we are many hours into this crisis in mali, an ongoing hostage situation where attackers went in, guns firing, by one estimate ten of them, but it's still unclear exactly how many people are being held inside. three people reported dead. let me bring in sean hennry who served as an executive assistant director of the fbi, now president and chief security officer of crowd strike services. thanks very much. as we've been talking, there's been a report that an al qaeda-affiliated group is claiming responsibility for the attack on twitter. we have no confirmation of that, but does that tell you anything? >> yeah, chris, you know, this is still a developing situation. obvious la obviously. we're about six hours into this, and there's going to be a lot of information. we know oftentimes, early information, it turns out to be inaccurate. but if you're thinking about the potential of al qaeda, and we talk about is there any relation to paris or not, one of the concerns that has been expressed in the intelligence community is