michael weiss, co-author of "isis inside the army of terror."hen, former israe forces special operative. bob baer, let me ask you first, put this in perspective, how significant, how huge is this capture? >> oh, it's huge, brooke, they're going to be going into a lt of safe houses. they're going to get a lot of new leads. a lot of the evidence is not transmitted over the evideninte. they're going to get more associa associates, bomb makers, so forth. once you start these series of raids, they can go on for weeks. i think by the end of it, they'll be close to, you know, mopping up the network that did the november 13th attack in paris. >> aaron, to you, just on sheer tactics, because all the genesis of this capture was, in part, what happened on tuesday, at a separate location, in an apartment, where, you know, one individual who was involved in the paris attacks, he was killed, and two others, including abdeslam, you know, slipped out through the roof and that is what then began this massive search for this eighth attacker. what are these police

>> all right, michael weiss, we'll keep it there. qanta, i know you've got something to add on to that. we'll see all of you, david, qanta and michael, in a few minutes. we'll continue this conversation, particularly highlighting what is happening predominant.codominantly in man communities in europe and even here in the u.s., the challenges they are facing. >>> also coming up next, exclusive, new video of the apartment where the alleged paris attacker was hiding out. we're taking you inside salah abdeslam's hideout. plus, the battle between ted cruz and donald trump, well, it's personal. their feud over a tabloid report, straight ahead. we stop arthritis pain, so you don't have to stop. tylenol® 8hr arthritis pain has two layers of pain relief. the first is fast. the second lasts all day. we give you your day back. what you do with it is up to you. tylenol®. well, staples has low prices and a price match guarantee. i took a body language class once and the way you're standing could mean you're hiding something. oh! uh, staples has lo

michael weiss as well. cnn terrorism analyst, terrorism studies journal ctc, sentinel and michael weiss, author of isis inside the army of terror. >> paris attacks were planned in belgium, staged in belgium, coordinated in real-time from belgium. this was an isis cell that conjugated three safe houses across the country in the weeks before the paris attacks. the working assumption will be right now that same network behind the paris attacks is also responsible for these attacks playing out. they may not be over in brussels today. rewiped back to last week. tuesday, belgian police sevened what they believed were attached to the terror attacks. there were three terrorists indeed. there was fierce firefight. two managed to escape. members of the cell are still at large. he was coordinating the attacks in real-time from brussels. still at were large. his was found in the bomb factory suggesting he may have played a role. they are still trying to figure that out. he is still at large. that is very, very dangerou

all of that, you see the heavy reaction in belgium. >> michael weiss, to the chairman's point, we know in the paris attacks there was a greater level of central coordination than we had thought in the initial days and weeks after the paris attacks. it wasn't just na guy who was controlling things there were calls made by the attackers and text messages sent to phone numbers in belgium, in brussels, so the likely hood that this involves more than just three people in that photograph and whoever was involved directly in the subway attack is gray. >> absolutely. i've talked to a counterterrorism official in france who told me the network originally thought to be 15, 20, meaning the perpetrators of the paris attack, now looking at something more along the lines of 30, perhaps greater, 40. there united states and a guy, in the safe house that was raided when salah abdeslam was captured. bellcade was killed himself but he was seen to be the senior-most isis official with respect to the network. doesn't due to call them the belgium or french networks. it's a frank aphone network and you have

i want to bring in a contributor to to the "daily beast" and michael weiss who wrote "isis inside the army of terror." good to see both of you. while these are two separate incidents perhaps there is shared ideology when you have isis claiming responsibility in brussels and a taliban-related group claiming responsibility in lahore. and perhaps the tactics are similar, too. because we are talking about suicide bombings. i wonder, kim, you know, these would happen in such close proximity on the calendar. do you see any other common denominators about these attacks that have taken place and why now? >> sadly in pakistan, these attacks are fairly regular. every couple of months, you've got some sort of spectacular explosion. usually aimed at government figures or areas near to the border with afghanistan. near to where the taliban is still fighting that the pakistani branch of the taliban is still fighting the pakistani military there. but in this case, this looks like one of those other branches of attacks that happens a lot within pakistan aimed at the tiny christian community. just abo

