reflect the, quote, new phase of the terror threat. johnson said the system will reflect the current reality of when not having a specific credible piece of intelligence specifying a plot isn t the end of the story. joining me now to discuss, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn s peter bergen. why have this terror system that we ve had in the past, right? you ve seen several levels amongst american citizens about the terrorist threat between san bernardino and paris and the taking down of the russian metrojet airliner. it s the most lethal attack on u.s. since 9/11, and most lethal attack in paris and most lethal attack on aviation. so the government is trying to assure americans it s doing everything it can. sometimes the threat environment, you don t have particularly, you know, streams of intelligence that points to something, but you do want to say something to the public
important. they re a bunch of killers. and we fight them and we beat them. reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. i discussed with president putin in a brief pull aside his need to recognize that he needs to go after the people who killed russian citizens. reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s., despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores.
and we fight them. and we beat them. reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. i discussed with president putin in a brief pull-aside his need to recognize that he need to go after the people who killed russian citizens. reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s. despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores. reporter: the president also appeared to have choice words for donald trump. i want surveillance of these people. reporter: and the gop
reporter: the president said he just may be able to join forces with russian president vladimir putin to wipe out the terror group after the attacks in paris and on the metrojet airliner. i discussed with president putin in a brief pull-aside his need to recognize that he needs to go after the people who killed russian citizens. reporter: and he called on americans to show compassion to the thousands of syrian refugees he wants to welcome into the u.s. despite poll numbers showing americans are resistant to the idea. refugees who end up in the united states are the most vetted, scrutinized, thoroughly investigated individuals that ever arrive on american shores. reporter: the president also appeared to have choice words for donald trump. i want surveillance of these people. reporter: and the gop front-runners proposals to conduct more surveillance on muslims in the u.s. we must absolutely reject
don t know who the male wearing that suicide vest was. how does this all change the narrative, if it does? well, i mean, i m not sure it does. there was a lot of attention paid to the fact that this could have been a female suicide bomber and it s somehow unique or counter intuitive to have a woman blow herself up when in fact it s fairly common especially in russia in the caucuses. i mean, you have various insurgency groups including those loyal to isis and they have a term for it, the black widow. in fact, before metrojet, the russian airliner that isis blew up a few weeks ago, you had had in 2004, two commercial airliners taken out in the skies above russia by these black wido widows. it is a fairly frequent occ occurrence to see where jihad is m is predominant that women will be repurposed for this kind of attacks and creates a false