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intelligence director james clapper said it's unlikely that terrorism brought down the airbus a-321. investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. allen pizzey is in egypt. >> reporter: sunny isles beach teams have finished combing a eight-square-mile area of the sinai december ertd where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. most of the bodies have been found along with the plane's two flight data recorders. decoding them to discover what caused the plane to suddenly breck apart in midair is expected to begin tomorrow, after the arrival of experts from ireland where the a-321 was registered and had its last safety check. the airbus and other experts examined the twisted metal of the fuselage today. a neat arrange. of luggage in the desert rather than a airport carousel was a reminder how much those clues matter. isis based in the sinai claimed it brought down the plane, and direct terrorist involvement, the possibility the sinai militants are responsible can't be dismissed according to the u.s. director of national intelligence james clapper. >> it's

director of national intelligence james clapper. >> it's unlikely, but i wouldn't rule it out. russian company that owned the aircraft, denied the crash was caused by equipment failure and said the pilot did not send a distress call. the only possible explanation, deputy director alexander smirnov said, could be external impact on the airplane. for relatives who must now provide d.n.a. and other means of identification for bodies brought back to st. petersburg, concern about who is responsible is buried under grief. at least two dozen of the victims were children. everyone involved in the investigation is urging patience and warning against jumping to conclusions. but the possibility of terrorist action has already prompted a number of airlines to avoid flying over the sinai. scott? >> pelley: allen pizzey reporting for us from cairo tonight. allen, thank you. now moving to the republican presidential race, a new poll shows donald trump holding on to his lead in new hampshire. but the fastest-rising candidate he's now at 13%, a nine-point improvement since september. trump is a

. >> james clapper said, and this happened on sunday, james clapper just said that you just had a reporthat he had what, 1250 people that the fbi is watching? james clapper says there are thousands of fighters that have traveled to syria and returned to europe. but the number being tracked here in america is 40. so which is it, 1250 or 40, mr. president? >> glenn, stand by. thank you. >> thank you. >>> it did not get a lot of attention, but some of the folks upset about racism on college campuses were not happy with coverage of events overseas. glenn has some thoughts on that just ahead. >>> plus, we go to bill hemmer, standing by in paris with the story from the streets of a city on edge. >> we're scared, but we know we have to fight pack and the only ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark means thousands of dollars each year going back into my business... that's huge for my

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intelligence director james clapper said it's unlikely terrorism brought down the airbus a-321. investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. allen pizzey is in egypt. >> reporter: search teams have finished combing an sinai desert where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. most of the bodies have been found along with the plane's two flight data recorders. decoding them to discover what caused the plane to suddenly break apart in mid-air is expected to begin tomorrow after the arrival of experts from ireland where the a-321 was registered and had its last safety check. the airbus and other experts examine the twisted metal of the fuselage for clues today. a neat arrangement of luggage waiting in the desert rather than on an airport carousel was a poignant reminder of how much those clues matter. an isis affiliate based in the sinai has claimed it brought down the plane. and while there's no evidence of any direct terrorist involvement,t,he possibility the sinai militants wewe responsible can't be dismissed, accocoing to u.s. dirececr of nationa

james clapper said isis and al qaeda would likely infiltrate the refugee community. >> one of the things that keeps getting missed in this issue of refugees, is the u.s. takes in about 1.4 to 1.7 million a year through the front door. no one else in the world gets these people to come as they do in the united states. it's the back door, and the 10 million to 20 million who are already here. absolutely a security risk. the other piece is, there's no such agency, as the u.s. vetting agency. it doesn't exist. and to suggest that we're going to vet a couple hundred thousand people coming as fast as they're going to try to come through, the government wants them in here, is outrageous. we've got to get this under control for a whole bunch of reasons. obviously security being one of the most important. >> you know, colonel cowan, it even runs deeper than that. they're going to take in these refugees. yet the fbi is telling us, and saying that they have 1,000 active isis probes ongoing right now. within our borders. right here in the united states. now, one of the things as we look at this atta

