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Plus it happens in this congress and the president wont sign it either. A big showdown brewing. Threaten to veto a jobs and infrastructure bill within minutes of the new Congress Taking the oath of office. The Keystone Pipeline bill passes in the house. Now its in the senate. But will president obama veto a project that promises jobs for americas heartland . And people a terrifying fall a 9yearold boy plummets 20 feet. Its all happening now. And we begin with a fox news alert on the fallout of the deadly terror attacks in france. We are awaiting the White House Press briefing where the administration could face some tough questions about its response to the attacks in paris. Welcome to happening now. Our second hour. Thaws of french officers now standing guard at jewish schools and sensitive sites as the Prime Minister warns the Terror Threat is, quote, still present. The country on high alert as the hunt continues for the remaining suspect in the deadly attacks and anymore possible accomplices. The search growing more complicated today with new video surfacing of a young woman passing through an airport in istanbul turkey. These developments fueling attacks in new york city fears and elsewhere and in the United States and an issue sure to come up in todays briefing and why the president did not attend the unity rally in particular us. We have fox team coverage. We start first with chief White House Correspondent ed henry live from the Briefing Room. Ed, the president did speak today. Where was he speaking and what did he have to say if anything about france . Reporter good to see you. He was at federal trade commission and did not talk about france because hes trying to stick very closely to the domestic message right now. Hes been doing this for days now going back to last week traveling around the country speaking occasionally about the situation in france and white house officials note he did give two statements last week expressing solidarity with the french people and using officials over to try to help with that investigation. But youre right. The administrations being pummeled for not sending the president or Vice President biden. Someone representing the white house to that rally. Eric holder we should note the attorney general was in paris but according to a statement from his office he had to get back and kind of cut it short to be back in washington on sunday afternoon and trying to figure out why he did not attend since he was in paris. The person that did attend was the u. S. Ambassador to france and pressed whether this was becoming a big problem for the white house. Listen. I dont think there is a feeling of that on the french governments side. Then why do you think all the questions are being generated about tone deafness . Do you think its just us in the media, making something of nothing . I wouldnt go that far. I wouldnt go that far she says. Secretary of state john kerrly said today he thinks the media is quibbling right now and down played the idea that this was a problem saying the relationship with france is not settled over one day or one moment. Nonetheless, secretary kerry hurryiedly announcing hes going to paris on thursday. Pointing out the worst terror attack in france in 50 years. Critics say that this isnt just a matter of tone. And just give us a broader context for it. Reporter sure. I mean, republicans are saying theres a lot more here, about the battle against islamic extremism and the president is not speaking out on that. Listen. Last time i checked we are at war. I wouldnt send my attorney general if i were president to deal with raddic islamic terrorists. This is a xwloebl war. We dont have a strategy. Reporter interesting because the white house this weekend also announced an upcoming summit on violent extremism. Attorney general holder who had done several sunday morning talk shows yesterday pressed on why the white house is not calling it islamic extremism and basically ducked that. Were watching and waiting closely. Thank you. The president has been talking about Digital Security and in this fox news alert the pentagon twitter account and Youtube Channel has been hacked. Apparently by people sympathetic to isis. Jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with an update. What happened . Reporter john, its the centcom twitter account, 31 minutes ago, it appears to have been taken over by isis sympathizers calling themselves the cyber calliphate with messages saying were watching you and threatening and publish publishing apparent details email addresses, phone numbers and addresses, home addresses of the top u. S. Generals in the u. S. Military, as well as various army commands. Some of one our producers tried to call some of the numbers and some outdated but also some powerpoint slides that theyre publishing that we have not been able to confirm whether theyre real planls taken from centcom and the pentagon systems. One has to do with korea. Not clear whether theyre real plans. But clearly, isis is having a bit of fun at centcoms expense. In fact, the official centcom twitter page right now says i love you isis. And talks about the siper caliphate. Theyre working through twitter to shut down the account. But we also just have word that the Centcom Youtube page has been hacked, also. Apparently by the same hackers and posting propaganda videos you should centcoms official youtube page. This is far more than a joke. Clearly, they have access to some files. The question is how deeply they have been able to penetrate and what kind of material have they received. Reporter very threatening messages to soldiers saying, we know everything about your wives, children your home information. It is a very threatening tone in these posts and it is not a joke, no. And not being taken as a joke. Jennifer, thank you. Keep us updated. So u. S. Intelligence officials are closely working with france to try to learn everything they can about the terrorists who killed the 17 people in paris as disturbing new threats are made against the United States. Our chief intelligence