terrorist attack, the allegiance of this woman to isis, pipe bombs, ammunition, dead people, et cetera, then you listen to the family attorney with his back up saying we really don t have it s nebulous some nebulous thing on facebook et cetera, we need to wait for the investigation when we already determined these things. what is your reaction to cair blaming america. i was listening to that stumbling family attorney offer the most ridiculous of onjection as if there s a waive of anti-muslim hatred about to break over the united states if we dear point out the radical muslim message these killers left behind. all he did was read a facebook page and left a facebook post swearing allegiance to isis. we have 72 people that work for homeland security. these people with this passport they did a passport check on her
that he escaped, he s back with the brothers in the heartland of syria. seth, where do you think he could be? well, erin, i think most likely right now he s probably in europe still. it s possible, as phil noted, he s gone back to syria. i think what is interesting here is at some point he s going to have to come up, communicate with someone, electronically, by phone, by e-mail or someone is going to spot him and so the question, from a technical standpoint or human intelligence standpoint, i think a lot of the effort is going to be to identify him, particularly if he s in europe. one thing that surprised me on the train ride from paris and brussels and back, there were no passport check, no bag check, nothing. it was business as usual. and i know that everyone is showing the signs of salah abdeslam, the wanted signs but they really weren t, just before yesterday, visible throughout the streets of paris. it wasn t the way that you d expect a manhunt to be.
now they re talking about reinforcing europe s external borders but also furthering their ability to communicate amongst themselves so that this schengen space can be safe. that term you re using is named after the treaty. it is part of europe, britain s not part of it. the european union. you can cross borders. i wanted to ask you about that. we were talking during the commercial break. you can travel, i can get in a car and pretty easily travel to belgium. what is what the eighth attacker did. there s no passport check. salah abdelsalam. he s now being called the eighth attacker. there may be a ninth one out on the loose. but he s certainly france s most wanted man at the moment. what we know about him for now is that at some point on friday night, for reasons we don t quite understand that, he didn t explode his belt. his brother did, he did not. he rang a couple of friends in
would you believe they are looking closely at the notion of terrorism with regard to this plane going down? i know they re looking closely at that. why is that? first of all, you can look at the press reports and they say it. secondly, when i talk to people in the intelligence community, like i said these are the groups i m hearing coming up in the conversations and both are linked to al qaeda. it is possible they work together or it might be that j.i. decided they wanted to take up the cause of the chinese islamist group and help them out by carrying out this attack. what we in america are waking up to is this report from interpol that last year one billion flights one billion passenger trips, there was no passport check through interpol even though we know millions of passports are stolen. that s a real, real problem, isn t it? absolutely. we know the stolen passports were inserted into the interpol data base. unfortunately, interpol says no country accessed that data bas
particular. what pot is being stirred in this in terms of politics of immigration? reporter: the island is a symbol for right wing parties that campaign on the immigration issue. what you actually have had is some european governments at least partially trying to suspend a fundamental rule of the european union which is be able to cross borders here in your a citizen without a passport check. just this week denmark saying that it wants to impose some border restrictions and many of these politicians say to the crisis that unfolded here as an excuse for trying to stem the movement particularly of illegal immigrants around the european union. this is a big challenge for this continent right now. indeed it is. interesting to watch to see how this plays out. ivan watson, thank you for that report. health care is called the third rail of american politics.