[Poppy Harlow, Cnn:] Good evening, everyone. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Poppy Harlow joining you live from Paris where it is 11:00 in the evening. We begin this evening in Brussels where the highest terror alert level has been extended because of the threat of coordinated multiple attacks just like we saw take place here in Paris. The Belgian prime minister announcing earlier today that possible targets include malls, shops, and public transportation. Tomorrow, schools and the subway will remain closed as the security in the capital remains boosted. Also new this evening, French police releasing this photo of one of the suicide bombers, the suspected ones who attacked the Paris soccer stadium with a plea for information about who the man may be. What we do know is that he was dropped off at the stadium by this man, now the most wanted man in all of Europe. His name, Salah Abdeslam, and he remains on the lamb. We are getting a clearer picture, though, of how he made his escape during the chaos getting sued in Paris. Sources telling us here at CNN that after he dropped off the bombers, he ditched his car three miles away in the middle of a cross walk. His brother now telling Belgian television he believes that Abdeslam changed his mind last minute, decided not to go through with the attack and fled. Much more now from our very own Tim Lister, who has been tracking every move we have been able to track down. Tim, thank you for being with me. This has been extraordinary, the fact that the best intelligence in the world can't find this man nine days in. Given what his brother just told Belgian television in the last few hours, he pleaded with his brother to turn himself in, go to jail. What else did he say in?
[Tim Lister, Cnn Producer:] Well, he also said that he thought his brother had had a last-minute change of mind. That he felt that he was an intelligent person and saw the futility of what he was meant to do and therefore he decided not go through with the operation and that he decided to try to get home, basically.
[Harlow:] What we also know is that, you know, you wrote an extensive piece on this on CNN.com called the mystery of France's most wanted man. And you say that we have been able day by day to learn a little bit more. What do you think the biggest clue is that has come out thus far about his movements?
[Lister:] I think the biggest clue, one of the guys who drove him back to Belgium, that Saturday morning, said, according to his attorney, said that when they picked up Abdeslam in Paris at about probably 5:00 in the morning on Saturday, he was very, very agitated and ready to blow himself up. Those were the words of this guy who helped drive him home to Brussels. And he was also wearing a really big coat and carrying something really heavy which suggests that he maybe still had a suicide belt with him, that perhaps he was meant to go through with an operation did not. But another mystery. For four hours between the end of the attacks when he essentially dumped his car and he was picked up, just off the radar. Disappears all together. He is wandering around Paris.
[Harlow:] It is extraordinary. And you pose this question at the end of your piece. You say, was he supposed to do it, meaning blow himself up, and didn't have the courage to, which it appears more likely now, this is of what his brother we just don't know. How confident are the authorities here in France, Belgium, that they can track him down? Because it seems pretty amazing that someone could evade all of these countries looking for him.
[Lister:] I think it is amazing, seems to be no trace of him after about a week. He arrived back in Belgium on a Saturday morning. A week later, nobody knows where he is.
[Harlow:] Nothing.
[Lister:] There is nothing. Now, some speculate that he may have even taken his own life. He was in a very agitated state. He didn't know where to turn. Others, very, very poor sourcing on this say he maybe was spotted indirect to other places. So that's why this intense Belgian operation continues because they feel he is still out there and that he may finally carry out this act of martyrdom that he was perhaps meant to carry out in Paris a week ago.
[Harlow:] And what other lives might he take if he does indeed decide to do that.
[Lister:] Exactly.
[Harlow:] Tim Lister, thank you very much. You can go to CNN.com, read Tim's fascinating piece step by step, the mystery of France's most wanted man. Also, we know that in less than 48 hours, President Obama will sit down for a face-to-face meeting with the French president Francois Hollande. The two leaders will focus on the global response to the deadly attack here on Paris. President Obama slamming ISIS and the terror group's ideology when he spoke today on his trip to Malaysia.
[Barack Obama, President Of The United States:] They are a bunch of killers with good social media. The Americans who are building things and making things and teaching and saving lives as firefighters and police officers, they are stronger. Our way of life is stronger. All of which is to say that our coalition will not relent. We will not accept the idea that terrorist assaults on restaurants, theaters and hotels are the new normal or that we are powerless to stop them. After all, that's precisely what terrorists like ISIL want.
