to our Nick Paton Walsh on the ground whats the latest . It is absolutely key to work out awlaki was involved in meeting these brothers. And of course after his death at the hands of a u. S. Drone in 2011 shortly afterwards said by u. S. Intelligence theyre said to have left yemen, potentially carrying tens of thousands of dollars to assist operations in europe. Thats key, theyre hunting jihad cells, do those jihad cells lead back here to yemen . So now very quiet right now, friday prayer under way. Real fears of protest on the street. Anger against the cartoons that appeared again in Charlie Hebdo magazine. Satirical image to the prophet mohammed and an angry government who in a bid to try to divert attention from western mention around the world and blame yemen for this. This is a failed or failing state. So much trouble here so much window for al qaeda to have a presence. An awful lot of questions that need answers here in yemen. Back to you, michaela. Thanks for that nick. Breaking overnight, the pentagon confirming that the u. S. Will send 400 troops to train and equip moderate Syrian Rebels in the ongoing fight against isis. Barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon. Of course syria, ground zero for the isis threat and the question has been how to get to it. So now the next step about 400 u. S. Troops and potentially hundreds of additional military personnel will deploy to turkey. Saudi arabia and qatar to help train vetted moderate Syrian Rebels. Train and equip them. This has been the next step in the program. The u. S. Needs boots on the ground inside syria. Not american boots, but moderate Syrian Rebels that will be able to fight isis. Big problem how do you know the people will really do it . How do you know youre just handing a weapon and they go back in and join a militant group . This has been very slow going. The next step to be taken, they want to train some 5,000 moderate Syrian Rebels. If it all works, if it does it will give the United States for the first time eyes and ears on the ground inside syria. Give them more intelligence about what is going on where isis is how its moving around. Its leadership its communications and how to fight it. Alisyn . Barbara, thank you so much for that reporting. Lets bring in now cnns National Security analyst, Juliette Kayyem and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. So much to get to. There are developing stories across europe. Tom, lets talk about the belgium raid and what it produced. They found Police Uniforms when they went to the lair of these terrorists. Do we know what they were planning tom . They havent announced what theyre planning. Maybe the authorities know we dont know that yet. The thing about the Police Uniforms is thats been done particularly in iraq over the years, where they used Police Uniforms. It wasnt necessarily bad Police Officers or radicalized Police Officers. But people imitating impersonating Police Officers to do an attack. Which enable thems to get very close to an academy. Were seeing in france and other European Countries, a large deployment of military and police to guard facilities. That means theres a lot of Police Officers that wont know each other. So if they see another officer in uniform that they dont recognize, it wont be that unusual. Because theyll be so many that will be coming from different parts of the country. So you know thats also a difficult thing to try to defeat. Thats chilling juliette. That you have to work with people you dont know them they could be terrorists disguised as Police Officers. The authorities are calling the attack that they broke the plot the plot they broke up in belgium, imminent. Do we know details . We dont know imminent it could mean they were ready to go underground into hiding and then attack even a month or two months or three months. What imminent means in this instance is the moment it could have been disruption the window was closing. So you go in as Law Enforcement as counterterrorism officials and shut it down. And what was amazing about last night was how simultaneous the attacks were in different places that takes a lot of coordination. The raids were. Yes, how the raids were just consistent and at the same time. Because if they had been missed if things had been offkey, or offtiming one of the cells, two of the cells, you know ten people could have gone into hiding. So this is good news. And look theres people who were involved with these attacks who are missing now. And so not everything is perfect yet. There are going to be continuing i think i saw numbers of about 100 or 200 people that were involved. What youre referring to is the developing story this morning, that investigators say that there could be this new wave of attacks across europe. Because they believe that there are these 20 sleeper cells that involve 120 to 180 people. Now tom, help us understand this. By definition sleeper cells are these shadowy groups that live among us. And pretend to be sort of part of the community until theyre activated. How could investigators know that there are 20 sleeper cells . I think its a misuse of terminology here. Because the cell that was investigated where the shootout occurred was not sleeping it was not a sleeper cell it was an active getting ready to go operational cell. As evidenced by as soon as the Police Showed up they opened fire with largecaliber weapons, had explosives on hand. Had all of the equipment on hand ready to go. So the Belgium Police were already looking at that group. That group wasnt asleep. I think the other cells, many them would have already been under alert. Also in these type of investigations while youre investigating a group and youre trying to identify all of the other members, the structure and scope of the enterprise you also have contingency plans that if something bad happens, you can take it down right now. Start rounding up everybody immediately. So this is not something that would have been spur of the moment. It might have been a spurofthemoment decision to execute the plan but not spurofthemoment plan itself. This kind of raid does not happen when you wake up in the morning. These guys have been followed they had been followed for several months the french attack the week before had given them more evidence. So it seemed like okay well were going to go in and get them. But this is a long investigation. And it will continue. People shouldnt think that owe, we got these guys its all done. There are going to be circles of activity that occur in different cells and different terrorist organizations, will continue. Thats the challenge for European Countries. Its kind of like whackamole. You get a group here another group will appear here and in a different country. Yes, it is like whackamole. But somehow, tom, today feels different. It feels as though things are cropping up. Ever since the paris terror attacks, is this just the media, our atenia is up and more sensitive . Or are things happening in europe at a much quicker, more frightening pace . Well i think both. You have more media attention, obviously, especially after the attack in paris. But these cells have been active. Particularly in belgium. We go back to before 2001 original al qaeda, before there was aqap in yemen. Before there was isis in syria and in iraq this goes back to bin laden days where they were planning the attack in paris, september of 2001. To attack our embassy. And nato facilities in belgium and a couple of other european facilities. And i think thats why brussels is such a key city because its also the headquarters of the european union. And the eu is seen as an enemy of isis and al qaeda. And nato which is the Principal Alliance of the u. S. And all European Military partners. Juliette what do you make of the cyberattacks now on Media Outlets in paris . Disruption of services attempts of disruptions at services are happening all the time. The attempt to bring down the french internet is much larger. And it is its in the atmosphere that were in right now, its very disconcerting. It is another form that people whether theyre related to isis or al qaeda, or some other organization they give people citizens of france and europe a sense of unease. And thats essentially whats going on right . I mean it may not be terror but it is just the sense that things arent right in 2015. And thats sort of how weve been living since the year began. People are feeling it across europe this morning. Tom fuentes, jeweluliette kay millennium thank you for being here. Police have clashed at police at an antiCharlie Hebdo protest in karachi. A reuters analyst reported that protesters threw stones at police. The protesters are holding rallies against the depiction of the prophet mohammed by the french magazine. Cuba will see new rules easing travel and trade restrictions and they go into effect today. For the first time in decades, u. S. Airlines can now fly scheduled routes to the island. Americans will be able to travel there as long as its for religious, educational or some other approved purpose. And more money will be allowed into cuba. Up to 8,000 a year to any cuban national. A developing story in the world of sports josh mcnary, the Indianapolis Colts player accused of rape is out of sundays afc championship game against the patriots. Hes been placed on the nfl commissioners exempt list. While the league investigate the allegations. Mcnary is facing charges of felony rape battery and criminal confinement, stemming from an alleged incident with a woman he met at a bar in november. January thaw i use that word lightly, is moving in just in time for the weekend. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers, keeping track of the latest forecast for us. Chad this is not a tropical proportions . No im glad you said briefly. Because it is going to be a small warmup. But 42 in the city, 45 or 46 in d. C. Is going to feel like spring. Compared to where weve been and where were going. This is going to be pretty decent. Now its still cold today and still cool tomorrow. But abovenormal air moves in. Above normal temperatures move in before the next storm system moves in that will spread more snow to the poconos, the alleghanys the catskills, probably brings rain for new york city. This is now a change in the forecast where weve been below normal. For a few days we go above normal and then next outlook. This is the next 14 days all below normal in the east above normal in the west. Big trough in the jet stream right through there. Expect the chances of snow to go up in the city. And even the chances of snow in the south to go up as well. Watch out if youre driving around the deep south, theres a lot of ice on the roadways lots of crashes around atlanta right now and the roads around the area too. So enjoy the brief warmup, guys it will be 48 hours and back to the cold. A lovely 48. Chad everett, i find your colors deceptive. I think purple and whatever other color that is that exceeds my man palette there, i think youre trying to do a faky. Its roy gbiv. Theres a method to your madness. Roy g biv, that was strong chad wins. There are thousands of fighters from all over the world training with isis. And then allegedly planning attacks back in their homelands, can anything be done to stop these coldblooded killers . So saudi arabia condemned the french attacks of Charlie Hebdo. But today, they will publicly flog a blogger for the second time. The crime . Insulting islam. And by flog i mean beat him with a stick. Wait until you hear his friend describe his situation. 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We do chris, this is a safe haven right now for insurgents and everyone to come in and they go back to europe and strike against europe. What are we seeing as a growing commentary bobby . Youre distracted by isis and thats why al qaeda in yemen is the one. The aqap Arabian Peninsula are taking credit for this the u. S. The west you messed up. Is that fair . Its a little unfair. Its not like were not in yemen. We are, usually with drone strikes and cruise missiles. We are present there and were working with the what remains of the Yemeni Government. The trouble is that the socalled rivalry between these two groups the rivalry is political and taking place at a High Altitude between the top leaders. The biggest lesson from paris is what . At the foot soldier level, the rivalry doesnt matter. Coulibaly is isis the kouachi brothers are aqap. Theyre able to Work Together so for Law Enforcement, having these two different sources of inspiration, of money, of training is a problem. But for the guys who are carrying out the terrorist attacks, they dont care. Were going to break down the numbers of who is going where and why in just a second. Lets close the circle on this ltc. A little bit of this maybe media stink, its about our focus shifts quickly. But it doesnt mean that the coalition is shifting its focus. Fair point . A very fair point. The coalition, the problem is we never hear what the coalition focuses back here. Were always focused on the u. S. Systems. Lets look at what were seeing as the emerging problem. People leaving the European Countries and maybe the United States and others and going into those hotbed areas, getting the Training Like these killer brothers and the guy who targeted jews and the kosher grocery. Coming back home. There are your numbers, france 700, the biggest, okay. The numbers are all obvious for you. Now its how many do we believe have gone back home to do exactly what we saw in paris, show those . Now first of all, we said that youre retired, but you are so active in this area. Youre in theater all the time. Do those numbers sound right . Is it something you think we can accurately calculate . I think it is especially because of all the movements in europe. The only way youre coming out of syria is two ways you can drive back across into turkey. Or you can take a boat out of latakhia back through