tell you? those were fairly alarming words. because it didn t sound like he was saying we re trying to keep our bases covered in abundance of caution. right. that could certainly be a portion of this. they have at indications there is something there or they are not confident they have contained the terror group that was behind this attack. and we know for a fact that that terror group extended beyond, at least based on the comments of the president of france, extended beyond the seven attackers who took part. he talked about there being help outside of france in europe and outside of europe in syria as well. speaking throughout the evening, bob, you are not hopeful that there is a lot that can be done to change the situation. but considering the fact that 10 months ago the charlie hebdo attack broke out. and now this. for the people of france, they can t sit with that answer. they need to know what their government can do. is there anything that can improve situation?
french national who has been identified as one of the attackers had an extensive criminal record, then why on earth weren t french authorities following him more closely? as jim rightly points out, this is a very difficult thing. there are so many would-be jihadis here in paris. but if they went to syria and they had an extensive wrap sheet, certainly questions how this could happen so soon after charlie hebdo . poppy? how could they follow through the attack as we saw happen in charlie hebdo just 10 months ago. clarissa, thank you for your reporting. i have to get a quick break here. we will be back with continuing live coverage of the terror attacks in paris right after this. amerivest selects the funds and manages your portfolio. is it run by robots? no no, you can talk to a person anytime. cause i don t trust robots. right.well, if the portfolio you re invested in doesn t perform well for two consecutive quarters, amerivest will
they are beating groups of isis guerrillas. but they are retreating. ultimately, they don t care what they want to do. this is an apocalyptic movement. you slaughter as many in the west as you can. what has come is a surprise to everybody, the russians, the lebanese and now the french is how the capabilities of this group across around the world. it s even surprised me. i knew they wanted to move out and conduct international terrorism. but with this extensive network taking down airplanes and doing a military style assault in paris, we have a brand-new threat here. a brand-new threat. and, guys, i do want to show you both this map. let s pull up this map on the screen. i want to describe to you what we are looking at here. it is how isis expands far beyond its base in iraq and in syria. you ve got isis conducting regulatory military operations in the countries in orange. you have isis declaring province
in parts of the map that are yellow. and we have also marked the areas, including those in the united states, canada, australia where attacks have been linked to or inspired by isis. kimberly, when you look at this, was isis underestimated? well, not by the counter terrorist community that has been watching it grow for a while. but the scope and scale and speed that it spread with has surprised people. the other question they have is, all right, so what do we do? if you increase military attacks inside syria against isis targets, first of all, does russia, for instance, even have the wherewithal to do that. officials say they are pretty much at the limit of what they can target in the number of sorties they are running every day. if the u.s., for instance, moves in with more advisers and
influence and, you know, radicalize those who come to syria and iraq to the battle field. but also their ability to do it to french citizens, young, disenfranchised men sometimes that never leave the streets of paris. how do you counter that militarily? well, you have to go to the source. and right now the source is in sor syria and iraq. i think we are we re starting to do that. we need to ramp up what we re doing. i talked to the military conducting this campaign. they feel hampered by this command and control structure that is very, very obstructive on what they are trying to do. many pilots return to base carrying the ordinance they took off with because they can t find the targets or they see the targets but can t get permission to engage them. so we have to look at that and fix that. if we can start taking out isis in syria and iraq, it a