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Pairings in these kinds of cases, particularly where you have workplace grievance, even this hybridization that weve talked about. however, we have seen this in younger people who will have these pairings. you get likeminded individuals who are mutually reinforcing each others dysfunctional ideas, their grandiose thinking, need for notoriety, whatever the case may be, their sense of needing to get even. and if you get two like-minded individuals who happen to be in a relationship married, what e...

Medicine and in this case the s.w.a.t. team in order to do the job they have to do. >> its so tragic that thats the kind of teaching this doctor finds himself doing. did he describe for you at all what it was like going into the chaotic scenes? >> yeah. he did, jake. quite a bit. as you might imagine just catastrophic the types of weapons this particular doctor was a doctor who is a veteran of the iran-iraq war. and he talked about the fact the same sort of munitions, the same caliber, the same ...

That he was in addition to being a devout muslim apparently radicalized at some point in the last couple years. for more on this radicalization and the ongoing investigation, lets go straight to cnn justice correspondent pamela brown who is on the ground in san bernardi bernardino. pamela, what specifically has the fbi discovered about farooks ties to potential terrorists? >> reporter: well, first of all, jake, my colleague evan perez speaking to his sources who tell him a working theory is that...

Integrated, adjusted, having a good job as apparently the suspect had. >> thats not uncommon. >> not at all. >> because president obama and others have talked about poverty and disenfranchisement, joblessness as a root cause of terrorism, but that doesnt necessarily square with what youre finding with these radicalized individuals. >> its not a fact it can be excluded. we see for example in some cases in france, in belgium, its part of the problem. but absolutely thats not the end all and be all...

But it is something that theyre working onto try to make sure they understand more fully the more recent past of these two people. >> evan perez, thank you so much for your rorting. appreciate it. joining me now forensic psychologist, dr. mohandy. what does it tell you that farook targeted his co-workers. >> the fact that he targeted his co-workers particularly the regional center which is not a high value target to a terrorist group particularly, to me speaks to more of a personal agenda. i bel...

That could be at any point you could do that including with the bombs. but the idea youre renting a car, that suggests the sort of imminence if youre using the suv for that purpose. >> thats right. it clearly in terms of the acquisition of the vehicle, the amount of rounds they had suggests there was planning involved here. but were too quick to say black, white, terrorism, nonterrorism, id step back and say there are hybrids here. you can have a hybrid that says i have been disadvantaged in the...

Jean, there are a couple of things when the jury gets this case that they can consider in order to get them to murder. its not just did he do it or didnt he. they actually have a few theories that they can chose between. how does that work? >> well, this is a murder case and it is a theory that either he acted alone in killing his brother, his 14-year-old brother, or he did it with his father. now, this is -- in the age of csi actually, this case has no physical evidence. it has no forensic evid...

Be at risk. how do you protect yourself? how do these lawyers for nad id hasan protect themselves? >> this is a death penalty case and the challenges that they are confronting are so difficult and so important. in terms of protecting one self, it always comes down to doing whats in the best interest of the client and in this case it seems like the judge has laid out the parameters and they are doing what ethnically they are supposed to do. >> its good to see you again. its been a long time since...

The course of time, much like in the case in ft. hood, my client at the time chose to alter the case and defend himself. >> so i watched that case. i covered that case. and i had my mouth on the floor for most of it because your client was so intransgient in that proceeding that i foresaw it was going to be a mistrial. it was just so unusual. how is it that he wasnt even incompetent to stand trial and if you could translate to what youre seeing with nidal hasan. a lot of people are saying, how i...

Wasnt really missing. nischelle turner is here. im glad youre here. i shook my head when i first read the story. now im completely confused. whats going on? >> so moving parts to this one, ashleigh. first of all, the church of scientology is lashing back out at leah remini. she cut the ties with the church in july. there are reports that she filed a missing persons report for the wife of the head of the church of scientology. they did receive a missing persons report for her this week but they a...