quickly. no injuries, no deaths. very organized. our emergency preparedness training that has gone on with our emergency crews have really paid dividends. all right. you have been manning the pump stations of the last six days. everybody on alert you have an active emergency operation center. you re really prepared. mr. mayor, good luck to you. thank you for joining us. thank you very much for having us. we re learning more about the man charged with planning a new year s terrorist attack in upstate new york. fbi agents say 25 year emanuel lutchman told an informant he wanted to kidnap a couple of people and then kill him so he could onisis. according to the criminal complaint, lutchman and the informant bought knives and a machete to use in the attack and the suspect talked about setting off pressure cooker bombs. laura, what other supplies was
political solution in syria as well as the visa program and gettingidiculous ro loophole with the watch list. a couple quick things. obama phobes on the right will say it s it s extremism that is and i think there should have been more talk with respect to addressing nonisis extremism that is being promoted by certain institutions in the countries of some of our allies. number one. number two, this is really the most important thing, and it was put forth as a wish list rather than a strategy or plan and that is ending the civil war in syria. because when there is a lack of governance, what will happen is that becomes a breeding ground
working to firm up a multinational coalition against isis. on wednesday, he welcomed angela merkel to the french presidential palace. as you see here, they lay flowers. he will leave for moscow in a few hours where he ll meet with vladimir putin. let s bring in max foster following this from the french capital, and you wonder, max, how the french president will be able to convince president putin to target isis more and rebels less without incentive. that s the issue here. reporter: president putin and officials that work for him have made it clear they re happy to coordinate efforts better on the ground better with the western powers, but the white house is making it clear that s not possible while putin targets nonisis positions been syria.
where there s so many calls for a unified strategy against isis. and then turkey does this very provocative move destroying a russian plane for the first time a nato as you mentioned earlier, first time a nato country has done that against the russians or the soviets since the fists. so why did it do it? that is a question a lot of people around the world are asking. and analysts i ve spoken to, a u.s. official that i ve spoken to has another reason. says it is not just about this violation of the air space a few second violation, that this goes to a much deeper conflict between turkey and russia and goes to deeper divisions within the strategy on syria. and it basically goes to the targets. and i can tell you what it is if you want. yeah. part of what i understand about this is that the turks are really mad about the, you know, we re mad about nonisis targets that russia is hitting because we think they re bombing the
people who the united states has been trying to help. the turks you are mad at russia because russia has been bombing targets that include basically turks in syria who don t seem to be involved in one side or the other of the assad fight. is that right? exactly. and that s what it s all about. that s what it s all about here. we complain about that they re bombing nonisis targets. and one of those nonisis targets is a rebel group, a rebel group in the turkman mountains where this incident took place. and not surprisingly, because of the name of the mountains, the majority of the people who live there are ethnic turks. and turkey as the greatest turkish nation which feels itself as the defenders of the turkish people, the turkish ethnic group has been complaining very vokesally to russia. there was a protest in istanbul, sort of a failed protest but a protest nonetheless. the protesters went to the wrong