here you have a person who the french had known had gone council memberen. another whose brother had been arrested twice once for trying to go to iraq and then for going there and this prison breakout scheme. they said we did watch them. we had other priorities, they seemed to clean up their act and we decided to go elsewhere. for every person you are doing surveillance on and you don't want them to know, it takes at least a dozen people. it's manpower-intensive. so it's a combination of things, it's judgment and it's not perfect. this is the big question the french are going have to answer the every person in law enforcement tonight is saying there but for the grace of god go us all. >> do we have any sense of how france or the international community is going to respond to these attacks? one thing that comes to mind is the ongoing air attacks in syria guinness isil. >> the -- against isil. >> the chal is how do you respond when they're local residents in one's own community. conversely if one reacts too much it draws them further into jihadism. do you cut

to take a moment to comment on the criticism we heard this moment -- morning from one democratic memberen -- member on democratic site. i won't speak for any other member of the committee, but i for one find it absolutely disgraceful how our government has treated some of our fellow citizens and the department of justice, under its current leadership, has failed, really failed to meet some of its most basic responsibilities. every single one of these witnesses, every one of them, speaks directly to ms. lynch's nomination. because the question in my mind is, as i stated yesterday will she take these flaws seriously, will she fix them? and i note that it wasn't too long ago that democrats agreed that it was perfectly appropriate to call witnesses to address what they viewed as problems at the department. so i would note to the anyway sayer on the other side of the aisle -- nay sayer on the other side of the aisle, it wasn't beneath the dignity of the committee when they were in charge, so why would it be now? and i would make reference to judge mckasey's hearing before he was approved to be