affairs correspondent. what more can you tell us about him, his role, and what inspired his resignation? well, fred mcguirk is a decades long career diplomat. he has been working in iraq. working on issues related to the region for decades, and in 2013, he had been appointed deputy envoy to the isis coalition and then took over when general john allen left, and really has been overseeing a 60-plus member coalition of states working not only on the ground but in the on the internet, countering messages to counter isis, and by large measure that job has been successful, but just a week ago you heard brett mcgurk at the state department podium talking about the idea that the u.s. was now deciding to stay in syria. this was the new trump administration policy to stay in syria, to defeat the remnants of isis so it didn t come back in a worse or greater form, and then was headed off to brief the coalition about it. he was in the region, talking to iraqi partners in the northern
Of, and an 8-year-old girl were killed at an ariana grande concert. i want to bring in cnn terrorism analyst paul kruk shank and paul, let me start with you. isis has claimed responsibility but they haven t offered any proof. they haven t offered any proof whatsoever describing him as a soldier of the caliphate, and i ve just been in touch with a british counterterrorism official that says so far british investigators have uncovered no evidence of any link to an established terrorist group, overseas a terrorist group like isis. it s obviously early on in the investigation. one of the key focuses is on the forensic at the scene of the attack, trying to figure out how sophisticated this device was, what kind of bomb chemicals were in the device and so on, and to try and figure out, well, could
Contene? reporter: i spoke with the belgium federal prosecutor here and asked him that could have an impact on hundreds of bellups that have gone to syria to join the ranks of isis. he is known here for having recruited his 13-year-old brother to join in the ranks. he has been linked as we heard from paul kruk shank the security analyst to a number of different violent actions planned both here in belgium and in neighboring countries. as far as the brothers go, i m standing about 100 feet from the house of the abdeslam family the
Are on the up and up. and even the tsa will make sure of the concern of the trusted population and they have unfettered access and you just do not know when things will go wrong. it is really hard to tell when someone is going to make that turn. that is the tsa s number one concern at this point. ashleigh? all right. rene, thank you for that. rene marsh reporting from washington, d.c. on paper it is solid the airport op erator collects the applican data and then a tsa contractor reviews and hands it off to the fbi. and the fbi runs the fingerprint and the background cheblg,ck, a what could possibly go wrong? let s think it through with the next guests who say plenty. david soucie is a safety analyst, a nd paul kruk shank i
Checks hen they are hired and as was mentioned just earlier, they are going continue to do these, which is the plan going forward, but the problem is that tsa does not have the authority to say what is the litmus test? they can do the records check and say it is wrong or that is bad or good guy or bad girl or guy, and that is, let s get rid of that and say that there is a limit, but tsa does not have the authority to say that, and to say who can be and can t be approved. they say we did the check. and it is sort of defying logic when i saw that the tsa is not authorize ed d to receive af the categories of the terror watch list which seemed oodd to seemed odd to me, but paul, anybody can be radicalized at any stage of his or her life as we have witnessed here in the united states and it has happened, and if you get the prechecker, it is the all-clear and two or three years later,