the Turkish Border and back through europe. Theres a way to handle these things and people are picking it up. Thats the problem i see is the turks arent doing anything about the going in or the going out. Lets go to that. Youve got president ered again ereddogan. He says i stand with france. We saw in the Little Village of kobani on his border how not ready the turks seem to be to take full aggression can he be taken at his word . I would cut the turk as little bit of slack. Because theyre taking in a lot of refugees its not like theyre not participating. Theyre reluctant to get involved militarily. But theyre taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria into turkey. But that doesnt stop the threat does it . Or does it because if those refugees may become vulnerable to radicalization if theyre forced to stay where they are. If theyre forced to stay where they are. The problem is among these refugees are possibly elements of al qaeda and elements of isis who are using the large refugee flows as basically trojan horses to get into to turkey. And then within turkey, theres a lot of radicalization. Can you go to istanbul can you go to a store and buy isis tshirts. In the open. And you have demonstrations pro isis demonstrations taking place in other towns around turkey. So theres a strong radical streak within turkey itself. And the turkish government their inaction is in part informed by this. Because they dont want to inflame sentiment within their own country. But they should realize if they take a lesson from france is that if you ignore the problems at your border those problems are going to come into your country and bite you where youre most vulnerable. Ltc, youre moving your head a little bit, you agree . I do a little bit. Bobbys right, theyre starting to see issues from the border crossings into turkey. But what you really have in europe is the path of least resistance if you go down south to jordan jordans populace of refugees has increased 200 . Heavy strain. Understood. But let me ask you something a little bit of a Silver Lining in paris. First of all, thats impossible right . It was unmitigated tragedy. But if they hadnt discovered those brothers and the guy who targeted the kosher market, they would not have started connecting these links that took them to these groups right . So thats what this means. Its not that oh no theyre all against us all of a sudden. There have been discovered because of what just happened fair analysis . From tragedy, theres always goodness now we can start to develop a link and hopefully, i think well be able to take the network down because of the single tragedy in paris. Bobby, as we perceive the imminence of the threat that is just as likely because of the terrorists timings as the authorities catching them right . They may have forced up their timetable because they saw what happened in paris, how the guys got shut down so quickly after. Thats what were hearing from belgium. Although the investigation had been going on for weeks before paris happened that cell was operating independently. The investigation speeded up after paris happened. Because there was a fear that paris may inspire these guys to bring up their calendar and move earlier. So yeah and presumably theres much much greater collaboration between all the european Law Enforcement agencies because theyre in a race a race to find these cells, 20 of them that were told and shut them down before the next attack takes place. As bobby and Lieutenant Colonel warn me all the time just because its going over there, doesnt mean it wont have reach back here to the United States thats part of the developing story as well. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Well europe is in high alert this morning as investigators say terrorists are gearing up for more deadly attacks. Well discuss that. He is accused of insulting islam and is now paying the price. Were going to speak to a friend of a saudi blogger, who has been sentenced to ten years and 1,000 lashes. Sir, were loaded and getting ready to go. Were going to need you on the runway. vo dont let a severe cold hold you back. 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Catch up on what everyones talking about with the x1 entertainment operating system. Preloaded with the latest episodes of the top 100 shows. Only from xfinity. European investigators say theyve uncovered at least 20 sleeper cells involving as many as 180 terrorists. Authorities say they were poised to attack france germany, belgium and the netherlands. Lets get the latest from Fred Pleitgen live in brussels fred . This country is totally on edge. Most violent of those raids that took place here in belgium happened in the town of verviers where two terrorists were killed. When the police moved in the terrorists immediately opened fire both automatic weapons fire as well as semiautomatic weapons fire. The fight lasted for several minutes, it involved several stun grenades that the police used. There were raids throughout this country, throughout belgium, here in brussels several people were arrested the belgian authorities came out today and said the plot of the jihadists was to kill Police Officers in belgium and to kill as many as possible. Both in Public Places as well as at police stations. They found ak47s, handguns they Found Communications equipment and most importantly, they also found Police Uniforms they believe that the terrorists might have tried to disguise themselves as policemen. The threat is being described as imminent there are Law Enforcement officials who came out and said it might have only been a matter of hours for these people to strike. They think that it was people who were returning from syria who then wanted to carry out these attacks. Of course this country now is in a state of alert. The terrorism alert has been heightened from level two to level three. And jewish schools here in this country have been closed for today. Hours away from an attack fred thats incredible thanks for the reporting. A 20yearold from ohio arrested by the fbi for plotting to bomb the u. S. Capitol, will appear in court today. Christopher lee cornells parents, meanwhile are speaking out about their sons arrest. His father says his son is not a terrorist. And that he was set up by the fbi. Officials say cornell planned to detonate pipe bombs at the u. S. Capitol and open fire on lawmakers that he considered enemies. President obama will reportedly ask congress for a nearly 7 increase in spending when he submits his Budget Proposal in february. Now thats a 68 billion more than the current budget limits. This comes at a time when the Republicancontrolled Congress appears eager to make deep cuts in spending setting you up yet another battle on capitol hill. Muhammed ali is back in the hospital for a second time. A family Spokesman Says this is for followup care related to a severe urinary tract infection. 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We have breaking news we have just received word that reuters is reporting that saudi arabia is postponing the public flogging today of a blogger medical grounds, a man was found guilty of insulting islam last year. The saudi ambassador to france joined World Leaders at the unity rally in paris last week celebrating free speech. All the while, while inside his country its a punishable crime. Joining us with reaction that the flogging has been postponed is a friend of the blogger, ali risbi, hes a friend as well as a writer and secular activist. He joins us now from toronto, canada i want to get your reaction to this news that this has been postponed. What are you learning. I actually heard from insaf rifs wife that the lashing has been postponed. On medical grounds. Its definitely encouraging, its by no means, none of us are completely satisfied. Obviously this is a saudi regime. You know we dont know whats going to happen from here on. But its definitely a small step in the right direction. We know his wife has been concerned about him being able to withstand the beatings he was scheduled to have 50 more lashes today. And then 50 lashes every friday subsequently for some five months. She was concerned about his ability to withstand that. What is his medical condition . According to her, she has said and you know other people have been in touch with them i havent been in touch with them recently at all, you know theyve said that he is not in very good medical condition. Especially after the flogging last week. So i mean the way this happens is you have the wounds and the next week you have the wounds and on tof top of that you get lashed again, this happens every week. Its obviously as anybody can imagine, thats not an easy thing to go through. Not at all and i think its hard for western minds to wrap our minds around this. Especially given the fact of what we just saw in france the saudi ambassador marching alongside the other World Leaders and four Million People in support of free speech. When inside saudi arabia this kind of of offense is punishable in this fashion. Thats really difficult for western minds to get their minds around. Yeah. It is i mean this has been this is the sort of twofaced policy that you know saudi arabia has always taken to human rights human rights around the world, weve seen this over and over again. I mean last august when james foley was beheaded by isis the same month there were 19 people in saudi arabia that were beheaded publicly for crimes ranging from smuggling cannabis to sorcery. Theyre still executing people in public for sorcery. So its just a very archaic legal code that manages to survive. I mean unfortunately with a lot of western support and as well the attitude of people over there. Unfortunately there are large numbers of people in the middle east and across the muslim world that actually support these kinds of corporal punishments, so its very difficult situation. Unless you have change from within theres very little that people on the outside can do. And raif is one of the people who is making that change. So he is somebody that we should all get behind. I want to read just for context, ali, what he wrote. Because this is an important thing to understand the words that were taken offense to. He wrote in august of 2010 just a portion, as soon as a thinker starts to reveal his ideas, you will find hundreds of fatwas that accuse him of being an infidel, just because he had the courage to discuss sacred topics im worried that arab thinkers will migrate in search of fresh air and to escape the sword of the religious authorities. He likely knew the risks, he likely knew it would require courage on his part to speak up and then face the consequences did he ever speak to you about that . We didnt talk about the risk. It was kind of understood. I mean the reason this is personal for me is because i like raif both raif and i are writers, both of us are secular, were advocates for secularism and reform in the muslim world. And both of us grew up in saudi arabia. The only difference is that you know im over here i can write freely i regard it as a fundamental right to be able to express what i want to say. On the other hand when i see what hes going through, you know hes going through, hes doing exactly what i get to do here every day. But hes being flogged. Hes in prison for ten years. And so that is actually thats the kind of thing that hits me very personally about it. So i mean we know he knew the risks, but he decided to go ahead and do it anyway because he cared enough about his society and transforming it. And he believes in it strongly enough to stand up for it. You reference the fact that the support from people of the saudi you know the saudi nation. We were talking about the fact that theres no outrage about this in fact theres been videos on youtube of people cheering his first flogging. Yes. I mean after the flogging ends for those who dont know if you see the online video, right after, the entire crowd erupts into cheers and applause they start chanting ailllahu akbar, the public thinks hes guilty of blasphemy. According to a Pew Research Poll in 2013 88 of muslims in egypt, 62 of muslims in pakistan and the majority in other regions like jordan palestine, like malaysia they actually support the Death Penalty for leaving islam. So this is not just a matter yes, you know we did have bush Holding Hands with King Abdullah and strolling through his Crawford Ranch and we had president obama who is criticized for bow together saudi king and were all involved in it too. You know we every time we fill our cars up with gas, were all bowing to the saudi king. But that helps maintain the status quo. The status quo isnt because of u. S. Actions or western support. But it is definitely something that comes from within that society. And thats something that needs to change and thats what raif is working for. We are glad to hear that this has been delayed. But as you mention, this is not over yet. Were going to keep on top of the story. Ali rizvi joining us from canada talking about raif raif badawi who is under a tenyear prison sentence in saudi arabia for his writings there. Mitt romney not feeling the love from his own party as he considers another run for the white house. Meanwhile, wheres Hillary Clinton . We have our political roundtable, next. We have president ial political news for you, mitt romney says hes coming back. The republican establishment must be pumped right . Take a look at reactions, wall street journal editorial calls romney recycled and not in that go green kind of way. Former republican governor of oklahoma Frank Keating says he had his chance and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker says americans quote dont want a warnout tired views of the past. Harsh . Or is this whats coming out of that side of the party . Political analyst and editor in chief of the daily beast, john avalon here to discuss and cnn political commentator, republican consultant and sirius xm host Margaret Hoover whats the name of the show again . Get it right with Margaret Hoover. So lets get back to the criticism, recycled . No thank you . Tired views of the past . Ouch. The republican establishment, the rnc Committee Members are not excited, john. Politics is a bean bag if romney gets back in youre going to get a lot of people saying we saw this movie and it didnt end too well. Why do i want a triquel. Is that a word . Scott walker probably wants to run for president , he wont be given a lot of love. Journal editorial page never been a big fan of mitt romney. Going back to health care days but hes going to be running into serious wind shear. I dont think anyone in the camp is innocent enough to think this is going to be a tough, tough fight. Let me jump in for a second theres a poll a new iowa poll this was, of iowa gop registered voters and it shows that he is in the, at the top of the heap by a significant margin. 