we have a different for europe. we believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions to share our prosperity and protect our people from threats from our security >>> right now a furious national argument is shaping up about costs and benefits, hook up all the tug boats you want. the british isles will only be a few dozen miles from france and a few thousand miles away from the u.s. a tension point around e.u. membership is practical, immigration markets, international standards, currencies and deep notions of what the u.k. is and what it will be. >> should remain in europe but not as it is at the moment. all our powers have been taken away. it's no good for the country. stay in europe because we need europe to trade with each other, but on a different level. >> no. we must get out now. we must get out before the country is ruined altogether. it's two-thirds there now. we might just pull it back without coming out. no hope >>> the u.k. and europe heading for a brshgs -- brexit. my

katty: it looks like europe is caving? to some extent, europe is saying to the turks that we accept your political and domestic politics. we are signaling that we are ok with the accumulation of power at the hands of the president, but inviting turkey to join the european union on this issue is a huge step that i don't think europe is ready to take. they will have to see how the turks respond to the deal. if they will stop the smuggling. tracking eufast talks and allowing fisa free travel by june, giving money as an indication of the strong hand that turkey has in the crisis and the weekend that europe has -- and the weak hand that europe has. gateway tobeing the europe, has the power. the question is if the turks will take the money and the reduced restrictions, pocket that, and do the same things. i think this will stem some of the flow of migrants, but -- they: could turkey stop flow of migrants if they wanted to? >> i don't think so. there is a turkish infrastructure along the west coast of turkey. many turks are makin

there's chaos in europe again. it started with gunfire and explosions in the department, and attacks of train stations near the european parliament building and headquarters of nato. there's a mass exodus from downtown brussels, people are simply walking out. in london and paris, emergency meetings and heightened terror alerts. in new york and d.c., extra precautions on subways, trains and bridges. this terror strike affects the election here. voters go to the polls in arizona, utah, idaho. donald trump has called for a temporary ban on muslim immigration and repeats that today. hillary clinton calls it bigotry. president obama may address this terror attack in an address from cuba within the hour. will he call it islam terror? there's been a muted reaction on the stock markets, opening down 40, 50 points. not that much movement in gold and oil. ashley the latest. ashley: 8 a.m. local time, two bombs go off at the brussels airport. people report hearing someone shouting in arabic and then followed shortly by two ex

malcolm, what should europe do that europe isn't doing? i will put it that way. >> really europe is not operating at a unified level on counterterrorism. each nation has their own counterterrorism forces, intelligence forces. granted, they are operating within a substructure within nato on the military level, but the european union itself is going to have to join and create a european-wide counterterrorism task force where operatives from france and they did this belgium can operate in belgium in these joint teams. that way small countries can actually have more manpower as their investigations shift. this has nothing to do with interpol which is a joint law enforcement organization, this is going to have to be created into a funded task force with manpower and equipment so that if something happens in straussberg, for instance, they come and investigate without seams. until they do that they will be operating on their own resources or with the blessings of whoever decides to help them like the united states. if they don't do that then the

idea for europe -- are negative rates a good idea for europe? ewen: i'm not sure negative rates stimulate demand. steepness of the yield curve is what stimulates demand. i'm not sure it is because of negative interest rates. what we've seen with switzerland and denmark is the first effect. the effect diminishes as you go forward. it seems to be a shortage of colorado -- of collateral. there seems to be some gumming up of the monetary transmission mechanism. i don't think anybody really knows. this is uncharted territory. to be in a lotms of uncharted territory. some of the basic mechanisms of the eu are under pressure. , which has been so focused on whether the u.s. is having recession, has the market actually woken up and smelled the coffee on account of the risks that are being proposed here? ewen: people focus on the risks to your question, but they need to remind themselves how the european union has survived. how strong are the commitments to be together? back to the previous conversation, that would make it hard for the u.k. outside the eu

it is not going to stop with europe. what can we do in the here and now to prevent them from coming here? >> absolutely. of course this leads to the whole, the "p" word, profiling. if you have a young belgium who is from, from brussels, who has an arabic name and he is doing a hop, skip and jump around the middle east and heads to the united states he has got to be treated different than say a true native of belgium. you can't say that of course in polite company but there is, if we can remove sort of the political correct veneer in all of this and focus on the problem, because look, it is not about necessarily trying to deal with personal sensitivities. we're talking about lives here. we're talking perhaps hundreds of europeans and perhaps, god forbid americans, who are at risk because this program has so many holes in it right now, trish. trish: general, you think about in the days when we were fighting communism and it was okay to go after communist. >> yeah. trish: to me, this branch what they're doing, this jihadism

