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♪ ♪ >> we begin with new details about the two gunmen who opened fire outside a texas exhibit featuring cartoons of the prophet muhammad. u.s. law enforcement officials believe the men drove from their home in phoenix, arizona, across state lines to garland, texas. but it is unclear when the trip was made. another law enforcement source says six guns were found in the suspects car, assault rifles and handguns all purchased legally. meantime, isis is claiming responsibility for the sundays at...

Says investigators did know simpson was openly communicating on-line with members of isis overseas and even opened a new investigation into both men in recent months. >> from an intelligence standpoint, whats difficult is to move that quickly and to arrest them when its not clear hes going to do it. we have a lot of people on social media saying these kinds of things. >> reporter: simpson apparently had public exchanges on twitter with this prominent british born isis fighter and a u.s. born al ...

Yesterday at this time it seemed as though they might be inspired. today it sounds more like its a call to action they may have followed. is there a big difference, michael? spoo. >> when we say a call to action isis has put out a massive call to action to any and all potential recruits. >> yeah, but this specifically said after "charlie hebdo" time to go after -- those were words -- >> before the "charlie hebdo" massacre journalists had been on an al qaeda hit list for many years because of wha...

Reports. >> isis took responsibility. probing connections between one of the texas gunmen, elton simpson and isis, to determine to what degree the attack was directed from abroad. though there is no evidence the terror group gave the gunmen instructions one u.s. official tells cnn the shooting was "certainly more than just inspiration by isis." >> because of the quick and professional and brave work of local law enforcement officers an attempted terrorist attack was foiled. >> reporter: at tathe...

Paper tigers dont need to worry about them, if this is the best they can do we can ignore them. because i think they are truly worried about a serious attack occurring in this country. >> michael join in on this as well, if the propaganda war can actually be stoked any further by america joining in. i tend to think that isis is isis, they want to do what theyre going to do and probably training people right now with the hopes of some time releasing them back into the united states to wreak their...

Can rescue us from that. >> i think i mean, bob, really, you know, yesterday i said, how could isis claim this as a success when two of their foot soldiers in the united states have flubs in their head and didnt get action themselves, didnt effect ate serious damage to anyone in the united states, why isnt america screaming that message from the mountaintop to anybody else in the u.s. who might be having these twitter conversations with the leaders of isis? >> well, ashleigh, what theyre scared ...

A warm welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. im rosemary church. want to update you on the top stories this hour. u.s. authorities are trying to find out if isis was directly involved in the attack in texas where two gunmen opened fire outside an exhibit featuring cartoons of the prophet muham d muhammad. the terror group is claiming responsibility. within of the attackers appears to have had online ties to jihadists overseas. >> the u.s. treasury depa...

To exhibit their atrocities. this becomes a tool, increasing the ranks of recruitment. the u.s. state department has a twitter account that patrols these guys on-line, goes after them and says, you know, this is what youre doing, youre disenfranchising a whole generation of muslim children and ive seen the isis fighters or followers on twitter completely ignore the u.s. state department. >> sure. >> we could not give a dam. >> bob, what about releasing the pictures of the bodies of these two dea...

The same time but it is not known whether simpson and hassan knew each other. >> this is something that the united states government has been focused on in both of these issues, both in terms of foreign fighters, as well as efforts that are under way by extremists including those inside isil, to use social media to try to radicalize individuals and inspire them to carry out acts of violence. >> reporter: according to a law enforcement official the apartment here in phoenix was relatively baron b...

Co-author and i, we interviewed -- >> im not about to shoot up a texas cartoon convention. >> most arent. >> so i think we have to be careful here because its one thing to say isis high command for lack of a better term decided and, you know, plotted and orchestrated a terrorist attack, found the sleeper agents or, you know, willing executi executioners to perpetrate that attack and gave them all kinds of logistical planning and intelligence coordination, the rest of it, versus two who wanted to...