intervention in aleppo is going to super charge the global jihadi movement. it s going to radicalize people in syria. it s going to radicalize people across the sunni world. and it s going to play into the hands of isis and al qaeda recruiters who are going to make the argument that the sunnis are under attack by some alleged global conspiracy. it s also going to play into the hands of those who would want to say that the united states is somehow complicit in some of this because of the warming relations between russia and the united states, sort of the jihadis in their attempts to try and lump in this sort of global conspiracy against islam. so we re entering a very dangerous period indeed, where this brutal crackdown against the rebels in aleppo is really going to energize the global jihadi movement. it s going to make the sectarian problems so much worse in the
social media were seeking these connections. there are no pressing connections except to a say that the atmosphere of fear, distrust and hatred is what you have in common across the board. what s going on in yemen is completely different from what s happening in what happened in berlin last night but there is an atmosphere that connects the two. and as we there s also more. this is also taking place in the backdrop of syria. there was a terrorist attack earlier today, in the early hours of this morning in jordan where isis attacked a small town and maybe 15 people were killed. this stuff is now coming at us so fast that you have to look for patterns even when they don t exist. you ve been out of the country for a while. we just had the election that was very much on the issue of terror decided by then candidate now president-elect donald trump saying enough with the
federal officials unless you shut down a city. i don t think that s possible across america. look, i marvel every day at new york and how the law enforcement officers here keep things going. there s something like 8 million people who ride the subway. it s remarkable, this melting pot of new york and that things have been safe virtually here. in fact, as we speak, there s a christmas market, a holiday market set up right across the street from us. look, these are soft targets. there s lots of these things. so how have u.s. officials thus far done it so successfully? it s more than just luck. there s a lot more than luck. i think if you look at the past few years, there s three basic ideas you have to prevent incidents from happening. number one, take out terrorists before they get here in places like afghanistan and syria. that s why the conversation about what we do with russians potentially under a new presidency to cooperate, to shut
initially, although we don t know for sure, that turkey pardon me, germany is a radical islamist attack. that s in contrast to what we see in turkey. i think we ll find that has to do with turkish politics and disputes within turkey about how much turkey should be aligned with the russians, especially as the russians are responsible for part of the humanitarian disaster in syria. two very different situations that the president-elect is lumping together. let me say one more thing. when he tweets before you get the germans acknowledging what s happening in their own country, i hope he s willing to accept foreign leaders, when we get an event in the united states, intervening to say what they think has happened here before he determines the facts. this interveng overseas and commenting, even as he s not the president of the united states yet, in advance of what foreign officials are saying about their own events in their own countries, i think foreign officials are going to bristle at
did that. we called her that was a states woman thing to do. it was. that was the right expression off liberal german values. if at this point she comes under pressure and abandon those values, then germany has lost something far, far more important than we can fathom right now. great to see you. thanks so much to be here. come to be here any time. following a lot of breaking news for you this morning. so let s get right to it. the truck came barrelling through. christmas lights are being torn down. the person they have in custody may not have been the driver. german authorities are investigating this as a paris attack. it didn t feel like it was an accident. the assassination of russia s ambassador to turkey the attacker quite clearly says we must remember alepp jobs we must remember syria. the gunman identified as a 22-year-old turkish police officer. with the rise of isis and