correspondent Katherine Herridge live on that story from washington. Katherine . Reporter thank you. Last 48 hours, three isis videos calling for attacks the last calling for opinion that rifs in canada, spain and the United States. Over the week, a different isis victim shows the suspect, hostages at the supermarket. Amedy coulibaby discussing the massacre and another calls on the followers to target intelligence officers, police and civilians. The head of the Homeland Security committee receiving regular classified briefings said attorney generals decision not to call it islamic terrorism is a denial of the facts. I think it denies reality. Theyre behind this. Aqap is isis and a dangerous offshoot of that. Reporter according to a Yemeni Government official close to the investigation the older brother, 34yearold said kouachi on the left has strong ties to al qaeda in yemen and highly possible he met one on one with the american cleric on the right. Said kouachi was in yemen between 2009 and 2011. He did attend the same school as the underwear bomber to study arabic and the official is for now steering us away from the reporting that the two were friends or roommates. Foxs ongoing reporting on the cleric has shown he used this school as a recruitment ground. Based on the evidence so far the yemeni official believes aqap provided training to the brothers and execution of the plot for a Standing Order for a strike in paris, john. Katherine this is one of those days when your beat covering intelligence sort of overlaps with Jennifer Griffins of the pentagon. She just brought us that story about the hack of the centcom Youtube Channel and twitter account. Tell us what youre hearing from your sources. Reporter we were first to report in the fall a member of the u. S. Air force was identified on fol loafers online and swarmed and through the connections on facebook also able to identify his son who was in plool and to target them online. It was this particular episode that led the military to tell its members that they should effectively scrub their profiles on social media of anything that indicated their military service so this im afraid is the next logical step in isiss effort to sew sow fear and destabilize what people see as central, these military websites. Thats a screen grab of the official centcom Youtube Channel and you can well, at top of the page apparently an isis fighter wearing the head and Face Covering of the isis fighters in black and white. Reporter heres the key thing to be watching here. The episode in the fall was considered so significant because it wasnt a random situation where isis was online and kind of waiting to see a member of the military post on a website. They specifically i was told, went to military sites on the web, looking for individuals in effect stalking them. They found this one air force father who had posted photos from an operation he did in iraq and then they reverse engineered it, they identified him and then through his linkages on facebook identified his middle school child and then they singled them both out for what amounted to a flash mob attack online so it was not random. It was very specific and very targeted. Its a new kind of warfare. Katherine, thank you. Youre welcome. Michael babnoni is a senior fellow at George Washington university. What do you think about this . Well, whats really become apparent now is that there is a whole bunch of relationships that were in formation for years and did question for Security Officials is how do you track that . How do you look at that . Other thing thats becoming very apparent is that this is a very media sophisticated messaging sophisticated enemy. And as long as theyre out there globally recruiting people globally messaging, theyre going to attract folks that we might not see coming. And thats really part of the challenge here. One things clear. This is indeed isis. If theres a connection to the terror attacks in paris. We could underscore the fact that these terrorists are undeterred by anything thats been done so far. How do you deter them so their behavior changes . I think we have to engage in a way that i dont think we have really gone down the path of going after their messaging. In other words, the United States and the world community, we cant accept this anymore. We have to go after their ideology. Because whats happening here theyre killing muslims. So if its all about the prophet, all about making revenge to an alleged attack, you know, in the media, then why dont they why dont we point out the sympathizers killing muslims. Doesnt make sense. The narrative doesnt work. What do you think at this point should be the focus here in the United States were awaiting a press briefing of john earnest and a question of the president this weekend in paris and a lot out there from syria to paris to now this hacking attack. Where has s the priority . What should be the sole prokus here . We have to really understand how much of a threat is currently active. In other words, whens the operations going on . Its a distributing network and its so difficult to pick up what cells are operative now waiting. You know . Sleeper cells are what posed the biggest challenge. You dont know when theyre going to strike. There was a Standing Order you go attack when youre ready and so hard to track because remember with the standard now, not about having a eventn event and responding and pros kutding it but preventing it and many of the behaviors that the individuals do is not illegal. How do you go after that . Certainly more to talk about on that. 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Apparently maps addresses, phone numbers of highranking military officials now suddenly online. This is very much developing. Well keep you posted as we hear more. As the obamacarolout continues, many state vs to figure out whether they pay to extend medicare funding. There are new duelling editorial editorials on the politics of obamacare. Juan williams wrotes republican candidates has to keep in mind they need voters in the general election who want to keep a system that now gives them more and Better Health insurance. For a sense of the politics of obamacare, run for president on a platform opposed to Social Security. Meanwhile, Scott Rasmussen says that defenders of obamacare has v things to consider. Re he writes those that receive insurance of the exchanges express gratitude in the voting booths. But thats not going the happen. Why . The irritation factor is more significant than most advocates of the law want to admit. Joining us now, Jackie Kucinich and yeah my winestein with us. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. Jackie, it would seem that republicans swept to you know, to take over the senate, for instance this large time around because of opposition to obamacare. Do you agree . Thats a part of it but i think what republicans will have to do is they will have to do something to replace obamacare if they want to repeal it because, again as it said in the Juan Williams editorial, very hard to take something away once someones presooef bring benefiting from it. Jamie, some argue that the benefits arent necessarily showing themselves that even the people getting subsidies get more complicated tax returns for instance, as a consequence. Right. If obamacare hasnt won over the faculty lounge at harvard, its hard to see how its won over america so far. Reported last week the faculty upset because the premiums increased and they dont get as much services and same for lots of people in america who have seen their insurance disrupted. Millions of people getting less services losing the plan entirely and getting a worse plan that costs more and people in america unhappy with obamacare and some Success Stories and people with the subsidies and even those people have to go through a labyrinth of forms to get the subsidies and that would be editorial you mentioned an irritant for sure. Following the breaking news we have a commercial break coming up. If you would be good enough to stay with us, well continue the discussion on the other side of this break. No problem. Thanks for the ride around norfolk and i just wanted to say geico is proud to have served the military for over 75 years roger that. Captains waiting to give you a tour of the wisconsin now. Couldve parked a little bit closer. Its gonna be dark by the time i get there. Geico. 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When he gets there, well take you there live and answering questions why his boss the president was not in paris over the weekend. 44 other World Leaders managed to make it for that march in solidarity with the french people who suffered the 17 deaths in those terror attacks of last week. Lets get back now to the discussion of the president s signature law. Obamacare. Jackie kucinich is joining us. Jamie winestein. Jackie, you know supposedly there are about 6 Million People now who are on subsidies getting Subsidized Health care they like it because its less expensive than it was before. But these are also people who are going to have to file very complicated tax forms and apparently maybe as many as 3 Million People are going to have to give money back to the federal government because it turns out that theyre not eligible for the kind of subsidies they have been granted to this point. Isnt that going to undo much of the popularity of this law that the president touts . Whenever the government makes anything harder it doesnt make people happy so yeah i would imagine the frustration with the tax forms is a problem and the real winner is h r block to figure it out for people. I think one of the problems is that if someone filled out the tax form in 2012 then made more money then they end up owing the government money if they got the subsidy. On the flip side, the they didnt make as much as they thought they would theyll get more of a refund and youre right. I mean the tax funds are extremely complicated and new and people need a lot of help. Jamie, you know Juan Williams is talking about how, you know people love this and eventually the law is just going to be considered like Social Security or medicaid. People are going to love it. Right now according to the real clear politics average, 39. 2 of americans approve of the thing. 51. 5 are in opposition. Do you see this thing getting more popular over time . Not right now, for sure. People were promised, the way it was sold see the insurance premiums go down, get more benefit. They would not lose their plan. But that didnt happen. Millions and millions of people were affected negatively by the law and understandable why the law is unpopular. Just to the point that jackie made, h r block wont benefit the 6 Million People of subsidies dealing with this law because those people presumably cant afford tax lawyers that people in congress can or tax preparers and dealing with this labyrinth of tax paper work on their own because theyre on the economic lower end of the scale and arent able to afford those lawyers that a lot of people are and wrote this bill are and will have to try to figure out this labyrinth of irs rules on their own. Yeah. Apparently, jackie you are going to if youre getting a subsidy, you have to go month by month through your earnings and tell the irs, you know you qualified for a tax subsidy and obamacare subsidy in that particular month and these are the people who generally have been using the least complicated, you know, the sort of onepage 1040ez tax forms. True. And again, youre right. I mean once if the government is making this harder for people to do their taxes, already a frustrating experience, theyre not going to like that. But, you know, do that or do you pay the fine because you dont have Health Insurance . Its a determination that theyre going to have to make. Well see whether this thing survives the new congress and especially the supreme court. Big challenge ahead for that. Jackie kucinich, jamie weinstein, thank you both. Thank you. We are awaiting the White House Press secretary whos about to step to the podium or so we believe. The White House Press briefing supposed to begin around 1 00 eastern time and coming up on half an hour past that and a lot happened