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Good morning. Joining Monday's show arw Mike Barnicle, Gideon Lichfield, Don Borelli, Christopher Dickey, Adm. James Stavridis, Mark Halperin, Steve Schmidt, Nicholas Confessore, Ayman Mohyeldin, Malcolm Nance, Walter Isaacson, Bill Kristol, Andrea Mitchell, Kim Ghattas, Chris Jansing, Rep. Mike McCaul, Rep. John McCain, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Comm. Bill Bratton, Peter Neumann, Donald Trump, Sen. James Lankford, Jon Meacham, Sara Eisen and more.
Yesterday was an awful day off the coast in Taji, Japan. More than 50 Risso Dolphins were killed and captured, however, today there were none. 
Authorities hunt for a French national and just a few minutes a ago, the suspected mastermind of Paris attacks identified. A French official identified the suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 132 people in Paris on Friday as Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, according to media reports.
I will also add that why are we in America acting like this can happen here in such as they say that it has not yet? That makes no sense because we have been attacked in what is considered to be 'soft targets' many times a year. They may not be terrorists per se, but we have sop many mass shootings done in this exact way and we had the Boston bombing incident. Again, it may not be listed or touted as a terrorist act, but it is the same action. Some shooter walks into a movie theatre, a school, a mall and two kids walked into a crowded area  at a marathon with  bombs all within the last two years alone. Let's mpt be fooled here. We have these types of shootings and deaths many times a year. 
Regardless of what i have to say about it, the official, who the Associated Press said was not authorized to publicly speak about the investigation, said Abaaoud is believed to be linked to thwarted attacks on a high-speed train bound for the French capital and a church in the Paris area earlier this year.
French radio station RTL described Abaaoud, 27, as “one of the most active (Islamic State) executioners” in Syria. Reuters reported that Abaaoud is currently in the war-torn country, citing a source close to the investigation.
Two more suicide bombers involved in the attacks were identified by authorities Monday. Paris prosecutors named an attacker who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday as Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old French national who was charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012.
The broadcaster BFMTV reported that three of his relatives were detained by police.
Prosecutors said Amimour was put under judicial supervision but dropped off authorities’ radar in 2013 and an international warrant was issued for his arrest. AFP said Amimour's family said he went to Syria two years ago.
Another bomber who targeted the national stadium was found with a Syrian passport bearing the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib, prosecutors said. Fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October, they added.
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The passport's discovery raised concerns that Islamic State militants may be crossing into Turkey before moving to Western Europe alongside the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who have entered Europe this year, many of them fleeing the civil war in Syria.
Authorities previously identified one of the suicide bombers as Omar Ismail Mostefai. A Turkish official told the AP on Monday that authorities flagged him to their French counterparts as a possible terror suspect in 2014 but received no response. Paris prosecutors said he was been flagged as having ties to extremism five years ago.
In April, French authorities said they foiled an "imminent" terrorist attack on churchgoers after a man was arrested in Paris with an arsenal of weapons. In August, passengers tackled and subdued a man as he apparently prepared to open fire on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris.
The French capital began the working week with all the usual energy and noisy activity associated with this city of 2.2 million as the manhunt for accomplices of the militants continued Monday. A minute's silence was held across the nation at midday to honor the dead.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said raids were carried out on 168 locations across France overnight, and 104 people have been placed under house arrest over the past two days. French media reported that five people were arrested and police seized weapons including a rocket launcher at an apartment in Lyon.
In busy intersections around the Place de la Republique and in myriad locations around the capital, commuters, students and school children navigated the swiftly moving bikes, mopeds, taxis and commercial vehicles as part of the familiar, early-morning grind.
At least one man, Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national, remains at large following the attacks, which have been claimed by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. The 26-year-old is the brother of one of seven terrorists who died in the attacks. Another brother was arrested in Belgium, authorities said. A major police operation was underway in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek on Monday, which has been linked to several previous terrorist attacks.
"We push on," said Florian Grisson, a waiter at a cafe in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, not far from where 89 people, many of them young, lost their lives when gunmen lay siege to the Bataclan music venue.
"Right now it's best to work, work," he said, before hurrying off to serve other customers. Others nearby who overheard his comments nodded their heads as if to concur.
France retaliated with airstrikes Sunday, destroying a training camp and a munitions dump in ISIL's de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, where the attacks are likely to have been planned.
