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ISIS-Inspired Attack on U.S. Capitol Thwarted; French Authorities Search for Accomplices; Secret Service Shakeup

Aired January 15, 2015 - 06:00   ET

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Terror threat on Capitol Hill.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: 20-year-old Ohio man apparently inspired by ISIS.

ROMANS: Planned to set off a series of bombs.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a classic lone wolf.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe he was coerced in a lot of ways.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What would you say to him right now if you saw him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would give him a big hug and bring him home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chilling surveillance images from inside the kosher market in Paris.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Frightened hostages gather in a small group to wait and to worry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This was more improvised; I think this person was trained.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The soldiers say Boko Haram often outgunned them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The inability of Nigeria to contain this situation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's time for the international community to step in.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the help we're not seeing.

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It's Thursday, January 15th, 6:00 in the East. Federal authorities thwart an Ohio man's plot to launch an ISIS-

inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol. The man, Christopher Lee Cornell, in handcuffs now for allegedly planning to set off pipe bombs and shooting people as they tried to flee. His target -- lawmakers that he considered the enemy.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: This alleged jihadist says he had contact with terrorist groups in the Middle East. The 20-year-old drew the attention of authorities this summer with threatening posts against members of Congress.

Let's get right to Alexandra Field. She's live on the ground for us in Cincinnati. Alexandra?

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Alisyn.

The FBI swarmed, arresting Christopher Lee Cornell in the parking lot of this gun shop just two miles from his house after they say he purchased two weapons. Authorities had been monitoring him online for months, but they say they stepped in to make their move when his alleged plot got closer to its final or later stages.

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FIELD (voice-over): An Ohio man now in custody for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Officials say Christopher Lee Cornell was planning to detonate pipe bombs around the building and then shoot people as they fled.

The 20-year-old came to the FBI's attention several months ago for alarming social media posts, talking about violent jihad. In an undercover operation, the FBI says Cornell told an informant he had contacts overseas, that he had aligned himself with ISIS and believed lawmakers were his enemy.

A criminal complaint says Cornell did not think he would receive authorization to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States but wanted to wage jihad on his own, writing, "I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves."

He researched the targeted government buildings and the construction of pipe bombs. Wednesday, Cornell purchased two M-15s and 600 rounds of ammunition from this gun store in Cincinnati before FBI agents arrested him in the parking lot.

WKRC obtained this image of his arrest from a customer inside a nearby store. The gun store owner, who'd been cooperating with authorities, described Cornell's demeanor.

JOHN DEEN, POINT BLANK GUN STORE OWNER: There wasn't really anything about him that would have suggested he was involved in something like this.

FIELD: His parents, devastated and in shock. ANGELA CARMEN, CORNELL'S MOTHER: I'm just heartbroken. I just want

to give him a big hug and bring him home. Because he ain't out to hurt nobody.

JOHN CORNELL, CORNELL'S FATHER: He may have lost his way somewhere in there, but I believe he was really vulnerable; and I believe he was coerced in a lot of ways.

FIELD: John Cornell says that his son recently took up an interest in Islam but had never mentioned ISIS.

CORNELL: He explained the peaceful side of Islam to me, you know? And he never showed any, any signs of any, any kind of violence or anything. I mean quiet, shy, good kid.

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FIELD (on camera): The informant in this case had flagged Cornell for the authorities back in the fall, noting some Twitter activity. The informant in this case, somebody who is working to improve his own legal standing.

Cornell will head to court tomorrow for a detention hearing. He'll be back in court next week for a pretrial hearing -- Chris.

CUOMO: All right, Alexandra. So the way this sets up is that the picture of this young man now is very troubling. But is it the whole picture? The concern: was a Paris-like attack just averted? Or is this something different?

Let's bring in CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director, Tom Fuentes, and former Department of Defense terrorism official and president of 4D-PAC, Jim Arkedis. Thank you, gentlemen, for being with us.

Tom, let me start with you. What do they have on this guy?

TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Morning, Chris.

