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Attack on texas cartoon contest. one of the big questions will the twitter trial lead to anything other than the gunman and isis? jonathan hunt is live in texas. jonathan? >> greta, the digital trail leads in several directions right now. but investigators are looking at one in particular. twitter communications between elton simpson the ringleader of the attack here in garland and a man called muhammad hasan originally from minnesota now believed to be in somalia, fighting alongside isis affili...

So just to clarify. yes the white house is calling the attack in texan attempted terrorist attack. but no, at this point the white house is unable to directly connect that attack to isis. i think its only fair that i make this clarification. there wasner -- never intention to misrepresent anything josh earns said. after i worked on this today i had a nice conversation with josh earnst thats all cleared up. this is a fox news alert. severe weather hitting the midwest right now. you are looking ...

Who is he? >> you know, we have known about him for a very long time ever since he left minnesota back in 2008. he left for al shabaab. but, really his weapon of choice is really the keyboard. he is so active in social media not just his tweet that he sent out 10 days before the attacks in texas but he has been very active before that. and prosecutors here in minnesota say he has been involved also in recruiting others for isis. we have a man of abdi nur who left minute sewed last year and appar...

Accelerated foreign policy. what can president obama do at this point? its metastasized at this point. >> it has. its a cancer thats growing everywhere. syria could eventually take the king of lebanon down. war in syria is a cancer in the region. if i were president here is what i would do, i would talk to the arabs and say listen, we are going to go in on the ground together. you will be the largest part of the force. we will provide you some force to do things you cant do. we are going to dest...

Dispatch all our resources to these five states? what do we do? >> you make a really great point because part of what is going on here is they like to create a lot of noise. what that does is its hard to law enforcement to discern which threats are credible from which accounts and which should really just be dispensed with. but thats part of the strategy to obfuscate and confuse. so the real threat can go forward. >> are we doing that? he i hope we are. are we as aggressive and conniving and vic...

Yemen down, the houthis are backed by the iranians. if you ask me other than syria. where san attack likely to come from against the united states? al qaeda and arabian peninsula that resides in yemen are more lethal to the american homeland than isil and we he have no presence in yemen anymore because the iranians took down the pro-american government. president obamas policies are failing. the iranians are on the march and we are becoming exposed here at home. and, if we dont change, this and ...

And what we understood from intelligence officials this evening, is that they have looked at this threat, they dont believe it comes from isis leadership. someone who likes to associate with isis, but they are not fully discounting it either. >> is the isis connection at this point isis cheerleading and saying raw raw raw look what we did or is there evidence they were directing it and doing some command and control? >> based on our reporting and this social media traffic that shows that there w...

Failed attack in garland texas. does not prove a an isis role in planning or plotting the attack. shows two men communicating via twitter and sharing a radical islamist ideology. the white house, for instance said today that there is as yet no real evidence of a yot broader conspiracy. also worth pointing out greta, as you have been discussing a victory for terrorists is a successful attack. a secondary victory is instilling fear in the minds of their targets. so obviously isis has a vested inte...

And we are applying a very very soft hand to isis. we are allowing them to prosper and maintain their geographic presents which allows them to recruit people from all over the world and in fact not just to iraq and syria but also here in the united states as we are seeing. this is a very serious threat and its one thats not just goi to be located in the middle eeast but one that will spread as we begin to defeat them and take back some of that land. thats why having a real active bombing campaig...

Apart. he had a failed marriage. brushes with the law. scrapes and run-ins. his old folks in islamabad pinning his bad experiences in the united states becoming an alonely and isolated individual. >> jonathan, thank you. >> thank you. >> and last night i tried making the point during "on the record" that the white house would not or could not directly engage in conversation about whether the attack in texas was a direct work of isis. however, that point didnt come across. i chose my words wrong....