extra bomb sniffing dogs, additional random screenings and more foot patrols. new york governor andrew cuomo sent 400 additional national guardsman to the big apple. new yorkers are noticing heavily armed officers at many of the subway stations throughout the city and anti-terror units are paying special attention to landmarks like one world trade and grand central station. >> it's about confidence. the idea that the public can feel confident in this city that we will do everything to try to deter and prevent an act from occurring. >> everybody gets a little bit nervous, quite frankly. because you don't -- you don't know what the scope of the attack is going to be, how orchestrated it is. >> well, dhs says there is no

specific or credible threat here in the united states. federal officials said they didn't raise the threat level, but that say elevated security is a precaution and it made sense because of the threat of copycats including lone terrorists that may lack a direct connection to a terrorist group, and addie and heather, americans that are considering traveling to europe ought to take note, and europeans, or americans who are in europe, rather, already, u.s. state department has issued a travel alert over the threat of potential near-term attacks throughout the entire continent of europe. and that does not end until the 20th of june. back to you. >> keep that in mind. anna kooiman joining us live. thank you, anna. we'll check back with you. the attacks in brussels making terror the most important topic on the campaign trail. at least today, taking isis -- taking on isis has been a cornerstone of the gop candidates' campaign. but for the democrats not so much. so did the democrats get it all

wrong and how will this impact the election? let's ask our political panel, chuck roche is a democratic strategist, and mercedes is a republican strategist and former white house spokesperson for president george w. bush. thank you both for joining us so early this morning. mercedes, did the democrats get it wrong? >> well, i think the democrats are still trying to figure out, since they are attached to president obama's very weakened foreign policy, where he's been really not been able to get on the forefront of this issue of isis, where he's called isis the j.v. team, and so that's where the democrats are really in trouble. the fact that, for example, hillary clinton, as secretary of state, being attached to president obama's legacy of unwilling or unable to basically destroy isis. which is something that he has said in the past, where he says we've got isis. isis is contained. but at the end of the day what

we're seeing is, is that these terror cells that are occurring in europe, the fact that we're still seeing chaos in syria, in iraq, their inability to basically, truly contain isis, i think, has caused a problem within the democratic party. >> and, chuck, is this, for all the reasons that mercedes just mentioned, why hillary clinton possibly would want to distance herself? >> well, hillary's had a track record of being very hawkish, i think she came out, had some very strong statements today. i think that though if you look at polling, i think that this is a -- today this is a horrible event, and i think that this is what politicians, and we're talking about on the news, and the next few days they'll get back to talking about what's on their talking points in the polling. it don't diminish it by no means. when you're talking about winning an election and winning the primary, they're going to be throwing meat to the base, but i think she's right, they're having to figure out what they're doing having to deal with obama. >> chuck, who is the most prepared on the republican side to take on hillary clinton?

>> well, probably donald trump. you know, i'm hearing arizona this morning, i was on the treadmill and watching donald trump commercials talking about cutting the head off of isis. he just keeps throwing red meat to the base and he keeps getting votes and looks like he's going to be the nominee. and you know, he operates outside the box so i think that he's the one who's probably the best one positioned. >> he won arizona. clinton for the democrats won arizona. mercedes, who do you think is best equipped? >> look, i think any of the top republican nominees, whether it's kasich, whether it's cruz, whether it's trump, they're all better than hillary clinton or bernie sanders on this issue. hillary clinton yesterday was talking about open borders. that's an issue, for example, when you look at what's happening in europe, many of these counterterrorism experts have talked about the fact that one of the biggest problems has been the open borders. the fact that they haven't been able to track down many of these terrorists that are living between brussels, and between paris. so, i think for -- for the

republican side, it is the importance of figuring out a way to clamp down on our immigration system, ensure that terrorists are not coming in to the united states, and ensuring, again, that there is a tough -- there is a very strategic approach in handling isis. something that i believe is very complex, and not a very simple issue. but i think the republicans are -- would be the ones that would be stronger on this position. >> all right. mercedes schlapp, chuck roche thank you very much for joining us. we'll check back with you a little bit later. >> all right, thanks. the time is currently 41 aer the hour. hidden in plain sight. a frightening new reality right here at home. where islamic terror enclaves have been found across america. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian

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well, the deadly terror attacks follow months of tension and uncertainty in the belgian capital. so how did the suspects fly under the radar of police and was a red flag missed? ryan mauru is a security analyst and joins us now with some more insight. so red flags missed, information missed. how did this happen? >> yes, information will be missed, because we know that there's been information about these individuals having ties to other suspects now. but at the same time red flags are always going to be missed. because it's not like you just push a button and every single person that you know is an

extremist has surveillance on them. there is so much information. there are so many extremists now. and it's so labor intensive to have surveillance on all of them that you can't keep track of all of them. authorities have to say who are the ones i'm most worried about? and that's where i'm going to invest my time. >> do you think it's possible that salah abdeslam who they captured on friday was being watched, and they purposely did not pick him up and perhaps they waited a little too long? >> it's always possible. it's also possible that there was limited surveillance because it is so labor intensive to just try and track someone all the time. just because you have someone under surveillance doesn't mean you're going to stop them from carrying out an attack. one of the issues is that you're going to have a lack of informants when you have these muslim communities that are not integrated into society and there's a separatist mind-set so they're not turning to -- down the corner and saying that guy's an extremist and i'm going to go tell the authorities. whereas that happens a lot in the united states. but it doesn't happen as much in europe. >> yeah. so islamic terror, their

enclaves, at least one, that's been discovered in texas, so could this happen here? what happened in brussels? >> without a doubt. what you're seeing happen in europe is isis has matured. it's a relatively young organization. but this idea of radical islamic separatism has been even in the united states for a long time, a group name ed jamaat al fuqura s cells across the u.s. there's a group with a history of terrorism and extremism. but they get a pass in the media because they have a moderate image and they also get sympathy because unfortunately there will be people that then threaten them and harass them so they get sympathy and they come off looking like the good guys. >> that's what's frustrating for a lot of folks. what is more important, political correctness or safety? >> and you have to look at these situations and say are all the ingredients here for a disaster? so when i talk about them, sometimes people say they haven't committed a terrorist attack since the early 1990s.

we shut down one of their camps in colorado where they had underground tunnels with weapons, a 100 acres large camp. but that doesn't mean much. that's a terrible standard to have to say that oh, they carried out an attack in the past, they still have the capability today, but they haven't done anything in awhile so i'm not going to worry about it. you have every element mere for multiple disasters happen on american soil in >> so what is being done? i mean authorities are aware that these people are here. so what are they doing. >> well, when they know that there's a specific individual engaged in criminal activity and they have enough evidence to arrest them, they'll arrest them. but this group specifically jamaat al fukra isn't listed as a terrorist organization even though their leader is in pakistan. the authorities can conduct surveillance and do investigation since it's specific individuals. they don't have the authority to go into th villages as they call them and start looking in all the trailers. >> thank you so much. very interesting stuff. especially in light of what happened in brussels. ryan mauro joining us. abby? >> frightening stuff there.

thanks, heather. the time is currently about ten minutes to the top of the hour. and another dominating night for donald trump as he cleans up in the delegate rich state of arizona. so what does this mean going forward? well, we're taking a closer look at last night's results. that's next. s