I think, you know, to start with the social media and just that, you know, he kept indicating in a number of subsequent meetings with -- later with an informant that he intended to carry out an attack, if he possibly could.

CUOMO: And what is the bar, Tom? Help people understand the situation. When do you go from just talk to what a authorities have to accept as actionable intelligence?

FUENTES: Well the question is, you know, was he on his own? Did he want to do this? How much help did the FBI give him in furthering his interest in doing this? You know, and when he finally purchases the weapons, you know, that will come out in the -- in the subsequent evidence of whether or not he was entrapped, he was pushed into this.

But normally, you know, I can tell you the FBI is so busy these days that they don't really go out of their way to try to entrap somebody. They have enough people, whether it's him or others, that express an interest to do harm, and they can't take it lightly. And if a person acquires the weapons, you know, we've seen how little it takes for someone to do something.

CUOMO; Right.

FUENTES: No matter how old they are or no matter how inexperienced.

CUOMO: So it feels like a legit bust to you, Tom?

FUENTES: Well, I would guess so, yes.

CUOMO: Based on what you know. All right.

So now what's the other side? Well, we've been hearing from his parents. Let's play some sound of his father, about why he believes his son -- remember, the parents say they had no idea any of this was going on, although this young man had all of -- this 20-year-old had all of this activity online. Here's what he said about why he doesn't think his son was serious.

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CORNELL: He's never been out -- well, he's been out of the state of Ohio a couple of times when he was younger. And he's a big momma's boy, you know. His best friend is this kitty cat named Mikey. I can't believe -- like this is just, like, total shock.

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CUOMO: All right. The kitty-cat named Mikey, Jim Arkedis, that's not really instructive. But he also said that he didn't have access to a car, he didn't have a driver's license. He was living, you know, very close to his parents, you know; he was very close to him. He's painting a picture of this 20-year-old as not really being a 20-year- old. But there is no known mental or emotional diagnosis on the kid.

What is your skepticism about whether or not this 20-year-old is what he presents? I'm calling him a kid, but he's a man. At that age, men can be very dangerous.

JIM ARKEDIS, PRESIDENT, 4D-PAC: Yes, if you take -- if you take the father's words, maybe it's lone kitty cat instead of lone wolf.

Look, we live in a situation where there's a lot of pressure on law enforcement agencies to produce results. The only time we hear talk about the FBI or the CIA is when one of these guys gets through, right?

And so this may be a case -- you know, let's talk about how to execute a successful terrorism attack. It's a marriage of capabilities and intentions. Sure, he had the intentions, but did he have the capability? Probably not. Because rule No. 1, if you're going to conduct a successful terrorist attack, is not to put it on Twitter.

So above and beyond that, we have a situation where, OK, they bust -- they do the bust. They talked about the possibilities of entrapment. That's all fine. And then we have FBI sources coming out and saying, "Don't worry. The public was never in danger, anyway."

And so my skepticism evolves from a position of, if the public was never in danger anyway, and the FBI had undercover agents involved with this guy from the get-go, why are we hearing about this? Why are we talking about it on CNN?

CUOMO: Well, and here's other side of that, Tom, that I'll put to you, which is, you know, what have we seen time and again in this country? Somebody who isn't taken seriously, who's just seen as a misfit, who may have a problem, but it's not really dealt with. Parents who are somewhat oblivious. They get their hands on a weapon, and all of the sudden, a lot of people are dead. You know, how do you balance these two things, Tom?

FUENTES: No, that's exactly right, Chris. And you hear this, you know -- when that happens, what you just described, it's, well, they dropped the ball. They had -- this guy came up on their radar, or this group of people came up on their radar, and they're just not going to be able to take somebody like this and say, "Well, he doesn't really mean it. He's just some goofy kid. We're not going to worry about him." And then something happens, and they dropped the ball.

So I think that's the problem. We've seen this happen so many times, where the parents don't have a clue. We saw that with the young kids that left, you know, many of the communities, the Somali communities in the U.S., and went back to Somalia; and their parents had no clue. They went to the FBI and said, "My son just disappeared. Do you know what happened?"

