Putin and his hackers, both on the grid and off. Good afternoon, everyone, welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Well begin today with the world lead, of course, with just about three weeks until president Barack Obama Joins the long list of u. S. President s who could not broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians today his secretary of state john kerry gave a speech that seemed focused on rebuking israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for undermining any hopes for a twostate solution. This comes at a time when the relationship between the two countries may be at its lowest point since the eisenhower administration, and with a president elect waiting in the wings tweeting, telling netanyahu essentially, just a few more days, bebe, i am on my way. Kerry stated today that a two state solution is the only path to peace. Defending a u. N. Resolution to condemning settlements. Something the Prime Minister called a shameful ambush. Elise labott is live for us at the state dep
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Police are fanning out across europe in the hunt for berlins christmas attack. They say am us amri. They believe hes armed and potentially violent. His father told a Radio Network his son spent time in prison in italy. A 104,000 reward is being offered for information on amris where acts and the fbi is working alongside the German Authorities in this investigation. Brian todd has the details. Reporter a frantic man hunt and an urgent message across europe warning people to stay away from this man and to help find him. German police say 24yearold an us amri is now, quote, under urgent suspicion in the berlin attack. Police say amris identification was found inside the truck along with the original driver who was shot at close range. As the search for the alleged terrorist expands including raids by police where he lived, there is growing concern about his links to isis. Translator he had contact with radical islamist organizations, various Security Services assessed him as a person who
Market attack. Evan perez is joining us. Evan, theres new video of the truck attack and were learning that amri was wellknown to german intelligence. What else can you tell us about amri and the massive fight to find him . Thats right. Several months ago they provided information on the suspect to the United States and the United States added him to the nofly list. Were told that German Authorities have identified him as part of a group of jihadist supporters operating in central europe. This is a network helping to recruit fighters to join isis in syria and the intelligence agencies in europe and here in the United States have found that some of them were communicating with suspected isis members back in syria. The fbi and a u. S. Intelligence agencies are working to see what information they have to help with this manhunt. We saw in the attacks in belgian and france in the past year that the nsa and fbi were able to provide key assistance to help find some of these suspects. Working
Story. What do we know about the warning and where it came from . Reporter brand newly issued bulletin, no credible specific threats against any target in the u. S. That being said it is recommended that Law Enforcement officials remain on high alert because of this isis friendly, this pro isis website that has initially called on some of its supporters and isis sympathizers top launch attacks or carry out attacks at churches or houses of worship across the country. The reason this is being issued, to answer your second question is because they noticed on a website, on this pro isis web page we mentioned, it lays out a list of several of these churches and places of worship. So as a result they are being proactive, officials are. Then there is that lingering question this is not like anyone else weve seen. Typically theyre directed more toward Law Enforcement or military targets. These are the softer targets. The question is why. We heard this morning, a republican who sits on the Hous