we're getting a better sense of exactly what happened in belgium this morning, richard clarke. it looks like a suicide bomber at the airport, a separate attack in the metro, coordinated attacks, the timing about an hour apart, reminiscent of the terror attacks in paris four months ago. >> and probably planned by the same people who planned those and for the four months since the paris attacks, french and belgian police have been cooperating, trying to track down this cell and the logistic support network behind it in brussels. but they've failed. a week ago today they stormed an apartment thinking it was empty, thinking there might be bombs or other material in it. the police were shot on their way in. then friday of last week they raided another apartment and found the ring leader of the paris attacks from four months ago. after that second raid, on friday, they said they now have evidence that other attacks were being planned. that's what happened today. and that the support network was much bigger than they had been thinking for the last four months. george, there's no way a

do we have richard clarke with us in washington, former counter terrorism czar. i want to go back to richard in washington. if indeed this was a suicide bomber at the airport, what would that tell you about the nature of the attack? >> well, the brussels authorities are now saying it was a suicide bomber at least one. that is indicative of the isis mode of attack. it probably means there was also a suicide bomber in the metro. ha this points out is the need and the near impossibility of defending targets like metros, like the landside of airports. that's why intelligence is key here. penetrating these cells is key. if you don't penetrate them, catching them while they're about to do the attack, stopping people going into subway stations and patting them down it's near impossible. the new york city police tried for awhile to do random screenings of people going into subway stations. it was a very small percentage of people, very small percentage of stations. you really can't protect the metro system. you really can't protect the landside before security at an airpo

earlier we spoke with richard clarke. here's what he had to say. >> this is likely to have been provoked at this specific time by the arrests in brussels. it looked like the belgium police after weeks of failure to round up the gang that was still left was finally closing in on them. the people who perpetrated these attacks today probably thought they had very little time left to do it before they were caught because of the evidence that the belgian police were getting from their raids earlier in the week. but if there are multiple attacks that means there was still a rather large cell still out there and the belgians only lately said that publicly and this is obviously evidence that there was. >> the analysis from richard clarke, the former counterterrorism official giving us the latest right now that as you mentioned this has been a very long morning. the first two explosions starting about 3 a.m. local time. our new york city time. about 8 a.m. >> in the morning there in brussels. >> and, of course, this attack is cont

. >> let's pull in richard clarke joining us at this early hour. richard, thank you for joining us here. you see this. you hear these reports andndour thoughts? >> well, i think this is likely to have been pro-voked at the specific time by the arrests in brussels. it looked like the belgian police after weeks of faire to round up the gang that was still left was finally closing in on them. and the people who perpetrated these attacks today probably thought they had very little time left to do it before they were caught because of the evidence that the belgian police were getting from their raids earlier in the week. but if there a a multiple attacks that means there was still a rather large cell still out there and the belgians only lately said that publicly that they thought there was a -- this is obviously evidence that there was. there will be a lot of criticism now of the belgian police for taking this long after the paris attacks to find this gang. they'll also be a reaction here in the united states at some airports where people worry about th

i want to bring in our terror expert richard clarke and matt olsen. e pick up with you, richard, we have salah abdeslam in custody right now the europeans have him in custody right now, what more can they be doing to get more information from him about these attacks and the connection he may or may not have had to them? >> george, i think it's highly like when he was arrested he knew these attacks were being planned. he certainly knew the identities probably of the cell, because after he was arrested, the belgian police and the superior minister said two things, one we're anticipating attacks coming in the very near future and two, the cell network is much bigger than we thought it was. so, he said something. or, they found materials in the apartment that they raided that indicated something. they of course like us, under the obama administration, they're not going to use torture. and torture in my opinion, at least, doesn't work anyway, the information you get from it is unreliable. they'll try to persuade him in every way they can that he needs to co

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joining us now for more on this announcement is richard clark. thank you for joining us. we've just been dissecting news from metro. we did hear the ceo saying this was the logical next step. do you agree? >> absolutely. i think we've long before pushing for this move to happen. metro has long traded at what we call a conglomerate discount where it's got a group of companies together. result they equal less than the sum of their parts. last year they sold off the department store business. now we're seeing the consumer electronics business being spun off as well. measure tran pa-- more transpard it is a logical next step. >> so you think it makes sense for the two parts to be separated. more transparency, better from the management side of things. also, we're hearing potential acquisitions that could come under this new structure. do you think that's a real possibility? >> yeah, metro before this transition had announced it was undergoing an m&a program to find small innovative companies. b i think that will continue under this, and actually it will be easier to see the t

