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Detection. i was just going to say, not to be alarmist here, but i assume french authorities would have said 48 hours before this attack, there s no credible threat to the french homeland. i think undoubtedly, they would have said no credible threat but lots of investigations, lots of nervousness and then this. and u.s. intelligence officials were saying, we think there may be things going on, but nothing specific about that. why were they so sure before the last 72 hours, that isis was not capable of al qaeda-style operations, and now of course that s not true. but why was your community so sure of that for so long? i m not sure that that s actually the secase. i think the line has been we re more worried about the one and twos, like in garland texas, people inspired by isis. i think there was a real awareness, that firearms, small-scale explosives could be used. i don t think anybody was focused on a group this large with three-pronged attacks, with ....
Follow-on attacks apparently planned and i think that probably did take some people by tactical surprise. we talked about this before. the difference between tactical surprise and strategic surprise. tactical and you don t know this event and that it s on paris in this day. but strategically, the counterterrorism communities in the west, the united states, they have been really scared. they ve seen what isis has been able to do on social media to inspire and also the real safe haven they ve maintained in syria. why did we hear the president say i ll have more cooperation with the french intelligence agency? nice to hear, but why didn t we have more cooperation with the french intelligence agencies? what s the line here for lack of cooperation? i don t think it s a lack of cooperation, but almost in any intelligence relationship, there s always a little bit of care about exactly what you re going to show them. ....
Confronting or national security around the globe. bear in mind john brennan s been at this since 1980. so when he says something like that, it ought to spook you a little bit. monday, he said he doesn t think the paris attacks are a one-off event. i certainly would not consider it a one-off event. it is clear to me that isil has an external agenda, that they are determined to carry out these types of attacks. i would anticipate that this is not the only operation that isil has in the pipeline. i m joined by lisa monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, and she succeeded john brennan in that job. lisa monaco, welcome back. let me ask you for a little more specific about what john brennan was saying. he anticipates there are more in the pipeline. is that an assumption, or do you know more? ....
Obama s tone in addressing the paris atrocity was all wrong. at times he was pate lonnizing. at other times, he seems annoyed and almost dismissive. is this a case of the president not being on the ground and not realizing the public s angst because he s overseas? chuck, my job isn t to do that type of analysis. what i can tell you is my personal experience. i meet with the president almost every day to discuss these threats and others across the globe with him. i was the one to brief him on the paris attacks. he was extremely focused on threats to our citizens in paris and across the globe. his first priority as it is mine and the rest of his national security team, is the protection of the american people. he does not take his eye off that ball. and very quickly, are you at all willing to entertain congress s, what may be a bipartisan majority in congress ....
Hard and there s concern about the idea that paris was part one of a sequencing of events. and of course yesterday with the fear how i know there s an investigation going on wondering if there is a much larger plot going on here, what have you heard? i haven t. i certainly have not heard that sort of grandness. but what we saw with the raids today certainly strongly suggest there were follow-on attacks planned. and simply being able to hold back your terrorist organizers to do a second round, that represents a sophistication. i think that officials on both sides of the atlantic are assuming they don t know the breadth of what was going on. that s basically what john brennan said. you re like, whoa, may not know. he s a long time professional who once had my job at the national counterterrorism center. you never assume you know anything. ....