laura hames still joined me on the phone as well. u.s. bureau chief for france. aura, any -- >> from what i would like to tell you more about this unit because it's really important. it is to serve lives without regard to their own. it is to conduct special operations involving counterterrorism and hostage situations. for some of us who follow what is going on in the world when you are french, you always want to do a story about the raid he cut his it's really an elite part of the police. a lot of very big operations in france that have taken part in over 1000 operations. they have liberated over 500 hostages. they have arrested over 1,000 suspects. they killed the 15 terrorists sent their creation. they are very specialized in very sensitive situations. they are specialized in a school with these kinds of situations. there were also on friday deployed in the theater during the attack. >> the most elite of the elite with regards to special forces there in paris. i believe that would be an accurate assessment. >> yeah. they are very courageous people. they can be d

joining me now is white house correspondent laura hame.what is your reaction to hearing that angela merkel and francois hollande are there at la republique. are you surprised by that? >> no, i'm not surprised because i believe they are going to try to go to bataclan and republique. francois hollande and his time were talking about this and the fact that they have a lot of people while trying to come to paris that want to pay respect to the victims. and they don't know what is going to happen next week during the climate conference when more than 100 head of states and prime minister are going to go to paris. it's said to be absolutely amazing. already i know that from 4:00 in the afternoon until the following morning you won't be able to go to paris because they are going to close major highways. it's like in new york, if you come from laguardia you cannot go inside there because they are going to close the road. a lot of people from all over the world are expected to come to paris and go to the bataclan and we see what is going to happen.