. >> let's pull in richard clarke joining us at this early hour. richard, thank you for joining us here. you see this. thoughts? >> well, i think this is likely to have been pro-voked at the specific time by the arrests in brussels. it looked like the belgian round up the gang that was still left was finally closing in on them. and the people who perpetrated these attacks today probably thought they had very little time left to do it before they were caught because of the evidence that the belgian police were getting from their raids earlier in the week. but if there are multiple attacks that means there was still a rather large cell still out there and the belgians only lately said that publicly that they thought there was a -- still a large cell out there and this is obviously evidence that there was. there will be a lot of criticism now of the belgian police for taking this long after the paris attacks to find this gang. they'll also be a reaction here in the united states at some airports where people worry about the security before you get to t

sharyl: dick -- or richard clarke -- was president bush's chief counterterrorism advisor. he didn't respond to our requests for comment. he's shown here in 2002 giving nacchio a presidential certificate. in this photo, nacchio and other ceos are shown with clarke, being sworn in on the president's national security telecommunications advisory committee. nacchio says that contract qwest wasn't getting after all dealt a major blow. a valuable contract? joe: yeah, yeah, we're talking, we're talking in the hundreds of millions, okay, we're not talking $10 million, we're talking big deal contract. well, what ends up over the next several months is about 4 or 5 contracts we thought we were going to get we never got. we didn't get. sharyl: nacchio viewed it as reprisal for his refusal to take part in what he viewed as an illegal program. joe: it was in excess of $500 million that i was counting on that didn't come in that year, in 2001 alone. sharyl: nacchio left qwest the following year without mending that fence. then, three years later, in august of 2005, he got a call. the jus

general richard clark told us that isis forces had lost nearly 40% of the land they initially conquered. he said isis bomb factories and oil wells have been damaged or destroyed. around 160 or so soldiers expected back in this wave of returning troops. more due back in the coming days. at fort bragg, greg barnes, abc 11 eyewitness news. steve: the wives and kids are ready, they can't wait, the final hour. tisha: look who is talking, the supreme court justice who drew gasps from the courtrooms. steve: tearful testimony that caused erin andrews to break down in court today and counting down, astronaut scott kelly prepares to return to earth, the one thing he'll be asked to do as soon as he lands. raleigh, take a look outside the raleigh eyewitness news center, things cooling off, 49 degrees, it was nice and warm, what about tomorrow? chris: it's cooling down, temperatures in the 40's, we'll fall into the low 40's and upper 30's by tomorrow morning, but year. we'll tell tisha: new tonight, erin andrews breaking down in tears in a nashville, tennessee, courtroom as she testified against mar

general richard clark told us that isis forces had lost nearly 40% of the land they initially conquered. he said isis bomb factories and oil wells have been damaged or destroyed. around 160 or so soldiers expected back in this wave of returning troops. more due back in the coming days. at fort bragg, greg barnes, abc 11 eyewitness news. steve: the wives and kids are ready, they can't wait, the final hour. tisha: look who is talking, the supreme court justice who drew steve: tearful testimony that caused erin andrews to break down in court today and counting down, astronaut scott kelly prepares to return to earth, the one thing he'll be asked to do as soon as he lands. tisha: let's go to downtown raleigh, take a look outside the raleigh eyewitness news center, things cooling off, 49 degrees, it was nice and warm, what about tomorrow? chris: it's cooling down, temperatures in the 40's, we'll fall into the low 40's and upper 30's by tomorrow morning, but march coming in like a lamb this year. this doesn't last long. we'll tell you about some rain terry bradshaw? what a surprise! you know w

. >> let's pull in richard clarke joining us at this early hour. richard, thank you for joining us here. you see this. you hear these reports andndour thoughts? >> well, i think this is likely to have been pro-voked at the specific time by the arrests in brussels. it looked like the belgian police after weeks of faire to round up the gang that was still left was finally closing in on them. and the people who perpetrated these attacks today probably thought they had very little time left to do it before they were caught because of the evidence that the belgian police were getting from their raids earlier in the week. but if there a a multiple attacks that means there was still a rather large cell still out there and the belgians only lately said that publicly that they thought there was a --

(sot richard clarke, nightline) we know that isis created an external attack division last year. u-s officials say they are not aware of any isis-cells in the u-s at present... but the fbi is monitoring dozens of americans across the country who have shown sympathies for isis. (gfx nightline) in the past few years, 103 americans were charged with trying to join or support isis. far fewer than in europe. (sot matt olsen nightline) the muslim community in the u.s. is not as isolated as certain places in europe. (standup close) the state department has issued another advisory for americans traveling to europe... warning that terrorists are planning more attacks there on sporting events, tourist sites, and public transportation. bk abc news hope you'll recognize the robber in this video and turn him in.they say back on march second, he held up a clerk with a gun at the advance auto parts store on mitchell avenue and demanded money.he got away with a bag of cash, and jumped into a waiting vehicle, either a gold or tan 4 door suv with heavily tinted windows.call crime stoppers if you c