in the last half an hour. The world essentially learned of a hacking at the centcom twitter and Youtube Channels. Thats one story. Of course, you have the story thats still developing and ongoing in paris today. World leaders uniting to show a solidarity against terrorists and a big question about where the president was. Live for that press briefing as soon as it starts. [cheering] everything okay . Were here because youre about fox news alert. Press secretary now speaking. Lets go there. I expect am l opportunity to talk about that over the course of this briefing today. However, before we do, lets note Something Else important that happened. House republicans put forward department of Homeland Security funding legislation through the end of fiscal year 2015. Unfortunately, republicans have also unveiled plans to muck around with that legislation. This is legislation that funds their efforts to protect the ports and borders, provides aviation security, boll steriles the Cyber Security, coordinates with state and local authorities to improve the counterterrorism resilience in communities across the country and enforces the immigration laws. Never a good time for republicans to do Something Like this but right now seems like a particularly bad time for them to do so. Republicans have said theyre doing this because they have a political or ideological objection to the president s executive action on immigration. Let me repeat what i have said before. The president s plan brings badly needed accountability to the system requiring undocumented imgrants who have been in this country for more than five years to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, submit to a background check and pay taxes. The republican plan would undo all of that and send the country back in the direction of doing nothing which is something no less than marco rubio said is amnesty. So, i guess that means theres probably a lot of reasons to think what republicans are planning on the dhs funding sbil a bad idea. So, with that jim, do you want to get us started with questions today . Thanks. To follow up on that. So the president would veto this legislation that the house has assemble assembled . We have made clear dating back to last fall the president would oppose any legislative effort to undermine the executive actions he took on the immigration system so yes. Can you tell us anything about this hacking of centcom, how disruptive is it . Do you have any information on it . Jim i dont have a lot of information on this. It just occurred, you know within the last hour or so. But i can tell you its something were obviously looking into and something we take seriously. However, i just you know, a note of caution to folks as theyre covering this story. Pretty significant difference between what is a large data breach and the hacking of a twitter account. So were still examining and investigating the extent of this incident. But i dont have any information beyond that for you. On the topic du jour why did neither president obama or Vice President biden or eric holder attend the paris very large well, jim can tell you what was on the Television Screens of people across this country and i think even across the globe was a remarkable display of unity by the french people in the face of these terrible terror attacks. And the way that that country has come together i do think struck a cord and inspired people all across the world and throughout this country. It was a remarkable display. There were also a number of other World Leaders who were there to participate and show their support, as well. And some have asked whether or not the United States should have sent someone with a higher profile than the ambassador to france. And i think its fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there. That said there is no doubt that the American People and this administration stand four square behind our allies in france as they face down this threat and that was evident throughout last week when you saw that the president s top Counter Terrorism advisory here at the white house in touch with the counter part minutes after the report first i merged. You say later in the day that the president of the United States telephoned president hollande to not just express his condolences to the people of france, but also to pledge any needed cooperation and assistance to conduct the investigation and to bring to justice those responsible for those terror attacks. I can tell you that that kind of coordination that is the backbone of the strong relationship between the United States and france continues. It continued throughout the weekend and it continues today. In fact, i can tell you that the french ambassador to the United States will be here at the white house later today to meet with lisa monaco who is as i mentioned the president s top Counter Terrorism adviser. How much high ear profile do you think should have does the president think should have been there . Eric holder was in the city. Did Television Talk show shows that morning. Should he have been the person representing the u. S. Or at what level would the president have been satisfied with the presence . Well, i can tell you, jim had the circumstances been a little bit different i think the president would have liked the opportunity to be there. J. [ inaudible ] this is a march that the planning for which only began on friday night. And 36 hours later it had begun. The whats also clear is that the security requirements around president ial level visit or a Vice President ial level visit are onerous and significant and in a situation like this, they typically have a pretty Significant Impact on the other citizens who are trying to participate in a large public event like this. We talk about this a lot when it comes to you know, the president attending a basketball game but the fact of the matter is, you know, there were not just thousands of people at the event. There were millions. It wasnt just an arena that needed to be secured. But a large outdoor area that poses significant security challenges. Im confident that the professionals