21 , undecided gets 18 , jeb bush seven points down at 14 , followed by scott walker, Mike Huckabee rand paul. So voters still like him. Who spent the most time in iowa recently . Mitt romney four years ago. He led the, he basically won the caucuses we found out a week later that Rick Santorum a story my husband broke, we want to make sure he gets credit for that. But mitt romney is going to have to run on something other than restoring his reputation. Thats not a rationale for president. And he has to remember the cnn polls exit polls when we left the election day, said that he won in every single category in terms of confidence, except this man can connect with people like me. Hes going to have to convince the donor class, activist class, that he would run a Different Campaign and that he could be as a romney 3. 0, is credible. He has started to talk about what it would look like. It would look like a mitt romney who has a real antipoverty plan. That would be a real turn in messaging from a guy who said 47 of people i dont care about. That would be a real constructive contribution to the conversation from the republican side we need antipoverty plans. What paul ryan and so is rand paul. Heres how this goes sour for the other party. Is that yes, you have this melee going on. On the right side and theyre all going to have to fight it out. That is draining resources, people can take hits candidate can come out of that. Not as strong as they would have been otherwise. But on the other side youre looking at a very single purpose, right . On the democrat side. Hillary clinton, and so what youre getting on the right side is the percolation of ideas, who do we want to be. What works best for us . That will wind up coming out of that. You dont have that on your side. No you dont. Im giving thaw side by proxy. Dont get the yips. But no look the democrats are in an unusual place, historically it has been a democratic scrum. They go for the hot hand, not the next guy in line. Here you have a situation where Hillary Clinton is almost running an incumbent campaign shes towering six times over the nearest competitor in the field. Theres a danger that it is kind of a stolid debate. That it ends up being a no one else need apply sign outside of the party, also. Shell be a better candidate if theres at least a spirited debate of ideas. Right now you got gym webb bernie sanders, which gets an asterisk. And possibly a Martin Omalley or Something Like that. But that becomes a challenge. As how someone from the outside runs effectively as an incumbent and still invigorates her party and puts forward new ideas. Margaret where is Hillary Clinton, we havent seen her the past few weeks, particularly around the paris attacks. Its the holidays she hasnt made any public appearances, i think Hillary Clintons largest vulnerability is that she is a known entity and has been a fixture of washington for the last 25 years. That she hasnt had a story in a month, you know may be unprecedented. But its probably good for her not to be in the headlines right now. The media frothing around here i want to ask you something seeing we have a good quorum for the discussion. Remember how in the early stages with now president obama, there was this discussion of him as black jesus. That you know like this is it is time i did not black jesus to come up. It is time for the africanamericans, this is the right guy, this is their person. Youre hearing the same thing about hillary for women. I had a bigshot democrat consultant say to me the other day, shes female jesus, this is our person its time for a woman to be president. Does that eye peel do you think to women in general . Do you think thats enough . I think that if you have a very evenly matched Campaign Going into the final stretch, most americans when they wake up two weeks before. Because most rerns dont vote every two years, they vote every four years, they tune in ten days to two weeks before the election is over. My biggest fear of jeb bush as the nomination. Women will come to the polls, huge voting bloc Hillary Clinton really appeals to them. They see the third bush and the first woman. And historically where can they make a difference . Truly as a republican woman, my biggest fear about republicans not winning back the white house in 2016. Margaret is speaking to also the larger point, which is it gives Hillary Clinton even though shes someone who has been in public life for 20 years, the ability to stand for something larger than herself. And thats ultimately what all really successful campaigns need to be. They cant be about the candidate. They theyd to be a crusade for a larger idea. That will become a powerful point in her campaign. Now shes putting together a campaign apparatus. Do you think thats where she is right now . We know thats true. A lot of people actually arent from the original hillary camp, theyre actually obama folks from 08 and 12, which is interesting in terms of uniting the party. But the more the vacuum keeps quiet, the more the vacuum will be filled with negative stories, with the rnc already beginning attacks against her. Totally preemptive. And other candidates will be able to get in the cycle. So it becomes a risky game itself even with a lead like that. John margaret nice to see you, have a great weekend. What the do you think, no the to ignore the men, but the women out there, is hillary being a woman so strong a pull that could be enough for her to get your vote . Men can write us as well. They can. You get what im saying. All right, thats lot of news this morning, were following it for you so lets get to it. Terror threat across europe. They could be up to 20 terror cells active across the continent. 12 detentions overnight of people in france. Antiterror raids in a number of cities across belgium. I saw just a big orange flash. A prolonged gunfight. Two suspects on the property were killed. The jihadists were targeting the police. The group was connected to isis recruited by isis. The threat is real we cant just sit back and wait and then react. It is a illogical for people that subscribe to many of the ideas, its profound its global. Announcer this is new day with chris chris, Alisyn Camerota and michaela pereira. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to new day, we want to welcome our viewers in the u. S. And around the world. We begin with major developments on the terror front this morning. Theres fear gripping europe as we learn theres an investigation into 20 sleeper cells, with as many as 180 jihadists that are poised to strike in france, germany, belgium and the netherlands. And an imminent threat in at least two of those countries were told. Remember all of this is emanating from france. And there we have news of more arrests for alleged accomplices of the terrorists in paris. This as several Mainstream Media websites in france are knocked offline this morning by hackers. So lets begin with fred flight gen pleitgen live in brussels what do we know . Of course belgium is one of those countries where there was probably still is that imminent threat. There were raids that went on in many belgian towns, including here in brussels. The most violent one happened in a town of verviers about 40 kilometers or 40 miles outside of brussels. There it was an antiterror operation by the police. They said that extremists opened fire on the Police Officers almost immediately. After they tried to enter a building that firefight went on for several minutes. Two of the extremists were left dead. Another one was left wounded. Again, the raids went on in towns across belgium. And what we learned this morning from the Belgian Prosecutors Office is that he says that this was part of a larger plot and the aim of the plot was to kill cops here in belgium. Both on the streets as well as inside Police Departments, thats where they wanted to kill the Police Officers. And there are several reasons why they think that is because during these raids, they found a lot of weapons, they found ak47ed, they found handguns they also found a lot of communications equipment. But they also found Police Uniforms. The prosecutors here believe the terrorists wanted to dress up possibly as Police Officers an kill cops. Both on the streets and other places. Belgium is on a state of alert, certainly Security Forces are. We know that jewish schools, for instance are going to be closed here in this country today. And also Police Officers have been ordered not to walk the streets alone. Theyve been ordered to wear bulletproof vests at all times and ordered to carry their weapons at all times, even when offduty. Overnight authorities making significant arrests connected to the paris terror attacks. Also breaking this morning, major french media websites have been hacked and taken offline. Lets get to our john berman live for news paris. So much happening there, john. Good morning, alisyn. 12 people in custody right now, were told 12 people connected to amedy coulibaly, coulibaly was the man who killed four people inside that kosher supermarket. These 12 people suspected of providing some kind of Logistical Support to coulibaly. And Security Officials telling me 12 people is about the size of a terror cell that could pull off that type of operation. Were also learning just over the last few minutes, theres an Ongoing Police operation in the town of rems 90 miles northeast of paris, thats a town where said kouachi, one of the men who attacked Charlie Hebdo, lived for a time. Gunshots reported. Not sure at this point if it is connected to any kind of antiterror concerns. But were monitoring that right now. French media websites knocked offline this morning. Many of these Media Companies used one server. That server says theyve detected some kind of software bug. Obviously the key question is was that a bug planted by some sort of cyberterrorists, there have been more than 19,000 hacks in this country in just the last week. Since the physical attacks that took place here a great deal of concern about cyberterror right now. As all this is happening, and theres a lot happening, we are waiting for secretary of state john kerry, who is here in paris, to speak. He will speak shortly. Holding a News Conference at city hall with the mayor of paris. Michaela . John well continue to monitor that press conference. I believe we see the secretary right now. We just saw him right there and well continue to monitor it for the comments hes going to make. We know that al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack. But theres a big unknown. Did the kouachi brothers actually meet the man believed to have masterminded the massacre Anwar Al Awlaki. Nick paton walsh is the only western journalist in yemen and he joins with us more. What do we know nick . We know the claims that Anwar Al Awlaki was before his death in 2011 accord together aqap statement operationally involved in running what they refer to in that video, troublingly to the victims there, as the blessed battle of paris. What we dont know is after his death in 2011 around the same time when potentially one or both of the kouachi brothers left here in yemen where theyre said to have gotten funds and taken them back to france and even received training we dont know if the contacts between aqap here in yemen and that cell in france continued. Thats what investigators must be terrifiedly trying to work out right now. Because it would suggest that maybe resources can still be passed from this very volatile part of the world. I say volatile were seeing a quiet now over sanaa, we will see angry protests over the Charlie Hebdo latest issue. This is in so many ways a failed or failing state struggling to keep itself together. Thats where al qaeda finds such a foothold. The questions here still so many to be answered. Alisyn . Nick paton walsh. Thank you so much. The Obama Administration has been under fire for what critics are called a failed strategy to combat terror groups like al qaeda and isis. White house correspondent Michelle Kosinski joins us to tell us reaction from the white house. There have been questions during the critical time when not just the u. S. But the world has been focused on the visible threat posed by isis. Is the u. S. Doing enough and has it been doing enough to stop al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in yemen, which has been such an effective exporter of terror and bombmaker now thought to be linked to the horrific attacks in paris. Much has been made of the president calling the u. S. Strategy there, working with the Yemeni Government something of as success story. Four months later, many are calling millennium an failed state with, rebels taking over the capital. What does that mean for the strategy moving forward . And analysts are also looking at past aspects of the strategy. Did the u. S. And the Yemeni Government essentially cause al qaeda to spread out, become further entrenched . Further hidden without defeating them . Why have there been