michael weiss, we know isis has claimed public credit for this attack.talk about the threat here in the united states. isis trying to do something similar in the u.s. anytime soon? >> they would try. i don't know if they would be ccessful. fighters that have gone o to n join isis, much less the number that has rushed to the united states is dramatically lower than that of any country in europe. in belgium, by contrast, i was told today 535 belgian nationals went to syria. most of them probably joining isis. of that, 200 have rusheeturned. you have these concentrated ghettoized communities where jihadi marinates. isis have said in their pr propaganda, that they plan to strike washington. essentially saying, you ain't seen nothing yet. who knows. i think we do have to be on high alert here. as a precaution. >> peter, why does belgium have such a problem with terrorism inside belgium is this what does it mean worldwide as this fight against isis continues? >> i think the problem is not belgium obviously. they have a problem, but i mean, european countries,

kimberly dozier, paul baer, michael weiss. going to stick around. >>> a stark reminder as kimberly just said, airports, train stations incredibly vulnerable. we'll get the latest on efforts to protect locations. >>> plus how all of this is affecting the presidential campaign, why you saw a picture there of donald trump. he responded vigorously to this this morning. senator ted cruz, kasich, all the presidential candidates, hillary clinton, bernie sanders all came forward with statements about the attack. more on that ahead. audi pilotless vehicles have conquered highways, mountains, and racetracks. and now much of that same advanced technology is found in the new audi a4. with one notable difference... the all-new audi a4, with available traffic jam assist. what if we invented a paint that's not only in the top of its class but lets you breathe as deeply as this or this or this. not guilty. if it doesn't upset your allergies like paint, is it still paint? natura is certified asthma and allergy friendly. and you can only find i

>> michael, thank you so much. >>> now to michael weiss. ttacks as we talked about it here. he says he did not know some of the other attackers. i'm just wondering, is there a sense these attacks are isis inspired or are they isis ordered? how independent or coordinated are these terror cells? >> no, the paris attack, i know for a fact was plotted in syria and had the approval of abu bakr al-baghdadi. the question is, was it executed or i should say were the targets scouted with the exact logistics planned. this is isis' debut of the scene. this is the real first in a long line of foreign operations that they now tend to emphasize and because it was so spectacular, it led to the promotion of several european nationals into the upper echelons of the organization, particularly on the foreign intelligence apparatus responsible for planning terror attacks outside. salah abdeslam, he may not have known every single paris bomber but he absolutely knew the mastermind because they were childhood friends and gotten into scrapes when they were petty t

back with me, paul cruickshank and michael weiss.hey were looking into nuclear capabilities in belgium? >> they arrested what they believe and allege is a key planner behind the paris attacks at his residence in brussels when. they searched that residence, they found more than ten hours of individual i don't surveillance footage of a belgian official working at a nuclear site. this obviously raised the alarm bells. why would the paris attack cell have this video surveillance footage, which they had recorded on some sort of camcorder of this official? were they wanting to perhaps aspire to launch an attack on a nuclear facility in some way to get a lot of international headlines, even if they couldn't get inside? were they even trying to gain access in a sense to nuke checl sites for some sort of aspirational materials inside there. the belgian official does not know what they were planning, but in the wake of that brussels attack on tuesday, they evacuated nonessential staff from two nuclear facilities in belgium, which shows they we

. >> i want to bring in buck sexton and michael weiss. let's talk about the arrests tonight. how is this connected to tuesday's attack? >> this would have been the network that mannplanned the pa attack and brussels bombings. paris was coordinated in realtime from brussels. this is -- it's not so much a transnational phenomenon as it is these two countries are so inextricably interlinked with each other. these raids are going after this very viable french speaking jih jihadis. >> what about the arrest in front of the prosecutor's? >> i don't know. the attack that happened in brussels was meant to occur at %-pm and the slaying, murder, killing made them feel the noose was tightening around their neck, it was any minute these guys were going to come through the door and shoot or arrest them. >> buck, there are two suspects at large, the man in the white jacket in the picture that was up still unaccounted for and now there is an unidentified suspect seen with the suicide bomber, khalid el bakraoui. what do your sources tell but them? >> we have to decide whether they have gone u