director of national intelligence james clapper. rule it out. >> reporter: metrojet, the russian company that owned the aircraft, denied the crash was caused by equipment failure and said the pilot did not send a distress call. the only possible explanation, deputy director alexander smirnoff said, could be an external impact on the airplane. for relatives, who must now provide dna and other means of identification for bodies brought back to st. petersburg, concern about who is responsible is buried under grief. at least two dozen of the victims were children. everyone involved in the investigation is urging patients and warning against jumping to conclusions. but the possibility terrorist action has already prompted a number of airlines to avoid flying over the sinai. scott? >> allen pizzey reporting for us from cairo tonight. allen, thank you. >>> now moving to the republan presidential race, a new poll ows donald trump hololng on to but the fastest-rising candidate there is marco rubio. he's now at 13%. a nine-poioi improvement s

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possibilities -- leading to renewed questions about terrorism u-s director of national intelligence james clapper... not ruling it out. "well we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. i-s- i-l, in a tweet, claimed responsibility for it, but we really don't know." egyptian and russian officials casting doubt that the terror group active in the region has weaponry powerful enough to shoot down a commercial plane. these developments come as flights carrying victims' remains returns to a country in mourning. 25 children perished in the crash including the youngest victim - a 10-month-old baby girl i'm reid binion, reporting. some question whether there's enough information to say what may have caused the crash... investigators are still waiting on a complete readout from the "black box" flight recorders. after 125 years... the iowa national guard is ending its presence in corning... the guard announced the closure of the corning armory yesterday. 80 soldiers with the "first battalion, 168 th infantry" will move to camp dodge in johnston next year. the closure is part of a co

intelligence director james clapper said it's unlikely that terrorism brought down the airbus a-321. investigators hope thelight recorders will tell them what did. allen pizzey is in egypt. >> reporter: sunny isles beach teams have finished combing a eight-square-mile area of the sinai december ertd where the airbus went down and will now widen the search. most of the bodies have been found along with the plane's two flight data recorders. decoding them to discover what caused the plane to suddenly breck apart in midair is expected to begin tomorrow, after the arrival of experts from ireland where the a-321 was registered and had its last safety check. the airbus and other experts examined the twisted metal of the fuselag today. a neat arrange. of luggage in the desert rather than a airport carousel was a reminder how much those clues matter. isis based in the sinai claimed it brought down the plane, and while there is no evidence of direct terrorist involvement, the possibility the s sai militants are responsible can't be dismissed according to the

if we have the director of national intelligence james clapper and we have state department spokesmany and we have james comey who you heard, an assistant director of the fbi, michael steinbeck and homeland committee chair mike mccall all saying it's impossible to vet the 10,000 that the president insisted today we'll take in from syria, why should we risk one american getting hurt in light of what the events in paris? why should we risk one american life if they're telling us we cannot vet them all? can you explain to the american people why we should do that? >> i explain to the american people that we have to deal with the causes, not the effects. >> i just asked you a question. you're not answering my question. >> the people of syria used to live in peace and prosperity. a government that -- they have not -- the intention of sharia law talking about -- >> sir. wait a minute. if one of the terrorists in paris got through the refugee system there and they're warning us it can happen here, i'll throw this to brigitte, one plus one equals two, safe to assume our intelligence officials

but now james clapper says he cannot rule it out.or powell is following the breaking news live from our mideast bureau. >> reporter: investigators from egypt, russia and france are taking a look at those black boxes, and they're reportedly in good condition, providing a lot of information. to some questions to the -- so some questions to the many -- the answers to many questions are being sought. airline officials publicly ruled out technical or pilot error saying the plane was in good condition despite the fact it had suffered significant damage several years ago during a hard landing and the only possible cause of the crash was a, quote, external impact. but metro jet officials have refused to say what could have caused that. reuters is reporting that initial investigation reports that the plane was not struck from the outside, meaning that there was no missile that was fired at it. it was also well above the range that most terrorist analysts think any group in egypt would have the ability to shoot down a plane. sos there is some