so few drone strikes there recently . The administration is saying that criticism is unfounded, that the u. S. Remains vigilant. And engaged and even pointing to several plots that have been broken up emanating from there. Chris . Michelle thank you very much. Were fortunate to have two of the men driving the reporting on these latest developments in these terror investigations, we have cnn terrorist Paul Cruickshank and journalist chris burns, on the ground reporting from brussels. Thank you to both of you, gentlemen lets start with what we know. Paul is there new information for us . Theres a lot of concern about a europeanwide threat. The concern that isis have directed groups of young men who have come back from syria, trained with them connected with them come back to europe to plot attacks in retaliation for these airstrikes against isis in iraq and syria. Of course belgium part of the antiisis coalition, launching airstrikes in iraq. European Intelligence Services have detected isis moving in that direction, pivoting towards attacking the west. And that really is a gamechanger moment. And chris, where you are, because authorities have now advanced because of the paris situation and started tracking down these remote connections, is there a fear that that will trigger an imminent threat . Well chris, that is a concern. Thats why they raised the threat level here from two to three out of a top, out of a four total. Theyre very much on edge here. We do hear a lot of police cars and sirens this morning downtown here. And we do know that in the past 24 hours they have searched intensively, not only over there in bellverviers but also in brussels, not far from the airport, youve got about three dozen fighters who went to syria and a few who have recently come back. Thats the case thats why so many of the searches have been happening, a dozen searches in town. About 13 people arrested overnight and plus two theyre trying to get extradited from france. Theyre trying to crack down. It hasnt just started, theyve been doing this for weeks, if not months. There have been searches of different places but this is the first time its turned deadly. In terms of how people perceive the situation, chris, is it true that the authorities there feel that theyre actually ahead of the game now . This isnt them about chasing the threat its that with these recent developments in paris, theyve been able to advance their discovery of who they need to deal with . Well papers seem to be indicating this is a state of siege right now. That they are trying to react to, trying to stay ahead of the game. In fact now theres debate over the Justice Minister is pressing for monitoring instant messages like whats app, like on skype for instance how much will they have to compromise Civil Liberties here in this country . On the other hand you have the jewish community, the rabbi here who is asking for european governments to allow sorry about that there you go to allow jewish, to allow jews in europe to arm themselves jewish communities to arm themselves to carry weapons, which is a very big change here in europe. So there are a lot of pressures to change laws now, and thats going to be the big debate now. The government here meeting today to discuss how tough they should come down how much should they be compromising Civil Liberties here. Paul two concepts that are changing right now literally. First is we used to think that people coming back from places like syria and iraq were getting out of the game. They were coming back home because they were finished. Now theres a different feeling, right . That they are actually being reactivated at home. Yeah i mean the feeling is that isis is send back their soldiers their recruits to bring this war to the heart of europe. Thats lot of concern right now that theyve pivoted away from their focus on syria and iraq towards a bit more focus on attacking the west and theyve signaled this back in september their spokesman, Abu Muhammed Al adnani a key figure in the group said were going to do launch raids against the countries involved hitting us in syria and iraq. It appears theyve been true to their word. The temptation was to call these sleeper cells. But common sense suggests theres nothing sleepy about them. That theyre active. The question is how active . What are they finding in these raids . Do they have the weapons . Do they have the logistics . How close are they to being able to do this the right way and actually attack . Thats right. The cells have come back relatively recently from syria. So they havent been asleep for too long. A lot of concern about what they might do. Authorities are scrambling to understand what the threat really is you know across europe in countries like holland, in countries like United Kingdom and france. Overall, they believe more than 500 european nationals have come back from fighting in syria and iraq with isis and other groups and are now back in the european union. Thats an unprecedented number. Unprecedented threat. Difficult to monitor all but a small fraction of those people 24 7. Isis responsible or at least fingered for a lot of this. Recruitment from abroad. Why is it able to be done there and not as easily in the u. S. . Is that true . Is this about just attracting muslims . What do we know . Short answer much less radicalization in the United States. Far fewer american who is have gone to syria. Were talking about maximum 100 americans who have gone there. But not all of those americans are going to fight with jihadi groups about a dozen believed to be with isis. About 1,000 europeans believed to be with isis. Think about the difference there. Whats the difference . A dozen versus 1,000. Not the numbers. Im saying whats the qualitative reason why . More muslims as a percentage of the population there . The contiguousness of those countries . Why more there than the u. S. . Far less radicalization in the u. S. Theyre much better integrated the Muslim Community here than they are in europe. In europe theres a deep sense of alienation frustration, there are all of these Facilitation Networks that exist, including in belgium. One of the reasons so many belgians have gone off to fight in syria, is a group sharia for belgium, a pro isis group a bunch of those guys went early to europe so weve seen 150 belgians now fighting in syria. Lets, chris, end with you. Because were on the ground in brussels right now. Right now there is a significant militant trial going on. 46 people accused of recruiting young men to join jihad or go into fight in syria. Based off in may, the french algerian isis fighter that allegedly shot and killed four people at a Jewish Museum in brussels. What is the state of play in that trial . How important do authorities believe it is . Actually not up to date on that trial. But yes, it has been ongoing. And there have been a lot of arrests and detainments in the last few months. Of different suspects. So the government has been very much on top of the issue. But how much more are they going to have to crack down . Thats the big issue right now really. And to what extent. You do see the trials go on theres very heavy security. How much could that actually become an issue for those militants who are here in europe could they actually also become put pressure on these trials somehow . That we havent seen yet. But this is something that officials obviously have to be very careful about. The trials become very important. Because they become part of the balance between what threats and what restrictions a society will tolerate. Chris burns, thank you very much. Paul cruickshank as always. Alisyn back to you. We want to go now to secretary of state john kerry, hes in paris and he is holding a press conference there with the paris mayor, lets listen in. I know you have a warm relationship with him and not only am i in an Historic Building but i am with an historic mayor. Because she is the first woman to serve in this office. That is no small thing. So its a privilege for me to be here with you, im particularly honored to be members of the Law Enforcement community. Those who were so directly engaged and affected by the events and you honor us and you honor me and my country by being here today. We thank you so much for that. On date of the living nightmare that began at Charlie Hebdo, i had a chance to share a few thoughts with you from back home in washington and today, i really wanted to come here and share a hug with all of paris. I wanted to express to you personally, the sheer horror and revulsion that all americans felt for the cowardly and despicable act, the assault, on innocent lives. And on fundamental values. I want to thank president hollande my friend Laurent Fabius and of course the mayor, not only for their alwaysgenerous welcome, but for the grit and the grace that they have shown at this moment of testing for france. I also want to thank our embassy personnel, our ambassador jane hartley, for their hard work and the support to the french people this past week . And i particularly welcome these young kids who come here to share a vision of the future. Thank you. [ speaking french ] we are continuing to follow the press conference that secretary of state john kerry is holding there in paris. And he just talked about how he wanted to go to paris to express the feelings of the American People and the quote sheer horror and revulsion that we all felt at the loss of life because of the massacres in paris. So we will keep listening in on that. But believe it or not, we have other breaking news to bring you right now out of france. Because there is another hostage crisis. Its unfolding at a post office near its north of paris right now. Antiterror units were told are on the scene. They say this appears to be a criminal incident not a terrorrelated incident but we know that at least five people are being held inside by captors, were monitoring the scene and we have reporters in paris, we will bring you updates throughout the morning. Meanwhile, were watching a situation in karachi, protesters in pakistan clashing with police at an antiCharlie Hebdo rally. At least 200 people gathering outside the french consulate. Police using tear gas and Water Cannons to disburse them. A pakistani photographer reportedly has been shot and critically wounded. The demonstrators holding the rally to protect the depiction of the prophet mohammed by the french satirical magazine. Jury selection in the trial of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect is facing some challenges. Turns out the judge and attorneys have heard from a halfdozen people who said they already believe that that man on your screen is guilty. And other who is confess they could never impose the Death Penalty. So still others are complaining a lengthy trial would be a serious financial hardship. That means that the trial thats supposed to last three to four months may not even get started for a while. I seriously wondered how they would find people not vastly acted by what happened in the city. There was some suggestion of moving the trial because this hurt boston. It hurt the nation. This is always a consideration and a highprofile situation, you have to trust in the people there. And burdens were hearing about financial hardship. Im not for the Death Penalty, this comes up all the time. Well keep an eye on that. Also europe is on alert this morning, with terrorists poised to strike in several countries, at any time. Well get a washington perspective on how serious the threat is actually from congressman andre carson the first muslim ever to serve on the house intelligence committee. Can the republicans learn something from isis . Thats what one 2016 hopeful is saying. But why . John king will tell you on inside politics. And help on experian. Com. And your big idea is hot dogs shaped like hamburgers . Nope. Hamburgers shaped like hot dogs. Thats not really in our wheelhouse. 