The New York Times reported that U.S. warplanes targeted hundreds of trucks smuggling crude oil the militants are producing in Syria for the first time Monday, with the aim of cutting off their revenue. Onyanga-Omara reported from London.
Authorities are hunting for a Belgium-born French national who's one of three brothers suspected in the Paris terror attacks.
Belgian and French officials want to know where Salah Abdeslam is, and Belgium has issued an international warrant for him.
French police released his photo and warned people not to interact with him, saying that he is dangerous.
Investigators haven't said much about how they believe Abdeslam is tied to Friday's series of shootings and explosions in the French capital.
Jean-Pascal Thoreau, a spokesman for Belgium's Federal Prosecutor, said Abdeslam is one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the attacks. One of the brothers was killed in the attacks, and another was arrested by Belgian police, Thoreau said.
Salah Abdeslam had been questioned by French police earlier but was not detained, a source close to the investigation into the Paris attacks said.
He was driving in the direction of the Belgian border when stopped by police and questioned a few hours after the attacks, the source said. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.
The Paris attacks killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 350 others, many of them seriously.
The Islamic terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the slaughter, which France's President described as "an act of war."
French fighter jets struck ISIS targets in the Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday in what officials called a major bombardment and analysts described as a retaliatory move. Authorities made a number of arrests linked to the attacks in Belgium, and investigators homed in on an abandoned car with weapons found in eastern Paris.
Two days after the Paris attacks, the French capital is a city in mourning -- and on edge -- with key questions looming: Do suspects remain at large? Could another attack be in the offing? And how will France and other countries respond?
It's possible suspects who were directly involved in the attacks remain at large, a French counterterrorism source close to the investigation told CNN.
While investigators pieced together information about who could be on the loose, details emerged about several of the seven attackers who authorities say were killed:
• At least three of the terrorists involved in the attacks had spent time in Syria, a French official told CNN Sunday. The official did not identify the attackers.
• One of three bombers who detonated themselves at the Stade de France late Friday arrived on the Greek island of Leros on October 3 among numerous Syrian refugees, CNN's Christiane Amanpour reported, citing an unnamed French senator who was briefed by the Ministry of the Interior.
The senator told CNN that the man was carrying a fake or doctored Syrian passport, and also a registration document for refugee status issued by Greek authorities. The fingerprints taken by Greek authorities match those of the terrorist who blew himself up at the Stade de France, the senator said.
• Bilal Hadfi, a Belgian resident who is thought to have fought in Syria, was one of the attackers, according to several sources. Hadfi, who was killed in the attacks, was 19 or 20, the sources said.
• One of the suicide bombers has been identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai, according to Jean-Pierre Gorges, the mayor of the French town of Chartres, who is also a member of Parliament. Mostefai lived in Chartres at least until 2012, Gorges said in a Facebook post Saturday.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins described him as a 29-year-old French citizen with a criminal record from the southern Paris suburbs. The attacker, who was involved in the assault and hostage-taking at the Bataclan concert hall, was identified by fingerprints and was believed to have been radicalized in 2010 but had never been accused of terrorism, Molins said.
Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, the Paris prosecutor's spokeswoman, told CNN that six people -- all family relatives of Mostefai -- have been detained. It is common practice in criminal cases in France to place family members in custody. Mostefai's relatives have not been charged or arrested.
The violence that hit six sites around the city has deepened the trauma for Parisians, who had already been shaken by a series of terrorist attacks in January that left 17 people dead.
People were still out around the city Saturday, some posing for selfies along the Seine or stealing a kiss in front of the Eiffel Tower. But the tower itself -- like many other tourist attractions, shops and public buildings -- has been closed in the aftermath of the attacks.
Reflecting just how nervous Paris is right now, a panic broke out Sunday evening in a crowd gathered at a memorial erected at one of the sites of Friday's terror attacks.
Video showed mourners suddenly spooked, though it's still unclear why.
People ran away screaming. Some jumped over lit candles of the memorial, others grabbed their children and sprinted away.
The panic ended quickly and police cleared the memorial, saying no one is allowed to gather, at least for the time being.
Security has been stepped up, with military reinforcements drafted in.
There has been an outpouring of support and solidarity in Paris, but large gatherings in the streets have not materialized, partly because the state of emergency prohibits them.
Sadness and fear are taking a toll, Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman said.
"We don't know yet if this terror in fact is over or not," he told CNN, highlighting the jitters caused by unsubstantiated rumors circulating on social media.