speaking in washington this morning at a defense conference james clapper of the director of national intelligence saying there is nothing yet to show that it was intentionally brought down. although they're not ruling it out. >> well, we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet, but we really don't know, and i think once the black box has been analyzed and recovered and perhaps we'll know more. >> comments coming after the airline itself metro jet said the only explanation for the crash is external impact. they're ruling out technical issues or pilot error. >> i can tell you with absolute confidence those repairs from a few years ago have nothing to do with what happened to this plane. >> all 224 passengers and crew on board the plane died including children and newlyweds. peter sharp is in st. petersburg, russia, with more. >> russian investigators have been recovering body following the crash on saturday and overnight an aircraft from cairo brought back 144 of the victims. now they'll be taken from the airport here to a special purpose-built mortuary north of

james clapper said isis and al qaeda would likely infiltrate the refugee community. >> one of the thingsat keeps getting missed in this issue of refugees, is the u.s. takes in about 1.4 to 1.7 million a year through the front door. no one else in the world gets these people to come as they do in the united states. it's the back door, and the 10 million to 20 million who are already here. absolutely a security risk. the other piece is, there's no such agency, as the u.s. vetting agency. it doesn't exist. and to suggest that we're going to vet a couple hundred thousand people coming as fast as they're going to try to come through, the government wants them in here, is outrageous. we've got to get this under control for a whole bunch of reasons. obviously security being one of the most important. >> you know, colonel cowan, it even runs deeper than that. they're going to take in these refugees. yet the fbi is telling us, and saying that they have 1,000 active isis probes ongoing right now. within our borders. right here in the united states. now, one of the things as we look at this attack

james clapper has been speaking this morning from the u.s.ng, more or less, exactly the same thing, you simply can't rule out the possibility that there was a bomb on board. the airline said some kind of mechanical impact was the cause. but as you say, russian officials have kicked back against that and say it is far too premature to make that kind of conclusion and it is a claim not based in fact. so at the minute it is still a mystery. it is a mystery, above all, for the families of the 222 -- 224 people who were on board. >> reporter: coming home on a plane into their home city, the bodies of 144 people who left russia for vacation in egypt. this is where they died, but why is still a mystery. the debris so scattered, investigators say the plane broke up in mid-air. the tail found three miles from the cockpit amid the poignant reminders of the lives lost. they are searching for clues and ruling out nothing. >> one of the things that you can't rule out at this time is whether or not there was an explosive device of some sort on the aircraft

james clapper, the head of intelligence, our fbi director, our assistant fbi director, the house chairman of the homeland security committee are all saying that we can't possibly know if they'll infiltrate. so doesn't that -- must you not conclude that the president is willing to gamble with the lives of americans? >> look, we have a president, frankly, that doesn't know what he's doing. he doesn't have a clue. i've been watching law enforcement officials, many of them, saying there's no way we can tell, there's absolutely no method, there's nothing we can do to really tell and to really be sure. and it only takes one or two people. you see the destruction that they can cause and the problem. and then they say well we're taking some youth. the two boston bombers, they came in, who did such a horrible thing about the boston marathon, they came in, one was a very young guy and the other was a young guy, but they were very young people when they came in and they became radicalized and horrible. you saw what happened there. so it doesn't -- you know, it doesn't matter to me. we cannot do this

among the speakers today, the director of national intelligence, james clapper, deputy defense secretarywork, and also u.s. army chief of staff general mark millie. opening remarks to start and a morning keynote address by white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. this is live

and intelligence official james clapper was even asked about the terror group isis claiming it brought plane down. >> we don't have any direct