So parents are often the last to know if they have somebody that's up to no good.

CUOMO: Right.

FUENTES: But for the bureau, they just can't follow people around for the rest of their lives, just in case.

CUOMO: Right. And Jim, let's -- let's take the FBI case at face value for right now. And if, you know, there's a time to be hair- trigger, it is now. What is the insight into the ability of bad guy groups like ISIS reaching out through social media and getting into the impressionable mind, maybe the deficient mind of, you know, younger people who could become capable, just like this guy?

ARKEDIS: Well, it's a question of casting a wide net. You're going to have people all throughout the country, all throughout the world who are susceptible to radicalization. And if ISIS is able to -- excuse me -- have cast a wide net, broadcast its message, sure, you're going to get impressionable guys who, you know, like this kid's father said. He never left the state of Ohio; he didn't really have access to a car. It speaks to sort of a relatively sheltered individual.

And so if they're looking to identify themselves, if somebody is looking to define themselves, especially in the age of social media, and you could put something on Twitter or on Facebook; and all of a sudden you're important, you're something.

CUOMO: Right.

ARKEDIS: And people are paying attention to you. And the FBI is coming after you. Then all of a sudden you're a thing. And so that's kind of the process that we might be dealing with here.

CUOMO: Right. And now, as we deal with this cultural evolution, Tom, let me put this last question to you. The parents, they're pointing the finger at the FBI: "You gave him the money. You entrapped him. He's a simpleton. We didn't know anything." They're pointing the finger at the FBI.

What about pointing the finger back at them, Tom? This kid is all over social media. He's sending out all this stuff. He's going through his own evolution towards Islam. His understanding of it, even by their own reckoning, was not mainstream. What about the parents? What about the level of awareness? How much blame and responsibility is there?

FUENTES: That's a good question, Chris. But, you know, when somebody is 18 years old and, you know, they started -- they should be pretty much more independent. He could have gone away, kids that age are often...

CUOMO: But he didn't. And take a look at him, Tom.

FUENTES: But they're not going to babysit him 24/7. And I think that this happens over and over. That kids get on the Internet, they get radicalized; and the parents just don't track them closely enough to even know that that's happened.

CUOMO: The awareness of what's going on with social media. A 20- year-old is a different animal than a 12-year-old, obviously, but it just shows everything that's going into awareness, from law enforcement to just parents. Obviously, there are changes that are needed.

Tom Fuentes, thank you very much.

Jim Arkedis, good to have you on NEW DAY.

ARKEDIS: Thank you very much.

CUOMO: Alisyn, over to you.

CAMEROTA: OK, Chris. Now to the search for more suspects in the Paris terror attacks.

This morning, Belgian prosecutors say they've arrested a man linked to the partner of Amedy Coulibaly. That's the terrorist who killed four people in that kosher grocery store.

Last Friday, according to a French newspaper, security services identified a fourth suspect. Or that's just happening today. They're identifying a fourth suspect today. And we're seeing new surveillance video from inside that besieged

market. You can see the hostages there grouping together.

All of this as two of the murdered cartoonists, a "Charlie Hebdo" columnist and a police officer are laid to rest.

John Berman joins us live from Paris, as he has been all week. John, every single day, it seems there's more that comes out in this investigation. What's the latest?

JOHN BERMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT/ANCHOR: Yes. More leads from more locations, Alisyn. Truly fascinating. The latest comes from Belgium. An arrest in the town of Charlevoix, where this man has now been arrested on weapons charges. Why?

Well, this guy turned himself in, apparently; had bought a car from the girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly, Hayat Boumeddiene. She's the woman now on the run, now believed in Syria. He bought a car from her. They searched this guy's apartment. What did they find? They found documents that link this man to some weapons owned by Amedy Coulibaly.

He is now being held, this suspect in Belgium, on weapons charges.