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Lets bring in indiana congressman, andre carson he was just select as the first muslim to serve on the house intelligence committee. Good morning congressman, congratulations. Good morning, thank you for having me alisyn. So this must have been baptism by fire. Tell us what this week has been like for you, given all the news of terror plots and all of the islamic extremism that weve been talking about. Well i want to start off by thanking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her boldness in making this distinguished appointment. I come from the intelligence community. I think im the only member of congress who has served and worked in an infusion center. So i support the idea of having different ideas, different agencies present and different minds working toot to keep our country and our Global Community safer. You understand the importance of that diversity and bringing different voices to the committee. But it sounds like not everyone does. In fact, one of your colleagues congressman joe crowley, who was so upset by some of the comments he heard leveled about you, joining the intel committee, that he felt compelled to write a letter about it about the negative reaction. Let me read a portion of it he says a shocking amount of comments made in conservative publications and on social media to the effect that congressman carsons integrity is somehow in question. As a result of his religion. Congressman, what sorts of comments have you been hearing . Well the staff has told me about you know usual comments i think for the most part folks have been very excited about this opportunity on both sides of the aisle. I commend my dear friend from new york joe crowley, who comes from a Law Enforcement family as i come from a military family. And so i think he understands, he represents a very diverse community. Particularly a south asian community. And joe and i have worked on many issues and weve worked on issues regarding bringing muslims and sikhs and others to the table to make our country a better place to live. So i commend joe for his boldness. Joe crowley basically calls on your colleagues to speak out against whatever islam phobia is being leveled at you. He felt there was a need to do this. So congressman, i imagine you can understand how confused americans are. About islam. And particularly about this murderous strain that appears to be part of the religion somehow. How do you explain it to people . Well it certainly doesnt represent the religion those who are purporting to be muslims, its not any different than those who claim to be christians or jews or hindus and commit atrocious acts. I think its clear that we will never win the war on National Terrorism or even global terrorism for that matter without getting help from muslims, getting help from sikhs. Getting help from nondeists and those committed to keeping our country safer and making the world a better place to live. Lets talk about the breaking news this morning, we hear there have been these raids throughout europe in belgium and theyve uncovered that there may be 20 sleeper cells with as many as 180 people involved in them. They were poised to attack were told by investigators this must make your head swim as you are part of the intelligence committee. What more can you tell us about whats going on throughout europe . I think im, it is clear that the european intelligence agencies have been working with u. S. Intelligence agencies in terms of targeting the threat and isolating the threat. I think theres more to unearth and discover. I think i am not an expert at telling france what she should do with her citizens. But sending 10,000 troops is a start for them. I know they certainly dont want to become a totalitarian state. But in protecting the rights of citizens theres a delicate balance between keeping people safe and surveilling its citizens to the point where we are targeting people specifically not because of race not because of religion but making sure were targeting the right people and eliminating the threat to make people safer. Very quickly, the pentagon at home says its deploying 400 more troops to train the rebels in syria to fight against isis. Are more troops the answer . Well i think we dont want to have what we had in iraq. But we certainly want to provide the rebel forces with the right equipment to secure that region. I think that the administration has done a fantastic job. Theres more to be done. But we cannot win this war unless we get help from our friends in the arab league and the international community. Its very clear. Congressman andre carson thanks so much for joining us on new day and best of luck in your new post. Thank you for having me. Another big topic for us alisyn is the nightmare in nigeria, as boko harams reign of terror continues seemingly unchecked. As many as 2,000 people reportedly killed in the latest violence. Can anything be done to stop them . More importantly, why isnt more being done . Were going to talk exclusively with a u. S. Ambassador to nigeria ahead. The new senator that famously promised to make washington squeal she will give the republican response to the state of the union. How is that going to go . John king gives us a preview, inside politics. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. Now. I use this. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release Technology Helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. Out of 42 vehicles. Based on 6 different criteria. Why did a panel of 11 automotive experts. Name the Volkswagen Golf motor trends 2015 car of the year . Well give you four good reasons the allnew Volkswagen Golf starting at 17,995. Theres an Award Winning golf for everyone. Good to have you back with us on new day, 7 30 on the nose in the east. Looking at your headlines, starting with breaking news 20 sleeper cells have been discovered with as many as 180 jihadists ready to strike france germany, belgium and the netherlands, it comes as chilling video emerges of suspected isis militants calling for more attacks on europe. All of it uncovered following a terror raid in belgium that left two suspects dead. A development in france this morning, right now a hostage crisis unfolding at a post office north of paris, now this is not believed to be terrorrelated. Police say a man thought to be mentally unstable entered the post office with a gun. Five hostages could be inside. Well keep an eye on that situation. An update on a story weve been following closely on cnn. The parents of kendrick johnson, the georgia teenager found dead inside a rolledup gym mat two years ago have filed a 100 million wrongful death suit. It accuses the 17yearolds classmates of killing him and claims that sheriffs investigators and School Officials covered the killing up. Johnsons death was ruled an accident. No one has been charged. Pay attention to this wow, look at this. A guy driving on a toronto highway, speeding tire crashes into the car. Wait for it here it comes. The tire takes out the windshield the sunroof, his dash cam. Incredibly though he was not injured. How is that possible. Wait, oh apparently the tire came loose from a car going in the opposite direction. Nailed his car. He he said it happen sod quickly, he barely had any time to think, just duck. Im never driving again. How about him having a dash camera. He said he had one because he wanted to capture small fenderbender things just in case they happened. He never anticipated Something Like that happen. I had it happen to me on a car. I had a wheel fly off my car. Fly off your car . Yeah. What happened . It went flying through this guys hedge. I had to tell him sorry and he went out and said what . And i had to pay him for his hedge. Lets go to inside politics on new day with mr. John king. If theres any video of the hedge moment i want that aired on monday morning. Good morning and happy friday to everybody. A busy day for inside politics, lets go with me to share reporting and insight, margaret teller of the Bloomberg News and if we had any hope of compromise and cooperation in washington we should set it aside. Even though were early in the new year. Both parties are having their retreats. They come back, go on retreats. According to two awe tendees, im not going to spend the next two years on defense, im going to play offense. Margaret youve covered the white house, so the president is going to give the state of the union. He has new initiatives for workingclass americans and middleclass americans, hes fighting republicans on keystone and immigration. Hard for him to get his proposals through a Republican Congress. Is this it for the next two years . Were just going to argue about things . Is there any opening to get anything done . The openings are for things many of the democrats dont want to get done. You saw the president meeting with the head of the uaw at the white house before he left for iowa. Part of it is about sort of stuff they have in common you know pay leave or whatever. But a lot of it is trying to negotiate with democrats so this he can try to push through some trade compromises with republicans. But after what john boehner did the other day, and just the republican attitude from both chambers theres no reason for the president to play defense. And it only helps him to tell his own party hes going to be tough and play offense. Hes going to be tough and play offense. Ed with little prospects of getting his bigticket items through a Republican Congress he wants to draw the contest and make the fight, im on the side of middle class, theyre not. Republicans say we just won a big election were going to do what the voters asked us to do. The house has passed a proposal to essentially defund and roo verse what the president did on immigration. The president says he wants a to allow a lot of undocumented to stay and the republicans says they have to go. At the retreat yesterday, the Senate Leadership came out and said our First Priority is to try to gate vote on the house bill. Do they mean that . Because some of their members dont want to vote on that. Yeah well see. I mean remember republicans have control, but they dont. Because in the senate you really do need 60 votes or at least a coalition of 60 senators willing to Work Together. On immigration there are not 60 votes to be had. Because every democrat that would be in play has said im against that proposal out of the house. So Senate Republicans probably going to have to spend the next two weeks while a debate is ongoing about keystone remember thats still going on. Coming up with some kind of bill that can get 54 republicans, plus six democrats and in reality there may be three or four republicans who dont like the compromise that comes up. So youll need even more democrats digging across the 60vote threshold. One of the people i talked to yesterday about the meeting said not only was he sort of being aggressive in laying out his potentially offensive strategy here yeah offense strategy. Not offensive, but republicans will find it so. But that hes thinking much more now about his legacy. And that part of this being bold and taking executive action is cementing the last few bits of his legacy that he can deal with in the next two years. I think as we look forward to the state of the union address, well see both his legacy bids and how he wants to set up the 2016 race in terms of democrats and how he frames them them in that fight for the middle class, wall street versus the middle class. You say set up the 2016 race for the democrats. The republican race,fort about setting it up its active and under way. The Republican National committee is meeting in san diego. Mitt romney told a group of donors tell your friends, im thinking about doing this again. Well watch what governor romney says another younger Governor Scott walker told the committee the party needs a fresh face and a new outlook, no secret there. Who hes taking a shot at. But scott walker the governor of wisconsin also delivered a clear blow at Hillary Clinton. He said washington is a mess and shes part of the problem. The reason Hillary Clinton was the big loser is she embodies washington. She lives in washington she worked in washington, we need a fresh new perspective that says the answers to the ailments of our nation do not come out of our nations capital. This theres an ideological split among the republican prospects, but theres also a generational split. Im fascinated by. Youve got these younger governors like scott walker saying its our turn. Hes clear there, hes in. At least for now. Youve got the romneys and the jeb bush and well get to Chris Christie in a minute. Scott walk centre. I mean this is his best card to play and i think were going to see all of the republican candidates compete against hillary. They want to position themselves as a potential general election prospect. And because its sort of an easy fight to pick. There are many splits in the Republican Party. But no one in the Republican Party is for Hillary Clinton. So walkers strengths are domestic issues not Foreign Policy issues and his age and positioning against unions hes trying to play to all of the strengths. Its a consistent message he can take from the primaries to the general election new, im new, im young and the next generation and from outside washington and outside the Political Class thats been running the country for the last few years. That works against jeb bush mitt romney Hillary Clinton. And to a degree maybe even rand paul marco rubio, ted cruz because hes not from washington right . Even though they say theyre the next generation, but now they work here in washington. This is interesting for me Chris Christie you either love him or dont love him. He does ed knows new jersey well he does a Radio Program ask the governor. And for any good politician who does that take some questions. Youve got mitt romney actively getting exploring the race. Jeb bush actively in the race. Scott walker another governor you just heard him right there. Chris christie says whats the rush . Listen. What ive told everybody supporters of mine potential donors of mine staff, is relax. You know no ones voting for another 12 1 2 months so everybody just calm down you know . Be relaxed. Look at me look how relaxed i look. Okay. Look how relaxed he looks. Relax, margaret relax. The beauty of this is he sandwiches this announcement between a trip to South Carolina to make sure everything is cool with mickey hail. A trip to iowa to make sure everybody remembers he helped a guy get elected, get reelected. Everything else should relax in talking to doans sdonors behind the scenes this guy is freaking out to make sure he still has space behind mitt and jeb, but his message is just relax. He makes a point, we are early 2015 talking about something that wont start to develop for another year. And what is the rush . Publicly. Right. Right now is the most critical time for the guys they have to hire staff. Convince donors to give them money. Start thinking about the message and the policy position. The public relax. I get the public relax and its smart public presentation. You have to build two infrastructures now, the new Campaign Finance world. Plus a superpac campaign. A lot of infrastructure time and money and people. Well see how long governor christie is so publicly relaxed. The president gives the state of the Union Tuesday night. Were interested in what he has to say. Remember a couple of years ago, marco rubio was chosen to respond. He had an embarrassing moment where he started taking his sip of water during the speech. It was very awkward. Well joanie ernst, chose ton give the gop response. Marco rubios email to her, only advice is have plenty of water before, not during the speech. Water beforehand shows you are moderate on all of this stuff. All right. 