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Washington (CNN) – ISIS has the capability to stage a Paris-style attack in the U.S. using local cells to strike in multiple locations and inflict dozens of casualties, according to the Obama administration’s top U.S. intelligence official.

“They do have that capacity,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN’s Peter Bergen in an exclusive interviews on “AC 360” on terrorism, Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda’s most virulent offshoot — ISIS.

“That’s something we worry about a lot in the United States, that they could conjure up a raid like they did in Paris or Brussels,” where March attacks on a train and at an airport left 32 dead and 300 people injured, Clapper said. The November Paris attacks killed at least 130.

However, President Barack Obama and some of his other security advisors spoke of the threat in less stark terms and emphasized efforts to protect the U.S.

Obama told Bergen that “we, here in the United States, face less of a threat than Europe” from ISIS. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said “whether or not” ISIS can attack the U.S., the administration would do “our utmost to try to prevent it.”

Still, Obama said, “The Paris-style attack, the Brussels style attack is the challenge that we’re going to continue to face.”