"Hier, avec une violence inouïe, des femmes et des hommes sont morts, morts de vivre simplement dans un espace libre. D'autres en resteront
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CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Sunday that authorities had found three Kalashnikov automatic rifles in an abandoned car in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil that was believed to have been used by perpetrators of the attacks.
It's unclear whether any arrests authorities have made so far are connected to the vehicle, the French counterterrorism source said.
At least seven people have been arrested in raids in Belgium connected to the Paris attacks, officials said. Those arrested were in contact with the Paris attackers, a senior Belgian counterterrorism source told CNN. No weapons or explosives were found on them.
Raids were conducted in a Brussels suburb, Justice Ministry spokeswoman Sieghild Lacoere said. A car rented in Brussels was found near one of the sites of the Paris attacks, which triggered the raids, Lacoere said.
On Saturday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported that the father and a brother of one of the attackers had been taken into custody. And AFP reported that the two men were detained after police raided their homes 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of Paris. CNN has not independently verified that the men were picked up by authorities. Margot Haddad reported from Paris, Jethro Mullen wrote from Hong Kong, Don Melvin wrote from London and Ashley Fantz wrote from Atlanta. Tim Lister, Catherine E. Shoichet, Steve Almasy, Mariano Castillo, Michael Martinez, Pamela Brown, Evan Perez, Pierre Meilhan and Jim Bittermann contributed to this report.
Hunt For Public Enemy No.1 Amid Belgian Raids. Tear gas is used during a special forces operation in Brussels as officers hunt key suspects of the Paris massacre.
Police take away suspect during terror raid Molenbeek
A Paris attack suspect dubbed "Public Enemy Number One" is thought to be on the run despite earlier reports he had been caught by Belgian police.
There are conflicting reports over claims that Salah Abdeslam, a Frenchman wanted in connection with Friday's massacre, has been arrested by police in Brussels.
A major operation is currently under way in the Moleenbeek district of Brussels with Belgian broadcaster RTL suggesting the 26-year-old was captured alive by Belgian special forces during a raid.
He was reportedly seen at a window of an address with his arms up in the air, before police used tear gas to neutralise him.
However, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said the wanted man - who rented a car which was used to carry gunmen to the Bataclan in Paris - had not been arrested.
Sky's Tom Parmenter said reports he had been caught were unconfirmed.
He said: "It seems that one individual has been arrested by special forces in that particular part of Belgium using tear gas - throwing it through a roof window, and then seemingly according to reports there, pulling one individual out of an apartment."
Raids have been taking place at addresses in Molenbeek, which has a substantial Muslim population of mostly Moroccan and Turkish immigrants, since two of the Paris suspects were identified as having lived in the district.
Residents have been told to stay away while dozens of police, including armed special commandos in balaclavas, search the premises.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Belgian police raided several addresses in the district and arrested seven people in connection with the atrocity during the weekend.
Belgian prosecutors on Monday said five of these had now been released.
Authorities in Belgium have warned the Molenbeek suburb has become a breeding ground for radical Islamists.
Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said there would be "more action" in Molenbeek - and urged intelligence services across the rest of Europe "to exchange more and more intelligence."
The fresh raids took place came as Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud was named the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks.
Abaaoud, currently in Syria, was reportedly also linked to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and church.
Democrats argue over Islamic State fight after Paris attacks
Sanders, Clinton and O'Malley hold a moment's silence for Paris
The Democratic presidential hopefuls have clashed over how to deal with militant group Islamic State, in the wake of deadly terror attacks in Paris.Hillary Clinton, speaking on a debate stage in Iowa, said "it cannot be an American fight" and called on Turkey and the Gulf states to do more.
But rival Martin O'Malley disagreed and said the US had to "stand up to evil" and lead from the front. The attacks killed 129 people and injured hundreds in the French capital.
Hours after the near-simultaneous attacks on Friday, CBS News vowed to shift the focus of the debate to put more emphasis on counter-terrorism and foreign policy. A moment's silence was observed in Des Moines before the debate began, and the three candidates expressed their condolences to the French people. But then they clashed over the rise of IS, which has claimed responsibility for the atrocities.
Mrs Clinton, the former secretary of state, was challenged by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for backing the Iraq War, which he says led to the rise of the militants. She disagreed, saying US foreign policy did not have the "bulk of responsibility" for the instability in the region, pointing instead to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iraq's former leader, Nouri al-Malaki.