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Do you feel that without that influence, your son would not be in the trouble that hes in right now . Notice any changes in your son . Do you have a general sense of what happened . Yes. Lately for the past few months he was very quiet and more he wanted isolation because he was watching or doing something on social media. Thats why he was like brainwashed for the past few months. What is your message to those who would try to recruit kids to extremists to isis . To leave our children alone, please. Thats my only message. To stop recruiting these children. Theyre too young. They dont know whats going on there, you know . Theyre small. They dont understand what theyre getting into what theyre getting you know just leave the children alone. You know theyre too young. Not to misuse these children their lives and their innocence. You know people out there are misusing the childrens innocence. The children are gullible. They are vulnerable, you know . Their thinking skills are not completely developed and these people are praying on that and theyre theyre misusing them their innocence and their youth, which i want them to stop. Tom, isnt it naive to believe that anybody who has watched isis videos with all the horrors that they show and according to prosecutors, theres evidence that this young man and at least his sister have certainly seen those videos and reacted to them in son socialme social media form isnt it unusual that they would think they could live in a caliphate which is essentially a war zone not be combatants. Prosecutors said he made statements about possibly being a combatant. I think its naive to think you can go live anywhere in a utopia. I think the whole thing is naivete, of course its absurd but i think thats part of zarenes point. This is a young, immature person. The other children are even younger. This is this is nothing but immaturity. You know its obvious to anybody that is welleducated and has a lot of exposure to life that this is would be absurd to think you could even go to a war zone but theyre not unique. I mean this is there are thousands of kids doing this and i think thats part of the point. Whats causing them to do it . I dont believe in my clients case its because hes a violent person and wants to go kill people. I think hes was a misguided young man who got manipulated by social media. And misguided by an ideology right . The mothers plea is she says theyre vulnerable theyre gullible. Just like all kids. Stop preying on them. Especially at that age, when youre trying to figure out who you are, what you stand for, to be manipulated by this kind of ideology is terrible bring frightening. It makes the most sense for isis. Theyre not just about fighters theyre about a dynamism shift. They want them to believe Different Things than they do. Its just another warning for parents. I know were always trying to be vigilant. Not everybodys kid is going to be as vulnerable to this but as we saw with the kid in ohio you know as they get older, doesnt change a responsibility to know what your kids are doing. Yes. Always have to be aware. Absolutely. We will have more on our breaking News Coverage on the Terror Threat gripping europe this morning. Investigators say they found 20 jihadist sleeper cells scattered across europe and some are plotting as what is described as quote, imminent threats. We will break down all the latest developments for you. Sir, were loaded and getting ready to go. Were going to need you on the runway. vo dont let a severe cold hold you back. Sir . vo theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. vo theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. vo theraflu. Serious power. Terror threat across europe. The threat involves as many as 20 sleeper cells. Federal Police Headquarters now heavily guarded by commandos. Tracking this swollen investigation its linking france to belgium to syria. I heard two big detonations. Two suspects on that property were killed. This was connected to isis. There is a radical ideology out there. It is a very real threat. Were at the relatively early stage, i think, of dealing with this. I do worry, you know that it could come to the United States of america. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo alisyn Alisyn Camerota and michaela pereira. Good morning to your new day. Friday january 16th. 20 sleeper cells discovered with 180 terrorists armed ready to attack france germany, belgium and the netherlands. Major developments in france. A dozen more people arrested in connection with last weeks terror attack in paris. This as new video emerges of suspected isis militants urging more attacks in europe. Lets get right to Fred Pleitgen where officials foiled what they say was an imminent terror attack. Whats the latest fred . Reporter alisyn there were 12 attacks in belgium which happened in verviers. Two alleged islamists were killed there. The police have told us they came to a building there, they went inside and immediately the people in there opened fire on them. Two of the people in there were killed. Apparently they had ak47s. The Police Returned Fire with their weapons. The firefight went on for a few minutes. There are terror raids on this country overnight. Police are saying they believe they have busted a major terror cell and that most of the people who were part of that terror cell were jihadists who were returning from syria. Apparently the police have confiscated several ak47s. Police uniforms and they believe that the jihadists wanted to dress up as Police Officers and attack police here in belgium, both in the streets as well as in Police Departments and kill as many Police Officers as possible. The countrys now reacted and literally only a couple of minutes ago the government announced that its putting the army on stand by to get ready to possibly deploy to help guard sites around the country. Other interesting developments is that jewish schools are going to be closed today and there is a prominent European Jewish organization that is calling for jewish organizations to be armed here in europe alisyn. Fred thanks so much for that background. Another developing story to tell you about because a dozen suspects are in custody this morning in france. These are alleged accomplices in last weeks paris terror attacks. Cnns john berman joins us with more in paris. A lot happening there, john. Reporter yeah good morning, alisyn. These 12 suspects in custody now believed to be connected to amedy coulibaly. He was the man who attacked the kosher market killing four people. These people believed to be involved in the logistics, the operational level of being involved in these attacks in custody right now. This coming in an environment of extremely frayed nerves in this city and in this entire nation. There were reports that all of the major Media Operations all the papers here they had their websites shut down this morning. There was fear that it was some kind of cyber terror attack. Well the person who runs the server for most of these companies now says it was a software bug, not terror related, not a hack. So people here are breathing a sigh of relief on that front. There is another incident ongoing right now in the town of cologne which is 7 miles away from where im standing right now. Its a hostage situation. A man in a post Office Holding at least two people but, again, Officials Say that appears to be criminal not terror related. You can understand the extremely high level of concern for any type of incident like this taking place right now. As the investigation continues, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack last week. What we dont know is whether the kouachi brothers ever met with a man believed to have master minded that. Nick payton thepo paton walsh is the only investigators there. Reporter theyre trying to link the lengthy 11minute video match up to the reality of what the brothers actually did. That video claims anwar al alack can i was involved in the training when one or both of the brothers left here said to be carrying tens of thousands of dollars to assist the attacks in france. The question is did any resources or coordination from here yemen, the hot bed of al qaeda groups did that continue after 2011. Investigators need to know that because it might suggest further links now ongoing to other networks across the nation. All these different incidents pop up but theres still now an angry reaction inside of yemen. Its quiet, friday prayer. Protests with fears. The government is angry feeling yemen is being scapegoated. This is a country often considered a failed or failing mistake. A lot of people people want questions answered. A lot of answers to come from here. Michaela. Ill take it nick. The pentagon confirms the u. S. Will send 400 troops to train moderate Syrian Rebels in the fight against isis. Barbara starr joins us from the pentagon. Barbara, what is the timing on this because as we know the need is great right now. Reporter chris, this is what everyone has been waiting for. The pentagon laid out the plan several weeks ago now saying they hope to be sending some of the initial trainers u. S. Military personnel and support personnel perhaps as soon as march to saudi arabia qatar, other countries in the middle east for training of moderate Syrian Rebels that right now are being vetted if you will. Their credentials being reviewed to make sure they legitimately are who they are, that the u. S. Isnt going to train them put a weapon in their hands and go back to syria and fight with isis. Getting this program done training up to 5,000 moderate Syrian Rebels it sounds so small in the face of the challenge, but syria, of course the heartland of isis control, the u. S. Has no boots on the ground wont have any u. S. Boots on the ground so getting syrians on the ground that can help the u. S. Understand what is going on there, where isis is where its command and control is and maybe, just maybe begin the fight back against isis on the ground in syria, getting these people up and running is vital. Alisyn. Barbara, thanks so much for all of that. Lets bring in cnn Global Affairs analyst bobby ghosh as well as cnn analyst Fran Townsend. Great to have both of you with us this morning as we work in connection with the paris massacre in france. In addition investigators have uncovered what they say could be up to 20 sleeper cells of somewhere between 120 and 180 terrorists who were poised to attack france germany, belgium, the netherlands. Whats going on in europe . Well so this is the worst outcome. This is the this is what weve been fearing for years now since we began to see young european men, mostly men, heading to syria and iraq to fight alongside isis. All along the fear is that some of these guys come home and bring that violence back with them. And weve learned from the incidents in paris that in some cases these operations have been years in the planning and people have come back from yemen in 2011 and then laid low and waited until 2015 to launch an attack. So the fear is that all of these sleeper cells, some of them acting together some of them acting independently, not even aware of each other necessarily, are all over europe waiting to spring. Now once paris happened, you have a new level of fear which is that perhaps paris inspires a lot of these other cells to activate themselves. They 150e whats going on on tv. These kouachi brothers and coulibaly is getting all of the attention, this is the moment to strike. Europe is afraid. This is the moment for us to carry out what weve been planning to do. Theres that fear. We know what happened in belgium is that an investigation that was going on for weeks accelerated after paris because of exactly that fear. So paris could be a catalyst could be the inspiration to speed up a lot of other things including investigations against these things. So fran are we comforted today that theres such Great Police Work that theyre able to suss out these cells or are we terrified today at the proliferation of these, you know small sleeper cells that are planning terrorist attacks throughout europe . Well look so we ought to feel comforted by the fact that not only is there sort of the intelligence and Law Enforcement cooperation throughout europe. Theyre clearly sharing information, theyre clearly coordinating and theyre working with us. Lets remember that you know many of these individuals that theyre targeting now are on u. S. Watch lists. Of course the concern is once these guys go fight, go back to europe theyre able to fly to the United States without visas and its a five or six hour plane ride. Thats why these watch lists and the intelligence sharing is so very important. You know i think that its rather than being fearful of this it underscores the reality. This is not sort of a potential threat that is these foreign fighters coming back. This is the reality, and these guys have been planning to use the military training and experience they got in the battlefield, whether thats in yemen with al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or whether thats with isis in syria and iraq but to deploy that capability now into western europe. Theres the potential for it to happen here in the United States. We know a few chilling details about what the raid in belgium has produced. They say they found a cache of weapons as well as Police Uniforms. Investigators there believe that these terrorists were planning to kill Police Officers at police stations obviously somehow infiltrating. It shows you also i think that the range of targets, the coulibaly attack was on a jewish kosher deli he should a policeman in the street a jogger one set of quite different targets. The kouachi brothers very specific. They went after Charlie Hebdo. Here you have them going against Law Enforcement. This is not random attacks just to create a sense of fear. If you wanted to do that you would attack a tourist target. Youd want a target with you know maximum number of