[Harlow:] Let's talk this over with CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier and CNN military analyst and lieutenant general Mark Hertling. Kimberly, to you first. What we know, that major French aircraft carrier
[Kimberly Dozier, Cnn Global Affairs Analyst:] Bridge the gaps. And you've got to wonder if he might not also be lobbying behind closed doors to get President Obama to step up the number of strikes as well as to step up the transparency in terms of how much intelligence they share with France. I understand it's much better than it was, but it could be better still. And in Russia, you know, Russians have been targeting some ISIS areas, but the majority of their attacks still have been on rebels who are against the Syrian regime. So the U.S. and France would like to see them switch that fire power and move towards ISIS-held areas and really step up the bombing campaign. The other thing that they have been doing is ratcheting up bombing and it doesn't look like the Russians can sustain what they haves with 34 jets on the ground so far. So, again, maybe France could be the bridge between the U.S. operations and coalition operations in Russia to start putting the pressure on the troops together.
[Harlow:] And they certainly the impetus to do that now following these horrific attacks. General Hertling, I want you to listen to what Chuck Hagel told our Jake Tapper this morning in a fascinating exclusive interview. Let's roll it.
[Chuck Hagel, Former Secretary Of Defense:] We needed to more clearly define our political strategy along with our military strategy because it's my opinion, it certainly was the opinion of the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marty Dempsey. He can speak for himself. But it was our opinion there is no military solution to this. We are up against an ideology, we are up against a reality of a set of dynamics we have never seen before, sophistication in social media. The military paralysis, the tactical strategic prowess that ISIS possesses, the funding. So we should more clearly define what is our political strategy? What are our priorities? Who is the enemy here? Is Assad the enemy or is ISIS the enemy?
[Harlow:] I'm wondering your take on that, general. Is there no military solution to fighting ISIS because this is an ideology that has spread so rampantly?
[Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, Cnn Military Analyst:] We have said for a very long time, Poppy, that this will not be solved militarily. I have said that several times on CNN. I thought the former secretary's interview this morning was fascinating because it outlines some things which message the fact that well, let's put it this way. There has been a strategy from the very beginning. There are seven lines of operation to this strategy, two of which are military. The other ones have not received as much attention from the general public or even from the Congress. So the focus on those other lines of operations, stopping the transport of fighters, influencing the economics of this terrorist and criminal organization, attempting to counter the messaging and the ideology and many other things are all part of the overarching strategy that has not received the attention that bombing Syria has received. And I think what we are seeing now is several other nations, France, later this week you're going to see prime minister Cameron go to the parliament after he's won over some votes from both parties and present his strategy which is going to mirror, I believe you'll see, President Obama's strategy over the last year of continuing to take the fight to this criminal organization. I think the good thing is that you are seeing a lot of other countries coming together which was one of by the way, one of the lines of efforts of the strategy build a viable coalition. You're seeing those countries come together because they see the threat. And all of those countries are going to start influencing, as Kimberly says, they are going to start influencing Russia in a very positive way to counter ISIS, to perhaps do some power sharing agreements with Mr. Assad and eliminate some of the causes of this entire insurgency.
[Harlow:] All right. And let me read this for both of you before you go and we'll talk about it later in the hour. But this is what Mike Vickers, the former undersecretary for intelligence under Hagel said to "Politico." Quote, "by any measure, our strategy in Iraq and Syria is not succeeding or is not succeeding fast enough. We are playing a long game when a more rapid and disruptive strategy is required." So consider that. We will talk about that a little bit later in the hour. Kim Dozier, General Mark Hertling, thank you very much. I appreciate it. And perhaps the biggest target of the recent airstrikes has been ISIS'self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria. What I want to show you now is a CNN exclusive. Our CNN Senior international correspondent Nick Payton Walsh gets extraordinarily close to the ISIS headquarters.
[Nick Paton Walsh, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] Air strikes can repeatedly pound Raqqa, but it's here that any ground offensive would have to begin. And still, a sense of stalemate. Their ultimate goal of Raqqa, visible on a good day in the far distance. This base at times hit by ISIS mortars.
[Harlow:] You do not want to miss Nick's full exclusive report from Raqqa I shouldn't say from Syria, that is Monday morning on "
[New Day," 6:] 00 a.m. eastern time. Getting very close as I said, to Raqqa, the de facto capital there. Quick break. We're back in a moment.