we have harry houck and cnn security analyst bob baer and tom funle tessentes. 's really the question harry, you were nodding when we heard this this is only a matter of time before we see this in the united states. >> exactly. >> you feel it is. >> without a doubt. the fact that here in this country the police departments and the homeland security are doing a good job. they can't watch everybody all the time. so i'm really quite surprised. we haven't had an attack like this lately at all, because they're so easy -- >> we haven't had an attack around the world or that we the u.s. have not had an attack? >> that we in the united states haven't had an attack like this because it's so easy to do in this country and it hasn't happened. so basically homeland security is doing a hell of a job. >> i'm surprised in the way that you are surprised. when are looking at what happened in australia, people trained by islamic extremists and they carry it. is it a way of life bl it's in france whether it's canada or the u.s.? do you think, harold? >> it's always going to be in t

and former nypd detective, harry houck.u first, colonel, do you think it's time we rethink how we flag and monitor possible extremists? >> good evening, brianna. the -- yes, i do. i believe right now there is -- right now, what you have is you've got a lot -- you know we started this years ago. we had a smaller number of people and we had a lot of people that could do it. now, i was listening before. we have over 1 million people on the watch list, and it really just turns out to be how many assets we have. and we have to be able to fund our law enforcement and our intelligence services to be able to track these people around the world, and we can't do that under things like continuing resolutions and continue to argue about it. >> yeah. continuing resolution being just let's do the budget we had before, and not really i guess prioritizing money for certain things. and obviously, this should be a priority. you know bob, when i wonder if when you have individuals who have inclinations towards extremism, and they're being mon

delta force and detective harry houck. i wonder if i could begin with you, mubin.fy his attack. blaming his hostages saying because they pay taxes to the french government that they are responsible for killing babies in syria, because france taking part in the u.s.-led coalition against isis there, using that as justification and blame for them. the other thing i heard from him was just his confidence and it's interesting. i've interviewed former jihadis and current jihadis before. and i remember that that sort of sense of confidence the sense that they are very right, no questioning about their justification. i wonder if you could explain that motivation and that mind-set. >> it's a good catch with that. this is part of the ideology this ideology declaring others as infidels or not believers. this is probably the same guy who believes that voting is considered associating partners to god, because only god can legislate, and humans can't legislate, so if you do that, you're making yourself like god. so very similar thinking. this is how they justify attacking civil

here with me in new york, former nypd detective harry houck. jim, let me get to you on the scene. what's the latest in the search for these three killers? >> reporter: we're hoping to get a news conference from the prosecutor, the paris prosecutor in the next few minutes. could be anytime now. from him, he's been the person in the past that's given the most complete information. we are expecting to get some information about the gunmen and the hunt for the gunmen. they fled the scene in a black citr citron. and the police believe they picked up that same car on the northern edge of paris, not very far away from the downtrodden suburbs of paris where there's a heavily islamic immigrant community that the gunmen may have wanted to take sanctuary in. one of the things that's going to make this really difficult is no one got a good look at the faces, so far as we know, of the gunmen. they were masked. they kept their masks on. in one video, you can see one of the gunmen picking up a shoe on the street near the car that he sped away in. and that shoe may have been part of his disguise,