they can be targeted in europe. they can be targeted from europe. and also if you don't succeed in being up to the task which is a long task, some talk about the generational challenge, the u.s. might have to cope with a very different europe and that's something to bear in mind on this side of the pond. >> belgium doesn't have the largest number of foreign tourist fighters not overall, not in europe. but they do have the largest number per capita and so as i think about this for what i want to say for one final comment i would say this. one thing that's unique in belgium and elsewhere in europe while we do have cases where religion, radical religion ideology plays a critical role that's not what we're seeing here. what we're shearing is that there is a religious piece but the recruitment of criminals, this zero to hero phenomenon is a huge problem. officials in brussels stress to me multiple times in multiple meetings that there's a religious component that the quote that people said over and over is salafism is mainstream in terrorist. each terror

europe has learned -- you know, they ignored the threat vectors in europe. they ignored the muslim and islamic community and did not build the kind of relationships to identify these threats before they materialized. that is exactly what we need. we should be doing here in the united states. and do it in a way that is totally compliant with the protections of free speech and those types of things. we can't have an overly intrusive law enforcement. but we have to recognize that the threat is here and it is going to continue to evolve and grow here. youd: pete hoekstra: thank -- pete hoekstra: thank you for being here. affect terror attacks apple. more insight as we had to break. the hearing in riverside, california, was post point. more after the break. ♪ david: let's take a quick check of the major indexes. the nasdaq up about a third of 1%. barely changed, down about .1%. and the dow jones down .2%. bloombergnow for the business flash. sequoia, the mutual fund, ld about 1.5 million shares of the company. sold at a loss that can be used by investors to off

the jewish immigrants are more of the dp's from europe. displaced people living in camps in europe. a lot more went to israel, some state in europe, some came to america. the establishing of the state of israel was a momentous occasion for jewish americans in 1948 who were still horrified by what had happened during the color cost -- during the holocaust. israel was for them a safe refuge, a jewish home. the, 1950's -- during the 1950's, we experienced the red scare. this was a frightening time for many jewish people, many who had been involved in communism before. a lot of ideas were percolating about how to improve america, and how to make things work well for everybody. communism was one of those ideas that people had. one of the news stories was that trial of julius and ethel rosenberg, who were a jewish couple. --know now that julia was a julius was a spy, and we are not sure of ethel's involvement. they were executed as spies. at the time, people did not really believe they were spies. they thought it was more anti-semitic than anything. and they thought it was anti-semitic in

terror strikes in the heart of europe. this the scene from the airport moment after an explosion ripped through the airport. the subway system hit a short time later in the heart of brussels. 26 are dead and hundreds injured in what appeared to be a coordinate attack. welcome to our coverage, i'm bill hemmer. martha: i'm martha maccallum the blast went off inside a busy airport and rail station. here is the latest as we break it down for you as we know right now. 26 people dead, 11 of those were killed. 81 injured after two explosions that went off at the international airport. at least one of the blasts was caused by a likely suicide bomber. people were seen running for safety in this video and the smoky images that first came out from the terminal in the terrifying aftermath of these attacks. another explosion in a metro station. ed the airport is on lockdown. air travel suspended. here is what some of the eyewitnesses saw. >> it was like a wave. and you knew as soon as it happened, no doubt it was a terrorist attack. ho

the nation-state, europe, and europe's relations with its neighborhood and the rest of the world. if that sounds like a tall order, of course it does. at the nationstate level, it is easy for me to stand here in texas and say that belgium needs to address its security problems, and we do better at integrating muslim minorities. of us,ought to know, all and germany ought to know, from our experiences of nation building elsewhere, or in my case, nation building at home, or democracy building at home, which we had to do quite a lot of after 1945, it is essentially a governance problem, will not it will not only not solve the problem, but will often make it worse. as shocking as this may sound, i think what we now in the west have to understand and face, is that we have mistakenly assume d that western-style democracies are fundamentally stable. that rule of law, representative institutions, and a functioning social contract are things we can take for granted. dance --ey take a dent from time to time, they are capable of self repairing. i believe that if we are honest with ourselves,

