transportation safety board managing director. paul, isis, they are repeatedly taking responsibility credit for this publicly they are doing so. they won t say why they did it, how. why are they being coy? they are being very coy in the statement on saturday also an audio tape today basically saying we re not going to tell you how we did it. you have to figure that out all by yourselves. that was a very baffling way to claim credit for what would be the most significant terrorest attack since 9/11. but there may have been a method behind this and reason and that may have been to protect an insider at the airport. reporting in the last few minutes, u.s. intelligence believe that perhaps an insider at the airport helped isis potentially bring down this airplane. richard, how secure, how regulated is this airport? i guess the bottom line question, could this really
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an airport worker smuggled that bomb onboard. we know that the isis they have some sort of base in sharm el sheikh. and it s not the first time they re attacking and killing innocent people. only yesterday isis terrorist with a car bomb went and commit suicide and they killed a few security people in sharm el sheikh. now, it depends if they have security at sharm el sheikh at the airport because i believe that isis did the work and the explosive blow aircraft and kill 224 people. now, i have heard also few minutes ago that the egyptian authorities promise that they will tighten security. instead of saying this kind of statement, after facts, after tragedy, horrible tragedy, that they will change the system.
plane. britain has reached a similar conclusion. and along with ireland has suspended all flights to and from sharm el sheikh, egypt, where the doomed russian flight originated. we re covering that much more this hour with our guests including senator angus king, member of the intelligence and armed services committees. also our correspondents and expert analysts they are standing by. we re following the breaking news. let s begin with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. barbara, you broke this story earlier. tell us why this is a game changer. well, wolf, we want to be very precise here. there is no firm absolute conclusion about what happened. but this could be a game changer. the u.s. intelligence community believes it is very possible that the militants were able to sneak a bomb past airport security. the u.s. intelligence community now scrutinizing airport security at sharm el sheikh airport. the latest u.s. intelligence suggests that the crash of the
board. isis repeatedly claimed responsible and they say the group has advance ability to commit mass murders. lindsey graham is a republican presidential candidate and is here. our correspondents and analysts are standing by to cover this breaking story. up first, let s go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. he broke the story today. what are you learning now, barbara from your u.s. intelligence sources? well, in the latest development, our own elyce labbit says someone at the airport in egypt may have been involved in this effort. what the u.s. is worried about now, and it is not absolute, wolf, but a very strong sense is that a bomb was placed on board this aircraft, either brought on in the luggage or placed aboard the aircraft in some other fashion that there was some failure of security. a u.s. official telling me a