It just shows you how big the web of this investigation is growing right now. You have an arrest in Belgium. You have a man being held in Bulgaria. You have a girlfriend on the run in Syria. And you have this claim in Yemen of responsibility for being behind the whole attack. A huge investigation.

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BERMAN (voice-over): Chilling surveillance images from inside the kosher market in Paris captured terrorists Amedy Coulibaly, his three- hour siege that killed four people.

Coulibaly can be seen here, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, wearing what appears to be a bulletproof vest. In the aisle, a child's abandoned stroller. Lying on the floor, two people he gunned down when he first burst in. The body closest to the camera believed to be that of an employee, Johan Cohen. He reportedly grabbed one of Coulibaly's guns, but it jammed. He was shot to death.

More than an hour into the standoff, Coulibaly ordered some hostages to disable security cameras in the building.

REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK: I think this person was trained. He was somewhat sophisticated.

BERMAN: As the investigation continues into how he obtained weapons, a French newspaper acquired a copy of a loan application. Coulibaly borrowed around $7,000 back in December. CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of these documents.

This as another French newspaper, "Le Parisien," claims that French authorities have identified an accomplice to Coulibaly. Police suspect the man may have been responsible for shooting and wounding a jogger in a park south of Paris last week. The ammunition used in that attack was the same found in one of Coulibaly's guns.

RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: This sort of lone wolf smaller attack gets much more difficult for law enforcement to follow. They're spread out. There's so many more of them.

CUOMO: Since the terror last week, more than 50 judicial proceedings have been opened in France for inciting terrorism and racist or anti- Semitic comments or actions. Many of these proceedings involve graffiti on mosques.

This country remains on high alert as the funerals for the victims killed in the attacks continue.

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CUOMO: We heard just moments ago from U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry, who is in Bulgaria right now. He is traveling here to Paris later today.

The secretary of state says he is coming to this country to give the people of France what he calls, a big hug after last week's attack or I suppose in French, that would be a "grande embrasse." And of course, the secretary does speak perfect French, and I think he will be welcomed here by the Parisians -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Yes. We have heard that they are looking forward to his visit, even if they think that it is several days late.

John Berman, thanks so much for all of that background.

There's more news to get to. Let's get over to Michaela.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.

And good morning to you at home. Topping our headlines, four top officials in the Secret Service are being reassigned in a major management shake-up. The agency's acting director says change is necessary following a series of embarrassing security lapses last summer.

Let's get the latest from our Michelle Kosinski. She's live at the White House with details. Director Clancy said this was coming.

MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right. You know, ever since that now-infamous White House fence jumper incident in September exposed an array of deep-rooted problems at the Secret Service, we've seen the need for change here. The director said that a fresh perspective is needed.

The question has been out there: Who would be held accountable? The director did lose her job, and now we see that four of the top-ranking Secret Service employees, the assistant directors of investigations, protection, public, public affairs and technology, reassigned, not fired, but reassigned. And a fifth person has retired.

So after the series of security breaches and embarrassments, the acting director said that this was devastating. And the independent panel's review after the fence-jumper incident showed that the agency was, quote, "starved for leadership," that there was low morale, a chronic lack of training and short staffing; also an unlocked front door at the White House. That panel also recommended that the fence outside the White House be four feet taller, but so far, we haven't seen a change there -- Michaela.

PEREIRA: All right. We'll wait to see who is appointed to those new positions. Michelle Kosinski with the latest. Thank you.

Indonesian divers searching for bodies in the fuselage of AirAsia Jet 8501. A military vessel found the plane's wreckage Wednesday two miles from where the tail of the aircraft was discovered at the bottom of the Java Sea. Investigators are now examining the contents of those black box recorders, which could reveal why the plane went down, killing all 162 people aboard.

Pope Francis has arrived in the Philippines for a five-day visit, he received a lively welcome from more than 1,000 children gathered to perform a traditional Filipino dance. His visit has been declared a national holiday in the Philippines. Most businesses and roads in Manila closed down. Pope Francis says his visit is designed to add momentum to the growth of Catholicism in Asia.