and cnn contributor and author of isis inside the army of terror michael weiss. tell us about the raid. what do we know that just happened? >> wolf, really minutes ago, as part of an armed police operation in brussels, they captured two suspected terrorists alive. those two suspected terrorists received injuries as a result of the operation but they have now confirmed the identity of one of those individuals is salah abdeslam, the so-called tenth paris attacker who participated in the paris attacks, dropped off the stadium bombers that night but his suicide device, he didn't carry through with that. he didn't become a suicide bomber that night and managed himself back to brussels. the trail had gone cold until tuesday when police went to an address in brussels that they believe was linked to the paris attacks. they had no idea that salah abdeslam or any other terrorists were inside. there was a big fire fight and two of the terrorists managed to escape. they believe one of those was probably salah abdeslam, and they they have been working 24/7 to get him. he will

michael weiss, cnn contributor, co-author of "isis inside the army of terror" and robert pate, directorf the chicago project on terrorism at the university of chicago. on a tactical side of things, when you look at these pictures from this neighborhood schearbeek in brussels, you know they're looking for something, someone. they found nails, they found chemicals, they found an isis flag. what are you seeing when you see these photos? >> i'm seeing lots of information that the local community very likely had or could have known relatively easily. and is probably -- the local community is probably simply suppressing that information. and i think this is the price we pay for demonizing muslims as a group in western europe. we have an area where there are individuals hanging out for not just weeks but probably months. lots of material that they're collecting to do us great harm. the local community is what we need first and foremost to provide information and if we continue to demonize them over and over and over again as they're just terrorists anyway, then why should they help? >> ali suf

joining me is michael weiss, author "inside the army of terror."ies released the suspect faycal c. how is it that almost a week later we still don't know who this man is? >> it's funny, the belgians still haven't charged but they released him due to lack of evidence and he went from being called a jihadi horror show to he might be innocent within a space of 24, 48 hours. i think they just got him in a drag net. he had been misidentified on the basis of the original photograph and now they are releasing new footage of the so-called man in white. it doesn't seem that you can make out what this man looked like. he's suspected to be the handler or ringleader of this operation. the belgians are scratching his head. they don't know where he is. >> what are they saying about the other suspects at large? >> this is part of the ever expanding brussels ring. honestly, nobody really knows where these guys are. this is, again, the fracnophone dispatched back into europe. you have guys that didn't get to syria because they were intradicted or killed on the way

talk about this raid, its effects and salah abdeslam's capture, paul cruickshank, bob baer and michael weiss. paul, if i could begin with you, how this raid materialized. the manhunt in effect, the trail had gone cold. this was a bit of luck that led them to him, was it not? >> jim, that's absolutely right. the trail really had gone stone cold since he got back to brussels the night after the attacks and melted away inside brussels. if you go back to tuesday afternoon in brussels, police launched a search on a propert, on an apartment in brussels. they were not expecting to find anybody there at all, but they had some intelligence that that address was linked in some way to the paris attacks. when they went in to try and search that property, there was a massive firefight that the three terrorists inside opened up on the police. the police were forced to retreat. one of the terrorists inside carried on, providing covering fire. he was eventually killed by a belgian sniper. he, by the way, thought to be a more senior figure than salah abdeslam in the paris conspiracy, so a major gap when they

michael weiss is a cnn contributor and co-author of a book on isis.ormer military attache in syria. good to see both of you. those images are extraordinary, as it colls clarissa's reportin. what would be the reason why russia would be targeting, reportedly, or at least hitting installations like hospitals and schools in this battle? >> clarissa makes a good point. it would be difficult not to know these are hospitals. they're marked on virtually every map that russia has access too. they believe the hospitals are being used for more than just medical care, and that's probably true. isis, al nusra, even the rebels know that the west is not going to strike hospitals. but the russians don't follow those same rules. if the russians believe those hospitals, schools, mosques, whatever, are being used by the rebels, they will go ahead and bomb them. also the russians aren't using much precision-guided munitions. if they're dropping bombs in a city, they're going to cause a lot of collateral damage. >> michael, how significant is this now that russia says the

