k.t., your thoughts? >> i think it does effect this election as much as it effects the general election. the three republican candidates think they are really different but they are not that different bigger election issue is hillary clinton. she owns the iraq war. the freedom mature you can point to a lot of the problems in the middle east are hers. that is the ball and chain around her neck. now, the other election that matters is the one in june, and that's the british vote, the referendum do they withdraw from europe? they are looking at this situation saying we need to secure our borders and if britain does vote to get out of europe, it will be a domino effect other countries will follow suit. the other european union could collapse. >> one of these attacks happened just a couple blocks from the eu headquarters. it was tesktly pointed. what about donald trump. previous attacks it seemed like he got a boost. >> of course. and knowledge has nothing to do with it who knows more about foreign policy, joh

we bring in national security analyst k.t. mcfarland. you were just talking about this yesterday and the different terrorist cells in the area, the complex group and how far it extends following the arrest of salah abdelsalam on friday. >> heather, we did have an eerily forecasting conversation about this yesterday. i think it's, welcome to the new europe. there are isis terrorists sprinkled throughout the european union. the head of eurpol which is the organization that coordinates a lot of the european police force he said there are 5,000 europeans who have gone to train and fight with isis in iraq and syria and are now back in europe already. now, 5,000 trained terrorists, that's an urban guerrilla army and bell jam is the mission central for a lot of the terrorist networks that the paris terrorists mastermind could hide there in plain sight for four months even as the most wanted man in europe, his picture was everywhere, that says a lot. the fact there was a large arsenal of weapons they've also uncovered shows again more attacks th

k.t., we got salah abdeslam on friday. he was sharing information saying that there would be another attack, saying that the terrorist cell was larger than we knew. then this occurred. do you believe that this was possibly the attack that he was talking about? and how do we fight back? >> well, it may be this attack, but there may be a number of attacks in the pipeline. there were large arsenals of weapons, home made weapons as well as sophisticated street urban welfare weapons. you don't know if it was this one and this one may be the calendar got moved ahead, maybe this are others to occur. how do you deal with this? the european police forces and intelligence services are not adequate to deal with it. that's why it's such a significant problem. this takes not just thousands but tens of thousands of law enforcement and intelligence in europe to deal with it. and that overwhelms the security forces of the -- the fbi equivalent, police equivalent, and all of these european countries. the other problem is that once you -- b

k.t. mcfarland, this goes beyond the image that nancy reagan had as a glamorous first lady.n when it came to geopolitics, she was an important influence on her husband, as important adviser as the defense secretary and the secretary of state? >> in a different way. >> sure. >> because she understood the role her husband could play in history. and i think, ed, you would agree with this, nancy reagan was one of the people whispering in president reagan's ear that it was time to have a new relationship, reach out, have an overture, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. the joke was always around the white house that when president reagan met with soviet leaders for the first time, that gorbachev had said, well, mrs. reagan, whisper in the president's ear every night when you go to bed, peace, peace, peace. and she said, i'm whispering in your ear. it's time for peace, peace, peace. so she had a role not as a political adviser, but as someone who said president, my dear husband, this is your time, this is your moment, you can do this, no one else can, and she was the woman behind

k.t., your thoughts on this day? >> people will talk about what a gracious first lady nancy reagan was, the power behind the throne, but i look at it slightly differently. she played a huge role in ending the cold war. why? because president reagan wanted the soviet union but it was totally far-fetched. it would never have happened. so president reagan set about in his first term to fix america's economy, to rebuild american defenses, and then nancy reagan, at the end of reagan's first term, was the power behind the throne, urging reagan to take a new direction. to reach out to the soviet union, to find a way to have arms control agreement. she lobbied secretary of state george schultz. she lobbied the chair of the chief white house steve of staff james baker. and she lobbied her husband, president reagan. and as a result right before reagan's re-election in september of 1984, president reagan invited the soviet foreign minister to a working lunch at the white house. and when nancy reagan received him, he bent down a

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god bless you. ♪ >>> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome national security analyst k.t. [ applause ] ♪ >> good morning. did everybody watch the fox news debate last night? woo! fox news is pretty good, isn't it? well, that's where i work. how many of you watch fox news? okay, you'll get this. i'm the brunette. [ laughter ] and for the last six years, i've been on fox news on a regular and daily basis, talking about and analyzing the national security issues of our day. before that, i had a long career in government, starting when i was 18, working for henry kissinger in the white house situation room. i worked for nixon. i worked for ford. i went to graduate school, and then i worked for president reagan. at the pentagon, i was one of the highest ranking women. i i got the highest national pentagon award for the civilian service. and then in 1985, i did the absolute impossible, nobody would ever do it again, i walked away. i found love, i got married, my husband's right there. i moved to new york, we raised five kids. so for the next 15 years, i wasn't from washington. i

joining us, k.t. mcfarland. she's done extensive work in the state department as well as national security analyst. this just adds to the confusion around the european union and some of the big things of dropping the borders, allowing the travel, and the collaboration is working for the terrorists in this case and against people who want to live their lives. >> you know, that's a really important point because the european union was formed on the assumption that people could travel freely from one country -- use didn't need a passport to go from belgium to france to germany. what has happened, according to the head of europol is that 5,000 european citizens have left europe, gone to syria, trained with isis, and come back. when they go in to syria, they get smuggled in. they don't go a passport that's stamped that says you've been fighting with isis. they come g back from the training. they go back into europe. there are 5,000 of them. that's a guerrilla army. that's 5,000 who can act as sleepers, form sleeper c

please welcome our moderator, national security analyst, k.t.farland. ♪ >>> welcome to cpac 2016. and i'm so excited to be the first panel in what is the most important cpac convention since 1980. were any of y'all here in 1980? oh, i guess i'm the only one. why is it the most important? because this is the time of great decision that conservative movement and the republican party. you're going to make that decision. and the people you're going to meet and hear and listen to today, tomorrow and the next day are the ones who are going to lead that revolution. you have to decide which ones to pick and which issues are important. no i am very honored to have a distinguished and diverse group of people with different backgrounds. congress ryan zinc ki. he is a former navy seal. and the republican representative of large from montana, deneen boar really. she is the chief lit call correspondent of conservative review and a colleague of mine from fox news new york. and jim cara fan no, vice president of the heritage foundation. [ applause ] >> and i sa