online after the plane went down got some attention. barbara starr. good morning, michaela, as you said, all of this being looked at. none of is certain. u.s. officials do believe it is potentially likely that the plane was brought down by a bomb onboard. either put on the luggage or somehow smuggled into the plane. that is why you re seeing so much focus on security at sharm el sheikh airport. they re not offering a lot of about the intelligence they do have. they say after the attack, they monitored isis chatter. that is what s leaning them towards isis or isis affiliate. it will change the calculation of what isis is capable of, if they re able to bring down an airliner. do they have a bombmaker themselves that is able to put together some type of device.
intervention with assad. that was my first thought, when began to be speculated it might be a bomb. i ll have my morning intelligence briefing later this morning. i get one each day from my counterterrorism intelligence people. i ll have a little more understanding of the latest information. but the idea of i think it would be more than just coincidence. that it was a russian plane. by logic, terrorism can take different forms. one is that it s the police right now that there s an environment against the police. it s being called the ferguson effect. do you believe there s a ferguson effect? the problem is we don t know. the fbi director, mr. comey, i attended a speech he gave in chicago last week. i had a private meeting with him. there were two points that he was trying to drive home. one was we just don t know with the surge in violence that many people are experiencing,
that will be part of the growing investigation. so that needs to be understood. let s face it, the world is changing and changing dramatically. this one certainly raises concerns very significantly. reflex is if they can do it there, they can do it here? is that it? it s europe, it s very tight. but when you have issues around terrorism. issues around turbulence in their government, then it s of significant concern. you have an atypical level depth into terrorism and what you ve done not just now but in the past. does this smell right to you that they would have targeted russia because of what s going on with syria or the maybe the chechan connection? i think that would be the first speculation that they targeted the russian plane because of the russian
checked. and in particular, just so you can rule some things out. i mean, at this point, there s just no answers, grounding the fleet and checking the fleet, and most particularly, looking at the one plane that had the tail struck. and the plane, of course, went down. and ruling out that they did the test, or ruling in that that he did the test, rather, making sure that repair was good and held. of course, that takes one of the theories off the table. and that s what investigations are in air crash. removing theories one at a time, as you test them out. when you talk to investigators, they always say let the investigation run its course. bobby, we re hearing from the russian officials calling the uk and u.s. intelligence premature and speculative. the egyptians going even farther. the civil aviation minister says no evidence to support this bomb theory and don t jump to conclusions. are we when i say we, the
congressman, good to have you on new day. it comes as a sober moment, this news in the head line about u.s. and english intelligence officials being concerned that isis may have planted a bomb on a russian plane? does that smell right to you? what is your reaction to this? i think the jury s still out, assuming that s true, it s a major problem. i think we ve got to contain isis. and if they did that, again, that s just another indication that this is a group has no conscience, and they will do anything to bring terror to the world. so i m hopeful that we ll get to the bottom of it. respect the wait and see attitude. it s certainly warranted on this situation. we ll stay on that story. let s go to the matters at hand. you were have vocal on that benghazi issue there on what you