. >> do you want to talk a little bit more about richard clark and what he was up to? >> well, as all this other stuff was going on, eligible receiver and other things, a couple of years before then the oklahoma city bombings led to president clinton signed a presidential directive on terrorism, kind of a policy on terrorism, counterterrorism. and they started setting up a joint task force on, it was called the critical infrastructure working group because people are thinking, well, you know, they blew up a federal office building. and, you know, a lot of people were killed and a lot of damage. what happens if the next time they blow up a power dam or some electrical facilities? something that could affect the entire economy? we need to set up some policies for this. so the working group, they defined what critical infrastructure was. eight sectors of the economy; transportation, banking and finance, water works, dams, you know, so forth. and then they decided, as most working groups like this, to create a commission, a presidentially-appointed commission to look into

did you want to talk a little bit more about richard clark and what he was up to? >> well, as all this other stuff was going on, eligible receiver and other thing, well, a couple years before then the oklahoma city bombings led to president clinton signed a presidential directive on terrorists, kind of a policy on counterterrorism. and they started setting up a joint task force on, it was called the critical infrastructure working group because people are thinking, well, you know, they blew up a federal office building and, you know, a lot of people were killed and a lot of damage, but what happens if next they blow up a power dam or some electrical facilities? something that could affect the entire economy. so we need to set up some policies for this. so the working group, they defined what critical infrastructure was, eight sectors of the economy. transportation, banking and finance, water works, dam, you know, stuff -- and then they decided, as most working groups like this, to create a commission, presidentially-appointed commission to look into this. well, the

do we have richard clarke with us in washington, former counter terrorism czar. to go back to richard in washington. if indeed this was a suicide bomber at the airport, what would that tell you about the nature of the attack? >> well, the brussels authorities are now saying it was a suicide bomber at least one. that is indicative of the isis mode of attack. it probably means there was also a suicide bomber in the metro. ha this points out is the need to get the cells before they act and the near impossibility of defending targets like metros, >> we continue to watch this live picture there out of belgium people on the ground, the reports of the explosion knocking people to the floor, blood everywhere. serious situation going on right now belgium frightening as a series explosions have been detonated across that city. >> european security officials have been warning that a major attack might happen. they have been warning about this for weeks. today this morning it started to happen. there have been a number of explosions, two at the airport, more in the subway and

here on the east terror expert richard clarke, former white house counterterrorism adviser and matt olsen. dick, let me pick up on something i was talking to martha about. custody right now. the europeans have him in custody right now. what more can they be doing to get more information from him about these attacks anday or may not have had to them? >> well, george, i think it's highly likely he was arrested he knew theseeing planned and certainly knew the identities probably of the cell because after he was arrested, the belgian police and interior two things, one, we're anticipating attacks coming in the very near future and, two, the cell network is much bigger than we thought it so he said something or they found materials in the apartment that they raided that indicated they, of course, like u obama administration they're not going to use torture and torture in my opinion at least doesn't work on you get from it is unreliable. but they are going to try to persuade him in every way they can that he needs to cooperate as clearly a much bigger cell network. they need to find it so there

richard clarke, who was a top security official not long ago said he.s. confident the nsa could open the phone all along. there is the oddity that the fbi is the one that locked the phone. they made a mistake when they first got the phone. this is a muddy case. applet think -- i think in the precincts of people who are synthetic to them, it is not going to change. generally the public is not synthetic to them unfortunately and that scares me. i think we need security for freedom of speech globally. kirkpatrick,id bloomberg contributor. that you were much. -- thank you very much. about 35 minutes away from the open in nyc. futures here in the u.s. down by 45 points on the dow jones. s&p 500 futures down by around eight points. the ftse 100, down by half of 1% in the dax down by 32 points. we will go across asset. the stoxx 600 travel and leisure index lower. down by 1.9%. nd yields down. -- pound at one .4 248 1.4248. the tragic events in brussels, next. ♪ david: this is bloomberg go. people are dead after explosions at brussels airport and metro station.

richard clarke said the only way to prevent this is intelligence.counterintelligence and counterterrorism at the cia and after 9/11. intelligence it is you can't search backpacks to bring an end to this. he said here in america, the muslim community is very close, working with the local police department. in brussels and europe and belgium. i don't terribly -- know whose fault it is. but they are completely apart from the rest of the community. and the fact that the last terrorist who was caught was on the lam for four months, that would never happen in america. four months to be on the lam. and you can't carpet from this problem out of the way. vote in back to the stone age or kill them all. you can't do that. host: that was mark on the independent line. dawned fromave claremont, california calling in on the public line. good morning. caller: sympathy to all of those tragic deaths that have occurred there. at some point, people are going to ask the democrats and obama, what is he doing to stop this? doesn't he take some ownership? he fact that he w

richards, planned parenthood, thank you. >> good to be here. >> ifill: and now, the other side: clarke forsythe is acting president and seniornsel for the anti-abortion rights group "americans united for life." i was asking cecile richards from planned parenthood about the undue burden argument. that's the argument in which they are challenging whether this law, this texas law should be upheld -- or overruled. what do you think about the argument that there is an undue burden place opened women. >> there is no undue burden. these are very important medical regulations, very important health and safety regulations. there have to be ambulatory surgical treatment standards and you would want every clinic to meet those standards. every part of those standards has a medical logic and a grounding in medical practice. dr. donna campbell was a state senator who testified in support of these regulations in the texas senate, 23 years an emergency room physician and she testified to the medical logic behind every part of the ambulatory medical/surgical standards. there is logic behind admitting privileges. it involves continuity of car

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