at secret service could overcome the challenges but significantly having impacted the ability of common citizens to participate in this march. After all, what i think was so impressive about this display is that it demonstrated the unity of the french people. And that is something that we are always mindful of in situations like this. Of interfering with those who are trying to attend an event, particularly whether the purpose of the event is to demonstrate the unity of spirit and purpose of the people who are coming together. This is consideration of perhaps having had a more prominent presence there, is that something thats been considered at the white house today or something you considered doing on friday when you first knew that it was going to happen . Well, jim, im not going to sort of unpack all of the planning and skugs that is went into this but i think you know, suffice it to say there should not be and there is not any doubt in the minds of the people in france or people around the world and certainly not among our enemies about how committed to strong relationship that the United States is with france and committed to the same kinds of values that they are. I think in some ways most importantly the people who understand this best of all are the french people themselves. And i did note that the french ambassador was on television earlier today in which he described the french people as overwhelmed by the expression of solidarity and grief from all corners of the American People including from the highest levels of the administration. Okay . Steve . Follow up a little bit, did you consider having the president go or was it something just developing too late to actually fully gather snogt. As i mentioned to jim, im not going to be in a position to sort of unpack the scheduling planning discussions that we have here. But what i can tell you is you know, that there are some who have suggested that the u. S. Presence at the march should have been represented by somebody with a higher profile than the ambassador to france. And, you know, i guess what im saying is that we here at the white house agree that somebody with a higher profile should have also included. Ask you to come . Steve, im not aware of all of the conversations that may have occurred between french officials and american officials here. Theres been plenty of criticism about this. Is this criticism fair . From whom . Wide variety of nobody that comes to mind . Well actually can give you go ahead, steve. Its your turn. Ted cruz. Ted cruz. Jay cafferty had criticism. I saw that, too. [ inaudible ] i mean, there are other republicans, too. So, steve, youre asking . Is this criticism fair . It is certainly a free country and people have the opportunity to subject their elected officials to criticism and make it clear when they disagree with a decision or an action thats been taken by the administration and i certainly wouldnt quibble with their right to do so and to the extent there are those out there saying that the administration should have sent someone with a higher profile to participate in the march, i guess what im saying is that we agree that we should have sent someone with a higher profile. Again, in addition to the ambassador to france. Let me just ask last thing. President hollande called the paris attacks an act of war. How does this change your strategy toward going after Islamic State . Are the french going to be stronger partners or how do you interpret . This . Theres an important leap made in the construct of the question there which is theres still an investigation on going to determine exactly what the links were between these individuals who are responsible for these terror attacks in france and their communications and support from extremists in other locations around the globe. Theres some public referring that indicates that these individuals may haved that links to or even traveled to yemen. I know that there is a video thats emerged today that were still reviewing here in which one of the terrorists indicate some sympathy and support from isil. So you know were reviewing all of this and trying to assist the french as they take the lead on the investigation as they should. Support they had and what links that has to other extremist groups around the world. Okay. Laura . Thank you. How did the president follow the demonstration yesterday . What was the personal feeling when he was looking at all of the americans kind of airing the demonstrations for hours . Well, laura, i dont know how much of the march the president watched on television but i can tell you that, you know, the comments that i have reiterated to today about the rather impressive display of unity and solidarity from the french people is something that the president made note of as well. And, you know, these are messages that were most importantly sent by citizens of france and echoed by people across the globe and many ways that people could demonstrate the expressions of support, an oped to a tweet to a speech at the Golden Globe Awards last night and i think thats indicative of the kind of solidarity that the American People feel with our allies in france, not just because of the terrible tragedy they have endured, but also because of the kind of values they fight for. The same values we hold dear in this country and i think thats why the bond between the United States and france is so strong today. When the demonstration began at 1 00 in the afternoon in paris, the white house sent a message at 7 00 in the morning here by email. They were saying that theres a summit to fight violent extreme extremism extremism. What do you expect from this summit . Well, let me say a couple of things about this. This effort is something that weve talked about quite a bit over the years. This has long been a focal point of our planning when it comes to our counterterrorism strategy. The other thing that i would anticipate that we would expect to discuss in the context of this summit is to invite leaders from the private sector and Technology Community to discuss how extremists are using social media platforms to