Take a listen. [ gunfire ] neighbors reporting loud explosions before sustained gunfire. After three men who Authorities Say were part of a cell with ties to isis opened fire immediately after cops swooped in. A dozen search warrants apparently being executed today to prevent what belgian authorities called imminent terrorist attacks on a grand scale. Reports suggest isis may have ordered those attacks as retaliation for air strikes in iraq and syria. But despite those plans being broken up, some disturbing new images from the group as they spread fear across the middle east. One of those images showing isis militants throwing a man from a building for the supposed crime of being gay. In another two men convicted of Armed Robbery are crucified before being executed in a public square. And a woman convicted of adultery literally stoned to death. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge is live in washington. All right, catherine, what are we learning about this takedown today
What have you learned about the u. S. Linking the attack directly to north korea . Because as you know, the north korean government has flatly denied it was responsible and praised all the criticism of the film, but it doesnt it insists it had nothing to do with the hacking . Youre right. The north korean government has denied involvement but we know from sources in early december there was a growing confidence in the u. S. Government that north korea was responsible for the hack attack at sony and there were a few reasons why. Not only just the motivation because of the movie, but because of the m. O. It was similar to a cyber attack against south korean banks last year as one source said, the techniques, the tactics and procedures were out of the north korean playbook. The coding was written in korean. A growing sense in early december but cyber investigations take a long time. This is extraordinary that were at a point where the u. S. Government is, were being told by sources, about
Session moments ago. The white house dispatching the president s own chief of staff to capitol hill, an extraordinary move tonight to try to personally hammer out a compromise as the president and the Vice President worked the phones to try to get this thing back on track. But as of now the message back from his own party appears to be, youre not the boss of us. It is a stunning reversal of events. Remember, it was just one year ago that democrats across the board relentlessly slammed republicans over the 2013 shutdown calling them unhinged and referring to them as hostage takers with president obama leading the charge. The American People are not pawns in some political game. You dont get to demand some ransom in exchange for keeping the government running. You dont get to demand ransom in exchange for keeping the economy running. You dont get to demand ransom for doing your most basic job. So pass a budget and the Government Shutdown. Americans are tired of these knockdown dragout fi
Listen to the president last month. What sands out to me, that the American People sent a the American People sent a one they sent for several elections now. They expect the people that they elect to work as hard as they do. They expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment. Still, as president i have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So to everyone who voted, i want you to know that hear you. Eric well lets see what he says later on today. Were waiting of course for many questions on variety of issues. One topic sure to come up of course, the sony cyberattack. In fact the fbi blames the attack on north korea which caused sony to cancel the Christmas Day release of the movie the interview. The white house has acknowledged that publicly. Some republicans think it is time for the president to respond more forcefully to the rogue north korean regime. Wit
Bergdahl, a sergeant now under investigation by the army who is accused by his squad of deserting them. Just in the last couple of hours a top democratic lawmaker has now come forward to say not everyone in the administration signed off on this deal. While the outgoing secretary of defense, chuck hagel just admitted on camera tonight that the white house wanted detainees freed from gitmo faster than he was comfortable with. Not everyone at the white house has agreed with me. On what part of this . Probably on the pace of releases. Have you had pressure . Weve had a lot of conversations. With the white house . Yes. And congress. And the press. I dont think it was thoroughly vetted who the five guys were. I think the five guys turn out to be problematic i do know this. A number of key people in the administration were not consulted before the trade was made. Uhhuh. Earlier tonight i spoke with Pentagon Press secretary rear admiral john kirby about the controversy behind this deal. Great