Islamic State Terror Plot News Today

An Idaho man allegedly plotted a terror attack on nearly two dozen Christian churches for the sake of the Islamic state, but he was thwarted by FBI informants. The FBI said agents were tracking Alexander Scott Mercurio for two years after he converted to Islam against his Christian parents' wish...

This? >> its extremely serious, as juliet said. these bombs are chemical explosions, they can reach full detonation with a suicide bomber on an airplane. you can take down any airplane. theres in way to detect them with x-rays. this is an innovation that the islamic state has taken beyond our wildest imagination. and the only way we can actually stop these plots is to keep running sources inside the islamic state. and the president, by revealing this to the russians has lost control of this info...

And so we are probably entering a more heightened sort of concerned time because of the fact that we now know but the russians knew a couple of days ago that someone or something, some intelligence was exploited. >> bob baer, what do you make of the point that july yiet is theying? thats what we saw in the brussels attacks at the airport. they thought they were on to them and they did it before they were ready. that is what weve seen happen before. the speedup. >> well, juliette is right. but mo...

The gap, bridge that divide with them. in the trump white house they have to think that not only is this story certainly by no means over anytime soon, but there could be more coming. >> bob baer in terms of the story again for those looking for details, the washington post reporting that trump went off script, began describing details about the islamic state terrorist threat, going through various scenarios with casualty counts among other things. what would be the motive, bob, for someone in t...

So the relationship with russia and syria is so problematic, right, i mean on the one hand the united states and russia both regard the islamic state as a threat and want to deal with that threat and probably collaborate or cooperate to some degree in sharing information that might protect russians or aericans from attack. >> greg i interrupt just to listen to h.r. mcmaster. everyone, here he is. >> theres nothing that the president takes more seriously than the security of the american people. ...

Bob baer is here, mark preston, alan dhers wits. let me start with you so you can explain. youre going to share as much as you can but not enough to put lives at risk if that is what youre trying to do. youre not going to say the city from where this intelligence op ty was able to penetrate top level os f isis to try to protect lives. how top specific and specific was this information? >> as your other reporter summarized, this was really sensitive information about an ongoing and unfolding isla...

They didnt want to compound the problem here so they were with holdsing details from us and were withholding further details from our stories at the request of officials that we talked to today. >> just such as youre withholding the name of the city so ie sis wouldnt be able to kw that someone infiltrated their top levels. >> correct. >> go ahead. >> were withholding some of that information. but we know more about what trump talked about in the session and the way it was described to us is he w...

It off. and at the same time trying to talk about some of the measures that the united states is taking to try to deal with it. and this is problematic mainly because this is information that the united states has mainly if not exclusively because of a foreign partner providing it that has some access to the islamic state. and so this wasnt intel that the united states was authorized to share, and especially not authorized to share with russia. >> and i want to read to you, greg, because this go...