casualties. These are much more focused, much better planned. That makes them this may be hard to get our hands around but that makes them at the same time more dangerous and somewhat more reassuring, that theyre not randomly killing people. They have specific targets in mind. That is a paradox, but i understand what youre saying. Fran weve been so focused of trying to get to the root of where the terrorists are trained in syria and iraq but it sounds like we should be focused on yemen today. Well ill say. You know weve heard from the director of National Intelligence the director of the cia consistently that the greatest threat for operational activity targeting the United States in terms of al qaeda has been al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. I think we see that now. There have been a number of disrupted plots. Weve reported on all of them. Much of those disrupted with the help of the Saudi Intelligence Service that has better access better penetrations than we do. This ongoing sort of legacy of Anwar Al Awlaki the american preacher killed in a drone strike in 2011 is going to continue. He gave these sermons that radicalized the fort hood shooters. Theyre still available. Theyre available on tape and available on the internet. Hes held up as an icon of the movement and he continues to inspire people and that ought to concern us. Inspiring from beyond the grave is concerning. Bobby ghosh, Fran Townsend thanks so much for being with us this morning. Lets go back to chris. All right, alisyn this is very tough and hopefully an instructive situation were going to cover. A perfectly calm conversation between a cop and a man with his hand in the pockets in an instant turns into the final moments of an officers life. Were going to discuss what it teaches us with a veteran officer, and this officer is also the father of the young man who lost his life. T up on this bed my stress just goes away. [evie] i go up. Heeeeyyy. [donna]our tempurpedic is the best thing in our house, cept for my husband. [lauren] wait,wait,where are you going . [announcer] visit your local retailer and discover how tempurpedic can move you. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those. We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life state farm is there. There is a body cam video that proves why Police Officers are trained the way they are. Youre about to step into a young officers shoes just moments before he was killed by a man who seemed to just calmly have his hand in his pockets. Were going to talk with the victims father whos also a Police Officer in just moments, but first take an up close look at the actual events as they unfold. Now, of course this video is not easy to watch, but weve cut it the best we can to teach you the most it can. Officer tyler stewarts body camera was rolling the day he approached this arizona home looking for a suspect in a Domestic Violence dispute. The 24yearold officer finds this man, 28yearold robert smith. How you doing . Good. Talk outside . Reporter just then smith goes back inside for something, completely out of the officers site. He disappears into one of the rooms. Moments later he comes back out, his right hand inside his jacket pocket. Dont have any weapons in your pockets or anything like that . No, sir. Okay. Reporter officer stewart calmly questions smith about the incident with his girlfriend that prompted her to call flagstaff police. Minutes go by. Everything seems normal but then just in seconds things take a turn. You dont have anything in here. No. No. Nothing in here . No. No. Reporter suddenly smith pulls out the concealed. 22 caliber gun firing six shots, five hit officer stewart wounding him fatally. A seventh shot ten seconds later as smith shoots himself with the officers gun. Its just a horrible situation for it to unfold. The body cam video instructive of every moment. Remember you heard, it went on for minutes. Its important to show it because its one thing to talk about the dangers of being a Police Officer, its quite another to see it firsthand. Now someone who knows this danger too well on both sides of it now, being the officer and a victim of it is Sergeant Frank stewart. He is the father of course of the officer that you just saw there. Sergeant stewart is a member of the Arizona Department of public safety. Frank, thank you very much for being with us. I know that theres sensitivity about seeing Something Like that. I made sure you couldnt watch it here but i know your familys had to deal with it. Im so so sorry for your loss. Im sorry to meet you this way. How is the Family Holding up in nt even a month since this happened . Theyre doing pretty good. Theyre sticking together. Going through the process right now. What is making you want to come out, especially so soon and talk about not just your son but the issues that are presented here . Well it was when they released the video that caused a little concern because it was such a short time since he the shooting happened and i really didnt have time to prepare all the kids to get ready to watch Something Like that. I cant imagine, and yet i know its very important to you to want to get out and speak about who your son was and what it says about the job. You must have been so proud when he took the call to duty and got involved. He was a young officer, just 24 years of age. Do you feel that the job has changed since you got on the job yourself that solo policing may be a thing of the past . Its changed a lot. In 28 years theres a lot of different threats to Police Officers. We really dont get the respect that we used to get 28 years ago. And a scenario like this one not uncommon. You know not part of this new threat that officers have to deal with. Domestic violence you dont really know the guy. Youre trying to feel him out. In what you perceive of your son doing, what do you see in your sons approach to doing the job . In that video particularly hes very calm. Hes doing his job. You can see that he focuses on the persons hand as its in a pocket. He doesnt look like he feels threatened at any time until he asked to pat him down and thats when i think tyler became concerned that he might possibly have a weapon in his pocket. Theres a lot of talk these days about the judgments that officers make especially when they wind up in shootings, usually the controversy is about the officer doing the shooting not being the victim but what do you think this situation teaches about how situations change and the small window literally seconds that officers have to make life and death judgments . Well it just really shows you that you have to you have to be courteous to these people and at the same time you have to be cautious. With this video, it was less than four seconds from the time he drew the weapon from his coat till he killed tyler. And thats nothing, obviously. Its just a moment in time. Youve been on the job a long time. This assumption that people make that the officers in control. The officers controlling the situation, and when they shoot somebody and the person winds up being unarmed, its almost automatically a bad decision by the officer. What do you say to people who believe that . Well officers are trained to react so theyre trained to handle situations like that. Officers dont just randomly come out and want to take force like that. Its really hard on them and they do theyre trained, and i believe that most Police Officers really take more time than they should when they encounter somebody like that just to be calm and try to diffuse the situation. They really go out of their way to do that. Just like tyler did. He was a rookie on the force, but he was showing the patience that youd want to see in a seasoned officer, and also it shows this is the fear of the officer, right, is that any situation could turn into this situation. There was nothing particularly threatening about this guy circumstantially and what we see on the video, is that a fair point . Thats fair. He didnt look like he was at all a threat to tyler. Now, look obviously youre talking about this as an officer and you want people to know things about policing but i know this is your son and i know how hard this is for you and how hard it is to have these conversations. Your son called you shortly before he went on this call right . Do you remember the conversation . Yes, i do. Is there anything you can share about it . He had explained earlier in the day that he was looking for this person. Then when he called me he said he thought he had located him based on the a vehicle the guy drove away earlier in the day. He told me he was just going to make contact with him, that he didnt feel it was a big deal. He thought it was more criminal damage than it was Domestic Violence because apparently it involved something with an apartment and somebody damaged some items inside the apartment. So he had his head in that place and he got to talk to you. At least you got to talk to him, especially with what was to follow. I know your familys hurting from this. I appreciate you so much coming out and addressing this situation and trying to help people learn from it about what its like to live life on the job. Thank you so much frank. Thank you. And our best wishes to your entire family. Thank you. Alisyn. Oh, chris, what a terrible terrible story and video to watch. Its nice to hear from his father trying to do some good. We want to turn now to the deadly attacks in paris because they have sparked debate over whether muslims are to blame for the violence. Some even believe that the extremists represent a majority of islam so how many terrorists are actually muslim . Well tell you that number. Were going to need you on the runway. vo dont let a severe cold hold you back. Sir . vo theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. vo theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. vo theraflu. Serious power. [meow mix jingle slowly and quietly plucks] right on cue. [cat meows] meow, meow, meow, meow. Its more than just a meal its meow mix mealtime. With great taste and 100 complete nutrition, its the only one cats ask for by name. New rules easing trade and travel to cuba go into effect today. For the first time in decades u. S. Air lines will be able to fly routes to cuba. Americans will be able to fly there for religious, educational and other purposes without the Treasury Departments permission. Carl penhaul is live for us in havana. Tell us the latest karl. Well,. Reporter well alisyn why these new changes dont mean is they cant come here and knock back mojitos. They will not need any written permission to do. Religious visits humanitarian visits familytofamily visits sporting visits. It makes things easier. What the cuban government says it estimates this could open the door up to 1 million american visitors per year. In the short term what that could do is put a lot more money in the cuban governments hands. Over a longer period of time it could also put more dollars into the hands of ordinary cubans who work in the tourist industry alisyn. A million tourists a year. Wow. The flood gates are going to open. How will it work if you dont have to okay it with the Treasury Department . Who do you have to tell youre going for an educational reason . Reporter well really nobody. There may be question when you get back to u. S. Soil. You may have to sign an affidavit before you go saying im going for x, y, or z purpose. In practice however, nobody expects there to be the beach police here checking whether americans are on the beach when they should be in church for example, and checking whether theyre drinking mojitos in contravention to u. S. Law. Of course another of the main changes is the question of remittance as cuban American Families will be able to send up to four times more money to cuban relatives here and that again, will push a lot of extra u. S. Dollars into the cuban economy, and that could over time start chipping away at the socialist political system here alisyn. Absolutely. Karl lets talk about that money. When americans go to cuba now they can use their credit cards . They can use their bank cards . They have to bring cash . How does it work . Reporter well good luck on the credit card front. That is somewhat tricky to try and get somebody to take plastic. Cash really still is king here in cuba. But, yes, there will be no limits on how much you can spend on your vacation. You can also take small amounts of rum and cigars back to the u. S. The important thing, and i think this is what president Obamas Administration is really aiming at is to inject u. S. Dollars into the cuban economy at the point where the u. S. Administration thinks it will matter most trying to get it to cubans ordinary cubans on the bottom end that work as Chamber Maids in the tourist industry have Small Businesses such as restaurants and can then set up or expand those businesses thanks to increased remittances. That will essentially take some of the economic control out of the governments hands because remember right now this is a communist command economy, alisyn. Karl penhaul, thanks for all of that reporting. It is friday. I believe theres a mojito in your future today. Thanks so much karl. Lets get over to michaela. I was not counting but there was four mojito references in that report. Time fortyfive things you need to know today. Number one, 20 sleeper cells activated and ready to strike in france germany, belgium and the netherlands joompt meanwhile, at least a dozen people arrested in paris as part of the investigation into last weeks terror attacks. The suspects said to be associates of this man, amedy coulibaly. Theyre accused of providing logistic call support. Here at home the 20yearold ohio man who allegedly planned to bomb the u. S. Capitol, hes making his First Court Appearance today. Christopher lee cornell was arrested. The flu shot only 23 effective according to the centers for Disease Control. Researchers saying the virus mutated makes it harder for the vaccine to work. For the second time in a month muhammad ali has been hospitalized. The champ is getting followup care after a severe urinary tract infection. We send our best regards. We update those five things to know. The paris terror attacks and the threats across europe are raising not just questions about military action and investigations but of perception. Does the muslim faith have anything to do with the violence . Now some will say thats an obvious answer yes, it does. Others will say, no the faith is getting a bad wrap and this is much more subtle than that. 