to run europe. it is not accepted anymore. there are reasons it does not work internal to the relationship on a political level. frankly, the spanish, the swedes , the polls, the bulks would not accept that with good reason. they can expect a more democratic way of decision-making in europe. the problem that we germans have is both the u.k. and french are going through moments. -- through inward looking moments. as a result, for the first time in our postwar history are presented with a situation where we have to become the de facto motor of europe. we are both -- people want us to lead and resent us for it. they both desirous to do this and they fear us. it is a difficult thing to square. i could give you a list of points i think we have failed at and some we have succeeded. but i do not think that this is tenable in the long run. >> in the unlikely event that great britain should decide to withdraw on june 23 two withdraw from the european community, what will be the damage to the members? dr. ste

they compete for those jobs in europe. in this case, however, it ended in what had to be an horrific, horrific day there in brussels for that entire family, fortunately, they were not apparently seriously wounded. and their wounds are not life threatening, brian. >> all we know is active duty, air force, lieutenant, we don't know where he is stationed exactly? >> no. but most of those that are in the brussels region, they could be stationed there in brussels, actually. but most are at ucom, which is in germany. it's not unusual to see, again, those families traveling throughout europe. you remember, just last august, it was an air force airman, who jumped a man in france and stopped a terrorist act there. he himself was seriously wounded and even though he was wounded, he actually stuck his thumb in the neck of a bullet wound in one of the passengers, and saved his life. so again, not unusual to see american service members and their families traveling through europe, and in this case, unfortunately, it ended in what could

you don't have the same sort of integrative support system that you have in europe and europe has these porous borders. it's so easy for them to go to syria, get training, come back to the eurozone and go country to country. >> was a really broad alert. thank you, pamela brown. i want to bring in paul cruickshank? >> they thought he was going to be part of this attack. he's clearly not cooperating very much with security officials in belgium. they're going to have a lot more urgent questions for him in the hours ahead. if you rewind back about a week ago, they discovered salah abdeslam's safe house, his hiding place in brussels. they basically stumbled upon it, they got in a big firefight. they found an isis flag, a kalashnikov, detonators. a week ago that created a lot of concern that a plot was in the works. now the belgian officials believe the rest of the cell that weren't in that safe house were in another address. they feared they were going to get captured, the dragnet was coming in on them so they accelerated their plans. the much bigger attack was going to be with twice as many

but some people managed to drag over from europe entire cooking sets. things they could much more easily got here when they got themselves established, but they just chose to bring them with them. a lot of times people stopped using these things when they got here and got new american things, but they kept the european things and passed them down to their families. which is nice for us because those families then donate them to museums and help us tell stories. eva bane was 17 years old when she came to america by herself, following a brother who had already come here. eva is the one standing in the middle in that photograph where she's appearing with her family back home in europe. she came to philadelphia, lived with an uncle for a while and she later told her daughter that she had em gritted because she had finished the educational opportunities had run out for her at home and she wanted to continue going to school. and she felt that she could only do that here in america. whej you talk about the different reasons people come here, that's a compellin

early trading in europe suggests the resilience in europe as well. green arrows in germany with a more than 1% move higher on the german dax. we'll keep an eye on that through the trading session. in asia overnight, modest reactions as well. green in shanghai. the shanghai comp closing up about 0.4%. modest losses in japan and in hong kong. less than 0.3%. >> that, of course, asia's first reaction to those terror attacks yesterday. oil prices off a little this morning, but in general maintaining their resilience of the last few weeks. we're at 41.15 for wti. the ten-year note, interestingly, seeing a little bit of selling overnight. you might have expected buying in a safe haven type trade in the face of geopolitical concerns. the yield ticking up to 1.94. also, some debate on fed speak. some people being slightly anti-yellen in terms of her dovishness. that's likely what's moving that more than anything else. we'll discuss that later. a quick look in on currencies. the big mover yesterday, of course, was the pound. bear in mind, 1.4181 is some way f