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welcome back to "fox & friends first." donald trump was the big winner in the delegate rich state of arizona. the gop front-runner taking home all of the state's 58 delegates last night. but in utah, ted cruz crushed the competition in the caucuses there. what does this mean for the election going forward? well let's ask ron myer the editor of red alert politics. thanks for waking up so early. >> good morning. >> as you know, border -- the border is a huge issue in the state of arizona. this is something that donald trump has been talking about from day one, running for the presidency, and there were reports that there were people standing in line for two, three, four hours to vote for donald trump. obviously he's saying some things that voters are wanting to hear in arizona. >> absolutely. you have to remember in arizona they've seen a large crime uptick. they've seen their government services increase because of the cost of illegal immigration. people in arizona showed up in droves to vote for donald trump because he stayed on message. i also think that the news of

this week is going to continue to help donald trump and i think it helped him last night in arizona, as well. with the brussels attack. he's been a very outspoken propanent to try to use immigration policies to fix some of the problems with islamic terrorism. so he's been out there out front. i also think it was a rougher week for ted cruz. while donald trump, people are used to him being tough on the issue, i think people were caught off guard when he said we should be patrolling muslim american neighborhoods. it's been a good week so far for donald on that issue. tough week for cruz. cruz picked up a lot of the anti-trump support in utah. those people are going to be unified against trump no matter what. that's what we saw last night. >> as you said ted cruz did have a big night in the state of utah winning well more than the majority there. let's look at the delegate count now. trump is sitting at 739. cruz at 465. kasich at 143. it's pretty clear this has come down to a two-man race. the question now is how long? >> well, that's right. rubio still has more delegates than kasich and he's out of the race and rubio actually beat

kasich in arizona last night somehow. so it really is a two-man race. donald trump is still not on pace to get to the 50% plus one he needs. we're still on track for an open convention. but i will say this, i think that the momentum is behind trump, especially like i said with this week's news events. and so the question is can cruz catch up? can he unite the anti-trump vote? can he get people who are in the moderate, mainstream republicans, independent republicans, to come support him? like i said, i think this week's comments are going to be really rough on him because it doesn't seem like a mainstream candidate to come out and say that we should be patrolling, basically disregarding the fourth amendment of the constitution, using general warrants and going into muslim american communities, a lot of which are peaceful. obviously there are some issues. around i just don't think a lot of folks in the mainstream republican, especially young republicans, by the way, are going to be supportive of that. and those are the people that cruz needs to unite behind him if he wants to have a shot at trump. >> the other big question is how the parties become united, if it is a contested convention. >> yeah. >> that is the big question

going forward. ron meyer, thank you for being with us. i think we're going to have you back later on on the show. >> thanks, abby. talk to you soon. the time now is almost the top of the hour, and the hunt for a third bomber intensifying in brussels. as brand-new information surfaces about the two brothers that he was working with. we'll have live team coverage with the latest on the investigation, and stepped up security here at home, "fox & friends first" continues after this.

it is wednesday, march 23rd, a fox news alert. we have just learned the two dead terrorists accused in the brussels bombings are two brothers. >> and there's an international manhunt right now for a third

suspect. >> and this morning the number of dead is rising. 34 people killed in the coordinated attacks at the brussels airport and metro station yesterday. at least 250 others were hurt. isis has taken credit and is warning more attacks are coming. >> police conducting raids all across belgium, one turning up explosives, and an isis flag. the terror leading to increased security across the world, and here at home. >> we have fox team coverage this morning. garrett tenney is following these new warnings, but we start with benjamin hall on the investigation from london. benjamin? >> yeah, good morning. not only were those two attackers brothers, they also had criminal records and there will be big questions asked about why they weren't picked up or even on a list earlier. and that third man we're now learning that he had direct contact and connections with the paris attacks back in november, and there is a massive manhunt still under way for him. he is at large. three attackers in total took part in those airport attacks. here on your screen you will see

them. on the left you see the brothers, khalid and ibrahim el bakraoui. they both had criminal backgrounds and blew themselves up at the airport. the man in white is suspected to be najim dna was found on the paris bombs as well as in an apartment used last week by abdeslam one of the attackers. that man is still at large. one of the airport bombs blew up the american airlines airline jacket. another suicide vest was found undetonated. it was a taxi that dropped them off. it was reported police heard they had too much luggage. they had to leave one bag behind. police are searching an apartment where they were picked up a a search is underway. according to sources so far chemicals have been found in the apartment as well as one bomb and an isis flag. that bomb was one that wouldn't fit in the cab so the death toll could have been