that he s one of those guys that never retreats into the shadows. he s always out there. he can t help himself, like being at the beer pong game, he can t help himself. exactly. two people under arrest in belgium after a terror attack planned for new year s in brussels was thwarted. we re now learning the plan was inspired by isis. cnn s erin mclaughlin is in london with the breaking details. reporter: that s right. startling details out of brussels morning. the target emget attic si emblematic sites in brussels. they say this may have been isis inspired but not isis directed. belgian media saying one of the target was a police station near the grand place in brussels.
battle back isis. well, it s a light military footprint, in fact, relatively light, because air strikes alone are not going to really control this group and here, we had san bernardino which from all accounts is isis-inspired but not isis-directed. they really have to figure out how to first of all protect the homeland, do a better job of intelligence, do a better job of visa screening, they acknowledge that now, figure out what to do about these new end-to-end encrypted e-mails which even the companies themselves cannot open once they are encrypted, and as well as the complete failure of state department after state department, republican and democratic, to counteract terror propaganda and isis has been the most sophisticated of all of the groups we have had to counteract. al qaeda was a step up but now isis has clearly dominated social media in a way the state department counter propaganda
this is in the air now and people are worried about it and there s reason to be worried but i think people ought to also stress isis, for instance, like al qaeda before it, poses no existential threat to the united states. like the folks in san bernardino who become radicalized from afar. they re not directed by isis. they simply get it into their heads that they d like to do something to support them and maybe they exchange a few e-mails about it and then because it s the united states of america, they go out and buy a whole lot of guns and bomb material and can do some real damage. that s where the danger lies. it is not in an existential threat to the united states itself. there s a distinction of isis inspired and isis directed. we ll see if that comes up watching in the smaller box on your screen, donald trump s plane has landed in mesa, arizona.
an isis, bride, if you will. she was jihad in saudi arabia or pakistan, he was radicalized out in california and they met online or somebody told them to meet online and she came here with the intention of killing. this is more than just online dating, something more of a conspiracy behind this with respect to this being isis directed. we do know she went to a school in pakistan that has been reported to be for somewhat radicalized, if you will and that s something we re very interested in and tomorrow we look forward to hearing more about the computer forensics. tashfeen malik, the woman, the wife, she actually got this fiancee visa to come to the united states because her husband, a u.s. citizen born in chicago, syed farook, she was interviewed by u.s. officials in pakistan before she got the visa. what can you tell us about that? it s another security question. she was interviewed by i.c.e.
each other, encouraged each other in this attack. we look at this poll that is just out, paul. majority of americans believe that isis terrorists are inside the u.s., according to the new polling taken before the rampage in san bernardino. 81% of voters think isis has terrorists currently inside our borders. that perception increasing 10% higher since september of 2014. my question to you, paul, does this matter, whether isis sent terrorists here and they were able to sneak into the united states, or whether there are people in the u.s. who are inspired by isis, like this couple seemingly was? the distinction matters. it matters when you compare the death toll in the paris attacks, which was isis directed, to the death toll in california, which appears to be an isis-inspired. the paris attackers were trailed ki trained killers. they learned how to fire