not know where all of these americans are. the big worry, unspoken are there americans that have come back into this country that the u.s. doesn t know about. we want to talk more about that. bash remarks i appreciate the reporting. let s dig deep were our former bush homeland security adviser frank townsend. also former fbi counterterrorism official philip mudd and robert mcfadden who is currently with the soufan group. you re concerned with foreign fighters coming back to america. anderson, look, this is a concern that the u.s. intelligence community has been talking about for month news. let s remember, the director of national intelligence jim clapper testified before congress about his concern about upwards of more than 20,000 foreign fighters that they what they call could bleed out that is return after having gotten into the western europe and back into the united states. even then they talk about dozens if not hundreds that could enter the united states.
sochi and about russia s ability to handle it. one area of concern is lack of cooperation. one u.s. official told me there are clearly sensitivities in our relationship with moscow, but that the recent bombings underscore the threat and why, wolf, the two sides need to be working hand in hand to protect all the athletes there and clearly americans as well. this is really a sensitive and very serious issue. jim, thanks very much. let s dig a little deeper right now with cnn national security analyst, the former bush homeland security adviser fran towns end townsend. also joining us, law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. fran, how dangerous are these so-called black widows? well, wolf, we ve seen the chechnyan and dagistan extremists deploy them before, even as suicide bombers. so clearly the russians have intelligence that have led them
and bush homeland security adviser fran townsend. also former cia officer bob baer joins us. and john king, as well. listening to secretary kerry today, it certainly seems like the u.s. is determined to do something. oh, absolutely. let s remember, anderson, remember, there were reports in the spring that there was a small-scale use of chemical weapons and the assad regime in keeping with the method of operation tests and then nothing happened and so then we see a large-scale attack. and frankly, atrocity. i don t think there s any doubt when you hear the language secretary kerry uses that they re talking they re looking at one of the options as being one of the missile strikes off the destroyers in the med in order to try to take out the delivery systems that the systems used to deliver the chemical weapons. but that s really only a first
there s many people that you talk to who say that they re not sure who launched these chemical weapons attacks and when we got here, earlier, people were saying it must have been the rebels who did this. if anyone did this and seems that people are thinking about this differently. and of course, they re afraid of the u.s. getting involved and more involved in this war and somehow tipping the balance in this. it s a fear going on. the people have been living in this sort of civil war situation for a very long time but they also know that the u.s. could change things on the ground very quickly if it chose to do so. fred, stay safe. more now on what happens next with national security analyst and bush homeland security adviser fran townsend. also former cia officer bob baer joins us. and john king, as well. listening to secretary kerry today, it certainly seems like the u.s. is determined to do something. oh, absolutely.
did this. now it really seems that people are thinking about this differently. and, of course, they re afraid of the u.s. getting involved and more involved in this war and somehow tipping the balance in all of this. it s a fear that s going on, these people have been living in this sort of civil war situation for a long time, they also know that the u.s. could change things on the ground very quickly if they choose to do so. more now on what happens next, with national security analyst and former bush homeland security adviser, fran towsend. also, bob baer joins us, senior fellow at the brooking s institution. and john king as well. fran, listening to secretary kerry today, it seems like the u.s. is determined to do something? absolutely. let s remember anderson, there were reports in the spring that there had been a small scale use of chemical weapons, and the assad regime very much in keeping with their method of