This was a debate that was going to be focused on domestic policy but the attacks in Paris meant the first half-hour was dominated by foreign policy.
It was a discussion that Mrs Clinton as former secretary of state should have aced but she didn't. She seemed tense and on the defensive as her rivals and the moderators challenged her on record and Mr Obama's legacy.
While she demonstrated better knowledge and grasp of the issues, neither she nor her Democratic rivals really gave a detailed plan on how to defeat or contain the so-called Islamic State.
Mr Sanders and Mr O'Malley had clearly made a decision ahead of the debate that they would not play nice with the frontrunner this time.
This made the second Democratic debate feistier and more spirited but still civil. The road to the nomination is still close to impossible for the two men but they're not giving up.
IS cannot be contained, it must be defeated, Mrs Clinton said, adding that while American leadership was essential, "we will support those who take the fight to Isis [IS]". But she and the other candidates did not spell out how far they would go.
The US has been part of a coalition of countries taking part in air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq, but some of the Republican presidential candidates have called for the deployment of US ground forces.
In other debate highlights:
  • Mr O'Malley attacked "immigrant bashing" Republican Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on Mexico border
  • he and Mrs Clinton said the US should accept 65,000 Syrian refugees, far higher than the 10,000 coming
  • she backed a minimum wage of $12/hour, but Mr Sanders wants $15/hour
  • he criticised her for taking campaign donations from Wall Street
  • she replied that she supported New York City's financial sector to help it recover from the 9/11 attacks
  • Mr Sanders said he will make public college tuition free, paid for by raising taxes

This primetime showdown was the party's second debate of the election campaign, two fewer than the Republicans, who have a much wider field. In 79 days, Iowa will be the first state to pick a presidential candidate from each party. Voters across the US will go to the polls finally in November 2016 to choose the new occupant of the White House.
Hillary Clinton on defense over Wall Street ties. Hillary Clinton's campaign is working to clarify the connection Clinton made between Wall Street, campaign finance and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 during Saturday's Democratic debate.
Bernie Sanders, asked about the donations that Clinton receives from Wall Street, mocked the idea that campaign contributions don't influence politicians. Clinton interrupted him to say she has "hundreds of thousands" of small-dollar donors, and then pivoted to her work as a senator.
"I represented New York and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked," she said. "We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York, it was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists for an attack on our country."
Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton's communications director, told reporters gathered in Ames on Sunday to cover Clinton's remarks at a barbecue that Clinton doesn't need to defend herself when it comes to her donors.
"The point that she was making is as senator, she did things that were supportive of Wall Street, particularly after 9/11," Palmieri said at the event hosted by local Democrats. "But she also spoke out as senator, and now, when she thought they were going too far and pursuing reckless behavior."
Palmieri said it's "pretty clear" that donations, from Wall Street or elsewhere, don't impact her policy decisions.
In her speech, Clinton made no mention of Wall Street and emphasized that her focus is squarely on the needs of middle class families.
"I was the only one of the debate stage last night who would commit to do everything I can to raising your wages, not your taxes," she said, highlighting what Palmieri said was her most important moment during the debate.
Former President Bill Clinton, who was in Des Moines for the debate and accompanied his wife to the barbecue, called the charge that Clinton is too cozy with Wall Street is "a stretch."
"Those of us who were there know that," he said, speaking to reporters.
But Martin O'Malley, who spoke after Clinton at the barbecue, continued to needle her for trying to "mask" her ties to Wall Street with an ill-timed reference to the tragedy on 9/11.
"She doesn't have to mask it," he said. "It is what it is."
The exchange in question between Clinton and Sanders was the most talked-about moment of the debate on Facebook, and it continued to make news the morning after. Stephanie Cutter, a Democratic strategist, was asked about Clinton's comments on ABC's This Week.
"I don't think that was the finest moment of the debate and I think she's going to have to answer to that," Cutter said. "You know, getting into a position of defending Wall Street is a problem for her."
But Palmieri said she doesn't believe that what Clinton said will be a problem for her down the line.
"I don't think that this is something that caucus-goers in Iowa or voters are going to focus on," she said. "What they are really going to care about is that she's focused on raising incomes for the middle class."
The New York Times editorial reported how Hillary Clinton Botched Wall Street QuestionsHillary Clinton should have seen that Wall Street shot coming. Instead, she compounded the damage.
