the iranians who may not agree with whatever the united states and russia can agree to, and so i think that s another problem. but it seems to me that hollande is also very much interested in working with the russians, certainly operationally, striking isis together in some way, in some coordinated fashion, and so he ll probably rise that at the minimum with president obama, but i think president obama from everything that i ve heard him say publicly, he s still very much sticking to his policy position, which is that assad has to go. evelyn farkas, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia, thank you for taking the time. thanks, chris. brand new this morning, we are hearing from the brother of the paris attacker who is on the run. salah abdeslam. he s given his first on camera interview to a belgian broadcaster. mohammad abdeslam doesn t think his brothers were radicalized. he saw them a few days before
and when you re ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any airline, then use your miles to cover the cost. now you re getting somewhere. what s in your wallet? the manhunt for paris attacker salah abdeslam continues today in belgium. authorities believe he is in the brussels area, that city still under a maximum security threat level. nbc s bill neely has the latest from brussels for us, bill, good morning. reporter: good morning, chris. isis struck paris directly, but the mere possibility of another attack here has paralyzed this city. american tourists and americans living here have been warned to stay indoors for a second day. this city is in virtual lockdown. armed troops on the streets, tension in the air. armored vehicles and a thousand
obviously in the amount of money that they are taking in, and that they have, but it s not overall going to have a, that big a strategic effect, because the kind of operations isis conducts doesn t actually require that much money. it will, hour, change the psychology of the whole situation, if they believe that their ability to raise money, keep money, make money, that their bases are going to be under attack, it s not going to change things over the long-term strategically, but it will degrade their capability to recruit more people and that s the lifeblood of the operation. and tell us a little bit about what you know, colonel, about the cooperation that s going on, much has been made about new intelligence with the u.s., president putin instructed to work with the french in terms of air strikes. what do you know about how the
it s all turned normally busy brussels into a fortified ghost town. it was a saturday night like no other. it was very sad to see this city like that. it s not brussels, not the way we are. reporter: but brussels is a hotbed of islamic extremism. this suburb one of many from where hundreds have left to fight for isis in syria. the raising of the city s christmas tree was a moment of hope in a tense weekend. they are clearly very concerned here about a repeat of paris, warning of several men, possibly with arms, and explosives, but it s that one man, salah abdeslam who is are their main concern. he may be running not just from the police or isis if he was meant to be one of their paris suicide bombers. chris? nbc s bill neely, thank you so much to are that report from brussels. now let s turn to another
at the end of the day we re all more efficient if we share intelligence information, so we can target isis properly. back to you, chris. and how much of that key intelligence is coming from the ground, how much electronically, how much from surveillance, what is your sense of that, jack? that s a very interesting question, as you know. good intelligence can come from all three of those sources and up til now the united states has been providing the bulk of the overhead information, satellite imagery, listening to phone calls, and transmissions of all electronic types and varieties. we don t have a very good handle on what s on the ground. we were getting that information from kurds and from people we know who are fighting assad. now we have intelligence information that s going to be gleaned from russians on the ground as well, so the shift is going to be actually to the kind of intelligence information which is the best of all, which