and the fbi stats show that. we have 70 isis-related arrests, more than one per week. a thousand investigations in all 50 states. i wanted to tell the truth to the american people about what the threat really is and what the threat itself is, and that s radical islamist terrorism. it does exist in the united states. we didn t see this one coming. there were no warning signs or flags. and we need to do a better job identifying the signs of radicalization from within the united states. we also need to stop the foreign fighter from traveling overseas into the united states. those are the two main threat vectors. and chris, we re just not doing an adequate job to adequately protect the american people. let s turn to the investigation. this is what we heard on friday from fbi director james comey. the investigation so far has developed indications of radicalization by the killers
lot of people are asking, your sense at this point, were they inspired or directed by isis or some other group to carry out these attacks? well, at a minimum, inspired. we know malik, the female pledged her allegiance to al baghdadi, and isis in a facebook posting. we have the computers. we have the devices. we are going through the forensics. they tried to destroy those computers unsuccessfully. and now the investigation is ongoing to find out what is precisely the connection between isis and raqqah and the united states and what was going on. i believe at a minimum inspired but could be directed by the internet communications which is this, come to syria or kill where you are. when you talk about the connections, one of the questions a lot of people are asking is where did they get the thousands of dollars that must have taken to assemble this huge
and of a potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organization. chairman, is there anything more you can tell us about this couple and about their links to terrorists either in this country or overseas? well, i think, yeah, the wild card here is the wife malik. they are both of pakistani decent, but she lived in pakistan most of her adult life, went to saudi arabia, they hooked up over the internet. there s a serious investigation ongoing into what she was doing in pakistan and saudi, including if she attended the red mosque, which is a radicalized mosque. we think that she had a lot to do with the radicalization process. and perhaps with mr. farook s radicalization in the united states. i m sorry, sir, let me can if i can go down a checklist that a
pakistan and spent time in saudi arabia. she met farook online and came to the united states in 2014. she was granted her conditional green card this past july. the investigation continues and the community is remembering the 14 lives lost. we ll be listening intently to the president s address. chris? will carr reporting from redlands, california, thank you. joining us now, congressman michael mccaul, chair of the house homeland security committee. congressman, what have you thought of president obama s response so far to the san bernardino attack and what would you like to hear him say in a speech to the nation tonight? reporter: well, first, he seemed to indicate going back to the fact that this could be an act of workplace violence. he has to get off this rhetoric. make no mistake, this is not workplace violence. it was an act of terrorism and these occurrences are happening too frequently. i think the tentacles of isis are not just in europe but also in the united states of
whose charge is protecting the homeland, is it possible to stop, he s an american citizen, he had no law enforcement record, no evident ties to terror, yes, there was the wife and that s certainly a question, is it possible that sometimes you just can t spot these terrorists before they strike? that s right. you just can t stop it all. and we stopped a fourth of july plot and we stopped a lot of bad things from happening, chris, but you just can t stop it all when you have 200,000 isis tweets per day on the internet coming into the united states to kill. there were no flags, warning signs in this particular case, but the volume is so high and the chatter is so high that it s almost impossible to stop it all. and i think that is what we are ramping up our efforts but you can t be right every time. let s go through in the time we have left of a list of possible reforms, i want to get from you whether you think they are good ideas or not. as you pointed out earlier, the wife, malik, c