story for us. reporter: isis released a new video claiming to show the knife attacker who stabbed five people killing one last night in central paris. isis took responsibility for last night s attack calling the knifeman a soldier of the caliphate. according to memory, a nonprofit middle east think tank, the two minute video by isis shows the attacker whose face is partially covered with a hood pledging allegiance to the leader abu bakr albaghdadi. chechnya s president has identified him as a 20-year-old french citizen who was born in the muslim russian republic, a counterterrorism contact tells our catherine herridge that this video proves it s beginning to look like this man was not necessarily an independent inspired actor or so-called lone wolf. in other words, he may have had
we will begin with greg. greg: i was just wondering, i probably know the answer, but i want to ask if u.s. intel had any information or knew of a cell like this or had any hints that these people were operating there? well, i know for my reporting today through a counterterrorism contact who does a lot of tracking of extremists on social media that spain has not really been part of their online conversation in a very big way, but in early july and isis affiliated telegram account posted specifically about the barcelona. they used the language that was very threatening. this was considered so significant that it was flagged to some of the law enforcement agencies. spanish media is reporting that there was a specific warning from the cia to authorities in barcelona. and that la rambla, the promenade in the center of the city, the equivalent of time stare
report would be withheld, and we know from sources that we know that it involved the question of foreign support for the perpetrators of 9/11. and we know from sources that that support came in the view of the investigators for the congressional group from saudi arabia. what i ve put together in the last week or so going back to an old counterterrorism contact has been to develop a story indicating that there was almost a mirror image of the california situation in west florida, that the hijackers had come and gone from a gated community where a named saudi couple lived. we are hugely oil dependent on saudi arabia. they are our our oil dealer of last resort. the central bank of oil. right? it s said they have so much of