try to inspire acts of violence. And to inspire extremism, expressions of extremism by other people. And we want to talk about strategies that we can employ for pluralism and resilience in communities across the country. One of the other things we expect to talk about in the summit like this would be to highlight the experience of some pilot programs that have been operating in cities like boston, los angeles and the minneapolis st. Paul area where officials have really employed some pioneering techniques to try to work very closely in their communities to again root out efforts to inspire and recruit extremists or to propagate extreme ideology in a way thats not good for the country or the communities where that may be occurring so there are some very interesting innovative techniques employed and we want to share them with other local officials who would participate in the summit. Will you speak about the battle against islamic extremism . All forms of violent extremism would be discussed in the context of this summit, but obviously, you know, the threat we see from, you know, violent extremism in which individuals invoke the name of islam, otherwise peaceful religion, in you know, as they carry out the attack would be obviously a priority in the discussion here. Okay . Ed . Why wouldnt you use the phrase right there that we are going to talk on islamic extremism . You said all forms of violent extremism. She asked me about the summit and all forms of violent extreme extremism discussed. Obviously, the most potent antibiotic certainand certainly the most graphic display is motivated by the individuals to seek to invoke the name of islam to carry out attacks and we have got a strategy that we have been discussing for sometime to do that. So most potent form, why isnt it the summit on countering islamic extremism . Because violent extremism is something to be focused on and not just its not just islamic violent extremism to counter. There are other paris australia canada. Isnt the threat through them, islamic extreme snichl. The examples you cite are individuals who have cited islam to carry out acts of violence. Theres no arguing that. You said several times we should have sent someone higher than the ambassador. With a higher profile than the ambassador, thiss correct. Question, why didnt you . Well ed i sort of tried to describe to you exactly the situation here. That were talking about a march that came together with essentially 36 hours notice. And a march that occurred outdoors with an obviously very large number of people who participated. We are mindful any time the president goes to a public place or the Vice President for that matter that weo or at least we want to try to mitigate the impact that the security precautions would have on those participating in this public event. And theres no doubt that had the president or Vice President on this very short time frame gone to participate in this event that took place jute doors with more than a Million People in attendance that it would have significantly impacted the ability of those who are attending the march to participate in the way they did yesterday. The president s safety is of utmost. Not an issue at all. Of course security is important and dont want to detract from the event. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it there. Hes a huge target, obviously. Ill let them doses of leaders. Not america. But very important. Im not ed you should talk to them about the security precautions. Look. You have been to enough events of a president attending a conference or summit with World Leaders and you have seen firsthand that the security precaution that is are place for the president of the United States is true of previous president s, too, are sometimes more onerous than the precaution that is are put in place for other World Leaders. Mandela funeral the American Security might be more. But it comes up in short notice. Mandela mandela dies and made it. How did that come together . The difference with president mandela is there was discussions ongoing for frankly a number of years about the ceremony that would take place in the event of his death and theres a much clearer thats right but theres a much clearer plan in place to be followed for executing that event on a short time frame. There obviously was nothing in place because i dont think anybody contemplated the attack we saw in paris. You said the president personally whouf liked to have gone. What was he doing on snund. I havent spoken to the president about what he did yesterday. You prepared for this. Youve said many times, the most transparent administration. What was he doing . Did not prepare for that question based on what the president was doing yesterday. Okay. Attorney general eric holder was in paris and put out a statement, his office saying he had very important meetings. No would counter the meetings were very important and one would assume the french officials that attended the meetings probably went to the rally some of them and the Attorney Generals Office says that he had to get back to washington on sunday afternoon. That was one of the reasons he couldnt make the rally. Why couldnt the attorney general he was in the city. No issue of security already in place. How could he not attend . Ed, im not aware of the details of the attorney generals schedule for yesterday. But if you are asking whether or not somebody like the attorney general should have attended or should have been asked by the white house to attend, would im telling you is, yes, we believe someone with a higher profile should have been asked to what about the rally in d. C. A march from the museum to the French Embassy. The president did go to the French Embassy last week, obviously. Signed a con sol ens book and i understand the president probably not going to go marching through the streets of d. C. But the white house chief of staff, the Vice President , cabinet secretary how come you didnt have somebody in d. C. At a rally . I know there were a number of Administration Official that is did participate in that rally. In that march. I think a lot