among the speakers today, the director of national intelligence, james clapper, deputy defense secretary bob work, and also u.s. army chief of staff general mark millie. opening remarks to start and a morning keynote address by white house deputy national security adviser ben rhodes. this is live coverage, it's just getting underway. >> please join me in thanking our elite underwriters, adobe and cdwg. [applause] our strategic underwriters, hp and marklogic. [applause] our industry underwriters, drs technologies, ibm and monster government solutionings. [applause] you know, we say this all the time, but events like this would not be possible without their generous support so, again, i would like to thank them. and now i'd like to introduce your host for this morning, kevin barron, executive editor of defense one. kevin is a veteran of washington's defense, national security and foreign affairs scene. he's previously written for foreign policy, national journal and stars and stripes. currently, he serves as the pentagon press association, and this is breaking news, he just recently became

from a missile or bomb blast those last two about terrorism u-s director of national intelligence james clapper... not ruling it out. "well we don't have any direct for it, and there is a very egyptian and russian officials casting doubt that the terror group active in the region has weaponry powerful enough to shoot down a commercial plane. the developments come feel the pain their families." girl i'm reid binion, reporting. the pilots did not make an emergency call to ground services before the crash. two memebrs of a vatican commission are arrested, on suspicion of leaking confidential documents to the media. both were members of a commission pope francis set up shortly after his election in 2013. the commission gives him advice on reforms in the vatican administration. a statement says vatican prosecutors upheld the arrests of the two, who had been interrogated over the weekend... "well, once again, people are betrayed it. people that the pope trusted, and that's hardly the way to help his mission." the arrests came just days before two italian authors were due to release books that their p

director of national intelligence james clapper not ruling it out. evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. tweet claims responsibility for it but we really don't know. >> reporter: casting doubt terror group isn't powerful enough to shoot down a plane and victims remains returned to country in mourn. 25 children perhe should in the crash, including youngest victim ten-month-old baby girl. i'm reed binnion reporting. >> julie: nine of the 224 victims have been identified this morning and that information has not been released to the public yet. 25 of those on board were children, youngest ten months old. >> daniel: new this morning federal animals joining search for comic book writer from weymouth. 47-year-old norman lee last seen while snorkeling with his wife. they became separated 250 feet offshore and fbi tells patriot ledger he is now cooperating with the royal cayman island police. ntsb has confirmed they have found the wreckage of the el faro cargo ship but there's still a lot of work to do this morning. u.s. navy continues to survey the area east of the bahamas and they are wor

james clapper says he hasn't seen any evidence indicating the plane was brought down by isil or any ofts affiliates. >> well, we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet, but we really don't know, and i think once the black boxes have been analyzed, which they have recovered, then perhaps we'll know more. >> aviation attorney, former pilot and aerospace everything is in our studio tonight. welcome. usually these things take a while to figure out, right? >> they do. the key evidence is the digital recorder. first off this plane broke up in flight. large pieces of this plane crashed into the sinai desert, largely intact. how does something like that happen? you look at the wreckage on the ground. there are very little burn marks if any on the fuselage, there is no evidence of a missile standoff -- >> and they are above 30,000 feet. so a sand miss -- missile couldn't hit them? >> it absolutely could hit them. the there are very sophisticated radar system that requires engineers to operate, different from a shoulder-launched missile. >> wouldn't you see that on a sat

possibilities -- leading to renewed questions about terrorism u-s director of national intelligence james clapper... not ruling it out. "well we don't have any direct for it, and there is a very region has weaponry powerful as flights carrying victims' lose so many children - we understand - but we can never feel the pain their families." 25 children perished in i'm reid binion, reporting. the pilots did not make an emergency call to ground services before the crash. a nazi era airport will now be used as a refugee shelter. europe is facing a massive refugee crisis -- there haven't been this many people entering germany since world war two. this airport -- once a hub for the nazi regime -- will house around a thousand refugees in the coming weeks. chipotle stock is taking a hit following an e-coli scare. the company temporarily shut down dozens of restaurants in washington and oregon after 22- cases of e-coli were reported. yesterday stock fell five-percent as soon as the market opened. there is no word from the company if you like salmon, you may want to take a closer look the next time you orde