The former secretary of state was off to a sound outing in Saturday night’s debate against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland. Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris dominated at first, allowing her to highlight her superior experience in world affairs. But it was those attacks that made her badly muffed response to questions about her fealty to Wall Street all the more jarring. Here’s the exchange:
Mr. Sanders: “I have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from Wall Street, from the military-industrial complex, not one candidate say, oh, these campaign contributions will not influence me. I’m going to be independent. Well, why do they make millions of dollars of campaign contributions? They expect to get something. Everybody knows that. Once again, I am running a campaign differently than any other candidate. We are relying on small campaign donors, 750,000 of them, 30 bucks apiece. That’s who I’m indebted to.”
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Mrs. Clinton: “Well John, [John Dickerson, the moderator] wait a minute. Wait a minute, he has basically used his answer to impugn my integrity. Let’s be frank here.”
Mr. Sanders: “No, I have not.”
Mrs. Clinton: “Oh, wait a minute, senator. You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small. And I’m very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60 percent. So, I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.”
Predictably, Twitter exploded with demands to know what campaign donations from big banks had to do with New York’s recovery from 9/11. Answer: little to nothing. Since 2001, she and Bill Clinton have earned more than $125 million for speeches, many of the most lucrative made before financial groups. That does not account for the millions given directly to her campaign, and to political action committees backing her. Nearly 15 years after the 2001 attacks, Mrs. Clinton was earning more than $200,000 for a 20-minute speech. Most of those took place behind guarded doors. But one can guess that she and the financial executives were not still talking about 9/11.
Middle-class Americans associate Wall Street with the 2008 meltdown of the economy that cost so many their homes and savings. In the debate Mrs. Clinton repeatedly referred to her plan for reining in banks, but offered precious few specifics. This is what happens when Hillary Clinton the candidate gets complacent. The debate moderator, Mr. Dickerson, had even tipped her off before a commercial break that the next topic was Wall Street.
Her effort to tug on Americans’ heartstrings instead of explaining her Wall Street ties — on a day that the scars of 9/11 were exposed anew — was at best botched rhetoric. At worst it was the type of cynical move that Mrs. Clinton would have condemned in Republicans.
She should make a fast, thorough effort to explain herself by providing a detailed plan for how she would promote measures protecting middle-class Americans from another financial crisis.
Lebanese army soldiers and security forces gather as Lebanese and Hezbollah flags are erected at the site of the two explosions that occured on Thursday in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut
Lebanon Arrests Nine Suspects in Connection With Beirut Bombings. Seven of those apprehended are from Syria. Nine people, most of them from Syria, have been arrested in Lebanon over their suspected involvement in last week’s twin suicide bombings in the national capital Beirut that claimed more than 40 lives, an official said Sunday.
Lebanese Interior Minister Nuhad Mashnuq said in a press conference that seven of the arrested individuals were Syrian while two were locals, al-Jazeera reported.
“One of [the two Lebanese suspects was] a [would-be] suicide bomber and the other a trafficker who smuggled them across the border from Syria,” Mashnuq added.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which ripped through one of Beirut’s busiest shopping districts on Thursday.
Intelligence chairmen: US has no strategy for ISIS. The respective chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees said on Sunday that the U.S. has no strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, agreed during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the terrorist attacks on Paris resulted from the lack of a strategy to fight ISIS.
“We’ve got to have a strategy. We don’t have a strategy in Syria as it relates to ISIL,” Burr said, using an alternate acronym for the terror group. “The president talked the other morning about ISIL was contained. America learned within 24 hours that it’s not contained, it’s rampant.”
President Obama announced he would send 50 Special Forces troops to Syria to aid rebel groups in the region, but Nunes said such measures are inadequate to deal with the problem.
“Fifty Special Forces [troops], which we’ve just upped in the last two weeks, that’s not enough to make a big impact," he said.
“You can’t fight ISIS unless you are willing to put a strategy together that deals with the failure of Libya, the problems in the Sinai, Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan-Pakistan region,” he added.
Nunes also called for the U.S. to close its borders to migrants from Syria, saying there’s no way to distinguish terrorists from refugees seeking asylum.
“There’s no possible way to screen them. It should be stopped immediately,” he said.
“Bottom line, if you don’t want refugees, you have to go into Iraq and Syria and defeat ISIS.”
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