i want to bring in now from copenhagen, michael kay. good to have you with me here. all of us were astounded hearing the news here as all of this was unfolded, hearing the number of dead was 20 and seeing that jump so drastically jump over the course of the evening. tell me about how that was received over where you are in koeppcopenhagen and as you were watching this story unfold. >> well, i think it's a shocking tragedy, but when you're a foreign policy analyst, again, i can't help but feel that this is something we've had combat indicators and warnings against. we had "charlie hebdo" in january '15, and we spoke at length about what were the symptoms and what were the reasons as to why this happened, and we spoke about what was going on in syria. we spoke about the ease of eu, the european union and the way that you can transit, not just people very easily across the borders of europe, but also, you can transit finances quite easily, weapons quite easily. and we spoke at large about how the perpetrators of charlie hebdo managed to get hold of brand new ak-47s and

kevin powell a boys journey to mann hood", and a senior fellow with the heritage foundation, and michael kay a foreign correspondent and former advisor to the u.k. ministry of defense. let me start with you kevin - for all of president obama's criticism of president bush, he has continued many of bush's national security policies - internet surveillance, military tribunal's, drone strikes and defence at guantanamo, what is the difference between these two? >> i can't defend some of the things he has done. i don't necessarily agree with them myself. he inherited a lot of things. we know that president bush's father put out a book na criticizes some things going on. we need to talk about the fact there are basic differences talking with folks, and, you know, not acting alone, which is something that occurs. >> one distinction is that they crossed a line, the bush administration, as far as we know, didn't cross, ordering a strike that killed a u.s. citizens without process. al-maliki. he might have a pass that george bush will not get. >> there has been a realisation during the period of the bu

joining us now is evan coleman, a research developer for flash point, michael kay a senior adviser fore uk ministry of defense who is also a foreign affairs correspondent. and charlene gubash is the nbc news cairo bureau chief. thank you for being up at this late hour. can you give us a sense of the safety measures the egyptian government has taken in terms of air safety thus far. >> in terms of the airport, they're bringing in a lot more bomb-sniffing dogs. they're even building kennels for them and they're going to bring bomb-sniffing dogs out on to the tarmac itself so they can check out the food carts. they can check out the luggage on the plane themselves. they're bringing in brand-new and modern x-ray machines. they're going to spread those out throughout the airport. they already implemented measures with the ground staff that they have to go through the x-ray machine ps before when they came in, they only went through the x-ray machines once and they didn't go back through them when they back and forth from the tarmac into the building and back out again. the policemen didn't g

kay. keep your heart open.... and love will always find its way in. >>> welcome back to the volkswagen passat postgame report. here now al michaels and cris collinsworth. >> cowboys have lost six in a row and they have been killers, had three 14-point leads against the falcons, lost to the saints. they lost to the patriots, playing well against the giaias but lost because of special teams. you saw tonight's game. those are killer. and it took -- philadelphia had the lead tonight. the game ended, the fifth time they took the lead. you don't see that very often. >> but i think it's a very good sign for philadelphia, much like denver when we watched them a week ago. do you see signsnsf progress? because they have a new quarterback, they have a new running back, they have a new league receiver. all those guys tonight played very well. can you now extrapolate out and say, okay, if they're improving to this extent, now by the time they get to the end of the season, end of the playoffs, uld this team get hot? >> in their third year of exist ens in the american football legal at the time. been in a 14-game season give the cowboys any sho