procedures for refugees, requiring homeland security director jeh johnson and james comey and james clapper to certify a refugee before he can come into the u.s. there are limitations to vetting refugees. >> we can only query that which we have collected. >> reporter: undeterred, white house officials say the president would veto anything that restricts the united states to help the vulnerable. >> the fact is that america has always been open to allowing people from war-torn countries who are subject to incredible hardship and oppression and violence to find refuge in our country. >> reporter: whether the house will get a chance at a veto override vote is uncertain at best. senate democratic leader harry reid vowed to block the house bill from getting to president's desk. this as third ranking senate democrat new york's chuck schumer called for a pause in the plan that would allow 10,000 syrian refugees to enter the u.s. over the next year. clearly republican senators think the battle is far from over. some believe they can secure the votes to outflank the white house on the issue. >> we ha

from white house deputy national security advisor ben rhodes director of national intelligence james clapper armed services committee mac thornberry. this is one hour and a half. >> welcome everyone. good morning i should say. good morning. welcome to the third annual "defense one" summer. i'm excited for so many reasons. this is our third time, hopefully third time is the charm. you know, when we first launched "defense one" our tagline was this was about the new era of defense. the future of defense. we really focus on trying to define what that meant coming out of the big four years, out of iraq, afghanistan. and we decide to talk about the limits of power, military power. because it seemed like the u.s. was kind of started to go into a lot of different directions at once. i think a dean was established then we at secretary hagel at the time but said the military would not have a limit. we have to, the military has to be able to answer the call of the president, whatever you will be at anytime. so by the second year of our defense summit we had general dempsey who had written for i think

finally they were granted access by the cia director, james clapper, the intelligence agency directorhe national security council stepped in, denied them that access and shut down the analysis and examination of these bin laden documents. we have a dia michael pregent who said they denied us access. >> i think that's what makes this so unusual. the documents that were obtained during the raid on bin laden were described as voluminous, enough to fill a small college library. many of those documents we still have not seen. >> virtually all of those documents we still have not seen. we've seen 130 of them thus far. there are literally more than a million that haven't been declassified and released. >> where does this lead? >> i think, steve has done the reporting on this. i think what it shows and the context of previous situations -- you can go back, not just about the islamic state, for example, iran. look at the 2011 plot to blow up the saudi foreign minister in d.c. and all of this, i think takes it centering in a negative way in how the process, the national security council process

. >> james clapper said isis and al qaeda will in fill trade the community. >> it will happen, absolutely. >> you said we have made this mistake many times in the country and you pointed this out. i want you to expand on it. often sometimes you say we will support the rebels in this case against assad, we don't know who they are. we don't know if they are worse. you mention libya as a great example and libya is a safe haven for training camps. explain what we should dine stead. >> assad is not great. assad is a bad guy. we're supporting these people. a lot of people think the people we're supporting are isis. we're supporting the rebels, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars giving them weapons and russia is fighting us because they don't want them and we're supporting people we don't know who they are. i spoke to a general the other day, very knowledgeable guy. he said, mr. trump, we have absolutely no idea who these people are. here we are again with libya and iraq and we're supporting other people. they'll probably be worse than assad? what are we doing? we have

to that end, the director of national intelligence james clapper and the defense secretary ash carter have eased the rules as it were as much as they can to improve information-sharing with their french counterparts. but of course the rub is going to be one, if the information is indeed shared in a timely fashion and two, if the people who are getting that information actually look at it, and do something with it. they can't always act on it. this is at least what intelligence operatives will tell you. >> ros, we've heard from the french authorities that one of the suspects, a man who blew himself up i think at the football stadium had near him a syrian passport. and with all of the refugees migrants coming across europe at the moment it's extremely consensus tiff that this has --s has been found. think of the number of states in the u.s. isn't it? >> that's right, in eight states which all happen to have republican governors at the helm they are all saying that they will not allow any of the estimated 10,000 syrians who are cleared for resettlement in the united states to live in the

