citizenship. there s some sense eastern flank, nato flank against russia is a major irritant to russia but they are also very concerned about russia s behavior. the baltic states i ve been fabulously successful shedding their soviet past and becoming much wealthier democratic countries. they are members of nato, the eu. i m not sure it s fair to say large russian minorities in estonia and latvia are restive. maybe united states would like them to be restive but it s not clear they are. they are probably very glad to be living far wealthier than russia. your point is well taken. i agree with you on that. dan, gooded to you. ambassador fried served as coordinator for president obama and early days of the administration. thanks for having me. stay with us. we re going to dive into the health care drama, including new bill to stabilize showers market. we ll hear from chris van hollen when we come back.
that our community was the target. thank you. that s the mayor of san bernardino, california, carey davis. he will join us live on cnn in moments. i want to bring the experts back in now. the mayor speaking for his community but also for every community around the country saying stay alert and be cautious. that is gooded a vie for everyone. the news that came out about this is that the city is on alert. but this is profor ma to thank the people who were involved in this to help keep everyone safe and to tell the residents where to go to help. we were talking about your assessment of the situation, harry houck before we went to the mayor. we don t know what this is. we don t know. and the fact that what is really making me look like this might be a possible terrorist
reporter: candidates across the board talking tough but offering few details. most candidates benefit from drawing a big picture and saying, you know, the united states is going to be a great country again. reporter: all of the candidates watching closely to see what, if any, action president obama takes next. that could determine the next stage of this debate. harry, back to you. kristin welker, thanks. jonathon allen is joining us now. the co-author of state secrets an the rebirth of hillary clinton. gooded to see you. good evening. good to see you. let s start with the lay of the land. what impact are you seeing on the campaign trail from the attacks in paris? i think what we are seeing is candidates wanting to say a lot but none of them producing a strong strategy. general jacobs a few minutes ago on your program was saying there is no strategy right now, not a strategy like isis has for expanding its caliphate.
reporter: candidates across the board talking tough but offering few details. most candidates benefit from drawing a big picture and saying, you know, the united states is going to be a great country again. reporter: all of the candidates watching closely to see what, if any, action president obama takes next. that could determine the next stage of this debate. harry, back to you. kristin welker, thanks. jonathon allen is joining us now. the co-author of state secrets an the rebirth of hillary clinton. gooded to see you. good evening. good to see you. let s start with the lay of the land. what impact are you seeing on the campaign trail from the attacks in paris? i think what we are seeing is candidates wanting to say a lot but none of them producing a strong strategy. general jacobs a few minutes ago on your program was saying there is no strategy right now, not a strategy like isis has for expanding its caliphate.
tony shaffer, lt. colonel old friend joins us now with the implications for us. gooded to see you this morning. thanks for having me. how do you respond to this. two things. first off, figure out how the french failed to do their job to keep the people safe. i don t know if they didn t go far enough to detect and defeat the charlie hebdo network or this was a new network. any way you cut it, we need to figure out)> rapidly, tucker, why this failed. what were the on or on or obser. this was sophisticated. this was a rolling attack. this had to be rehearsed. we had suicide bombers bombers h vests. a bomb maker had to be present to build those. they had to rehearse. this this was a military style attack. military aged men involved were probably jihadis went back to europe. they should have been observable and they weren t. secondly, take that lesson and figure out how to