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One issue were dealing with is what to call terrorists right . Yeah. Another is whether or not muslims are getting a bad wrap being identified as part of the terrorism problem at all, so the question becomes is the world dealing with a muslim Terror Threat or is that a false perception . We have dean obedell, hes a columnist for the daily beast and buck sexton cnn political commentator, National Security editor for the blaze. Com. So dean yes. You sparked us being here today. You wrote a piece saying hey, you think a lot of these terrorists are muslim . Not even close. Make your case. One thing i want to make clear, im not saying there are a threat. I wrote a piece, 88 of al qaeda are muslim. The view does not submit to islam or isis. Statistically im talking, fighting the perception when people say even enlightened people will say, not all terrorists are muslim but all muslims are terrorists are muslims. 94 are nonmuslims. 37 americans have been killed by muslim terrorists in america since 9 11 37. Weve had 190,000 murders in the same time. My point is to tell people not to be fearful. My point is lets put if in context. The push is is your context creating definitions and parallels that arent fair . I think the context is wrong because you have to look at different acts of terrorism as what they are. When you add lethality into the statistics that hes talking about, then islamic terrorism and Jihadist Terrorism is the leader. In fact based on the state departments Counter Intelligence shows that it occurs in afghanistan, pakistan and iraq. Muslims are the victims. There are these other acts but, yes, somebody lighting a trash can on fire because theyre an ego terrorist or some suvs is not the same as someone trying to take down an airliner. This is where i get stuck. Maybe you can help me with this. When the Westboro Baptist church does something odius at a fallen military mans funeral, no one asks real baptists or real christians to apologize for that. Everyone recognizes that they are a separate extreme strange group. Is it time to say, have a different word rather than muslim extremists or rather than islamic radicals a different word for this other cancerous group thats doing these things . I think i used it. I think jihadist is probably the most appropriate term. Somebody whos decided to engage in what is basically a death call. Does have a straightforward and cohesive world view. This is concurrent among jihadist groups all over the world. No jihadist separates it. No it is still muslim but its a strain of islam. Its not all of islam obviously. Does that work for you . Muslim jihad doesnt mean someone wagging a holy war. It means someone trying to get selfrealization it means two things to muslims. Using the word islamic terrorist all the tame paints a picture that islam is part of what theyre doing. Right. These people are muslims. I cannot deny theyre muslims. Nothing theyre doing is based in the faith. Theyre fabricating things saying were doing this in the name of islam. If someone is christian, i dont call them a christian terrorist unless theyre doing something based on the bible. So should we just say jihadist . Thats a nice move. Suggests that they are still muslim. They think and you can see this they are implementing islam. There are a whole lot of people apparently very confused about where theyre getting the stocking from if it has nothing to do with islam. Terrorist groups are engaging in the same acts against the same victims. We learned this week some of what they say theyre fighting for is not in the koran. Made up. Its like their own religion. Very effective. People think al qaeda was offended 3 1 2 years ago by cartoons and sat around and planned this on Charlie Hebdo youre kidding yourselves. This is the decision made for political agenda. Jihadists are a fringe group that have no support, they pop up. They are a fringe group. Theres no doubt. They are, but when you start to look at the iceberg of jihadism and go below that there is state support for them a tremendous amount of money that goes into the groups. Where does it from saudi arabia all over the world. This is a global threat and a global issue. They cant both be true. Both of these propositions cant be true. It cant be that these are all oneoffs loners who say they are part of a faith but theyre not practicing it and that you have a growing number organizational, state sponsored all in the name of islam. They have a doctrine of talk fear which is where muslims fear oremus limbs. They dont believe what the hard liners believe. Theyre no longer muslims. That allows them to attack them which is why you have more muslims killed in terror attacks than anywhere else. Isis they slaughtered sunni imams imams, nurses children. Theres a political agenda not a religious agenda. To me an islamic hold on. What boko haram did thats not politics. Thats a civil war. Theyre not putting a suicide vest on a 10yearold girl because of pom particulars . What are they doing it for . Im telling what you they believe. I dont care. You can make up anything. If they believe because you know what hes not just an expert not just a cia guy, its a lot of people you want to address feel this way in the United States. I know that. Which is the guys say theyre muslim they say theyre killing because of whats in the koran and then theyre going and killing people. Yes. Thats a problem and its a muslim problem. How do you address it . I agree with you 100 it is perception. That was the point of my article torks have a conversation about this. Give people statistics. Our biggest problem in america, 62 of americans dont know any muslims. There was a survey this summer. All you know about us is horrible images on tv. I will be their muslim friend. Im not going to move. I would rather answer their questions then let people on the right or have an agenda to demonize have a part of it. Not having any human connections gifts i a counter balance. Whats the answer . Making it clear muslim groups have come out and denounced this. Were not apologizing this. We have no connection. This he have nothing to do with our faith. I understand that. The point is if you youb play the threat of radical jihadism muslims, ego terrorists people who put a pipe bomb in front of the area youre not addressing the threat. I constantly hear about the need for a reformation. The moment it opens up dont be islam mow phobic. If we dont talk it doesnt change. The people suffering the most are muslims. This jihadist strain is a part of islam. A pond of view from experts like buck and obviously you qualify as an expert dean. Thank you. When youre enraged, they say there is a war in islam even though the numbers dont suggest it. You have 1. 6 billion muslims and nowhere near that in terms of who were dealing with with the terrorists. With the white house, what do we call them . If you ignore the notion of being muslim in connection with this terrorism, i think it feeds the phobia of muslims in general because it seems like youre avoiding the obvious. You increase distrust when you say you cant talk about an issue. Right. Or when you say the discussion of an issue is islamophobic or racist. Thats not a race. Its a belief system which must be open to criticism, interpretation and debate. I agree. We have to have an open conversation. Lets get to the point of it. There are some horrible muslims out there. I hate them. I wish they did not exist and id love to do what i can to help counter them. All i can do is through my writing and media pieces. Were doing it this morning. Having that conversation. Buck and dean thanks so much for being on with us. Very helpful. Thank you, fellas have a good weekend. Lets go to michaela. Oscar nominations announced today. Today an angry back lash. The reason, a lack of diversity among nominees. So, is the academy out of touch . I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Lash. The reason, a lack of diversity among nominees. So, is the academy out of touch . Lash. The reason, a lack of diversity among nominees. So, is the academy out of touch . Lash. The reason, a lack of diversity among nominees. So, is the academy out of touch . Lash. The reason, a lack of diversity among nominees. So, is the academy out of touch . And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. 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Its such a year for terrific diversity in film in the topics in the actors in the directors behind the scenes and the nominations reflect the exact opposite of that. Yeah. This tends to happen every year. Last year 12 years a slave made people think maybe theres a break through here. It won. One film doesnt break through, not seeing any films out there. This year of course all of the major nominees for acting are white and also gender diversity is something you have to talk about. Absolutely. Im talking about diversity across the board. All eight of the films are centered around men. Theres some female protagonistness there, but for the most part theyre about the experience of men. You have to wonder whats going on with hollywood. Box offices are down 5 . Perhaps a little diversity could help the fortunes. The question is not just about hollywood but the academy. Larry, heres a question about ava duvernay. What happened . Its like politics. You can look at the Golden Globes like being the iowa caucuses. The nominations are like the convention when the films come out. The space from iowa to the convention and politics and from the Golden Globes to the oscars is politics. Its a campaign. You have to have a ground game, you have to have a media game. You may have seen ava duvernay she was out there. Was she talking it up to people . This is all part of what goes on. The nominations are by categories. Im sure they were looking saying did we do enough to make this thing happen . This is not about necessarily always a good movie and meaningful topic, a wonderful, inspiring film its about getting voters to vote for your movie. Those voters this is an important thing to talk about, those voters are the members of the academy, the voting members, 94 white, 77 male. Does that over 55 over 60. Over 60. So in terms of having diversity of thought and ideas, could that be playing into it in your estimation . That could be part of it. The fact is in the best director category only four women have ever been nominated, only one woman has ever won. It was not a shock when ava duvernay wasnt nominated. The imitation game all about diversity. Theres a line that strikes me when they say, sometimes the people that no one manage anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. And thats a call for people alan touring who is gay, being part of the discussion and part of creating great things. Its not taking the advice of one of the greatest movies of the year. Im curious what you both think. Larry, what we heard about with selma was there was criticism about the historical inaccuracies. A hollywood film that is not true to history, this could have bitten the film in the butt. Weve seen this before. Why would it have played a part in this story and not others . We have seen it mentioned with other films that were nominated. If you noticed, i saw ava duvernay on jon stewart, he mentioned it. It was attached to it. Probably more attached to the film. You think it might have been an echo in the back. It became a selma comma which has been dogged by controversy, comma. Again, what happens in political campaigns . These type of things. This is all part of what goes on. Spike lee sounding off on it and ill paraphrase because he used color full language our spike lee did, saying to ava, hey, dont worry about it. You made a good film. Keep making good films. Thats all that matters. Now you have the voting. The nominations are over. Now 6,000 members will vote. Maybe this helps. Maybe people will see selma as being unfairly treated. When ben affleck was not nominated for argo maybe this will help selma. Paramount had some sort of delivery issue with the screeners. Could that have come into play . What do you know about that . I read a report saying that maybe the screeners werent distributed in a timely fashion as they could have been so people could watch it react to it vote for it. Ava duvernay she held a number of small get together so people could get to know her, the cast themes of the movie selma. Do you think she should have been nominated . Her movie selma on an objective basis had a 99 rating from rotten tomatoes. So certainly there was huge universal claim for this film thats why it becomes a shock she did not get nominated for best director. If you are a certain age, clearly the directors are, you know this. If you see it it is incredibly powerfully rendered. The fact that the screeners didnt get to people and even though she was doing media hurts. Dont belabor this political analogy. The ground game is part of it. I can give the flip side. Angelina was everywhere. Unbroken, there was a lot of buzz and it didnt get the love at the oscars. I think there was almost a papal rollout of this movie. I think that put a bad taste into peoples mouths. Oscarsowhite. So great to have you. We have so many discussions leading up to oscars. 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