it is a massive issue for europe. it really is restraining the velocity of money and the credit growth the economy needs. if he is convinced to convince the rest of the council, we will buy it off them. you put the same money into the economy and you are taking it off the bank allen sheets. -- balance sheets. that could do some reinvigoration for the economy. francine: today on bloomberg , a great conversation with our clay ceo. ceo.rclays he has been in the job for about eight months and he has a tough day ahead. that is at 7:15 in new york, 12:15 in london. after the ecb rate decision, mario draghi will speak in new york. we will have that news conference live and in full. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone, ecb day. stay with us for our full coverage throughout the morning. olivier blanchard coming with francine and london. here is ramy inocencio. ramy: nasdaq has agreed to buy deutsche porches market. it catapults nasdaq to the top of the u.s. options exchange and it may help them pay for a proposed merger with t

europe. turkey says it will help europe, but only if it gets more money. also on the show, north korea and its bomb. peon yang threatens to launch indiscriminate nuclear attacks against the u.s. and south korea. it comes as washington and so hold their largest ever joint military journals. is this the car of the future? b&w celebrates 100 years with a futuristic car that knows what you are about to think. i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. turkey is raising the stakes at an emergency european union summit on the refugee crisis tonight. ankara is offering to help curb the flow of migrants, but only if you're pays it 6 billion euros t. inside the european union, leaders remain divided over what to do about the influx. we start at the emergency summit in brussels. >> offens thousands of migrants stranded at the greek border to macedonia. at the summit, the most contentious issue. >> when we are talking about bringing down the numbers of refugees in greece, we are not talking about

have bombmakers in europe build these bombs in europe. that's one. the other is we know that they have the capability to make chemical weapons, and they've used those chemical weapons in iraq and syria. a chemical weapons manufacturing capability in europe, and an attack in europe using chemical weapons. i worry about that a lot. >> all right. michael, we're all worried about a lot of things this morning. we thank you very much for joining us. some of the people who saw this morning's terror bombings describe what happened in their own words. >>> ahead new witness accounts of what happened in today's terror attacks in belgium. you are watching "cbs this morning." if your family outing is magical for all the wrong reasons. you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec is different than claritin . because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec . muddle no more . with ingredients like roasted hazelnuts and cocoa, takes pancakes to a whole new level. nutella. spread the happy! this is

. >> we're following breaking news out of europe. just within the last hour or so, explosions at the main airport in brussels leaving several people dead and an unknown number of people hurt. airport officials say two explosions occurred and passengers are being advised to stay away. the facility has been closed. the blasts come four days after the capture of salah abdeslam, a suspect in last year's paris attack. dow jones is quoting a u.s. official as saying the brussels explosions are assumed to be a terror attack in retaliation for salah abdeslam's arrest. all metro stations in the city have now been closed. sources reporting explosions in two metro stations in central brussels located near eu buildings. nbc news has not immediately been able to confirm these reports. this is breaking and developing. we're following a lot. there's a lot of information out there on social media. we'll work hard to get you those stories confirmed by nbc news at this hour. >> absolutely right. it's an ongoing story with lots of developments. let's ge

scattered throughout europe. they can move freely throughout europe. what does it take? less than 20. there are a lot more terrorist attacks in the pipelines. and it is overwhelming. not just the belgian police force but all the european police forces. >> chairman mccaul. there are investigations in all 50 states about isis. he said there were communications from syria inside the u.s. that was newsworthy to me. >> it certainly was. i think k.t. is right. it is not just europe or just the united states. we've seen as they both. the growth of isis and even as we made progress in fits and starts in iraq and syria, you're not seeing the abatement of the global jihadist movement. period. al qaeda continues to grow. they're inthe numbers and we have a president who has sadly not shown the will to defeat them. the language that he used today said, we will do whatever is necessary. whatever is necessary to confront global jihadist terror. last time he said we'll do whatever it takes after the paris attacks. this is the same replay. we get more statements. more calls for unity. m

pushing europe. i still don't think there is an agreement within the your onin part because of these privacy concerns but my information may be outdated. and then of course individual member states have their own privacy laws that have to be -- once you get a european union level agreement, each european union country has to implement that agreement and different national approaches may -- and different national experiences may further complicate that. so i can't speak specifically about the laws but i do know that privacy rights are constantly an issue in terms of information gathering and sharing within the european system. >> i'll just add, on the first issue of the sanctuary issue, one thing to point out is actually we are making it more difficult for people to travel to syria and iraq. we've had some success there. success sometimes breeds other challenges and so we're seeing people now moving to libya. that will present some other challenges. i do think that the sanctuary provides both assistan

