self-funding, and 250,000 euros. in the meantime, chris, we re learning new information about who we thought was the female suicide bomber, the cousin of the mastermind. in fact, now officials are saying she did not blow herself up. it s hasna aitboulahcen. she was someone who communicated with police. she was asking them to come, help me, help me. and then she had that conversation about he s not my boyfriend, he s not my boyfriend. the person who ran the raid said they believe that she was trying to get police to come in, so when that bomb exploded, they would be closer and that she would take them down with her, chris. wow. thank you so much, chris jansing. great work this week. i m joined right now by don burrell, former assistant special agent in charge of the joint terrorism task force and msnbc contributor, and a former u.s. intelligence officer who is now executive director of the terror project and author of
u.s. intelligence officer who is now executive director of the terror project and author of defeating isis. here s how the director of the cia i was quoting somebody from the fbi and it was pulled down on me right there. but here s how the director of the fbi, james comey, yesterday assessed the threat to america. let s watch. we are not aware of any credible threat here of a paris-type attack, and we have seen no connection at all between the paris attackers and the united states. of course, we investigate all of those propaganda threats. but instead, the threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in america who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. and i guess the question for everybody here, don and malcolm i ll start with don is what is going on over there that might affect our security situation here in the states? don first. well, the key thing over there is the amount of training and planning, the sophistication, the operationa
director of the terror project and msnbc contributor. i want to poe back to what you heard from the fbi director, james comey, where he s saying that there s still continuing to no evidence of any sort of conspiratorial-type isis cell, that it s lone wolves that continue to be the issue that the united states has to deal with. do you have any other information that contradicts that? no, i don t have any at all. as a matter of fact, today i spoke to about 200 law enforcement in national intelligence officers at a conference, and that question came right up. is there any information? and i said, it not important whether there is a direct threat video. isis still has inspirational and aspirational attacks that they would like to carry out on the united states. so if one manifests itself, most likely, like the director said, it could be from someone who is inspired, and that s what they re seeing most of their
we re now investigating this as an act of terrorism. joining me, the executive director of the terror project and author of the upcoming back, defeating isis, who they are, how they fight and what they believe. we heard from chris there there s confusion. that there seem to be things that don t add up. what are you seeing? there are many things about this story that don t add up. let s walk it back to the initial attack. if these people were radicalized, they had tactical equipment, they had very long high caliber weapons. they went to this party, they carried out this massacre. which would make you ask the initial question, why wouldn t they have gone to a bigger target, a better target? why would they have such a personally focused target? so that s question number one. question number two is most people who do this sort of