i'll start with you, michael weiss.on't know for sure if he had an explosive belt on, as he said. >> right. >> but officials are treating it as they did. they had no other choice at this point. >> yeah. i think after the metro jet bombing, it is stupid to believe you can't get a bomb aboard a plane. a soda pop can bomb blew up the whole plane and all the passengers on board. from what i can tell, it doesn't seem this has anything to do with terrorism. the guy had a grievance with his ex-wife, wanted to get a message to her. the egyptian officials say he's not a terrorist, he's an idiot. >> nerves are clearly on edge because of this and because of the isis attack. general, you fought in iraq. you see what they are doing. how is the military currently handling the fight against isis? >> they are continuing to go along with the plane we talked about over a year, don. there's multiple aspects of this campaign. there is the campaign plan of the bombing from the air. there's the advise and assist with the military. there's th

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cnn contributor michael weiss is senior editor for the daily beast and co-author of "isis, inside the is there some type of correlation trying to get people to do these types of terrible acts and family? >> it's common. they have the brothers. a zealous jihadi. the tsarnaev brothers in boston is a famous case. look, when you see these jihadis, people who have known each other for years, usually it is childhood friendships, teenage friendships. "the master" mind, abaaoud, they lived in gangsterism. they went to jail for trying to break into a garage southeast of brussels. when you look about it, who can be radicalized with you better than your family. little brother looks up to his big brother and it is easy to be brainwashed. he kidnapped his own brother from school and tried to bring him to syria. i think he actually succeeded. this is a very common phenomenon. in the middle east, for instance. cousins, extended relations often wide up in the insurgency together. >>> let's bring in co-founder and chairman of the killing foundation. what do you make of this? do you believe that family

i want to bring in michael weiss and analyst jonathan gilliam.ink they are probably a little bit nervous. the paris attacks, unlike some of these other isis-inspired attacks we've seen throughout the world were known in advance to the sure counsel of isis. i know that for a fact. they will have known the identities of the paris attackers as you'll recall not long after november 13th, isis' propaganda put out a teaser for the fourth coming movie that they were going to take credit for and celebrate the nine attackers who were killed. noticeably and conspicuously absent from the video was salah abdeslam and there was a lot of speculation at the time as to what happened. he was wearing a suicide vest. he took it off. threw it in the trash. did he chicken out going through part of his operation? he giving instruction to abort and lie and wait to perpetrate a knock on attack. or there were reports at the time that he might have actually been gay and seen in a gay district of brussels going to bars and chatting up other men. whether or not that was tru

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michael milken, the junk bond king. in 2014, alone, they sent $25 million to israel. phillip weiss who's with us today reported that cfi provides funding to one headed by rabbis shapira and elitser. those guys co-authored a booked called "the king's torah" in which they make it clear that the commandment, thou shalt not kill applies only to jews who kill jews. the bulk of the text in this book is an instruction manual explaining the ways of kosher murder for nonjews. non jews the book explains are uncompassionate by nature and, therefore, attacking them may, quote, curb their evil inclinations. the book permits the killing of infants and children of non jews since, quote, it is clear that they will grow up to harm us. these are things that are funded by u.s. tax exempt dollars. in the interest of time, i think i'm going to skip through some of these. these are only a few examples in a large body of evidence showing how financial transactions from tax-exempt organizations are used to fund ethnoreligious supremacy and entitlements. with its consequence, displacement, and destruction

michael milliken, the junk bond king. in 2014 alone they sent $25 million to israel. phillip weiss who's with us today, reported that cfi provides funding to a yashiva that's headed by two rabbis. these guys co-authored a book called "the king's torah," in which they make it clear that the commandment, thou shalt not kill, applies only to jews who kill jews. the bulk of this, of the text in this book is a rabbinical instruction manual explaining the ways of kosher murder for non-jews. non-jews, the book explains, are uncompassionate by nature and, therefore, attacking them may, quote: curb their evil inclinations. the book permits the killing of infants and children of nonp-jews since, quote: it is clear they will grow up to harm us. and these are things that are funded by u.s. tax-exempt dollars. in the interest of time, i think i'm going to skip through some of these. these are only a few examples in a large body of evidence showing how financial transactions from tax-exempt organizations are used to fund ethno-religious supremacy and entitlement with its consequent displacement