of them participated, would have done so if not members of the administration. But, you know, i can tell you, ed, for all of the talk there is no doubt and there should be no doubt about this commitment of the administration and the administration of the American People to Standing Shoulder to shoulder with allies in france dealing with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and continuing the fight for the value that is we hold so dear on both sides of the atlantic. Okay . Justin . I want to talk about i have a question on the antiextremism summit. It was originally scheduled for october, supposed to be in october and then it was delayed a couple of times. Will you talk about why that was delayed . Why it didnt happen back in october . Well, there have been a number of discussions about how exactly about how this is going to come together and trying to schedule among state and local leaders, leaders in the private sector, Community Leaders from other places across the country is difficult. But i guess i can say what i would say is this is something weve been focused on for quite some time. This notion of countering violent extremism has been a focal point of our counterterrorism plans. It was discussed, the need to counter efforts to recruit people in the name of violent extremism and the need to work closely with local Law Enforcement and with Community Leaders to try to counter that message. So it was a scheduling incidental because you couldnt corral everybody or i guess what i would say is certainly the the tragic events that we saw in paris last week are a reminder of how important it is for us to be vigilant about this specific issue. This summit will be an important opportunity for us to talk about some of the strategies that we have in place, to mitigate the messages that are emanating in social media to try to recruit people in the name of violent extremism. And we look forward to the opportunity to hearing from local officials and leaders of communities all across the country about how theyve worked together in a way to mitigate these messages and to counter them. It should be an opportunity to share best practices. The president said today hes going to announce legislation to encourage collaboration between companies and the government on Cyber Security practices. Sounded a lot like the legislation thats been languishing on capitol hill for a couple of years you guys voiced concerns about that before. Has that changed or are we going to hear a different version of that legislation tomorrow . Well save tomorrows news for tomorrow. But you have heard me say on a number of occasion that is weve been pretty disappointed that congress has not fulfilled their responsibility that they have to deal with this critically important issue. And thats why you heard the president talk a little bit today about some legislative proposals that hes going to send up in the name of strengthening Consumer Protections and making sure that consumers and students get the kind of protection and assurances that they deserve when it comes to their privacy. We would hope that that would not be something that would get bogged down in partisan debates. This is something we should all be able to agree upon. Well see. The same description could apply to the Cyber Security legislation the president looks forward to talking about tomorrow. But well have more on that for you. Senator thune issued a statement saying the president had gone absent on the Cyber Security measures. I asked you a few weeks ago if you were bringing people in for briefings or pushing this type of thing. One of the proposals is a retask of this 2011 proposal now its 30 days instead of 60 days to trigger on data breach why is it different . What will you do differently this time to encourage it to move on the hill . Well, i think certainly in the aftermath of some of the more recent Cyber Attacks that weve seen that have been carried out against a number of private Companies Including most recently sony, hopefully that got the attention of people on capitol hill, that they need to fulfill their responsibilities to make progress on this issue. The proposal that we have sent up or will send up is one that does have the strong support of consumer groups because they recognize how important it is for companies to fulfill their obligations to communicate clearly with their consumers and customers to make sure those customers can take appropriate steps to protect their privacy and protect against identity theft. At the same time, this is also welcome news to industry because this clarity associated with one specific National Standard would make clear to them what sort of obligations they need to fulfill to their customers. Right now, theres a little bit of a hodgepodge of two headlines on two big stories from josh earnest, press secretary for the white house, saying on the hacking incident of the centcom twitter account and Youtube Channel that theres a big difference between a major data breach and a hacking of a twitter account saying he needs to get more information on that as it is a developing story really within the last hour. And also the white house admitting that yes, someone of a higher profile should have been included in the rally march in paris on sunday. Being very unspecific about who that higherprofile person should have been. But, yes, someone more high profile should have been present. Theres the video of the march. Much more on these two developing stories, the hacking of the centcom twitter and youtube account as well as the challenges at the white house over where they were on sunday. Well be right back. Major ok fitness class heres our new trainer ensure active heart health. 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Centcom account appears to have been hacked as president obama ironically was speaking at a Cyber Security event. The hackers posting images of what appear to be internal documents, including the names and addresses of top military officers. Jennifer griffin has more from the pentagon. The pentagon seems to be downplaying this saying it was a major breach of