there will be more names, more pictures, put out and how would that help or hinder efforts to find him at this point? i think it s very improbable that he acted alone in this. there are probably many others who knew that he we know for a fact that there were others. the once who gave him the choice, go to syria or blow something up here. they re probably now looking for people within his immediate circle rounding them up trying to interrogate them including family members, relatives, anybody who might have been part of or privy to his radicalization over the years. but yeah, this never looks like a lone wolf attack and i think the germans realize they had a very significant pro-isis network but possibly an isis connected network inside their own soil. and, as i mentioned earlier, they don t know the numbers of this network. appreciate it. thank you both. former trump campaign manager kellyanne conway landing a top job in the white house as counselor to the president. this morni
element of surprise before last night s debates and does he have a legitimate point at all? he has a legitimate point at large but not in this particular case. that s one of the principles of war. you don t want to go somewhere and telegraph you re going because you ll be in big trouble, especially if you re attacking and he s defending except in a built-up area like mosul. if you can possibly recall what happened in stalingrad, for example, where the advantages to the defense, you get chewed up if you try to go in. our objective is to telegraph it as long as we possibly can. time to get out so they will leave, go to syria, and they won t be neighbor left. no isis left there. it s easier to take them and easier to hold. i don t think the allies want to fight isis in the middle of
republican congressman mike mccall, the chairman of the house homeland security committee. mr. chairman, thank you as always for joining me. i do know that you received a classified briefing last night, and you cannot obviously give us the details but on the issue of the mastermind, how confident are you at this point that this man, abdelhamid abaaoud, is the mastermind behind the paris attacks? i feel very confident. he was flagged back last january. a plot was disrupted. he escaped arrest. we believe he did go to syria. this is not like what we seen, this radicalization over the internet of a one-two man operation, a guy with a knife. in is a highly sophisticated external operation driven out of headquarters, raqqah, syria, that involved eight individuals. but also a conspiracy that could be as wide as 20 individuals.
weapons. we can t believe a rocket launcher, heavy machine guns, ammunition. plus a lot of drugs. they re seeing the nexus between radicalization and petty criminals. at least half of the attackers on friday 13th in paris had been to syria. this is the tender of intelligence fears right now. the blow back, go to syria, come back with your own passport, slip in undetected, join up with syrian operatives as we know one of them has come from syria, infiltrating the refugees. we reported that yesterday. this is this terrible new scare whereby it s not 9/11 but it is hit and run on a mass casualty, separate casualty event to try to stretch police, stretch authorities and hit civilians. this is, you know, now what isis is doing abroad. this extension of a state of emergency is supposed to be 12
playing germany. this is clearly something they thought out beforehand. it wasn t just a random target of opportunity. the sites they chose all sort of go towards a general war on all of french society declared by the islamic state. they said they picked them out precisely. obviously they didn t run into much resistance at any of these sites. and i think that the surveillance aspect of this is pretty clear. and going backwards, though, of what may have been missed. what french authorities may not have picked up on there is a fire hose of threat reporting. because of as bob mentioned the pipeline of those who go to syria and come back out. and they return to their home countries. and in some cases they re known, and in some cases the authorities have no idea. they ll get a much clearer sense of how long it took to put this together. but quite honestly, it s difficult to deter 100% of plots like this when you have thousands of people who are