Yosemite's El Capitan has been scaled many times before, but not quite like this. Americans Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are the first to free-climb El Cap's granite wall. A free-climb means they only used their hands and feet to climb. It took them 19 days to reach the peak. Only 3,000 feet up. They got a lot of accolades, but probably none better than this, President Obama tweeting his congratulations, posing in front of a painting of Yosemite, telling the two climbers, quote, "You remind us that anything is possible."

They tried before. They failed; there were injuries. There were failed attempts, but they did it this time.

CAMEROTA: Wow. It does look like one of them has a hangnail, though. He has a Band-Aid on one of his fingers. That's the injury that he got after this incredible climb.

PEREIRA: Apparently, at night, they would file down their fingertips.

CUOMO: Imagine the parents, the families of those guys waiting for this to happen.

CAMEROTA: Oh, God. It's so nerve-wracking. We're so happy for them and proud of them.

CUOMO: Congratulations. Glad it's over.

PEREIRA: Well, yes.

CAMEROTA: Well, it has been a bitterly cold start to January for much of the country. But milder temperatures, we hear, are on the way.

PEREIRA: Like 80? CAMEROTA: Meteorologist -- let's see -- Chad Myers is keeping track of all of this.

CUOMO: Myers' mile is going to be what?

CAMEROTA: What is the Myers mile? Thirty-nine?

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It will be 80 in Havana, you know? It just depends on where you're going. Right? A nice day in Puerto Rico.

But hey, I know you weren't impressed, Chris, yesterday, but you're ten degrees warmer than you were yesterday at this time. But Alpena, almost 30 degrees warmer in Chicago. Feels like a heat wave, all the way to 45 eventually. St. Louis, 45. Even Minneapolis, above freezing for the first time in two weeks. First time above 32, morning or night, for the first time in two solid weeks.

So, yes, here we go. D.C., you're at 43. That is exactly normal. Boston, New York, 36 for today. Christopher Charles, I know you weren't impressed yesterday. But hey, you know what? You get what you get and you don't pitch a fit. That's what they say in kindergarten. So here we go. We're going to be all the way into the 40s by Sunday. A cold front keeps you cool for the rest of the weekend. For your Saturday. But look at that: 46 for your little jog up on the east side, Christopher Charles Parkway there. We're going to give you.

CUOMO: I'm sensing a little tude coming from you, Chad Everett.

PEREIRA: Christopher Charles?

CAMEROTA: Is that your middle name?

CUOMO: It is. Christopher Charles Cuomo.

PEREIRA: I did not know that.

CUOMO: CCC. Calm, cool, collected, some say I was name after. Christopher means Christ carrier, but that's another story.

Chad Everett is what his mother calls him. I said that once out of deference. He's obviously getting heat about not understanding what heat is. Let me give you a simple test that you can use from now on, whether it's warm enough, Chad. Call it the Bama (ph) test. When my dog refuses to leave the house when I'm taking him out in the morning because it's too cold, that's not warm. OK. And so far you're failing the test, Everett.

Sir.

PEREIRA: Battling the middle names.

CAMEROTA: Who knew?

PEREIRA: We learned that today. Mark it down. CAMEROTA: All right. Hypocrites, that is the accusations against

several countries that came out in support of free speech following the Paris massacres, only to then suppress free speech when they got home. We're digging deeper in to this.

CUOMO: Plus, a Nigerian town virtually wiped off the map. Boko Haram behind it. Nigeria is apparently incapable of stopping the group. Does the world care less about Nigeria than other terror hotbeds?

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CAMEROTA: The massacres in France started a global conversation about freedom of speech and the importance of protecting it. But let's be honest: Even our closest allies in the Middle East do not have impressive records on this issue, and today shockingly repressive acts are going on in places like Saudi Arabia and even Turkey.

Let's bring in Middle East analyst Robin Wright. She's the author of "The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are." And that is being re-released online.