so they are now looking at a new normal in europe. and u.s. officials are concerned that that could spill over here in terms of people being inspired to do something. >> smaller scale attack on the train as well. brian ross our chief investigative correspondent joining us as well and, brian, one of the things we saw that has differentiated perhaps the attacks in europe from those we saw here in san bernardino, we know that paris attack according to the french president was he said organized in brussels, carried out in france. it took something of a network. >> reporter: exactly. a directed attack from the beginning. organized out of syria, in fact, isis has organized its foreign fighters into battalions based on language and country of origin so there are french, brussels, belgian units, german units, uk units, even an american unit and the great concern, of course, those other units at some point could be activated as well. george, you know, the airport areas before security have long been considered one of the most vulnerable targets because

europe and european mainland. to have an explosion, an incident. we still don't know what caused this incident. to have an incident of this kind at 8:00 a.m., peak commuter time, is very, very concerning for authorities here, miguel. >> certainly a strike of the brussels airport is a strike against europe. no question. the belgian public broadcaster is reporting several dead at the airport. i want to give you some context of what we see in the pictures. those are ceiling tiles and glass that has fallen down from the ceiling and walls in that cavernous departure area. the witnesses are saying many are injured by the falling debris from what appears, nima, two explosions. dozens of people have been stretchered out of the airport after the explosions and the public broadcaster saying there are fatalities. >> nima, when you say the country is on high alert, not highest alert, how is that demonstrated in the streets and airports that are targeted around the world, how would one experience security there? >> reporter: i

and a safe europe, which they're trying to reach. but which is increasingly difficult to get to and so, stuck in turkey, they are feeling increasingly desperate. >> their suitcases are ready and waiting, like always. nidal hafez and his family are desperate to make it to europe. but so far, they haven't managed to leave turkey. >> i couldn't make it. my bag, my luggage are still packed, and maybe we will go somewhere else. probably syria. >> hafez doesn't want to risk a dangerous boat crossing to greece and is urging his nephew not to either. the family tried to get to germany by plane but were stopped at the airport in istanbul. a qualified engineer, hafez has been unable to find work in turkey. now, money's running out and hopes of a better life in europe are fading. >> with this new circumstances and new things happening between europe and turkey, ways are very complicated and risky. nowhere to go except back to syria. >> there's a growing sense of despair among the refugees in turkey. many, like these people in the aksaray distri

and europe, that depends on us picking up communications between operatives and europe and others in other parts of the world, and if operatives in brussels or paris or other parts of europe or the united states can operate without having to use those traditional communication channels that makes it difficult for those officials to identify who these people are. >> how do they go around the traditional communications? >> as we have heard, they float around on social media until they find potential recruit candidates and then move them into an encrypted platform whether it's encrypted voice or e-mails or texts, and in some cases there are no communications. we have people living in communities who are becoming inspired by what they are seeing on social media and are becoming increasingly radicalized, and the first time we see them or identify them or hear from them is when they carry out an attack. >> that would be the san bernardino example? >> right. and this is something that has increasingly caused concerned among law enforcement in this country, and security officials in europe a

>> more in europe. because when you're talking american -- the american lead here, america was the one that put our efforts on the ground to listen to what kinds of things were happening organically. it wasn't european government doing it it was the american government doing it. we have demonstrated both in the hard power side and in the soft power side. that we can end fact lead i think that this idea of coalition, integrated coalition hard and soft power will make the difference that we're facing right now. >> dickerson: finally jeffrey, your point on president obama. his reaction this week to this, you lot of time about his foreign 8 see, his reaction in keeping with his world view or was different from -- >> reaction kept very much with am not -- i the president am not going dictated by terrorism i'm going to keep to my schedule i'm not going to sit around the white house waiting for something bad. i'm going about the business of the united states. the problem comes in the criticism that he spent 41

