michael boyle is an assistant professor at lasalle university and expert in the study of terrorism and political violence. >> michael, thank you for being with us. late this afternoon we learned that belgian officials knew that a terror attack was possible, they were bracing for it. could they have done something to stop it? we know this was a soft target like many others including paris. >> they knew there was an attack but didn't have details. it's clear that the security services in brussels had been overwhelmed for some time. there were reports saying that the number of people they were monitoring was so large it was impossible to stop every attack. even if you do your best there is no way you can stop every attack. recently the government in belgium approved expanding but the problem they have is they have a lot of people in the society who are essentially

. >>> meanwhile, michael boyle is an assistant professor at lasall lasalle university and expert in terrorismning us. several european leaders have spoken this morning they're banning together and calling attacks a war not just on belgium but against europe. your thoughts on their response. >> well, i think this is overdue. to be honest the islamic state has declared war on european countries. they've declared war on france and belgium. they consider themselves at war already with these countries. what we've seen is kind of a fragmented european response where the french security services don't always work well with the belgian security services and so on. >> michael, this of course comes in the midst of a presidential campaign here in the states. we've already heard from donald trump and hillary clinton this morning on the "today" show. will this prove to be a test in how quickly the candidates can pivot and make political hay out of this situation? there's so many touch points, national security, war on immigration, war on terror, airport security? >> i would say it's dangerous for the cand

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