Robin, great to have you with us this morning.

ROBIN WRIGHT, AUTHOR: Nice to be with you, Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Let's talk about what's going on in Saudi Arabia. Tomorrow, a blogger there will be publicly flogged for the second time in two weeks. He is scheduled to be publicly flogged every single Friday for the next five months for the crime of having a blog that does things like report and poke fun at Saudi Arabia for its ban on Valentine's Day. How do you explain what's going on in Saudi Arabia?

WRIGHT: Well, this is a tremendous hypocrisy. Saudi Arabia was one of the first Arab countries to come out and condemn the attacks against "Charlie Hebdo." But when it comes to its own population, it refuses to allow even a modicum of free speech.

Raif Badawi is a young blogger, father of three, who had a website called Liberal Saudi Network. And it often had the same kind of religious sarcasm, very mild, though. He poked the religious police in Saudi Arabia for patrolling candy stores and flower shops before Valentine's Day, which is considered an infidel celebration in Saudi Arabia or at least by the government. People celebrate it, anyway.

And he was -- he also on his website said that Jews and Muslims and Christians and people of other faiths are all equals as human beings.

And for his boldness, over very basic statements, he has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes, a ten-year prison sentence and a quarter of a million dollar fine. And the United States has come out and condemned this and called for the brutal punishment to be abdicated. But the Saudis take him out from his cell every Friday to a public square so that his punishment can be viewed widely by the Saudi people.

CAMEROTA: At one time he was even going to be eligible for the death penalty, but they backed off from that. However, his wife today, says that she has spoken to him. He's in a lot of pain, as you would imagine, and that he is deteriorating. She doesn't know that he will survive, actually, 1,000 lashes. Is this an anomaly or does Saudi Arabia routinely punish writers and bloggers like this?

WRIGHT: Well, it's very repressive when it comes to anyone who veers from the basic Saudi doctrine. And Wahhabi Islam is the most conservative, the most fundamentalist of all the Islamic sects. And it's no accident that the al Qaeda operatives, Osama bin Laden grew out of the Wahhabi fundamental view of the world and of Islam's unique role in human history.

CAMEROTA: Let's move on to Turkey, which as you know is often held up as the this paragon of secularism. What's going on with freedom of speech there?

WRIGHT: Well, there again, you saw the prime minister of Turkey show up in Paris and march alongside all the world leaders.

And yet at home, a court yesterday banned the publication of any of the "Charlie Hebdo" cartoons that were, that were in the first issue since the attack on any Turkish website.

There was a police raid, as well, on a paper that was going to publish versions of the cartoons. The paper decided to put them inside and were eventually allowed to do that.

But there is, you know, the most popular tweeting trend in Turkey yesterday was "Charlie Hebdo" should not be distributed in my country. And so you see this real tension between the condemnation of violence, and the support of free press.

CAMEROTA: And it's not just since "Charlie Hebdo." Many journalists in Turkey have been jailed. So what should the U.S. do about its so- called allies in this regard?

WRIGHT: Well, this is a fundamental question. In some ways the United States needs both Turkey and Saudi Arabia for a lot of different reasons, but including the fight against extremists. Turkey borders Syria and Iraq and, of course, has taken in hundreds of thousands of Turkish Syrian refugees. It is critical as a NATO ally.

On a lot of different fronts, Saudi Arabia, of course, because of its oil. We've always looked the other way. This is a conundrum. But it's certainly clear that enough has not been said about this issue, whether it's in Washington or in Paris.

CAMEROTA: We appreciate you speaking about it today. Robin Wright. Again, the book is "The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really Are." You can find it online. Thanks so much.

WRIGHT: Thank you.

CAMEROTA: Chris.

CUOMO: All right, Alisyn. New images of the carnage left behind by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. The problem is, no one is stepping in to stop it. Why isn't the terror group a higher priority?

PEREIRA: Plus, how did the terrorists in the Paris attacks fund this brazen plot? How did they get the cash to carry out their assault? We're going to discuss this next.

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