of homeland security in the obama administration joins me. along with our terrorism analyst. paul you ve been talking to your sources. we know this man was known as abu yusuf al-belijiki. isis identifying him as abu yusuf al-belijiki. that means he could have lived in belgium or be belgian. i m told by sources close to the investigation that according to the preliminary identification they believe this was a french national known to french security services for quite some time, known as an islamist extremist but also known as somebody engaged in violent robberies. implicated in a number of those cases. all the way back in 2001 he was stopped by police and got into a begun foo gun fight with police when he was stopped. managed to shoot two police officers at the scene, wounded them. was then taken into custody back
in 2001. while he was in custody under interrogation, he grabbed the weapon of a third police officer and wounded them. i m told he was convicted in relation to these yoefs. he at a point was released in jail. none of the police officers died. their wounds were quite significant. julia, this is what is stunning here. yet again, this is what make people so afraid of the depth of the problem in the cells, this man was known. he had a very deep and severe record. he had served time in jail. he knew he was an islamic radical. they were watching him and yet he pulled off an attack tonight. look, it s a resource issue at this stage. there s so many people that the french are following, let alone other european countries at this stage. we just don t know what they had on him specifically, but i will say just picking up on what paul just noted, we are out of the stage of the isis-inspired
of an anti-corruption investigation, paul manet forth, the president s campaign director, that he had gotten financial payments through sigh paris, through sip rit banks. he s denied any wrongdoing. did you find otherwise? you go to cyprus and take money laundering, you take all these other things with manfort. what do you find? yeah. let me put it this way. i can t reveal what i was told in confidence. what i can say is, again, raise the question, why do you go to cyprus? you go there because the russians launder their money there. it has been a key focal point for the russians laundering money and key figures in this investigation. if you put two and two together you understand why. totality is the circumstances. it creates more dots for us to connect, unfortunately. did you find evidence of wrongdoing, of collusion, of
attack, the kind of things we ve seen here in the united states. this was clearly isis directed. they knew who it was, they knew when it was going to happen. they had announcements taking place notice all languages on social media within an hour or two. so they are more organized than we re often led to believe by some of the successes that are going on in syria and iraq in terms of disrupting the center of isis, they re still planning these things. it wasn t a large bun with you nevertheless it was an attack on law enforcement, which is very scary, because they re supposed to be the people that can probing the public. paul, there s thing. they claimed it quickly. they knew this guy. is this wasn t inspired. it was directed. on the cells involved in the paris attacks in november a year and a half ago, do we even know if all of these people have been found? no, right?
inquiry. it s kind of imploding, as you ve seen. and the intelligence committee has questioned the investigation all the way along because of what nunes sewed. it leads to the question tonight which is does chairman nunes have any credibility left. jessica schneider is out front. reporter: staff members pouring through thousands of court documents as part of its bipartisan investigation into russian med allege in the i lex. we re going to get to the bottom of this. former trump campaign chair paul manet forth will talk to the committee and jared kushner has extended the same offer. questions have mounted about kushner s meetings with