they began to set cars on fire and rioted in the streets, at that time, so many questions raised about so many people about what was going on in paris, france. was this allowed to fester and did isis seize this opportunity to inflict this kind of pain and casualties among the fun and loving community in the city of lights. and has france used so many times, did they drop the ball? it s a question that s going to be asked. did they drop the ball and allow this kind of hostility to fester within its own boundaries. you are drawing attention to an important point. we are at the 10th anniversary of those.
service agent who was secret service agent for president george w. bush as well as current president barack obama. the service is valuable given the fact that you were in the special forces. amy kellogg and greg calcott and steve pointing to something we ve been talking about throughout the evening when this first unfolded, we always talked about the lapses in security, the lapses in information and intelligence. dan, this can be very devastating for paris moving forward, if they don t come together, share this intelligence gathering, and get ahead of the curve so that they can actually pinpoint where the attacks might be coming from. it s such a difficult, daunting task, particularly given the nexus of terror that s unfolded
paris main metropolitan area. about three blocks from where we are we believe two suspected it terrorists are still holed up in the building. it all started about local time and 4 oocht 30 in the morning with what was described by neighbors as one hour of sliewtd war absolute war, explosions and ak47 gunfire, stun grenades. the police and the army we are looking at a dozen soldiers, special force police and trucks related to emergency evacuation of citizens of other individuals here. what happened was two, as we understand it, suspected it terrorists are dead. one was a woman who was wearing a suicide vest.
here in paris went into the theater. you could tell and again, this goes back to the way that they split their command and control, the paritions national security command and control and when you have the head of that trying to talk to the president, getting information, i ve got dead bodies, i ve got wounded, i ve got people here, where do i move my medical service personnel, where do i send the police, where do i send the special forces and then you have the situation, two guys inside, killing these guys one by one. they should have basically as soon as they had enough men execute. there was not time to stand there, watch the building, see what was going on. they should have assaulted. they already knew what was going on inside. what can they do now? they can tie their intelligence efforts and tie the medical personnel to the leadership, to the civilian personnel that has to make the decisions to the police force and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. that s what i would be do iing
greg, greg interviewed them, and the gentleman said that he was from germany and saw the military and police around but the one thing that was glaring in all of this is that in an area where there s a sea of despair that one particular video that interview that greg had with the father and child, that father and son indicated a sign of hope for the people of paris, that life does go on, even in the midst of turmoil. i want to leave you with this thought, no matter what s going on, like that person who we saw wauing the street in the midst of what you re looking at now saying we have a day to go on, we have a day to be grateful for all that we have. that s what it is really all about. we talk about ideology a lot tonight. never, never let your heart be troubled in terms of what you see. keep the resolve, take a stand against evil, stand up for