he is focousing on issues in the world and he focuses on those and his not being briefed is something they acknowledge he should have been briefed on and taken steping to correct that and if it happens he will affronted and take down it. bret: one year after the christmas day bomber blow up. that was a heroic and aggressive defense of what you cannot defend. the dni ought to know about stuff and he s so occupied with korea and with start treaty that he didn t notice there was an arrest in london of a dozen jihadist. bret: we were nonstop and had reports from london. assume his information is not from television and he ought to get it from cia et
since the 9/11 attacks have made it much harder for al-qaeda and other groups to carry out large scale attacks. u.s. officials say they re also working around the clock to make sure that smaller scale terror activity is tracked as well megyn. megyn: mike, did you take french? do you know what al coron means? not exactly. megyn: i looked tup and it means up to date! nice. oh good! we learned something. megyn: learn something new every day! thank you buddy, merry christmas. a powerful scene in detroit today where they held a funeral for the border agent, during a gun battle near the border of arizona. homeland security secretary janet napolitano saying brian terry put service before himself, he was fatally shot while tracking an organized gang, trying to keep our borders safe last week. terry served in the marines, he was a police officer, before joining the border in
in the united kingdom because, frankly, they didn t believe it had a direct connection to a threat to the homeland, and so no immediate action by james clapper, the dni, was required. his aides say clapper should have been briefed but they do say the intelligence community was fully aware and tracking the situation. after today s briefing senior officials say they want to talk about steps being taken to ensure security this christmas season and lessons learned since the attempted christmas day attack on a commercial flight last year and fort hood massacre. in terms of whether this should scare people or make them feel better, here s the president s counterterrorism adviser: i think what the statement is intended to do is to reassure americans that their fellow americans who are working homeland security, law enforcement, intelligence communities, are working around the clock to protect their fellow citizens. we will not rest because we know that al-qaeda and other organizations are s
was intelligence gathered in the field that wasn t fully share would the appropriate people before the plot moved to execution. are you confident now that that situation won t happen again? i m absolutely confident that the deficiencies that were identified in the system as a result of the after-action review of the christmas day bomber had been addressed. and some of the reasons why certain information was not shared, certain information didn t make it through the system, we have taken steps to ensure that that type of problem does not happen again. so, one of the things that president obama has insisted that we do on each of these incidents is to take a look back and to see where the system worked well, where it fell down, what changes we could make either in information technology or in business processes and i m confident that those deficiencies we identified as a result of previous reviews are being addressed and that we re in a much better position today than we were last year
as media friendly and the media is friendly on the administration. now with the programs and deals that did not get done, do we expect, maybe, some tougher questioning from the media? sure. there will be tough questioning. one of the big stories today that we have been covering on form and other networks, as well, the national intelligence director not knowing about the 12 arrests in london and asked in an interview and he did not know about it. that is a bad p.r. event for this administration. and the president will likely be asked about that as we head into the holidays where there are memories of christmas day bomber a year ago. thank you very much. and of course we will be all over this tonight at 6:00 p.m., tonight, with the guest and all star panel so watch that for full analysis and reaction to what the president has to say in the news conference which we expect in just over ten minutes.