we re following multiple breaking stories, including the ongoing urgent manhunt under way following a terror bombing in london. british authorities raised the threat level from severe to critic critical. let s bring in our political and counterterrorism specialist, phil mud let me start with you. british authorities, what are they doing to find the terrorist or terrorists who lotted this terror operation? first stage, we need an identification. we need a name. so you can think of a couple of basics. interviewing people on the train, they re looking at the video. london is flooded with cameras, looking at the video to see who
jeopardizing the integrity of the entire investigation into what russia was trying to do during the election campaign and whether or not there was any kind of connection between what the russians were doing and the trump campaign. he is on board. eric: lets explain for the audience so we understand the relevance of the fisa court. the reason why it s relevant is that you need a fisa warrant if you re going to surveillance american. you don t need one if you re going to surveilled foreigner the you think is creating some sort of terror operation going on. if you re going to surveilled an american, you have to go to the court. intel department told us that hadn t happened. now we know what has happened. you point out it wasn t regarding the russians. there is more going on then we have been led to believe. we haven t had it confirmed through any official channels but we are led to believe through the reporting and leaks that michael flynn had been talking on several occasions
he was part of a network in germany run by a guy called abu walaa. abu walaa is the number one isis recruiter in all of germany. according to a man who abu walaa sent to syria, who joined isis and defected from isis then came back and fingered him as the den mother or the ringleader of the entire network in all of germany. and abu walaa s network consisted of another guy, aer e is serb german out of his apartment in westphalia, was running an ad hoc islamic center. and we don t know how many tens or hundreds of people migrated through that apartment center or were radicalized and indoctrinated with salafi jihadism. and we know they offered amri a choice, either you can make immigration and fight with isis on the battlefields in the middle east or you can conduct a terror operation on german soil. obviously he chose the latter and that decision was personally signed off by abu walaa.
see his face. people within his own network had been sent to syria. in fact, he was identified by a guy who went so syria, joined isis, then denounced isis and repudiated the organization and came back and said this is the number one isis recruiter in all of germany. he was arrested as part of a five-man ring in november. so it was a very near thing they didn t catch this particular guy. in fact, there were two people who were part of abu wala s network that were responsible for recruiting the berlin attacker. one of them was a german serb called boban es who ran out of his apartment a kind of islamic center and offering to send people to syria to join isis. this guy apparently gave the attacker a choice. either you can make hisra, immigration to syria and join isis, or you can conduct a terror operation on german soil. and abu wala, the chief german
this, and there would not have been contacts with authorities. what do you think about that? yeah, the network that paul was just alluding to is run by a guy that is a leading jihadi. he returned from syria from the battlefield after defecting from isis and he described him as the number one isis recruiter in all of germany. he s been on law enforcement s radar for a long time, for something like three years he s been surveilled. his network has been involved on a sikh temple in germany, it s conducted armed robbery, getting money for use for terrorist operations. one of the purported ways they were looking to conduct a terror operation was to take a large vehicle, this time crammed with explosives, not with 25 tons of steel as the attacker used, but drive it into a crowded area in an urban population center and detonate the vehicle. so it does seem like i never thought that this fie was your