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thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. >> i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that im glad were sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimate...

Communications he had been consulting with jihadist. is it fair to say the biggest threat we have in terms of national security in the specific sense is that threat from jihadists? >> i will say certainly what we have seen in the last several years is a growth of al qaeda and al qaeda related groups, al qaeda and arabian peninsula. and weve seen that the internet is an accelerant, the connection between groups abroad and individuals in the united states. so its fair to say that a small, small pe...

Communications he had been consulting with jihadist. is it fair to say the biggest threat we have in terms of national security in the specific sense is that threat from jihadists? >> i will say certainly what we have seen in the last several years is a growth of al qaeda and al qaeda related groups, al qaeda and arabian peninsula. and weve seen that the internet is an accelerant, the connection between groups abroad and individuals in the united states. so its fair to say that a small, small pe...

Indications from his facebook page that he had been consulting with jihaddists. so is it tear to say the biggest threat we have in terms of national security in the specific sense is that threat from jihaddists? >> well, i will say that certainly what we have seen in the last several years is a growth of al-qaeda and al-qaeda-related groups around the world, in the arabian peninsula. weve seen al-qaeda in other areas, for example. weve seen with the internet as an accelerant that kind of -- the ...

His facebook page and communications he had been consulting with jihadist. is it fair to say the biggest threat we have in terms of national security in the specific sense is that threat from jihadists? >> i will say certainly what we have seen in the last several years is a growth of al qaeda and al qaeda related groups, al qaeda and arabian peninsula. and weve seen that the internet is an accelerant, the connection between groups abroad and individuals in the united states. so its fair to say ...

In jordan and saudi arabia, both kings highly regarded. in the gulf, an accelerant of this process in egypt has not just been political, but economic. those economic dire straits dont exist in the gulf states. so i think you can separate this, yes, there will be affects. but im not willing to predict theres an automatic domino affect. >> is it an example of technology, driving a lot of these things, social net working, the internet, we have seen around in recent days, and certainly back during t...

Aljazeera english can operate. unless they turn off electricity, people can use the internet. ehes probably closer to right than he is exaggerating. >> so i read earlier today that facebook is an accelerant and nay used it internally in egypt. but twitter and youtube, they used to stoke revolution throughout the world. does it break down like that? >> sort of. facebook is kind of a closed network. you have friends and friends of friends and thing like that. twitter is inherently open. its seen b...

Protests, including one group calling for a day of rage an saturday. reports say extra police have been deployed in northern parts of that country. >> syria has the most to worry about of all of countries weve been talking about. it is say carbon copy, really, of whats going on in egypt. you have a family rule thats gone on and on. you have a corrupt regime, ineffective. this is going to spread. its amazing whats happening. >> its remarkable how quickly it is spreading. just on monday we had ric...

Investigating a suspicious fire at a mock mock in -- mosque in tennessee. somebody doused several vehicles with accelerant before setting one of them on file. elizabeth fran has the latest. what have you learned. >> reporter: atf investigators have not ruled this an arson or hate crime quite yet. local officials are working with fbi agents investigating into what local officials there say is heavy equipment that was working on a construction site was doused with gasoline early saturday morning a...

>> ill agree that was the accelerant. yeah, man, fannie and freddie are going down. you never believed them. it was wacky. but when the fed went to zero rate policy and you had the epic housing bubble, you had an impossible mission for fannie and frooed dee. make a profit and take this toxicity on your books. >> now, thats the third phase. by the way, geithner was number two in the wealth transfer. it was paulson was the one who actually did -- >> i may have insulted geithner. im sorry. >> he wa...