have bombmakers in europe build these bombs in europe. that's one. the other is we know that they have the capability to make chemical weapons, and they've weapons in iraq and syria. a chemical weapons manufacturing and an attack in europe using chemical weapons. i worry about that a lot. >> all right. michael, we're all worried about a lot of things this morning.uch for joining us. some of the people who saw this morning's terror bombings describe what happened in their own words. that's ahead. >> samantha: all right. a live look outside we haval toe cumulus cloud cover this morning. i love the sun is coming up earlier, that way we can actually see the clouds and not just on the satellite but from, you know, visually without satellite imagery. 38 is our current temperature in cleveland. we're already warming up after we made it down into the lower 30s this morning. highs today in the upper 50s, and much warmer than yesterday. tness accounts of what happened in today's terror attacks in belgium. you are watching "cbs this morning." if your family out

you have to remember this is europe. this is place where hours are strictly adhered to and also jurisdictions as well. we know the raids are ongoing. whether or not they prosecution will follow and it's a bigger question. the other question for the belgium prime minister. many people being critical asking what's happening next. he's come out with strong statements. he tweeted this country will defend its values and won't be subject to the barbaric attack. many people are questioning if they are ready to take this on. >> one of those raids produced another explosive device and chemicals leading some to speculate that perhaps other incidents were planned. do we have any clarity on that yet? >> reporter: there hasn't been much clarity on that. we understand this is not on snag was beyond the pail. belgium officials after they were able to secure the third brother, they were involved in the paris attacks. they said the belgium prime minister saying another attack s problem. this speaks to the level of insecurity. they really

europe on alert. you have officials here who are talking about what to do next and to do what they can to try when i was there in november, shortly after the pis attacks in brussels, that city was shut down. there were armored personnel carriers on the street everywhere you walked. there was a security presence. was there an attac planned for that period of time and that was stopped? we just don't know that. at the time they said they thought an attack was imminent and didn't happen. maybe that stoppedhe attack now but certainly didn't stop a terrorist attack many months late. >> martha, you have just returned from the middle east, as well, where the fight is being taken to isis in iraq in syria, m mor escalation of the air attacks against isis. even as we're seeing some progress against isis there inability too completely control them throughout europe and maybe even here in the u uted states. >> reporter: this also points 0 out that the military alone is not the answer. there were very dynam attacks

once you are in europe, the first place you land in europe, you're wherever you want to go in europe. it's been astonishing for decades how the europeans could be as complacent as they have been about security when the borders are completely and totally open. yes, borders ought to be closed. i think if they want to get a handle on the internal security threat. >> colonel, you know, you bring that up and the comparison is always the united states where there are open borders between states here. what's the difference between what we do here in the united states and what they do in europe? >> well, entry into the united states is much more difficult than entry into europe proper. so that's the very first thing. the second thing is a cultural one. we undoubtedly have disaffected people in this country, but by an large, people in the united states, no matter where they're from, feel that they at least have some access to the economic system and the political system. that's not true in europe. people who come from outside europe, particularly from the middle east, and who settle in large u

i think that europe is a battlefield. the latest statement just issued by isis in arabic and french turns out they have additional targets in mind. they have professional tradecraft in terms of training people and building explosives, and they also have impressive security, obsec, in terms of evading our intelligence communities. they may have separated cells in silos who don't talk to each other whom they can make operational by some kind of preset command. europe is in for a long siege, and we have to anticipate that what they really want to do is perfect their efforts in europe and then come on over here. we're in for a long siege, too. >> it's frightening to hear you put it in those terms, specially europe as a battlefield. when you said it, i wrote it down, so the next question is then what? what's the response? >> well, we have to have a response. one response, which europe is good at, is resilience. it's amazing. my hat goes off -- i don't wear a hat, but my heart goes out and my praise goes out to the french who h

and that is not how we would like to do business in europe. we are very much focussed on high standards when it comes to the environments, to labor circumstances, to fundamental rights and privacy, animal welfare, food safety. >> we have to work on a global system where rules guide trade and that we have respect for people and planet baked into economic development. i think that this is an area where europe can and should lead. let us not be paralyzed in the face of many challenges that the world presents but really take them on as a we say in netherlands we should role up our sleeves and get to work. reporter: there could be as many as 14 million species on our planet, but they are thought to be vanishing at a rate of 100 a day. in our global ideas series we meet people who are committed to preserving biodiversity. today we are in kenya on the trail of elephants. in and around the amboseli national park, there is a route that's been used by the majestic mammals for thousands of years. over time, settlements grew along its path, and that has l

