joining me now, lieutenant colonel james reece, cnn military analyst, retired delta force commander. we are hearing abut this. in the refrigerator. also hearing reports that a father had his toddler inside the supermarket refrigerator as well. and employee who texted tactical information to police, from beneath a sink. survival methods, kick in. when this happens. for many people. they, they calm, cool, others become frazzled. >> big credits. don, you are right. it's fight or flight. big credits to the father grak his son. in a situation like best thing is to go. if you don't go, you could be dead. he decided to go. good call. >> you should leave first. never get in the car with some one. never leave the original scene with some one. so your first response is the most important one. and in this particular situation you said that should be flight. >> yeah, don, you know. it's fight or flight. and when i say by, now you can either stand and fight and see what happens. or you try to get away. if a guy comes in with a gun. you are by yourself. you might as well try to got out of there. >

we just speck to lieutenant colonel james reece. he was saying he doesn't believe the woman was in there. she want to another location. if she was in all of this chaos, you can imagine that she, it might not be that difficult for her to, to escape. >> well that's what the police union is saying. they're saying that they believe she took advantage of that confusion. to get away. as you watch that video though, a pretty good shot. it's hard to see where sunny would have come out. there weren't a lot of entrances, exits there. our information was there were just two. so, so it does -- beg some explaining. but that its the police's best information. and, and, you know this has been one of the things. we watch the police scrambling. each of these shootings. each of these events to try to keep track of people. remember, it took, it took, 48, 72 hours to find the shooters who carried out at take on "charlie hebdo." it took some time to find this hostage taker. remember, he carried out another shooting yesterday. that killed a female police

joining me is cnn terrorism expert paul cruikshank and retired lieutenant colonel james reece. paul, i understand you've been talking the a senior belgium counterterrorism official. what are you learning? >> they believe this group was connected to isis. they were recruited by isis and not only that, they believe they were directed by isis to launch a retaliatory strike in europe, specifically, in belgium because of these air strikes against isis. belgium is part of the coalition against over iraq so the belgiums think this is an isis plot which is trying to retaliate against belgium for that very, very worrying times in belgium for that very, very worrisome time. this is still a continuing operation. not clear yet that the danger is over. >> but you say recruited, directed by isis. meaning they had actually been in either syria or iraq in isis territory. >> yeah, i mean, these guys had been isis. the belgians think they were recruited and deliberately sent back by isis to launch a terrorist attack and this is a game changer moment because we haven't seen the isis leadership do

. >>> i want to bring in now cornell james reece, retired commander and ceo of tiger swan. what do you think of this? do you think that he is part of isis? >> no, don, i don't. he fits the profile, and he is disenchant and this is a way por isis to bring some of the kids to bring them in but he is not a part of the isis. >> his dad believes he is coerced or set up by the fbi. >> and what people have to understand that you get on the internet and tweet and put this out, people are watch, and those are red flags that come out, and law enforcement, it is no joke. >> and the dad said that he is disenchanted and he sounds like every expert that comes in that fits the profile. >> yes. >> and this is serious, because he could face life, because he is charged with attempting to kill officers and employees of the federal of the united states with possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime. >> as a father i cannot imagine my children writing that on the internet so it is insane. >> and thele legal fees? >> off of the charts. >> okay. stay with me, and we will get back to you i

joining us the retired lieutenant colonel, james reece, the cnn global affairs analyst, also joining us, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director and paul as well as bob bair. thanks very much. i want to alert our viewers in the united states and around the world, we're anticipating that the president of france will be speaking about what has happened. these dramatic developments, shortly. we'll of course have live coverage of that. we're also told president obama is on a separate trip to knoxville, tennessee, we will be making some remarks about what has happened. three of these terrorists they are now dead. the female suspect is on the run. boumeddiene, how that there are others now still at large and there could be other attacks? >> well, i think that's something they're looking for very diligently around the company. country. that's one of my concerns is that she was able to either slip out or what we call squirt out of the objectivity area when they thought they had it isolated but one of the things they're doing is back layering to make sure she's not trying to blend in tojus

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lieutenant colonel james reece.nk you, don. >> we'll be right back. >>> 11:00 p.m. on the east coast. i'm don lemon. one terror suspect. a woman on the run tonight after twin raid in france. the first killed the brothers, authorities blame for the "charlie hebdo" massacre. the second, the alleged hostage taker at a kosher store in eastern paris. his death and the release of some of the hostages, captured in this dramatic video from

joining us this morning, retired lieutenant colonel, james reece, a former u.s.'s look at the original tweet. i want you as a member of the military to sound off for me. here's the tweet in a michael moore sent. my uncle killed by a sniper in world war ii we were taught snipers were cowards, will shoot you in the back. snipers aren't heroes and invaders are worse. what was your reaction when you saw the tweet, colonel? >> well michaela good morning, first off as a former military officer, i know what all the military folks are doing today. in today's you know, unruly world. when they see something like that from a guy who has tweets of 1.4 million people a lot of people say -- so what who cares, it's a lot of something about nothing. but at the same time it kind of rolls into you know where we are with "charlie hebdo" and everything else around the world, how far does free speech really go without giving you know props back to the men and women who let him speak these things by saying oh by the way, thanks for you know doing this and preserving my freedom of spee

joining us to discuss it cnn global affairs analyst, retired commander lieutenant colonel, james reeceobby ghosh, managing editor of "quartz," let's look at the hotbed areas on the ground. you have the obvious, you have iraq you have syria. militarily why do we need to be there? what's the criticism with these cells popping up everywhere? are we focused in the wrong places? do we need to be here? >> we do chris, this is a safe haven right now for insurgents and everyone to come in and they go back to europe and strike against europe. >> what are we seeing as a growing commentary bobby? you're distracted by isis and that's why al qaeda in yemen is the one. the aqap arabian peninsula are taking credit for this the u.s. the west -- you messed up. is that fair? >> it's a little unfair. it's not like we're not in yemen. we are, usually with drone strikes and cruise missiles. we are present there and we're working with the what remains of the yemeni government. the trouble is that the so-called rivalry between these two groups the rivalry is political and taking place at a high altitude betw