so james clapper not ruling out terrorism and the kremlin not ruling out terrorism either.gators from rgs rgs and egypt have been working on the two black box flight recorders which were recovered in good condition from the debris. at the minute we understand they are done loading the data from those black boxes but they haven't begun analyzing them yet so there are a lot of unanswered questions. crucially we have a few facts. we know there was no distress call from the pilot or the co-pilot and we know the plane broke up in mid-air. but exactly why is a mystery. the metro jet, the airline that operates the plane, it said a mechanical impact was the cause. i want to read you exactly what they said because it's important. metro jet said, the only feasible reason for the plane's break-up in the air was some sort of impact, a mechanical, physical impact on the aircraft. now russian officials have just slapped down that claim saying metro jet's claim is premature and it is not grounded in real facts. obviously what the airline is trying to do here is distance itself from any re

here's what james clapper had to say moments ago. >> we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. isil in a tweet claimed responsibility for it and there is a very aggressive isil chapr in the sinai, but we really don't know. and i think once the black box have been analyzed and recovered, then perhaps we'll know more. >> cnn's arwa damon is in cairo. >> reporter: carol, a medical source who has been dealing with processing the bodies tells us that of the 175 that he saw around 60% to 70% of them were still intact. and none of them had any sort of burn injuries or burn scars. but the more information that's coming out from the very different individuals and governments, parties involved, the more convoluted and mysterious the reasons behind thing down of this aircraft become. this morning new photos emerging of the black box from russian passenger jet flight 9268. metroairline holding a press conference and moscow claiming the airliner could not have broken apart in midair by itself. metrojet airlines holding a press conference this morning in moscow, saying russi

and intelligence official james clapper was even asked about the terror group isis claiming it brought the plane down. >> we don't have any direct evidence of any terrorist involvement yet. >> does isis have the ability to shoot down an airliner? >> it's unlikely but i wouldn't rule it out. >> reporter: owners of the metrojet say the plane went down after an external impact, but russian officials say that statement is premature. a source in egypt says the plane's black box indicates the jet was not struck from the outside, and i pilot did not make a distress call before it crashed. but congressman peter king says terrorism cannot be ruled out. >> the fact that there was such a large explosion, certainly terrorism has to be considered. that's a hotbed, that area there, for isis, for al qaeda, for islamic militants and the arab spring has only gotten much worse. to me this has all the earmarks of something that has to be looked at as far as terrorism. >> congressman peter king talking about the sinai peninsula. we'll be showing you more of that at 5:30 including a map of that terror zone

the president continues to insist that we take in syrian refugees even though james clapper and even though our fbi director and assistant fbi director and the chairman of the homeland security committee and the house are all saying that isis is likely to infiltrate the population. why is the president willing to gamble with the lives of the american people especially in light of the fact that this just happened in paris? >> well, first, you just ran clips from hillary clinton and barack obama that just boil my blood. no one -- who is saying that we're at war with muslims? no one is saying that we're at war with an entire religion. we're helping the kurds. they're muslims. we're trying to empower sunnis on the ground, they're muslims. we work closely with jordan and egypt. they're muslims. by the way, they consider sunnis that don't agree with them as heretics. they consider all shia as heretics. they consider obviously christians and jos as heretics. we are in a civilizational struggle between these radical lunatics who are motivated by their interpretation of their faith and our va

director of national intelligence, james clapper.says there's no direct evidence the crash was part of a terror attack but it's not off the table anymore unanimous else is. director clapper says isis has an aggressive affiliate in the sinai peninsula where the plane went down. 20 minutes after takeoff on a flight to st. petersburg. the isis affiliate claimed responsibility but nobodys buying it. egyptian forces have been fighting militants there for years. investigators say the jet was at 31,000 feet but analysts say isis does not have, they know of, missile a that can take down a jet at that altitude. reps for the airline said only a quote, external impact, could have downed that jet. an external impact. russian officials say it's too soon to make that claim. too soon to make any claim. where they don't yet know what happened. first we do have some images. we know this. this is what it looked like on the group. this shows egyptian military officials examing the engine. you can see a piece of the plane'stail and this is of interest.