europe's migration policies and europe's politically-correct nature has really set them up bigtime. we see it more and more. the big question now is, can they turn back? joining me now, commander david sears as well as dr. herb london. dr. london, you just participated in the book, "the encyclopedia of militant islam." has europe backed itself into a position where it can't even save itself anywhere? >> -- anymore? >> i think the president of hungary said that as the migrants were coming across europe trying to gain entry into germany, he said keep marching, you're not going to stay in hungary. right now he's the most popular man in eastern europe. there is an understanding at the migration that we have seen is causing enormous problem -- charles: that would make the most unpopular woman, angela merkel. >> she lost in the local elections in large part because the germans have come to the realization that there are limits to compassion. and one of the limbs is, of course, national security. if you cannot provide for the national security of germans, you have created a great political

that we need, as europe, to help them. >> reporter: the efforts to reinforce fortress europe alarm ahmad ali, a dentist from a besieged syrian city close to the iraqi border. he asked us not to show his face, for fear of endangering relatives still in syria. >> we don't need to go back, we everybody here is worried about the situation, so we need to cross the border to search for our lives. we can't stay for a long time. >> reporter: prime candidates to be among the first deported are pakistanis, who are regarded by many countries as economic migrants. they have been turng up at a detention center in lesbos to be registered. but in a possible blow to the e.u. turkey deal, the united nations refugee agency said it would not work in these camps because the migrants and refugees were being held against their will. a large group of pakistanis were put in handcuffs as they were sent to mainland greece for what could be the first leg of a journey back to their homeland. the prospect of being returned to pakistan terrifies imran sharif, a christian policeman who claims he faces possible death f

and europe and back and forth. making sure protection of the health of the consumer protection, rights of the consumer are important for europeans. all of those things should be included. however, there is a solution to that. the government tries to play an active role. we would like to see not only progress, the conclusion between the u.s. and the e.u. after all of the major issues have been resolved. >> okay. we have a question over here and then we will take another one from twitter. the questions are flowing non-on twitter@norm eisen. >> i'm robert novak as you know, i and others 21 years ago founded american friends of the czech republic to advocate for the czech republic admission to nato. we believe in the appliance, but right now i would like to channel donald trump. the question is, we here in america, lucky americans get three weeks of vacation and maybe 11 holidays. german scat 24 holidays, six weeks of vacation. yet we bear the disproportionate burden for defending europe. so you mentioned strengthening

and yet another terrorist attack in europe. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 28 civilians and injured 340. this morning, the manhunt for the terrorists behind the attack continues. as europe braces for the possibility of carnage. we'll have more on that later in the program. on the threat to europe and the u.s. >>> and this week, air force one touched down in cuba for the very first time. as president obama became the first president to visit the >>> and here at home, it was another wild week in the race for the white house. the republican campaign devolving into insults an innuendo between donald trump and ted cruz. donald trump will join us in a moment. but first, a look at the week the race got nastier and even more personal. on this easter weekend, good friday was anything but. ted cruz lashed out at donald trump, blaming him for a "national enquirer" story citing rumors he had engaged in multiple marital infidelities. >> let me be clear, this "national enquirer" story is garbage. it is a tabloid s

imagine the impact on europe. already reeling from the attacks and now they potentially could be reeling from the economic consequences. it's a big step for the state department to undertake something like this. >> the state department says about a dozen americans were injured in these two terror attacks. three bombings in brussels. and that others remain missing right now including some diplomats and family members. what, if anything, can you tell us about that? >> i don't have any more specific information on that but it's extraordinary if you can account for all your people because that's the first thing that happens after a terrorist attack is our embassies will reach out to our people. they'll try and make sure they get in contact, they know where people are. so anyone who is not accounted for is subject of great concern. >> have you heard any indication that americans were specifically targeted in these attacks? >> i have not heard that. now we have seen public reports that the location of some of these bomb

