one of the most chilling aspects of this situation is that possible connection to the migrant trail. i was just in greece yesterday. most of them have no documentation. the greek officials are trying to take them in, offer them humanitarian assistance, but, frankly, people have no idea who they are. so if someone left to join isis in syria or iraq, that would be a good way for them to come back under the radar and reintegrate themselves into society even before anyone has a chance to find out. so, yes, it is an intelligence failure, but it could be a situation where there s so much intelligence and that the traditional means are falling behind. richard engel in paris on the ground for us. appreciate your reporting and as always, sir, stay safe. just before we went on air, i spoke to the french justice minister. she s the equivalent of the u.s.
terrorism, needs to be called out. you can say what you want, but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry, it would have been a much, much different situation. if we take in thousands of people from that area, it would be almost malpractice for the global jihadist not to infiltrate them with their people. i am angry that just yesterday morning our president against all evidence declared isis contained and took a victory lap. isis is not a jv team, mr. president. they are not contained. they are at our shores and they measure their victory in body count. this is a clash of civilizations and either they way or we win. coming up, one candidate you didn t see. governor jeb bush, he ll join me after the break.
we have to make clear that they don t stand a chance against us and right now we are basically playing even and that helps the movement beyond syria and iraq see that this is an attractive army to fight for in paris you said playing even, you mean that containment line that the president used. absolutely. we are not overwhelming them with force. andrea? congressman mccall, ben rhodes said we are arming foreign fighters. he s talking i guess about the peshmerga, but the failure has been the failure to stand up the syrian resistance against assad. where do you stand on that? what should the administration do now that paris has happened? doesn t this change the whole equation? i think paris changes everything. it should galvanize it s entire world behind our efforts to defeat and destroy isis, not just to contain them. that s been the policy of this administration has been containment only when the president said that isis has been contained, i would hate to see what isis look
passports, a syrian passport did pass through greece. this is a syrian passport that was found by one of the attackers. a greek official told us that the syrian passport went through greece and that syrian passport was then later registered in serbia as part of the refugee trail. there have also been people questioned and detained in germany. family members of attackers arrested here in france. so this is an investigation that is widening. people here are not do not believe this is a situation where there were a lone group of seven or eight attackers, that they had support and they had support in many countries. let s talk about the under estimating of isis as a potential global terror network. for years for the first part of this war against isis that was declared by the western wold, the assumption was isis did not have these kind of ambitions similar to al qaeda. i understand you say actually that is not the case. they ve always had this ambition.
revenge for russia s air strikes in syria. thursday, dozens of killed between who suicide bombers struck beirut in the deadliest attack in that city since the end of lebanon s civil war. again, isis claimed responsibility for the attack. and then, of course, there was friday. attackers wearing suicide vests and carrying out coordinated attacks with assault rifles slaughter scores of people and bringing terror to the heart of europe. we re covering this story and its security and political implications here and at home. we ll start with richard engel on the ground in paris. richard, let s start with the investigation itself. the french continue to say this is isis. the united states stance on this is simply we don t have information to contradict this. what more do we know? reporter: well, the investigation is continuing, and it is expanding internationally. there have been arrests in belgium, a french minister just told me there s a connection to greece, that one of the syrian