fundamental that the congress gives me what i need to protect the american people, that means repeal sequestration. what s the biggest change in your job since you started? i m a lot older. [ laughter ] i mean, have the threats changed at all or the sophistication of the threats? or all of it? the evolution is becoming more and more clear every day. we have evolved from simply worrying about an underwear bomber type of attack where you have a guy who comes from overseas who is trained overseas at a camp who has been directed overseas, and then tries to blow something up here over the homeland to the type of situation where there is a guy who is here, has lived here. he might have even been born here. he was inspired by something he sees on social media which is really effective. he decides to take up arms and commit an act of
fundamental that the congress gives me what i need to protect the american people, that means repeal sequestration. what s the biggest change in your job since you started? i m a lot older. [ laughter ] i mean, have the threats changed at all or the sophistication of the threats? or all of it? the evolution is becoming more and more clear every day. we have evolved from simply worrying about an underwear bomber type of attack where you have a guy who comes from overseas who is trained overseas at a camp who has been directed overseas, and then tries to blow something up here over the homeland to the type of situation where there is a guy who is here, has lived here. he might have even been born here. he was inspired by something he sees on social media which is really effective. he decides to take up arms and commit an act of
bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they really feel strongly this is a success. they worked with their international partners, make no mistake about it, the best internal service against this target is the saudi service. we know that the saudi service is tipped off the americans when it came to the cargo plane threat and worked with them, and the head of the saudi service, muhammed benaif was the target of the one of the al bombs so they