let me bring in michael o'hanlon senior policy fellow for the brookings institute and heather holbrookeect director for a new america. based on that report folks, what we have just heard, 88,000 security people are going to be displaced across the country of france. michael, are they expecting another attack and the fact that they've got nine people who have been detained in the investigation and that certainly suggests there is some kind of network out there working with these suspects. what about that? >> first of all, they have to assume there might be another attack. no one knows. no one knows what is in the psychologies of these numbers and if we think back to our own boston bombers, they were intending to go to new york and wreak more havoc there after the tragic attack two years ago and there is no reason to rule it out. i would have to rule it out that there is a better part of caution that there would be another attack and france is doing what it's doing. it has to. as to the size of the network, it does appear that various kinds of linkages to syria and iraq and cells that hav

at the far end is michael o'hanlon a senior fellow at brookings, co-director of the center on 21st securityrecently one with jim steinberg on u.s./china relations. in his distant past he worked at the congressional budget office. so did bob hale who left the congressional budget office and went on to worry about even more bigger numbers. he was for five years the undersecretary of defense and the comptroller at the pentagon. that means he had a $600 billion checking account to worry about. he's been the assistant secretary of the air force for financial management. he spent time as executive director of an organization i never heard of before, the american society of military comp trollers. and i bet that christmas party is just wild. after a distinguished career in government he left the pentagon in 2014 and is now at booz allen. next to him is my colleague ron haskins who is co-director of our center on children and families, a senior consultant at the n.e. casey foundation. he spent 14 years on the staff of the house ways and means committee where he played a key role in welfare reform a