>>> new terror raids and arrests across europe. investigators hunting for the two surviving brussels bombers as advanced terror plot thwarted in paris. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christine romans. 4:00 a.m. in the east. overnight, new raids in belgium leading to six new arrests. as we learn, investigators know of several additional isis plots in europe, possibly linked to brussels and terror networks. the manhunt intensifying for the men in brussels bombings. one who dropped off a bomb and ran. this as security forces thwart a planned terror attack in france. we learn of new intelligence failures. top officials admitting mistakes were made. we are covering this the way only cnn can with correspondents around the world. i want to begin with cnn's frederik pleitgen. he is live in london. >> reporter: it was active for the brussels area. this were raids where i'm standing. this is the schaerbeck district. this is where they had the safe house from where they were building the bombs to hit thos

anchor: all eyes on that deal in europe. fired tearrazil have gas to keep protesters away from the headquarters of the president. thousands of people demanding her resignation rallied in the capital. they are angry because she has given the post of chief of staff to her ally, the former president. a brief time ago, i spoke with julia in sÃo paulo where protesters have been gathering. what is driving the anger behind these protests? reporter: tens of thousands are gathering, carrying banners and wearing the colors of the workers party. they are defending the government and workers party. here the anger is towards the procedures, how the investigations into corruption are being carried out. there's lots of anger this week at tapped phone conversations between lula and the president that were disclosed and played over and over again in media here. this is seen by many as an attempt to find fault in the presidency and in lula and speed up the impeachment proceedings the president is already facing. it is a moment where she is v

and europe. give us your since overall of where you see -- less like about the rate environment and the dollar in particular. we have seen such crushing on the dollar in the past month. towndenly more dovish reiterated by yellen this week. >> to begin with, the market was 2015.ely bullish ending the market was unrealistic to the degree of tightening the good of expected out of the fed. inthe data started to come on the softer side it became quite clear that the tightening of the fed, not only the actual rate hike, but the impact of the language of the fed come the expectations the fed is creating are having on the market. it became clear the expectations by the fed was having a: financial markets and the economy. it shifted to a place for it is a bit more reasonable. the fed itself this morning about the impact of the tightening of the economy. the next effect is the extreme expectations of dollar strength is been scaled back to a reasonable degree. now we are going to the second level of the sit

europe. will the belgian authorities be able to get a fix on helping the network is? we hope so. -- on how big the network is? we hope so. atherine n.: belgian is such small country in northern europe, bordering france, bordering germany. it seems that people could easily be spread more widely around europe. >> absolutely. isis -- it makes very little sense for them to base their entire network in belgium or a district of brussels. with the schengen agreement, the fact that you can move around , there areasily probably cells dispersed throughout various countries. if they hadn't done that before this week, they certainly have now. catherine n.: the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for yesterday's attacks. to what extent do you think people in syria are likely to have been involved? is it a case perhaps more of them inspiring attacks, sponsoring people who come to them and say, "we want to do something in the name of the islamic state group"? robin: there have been many isis-insp

now, we seem to have tatp bombs all over the place in europe. that means, among other things, there's probably a bomb maker out there that the police and intelligence services would >> i don't know if you were hooked up in time to listen to a conversation we just had with a guy who has lived in brussels for five years. he took some exception to the american news media's characterization of brussels as being a hot bed of terrorist activity. you've spent so many years in europe. you know it as well as anybody i've ever talked to. what's your characterization of brussels? >> well, i don't think you can vilify all of brussels, but it is true, there are neighborhoods, like parts of molenbeek, not even the whole neighborhood, but parts of molenbeek has young, arab and muslim men in them who are perfect, perfect targets for jihadists who are looking to recruit. like the guy salah abdeslam, who was arrested, he and his brother, who blew himself up, was running a bar. in a critical moment, somebody approached them and recruited them. to that extent, it's

stocks rallying both in europe and the united states. but after a few hours, once investors started taking it all in, we have actually seen markets coming down. more on that in a moment. first, let's take a look at what the ecb actually good. the ecb lowered its key lending to 0%, a first in the history of the institution. it also lowered its deposit rate for banks to negative territory. payeans that banks will more to deposit money at the ecb, which is meant to encourage them to lend money instead to businesses and households. the central bank is also extending its bond buying program to 80 billion euros every month from the current 60 billion euros. let's take a listen to mario draghi. : with today's copperheads of package of monetary policy decisions, we are providing -- today's comprehensive package of monetary policy decisions, we are providing -- markus: that was the message from mario draghi. on top of what we just spoke about, the ecb has also extended the scheme to offer cheap loans to banks that lend money to businesses and hou