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Mentioned about getting into the social media game alternates bert thats one, but we also have to be proactive with communities around the world to make sure theyre being proactive. now were seeing "new york times" had a story just last week about a young girl from the northwest that was recruited by isis 23-year-old girl who was a cristian. she was recruited online because she was asking questions. we have to be preemptive but very diligent as individuals and as family members and co-workers ab...

And in in some cases women, to take up arms in a foreign land? our next guest used his own voice, literally using money as he earned own voice literally using money from hit show "the voice" to the syrian border talking with families searching for their young kids. journey to jihad, new yorker contributor, a catholic high school student to jihadist. ben joining us at the table. thank you so much. con congrats. youve got to be the youngest person on the cover of "the new yorker." amazing stuff. a...

And take them rue the radicalization process, in fact, its much more mundane. terrorists usually come from disenfranchised background, secular backgrounds. its notes that luke at them and say, o these are radicals who care out these things and thats how it works. the tsarnaevs fit the profiles perfectly. the question is how does it go from a small tragedy to this giant tragedy of killing three people and traumatizing the entire city of boston. >> marsha, we appreciate your insight on this story....

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...

Especially as it relates to some of the home grown people. there were a number of australian teens who were arrested. five of them in a counterterrorist operation. they were inspired by isis as well. you have these folks who are aspirational. a lot of the folks who have been arrested here in the united states. they watch movies. they do this, that end at other kind of thing. they talk to an informant about jihad. then you have guys who are operational like the person who was just arrested. says ...

Thats what is changing and thats what is so scary. >> exactly. thats what you saw in the case yesterday. they were getting information from the internet. they were using inspire magazine which has been out there since 2010. its a clear how to book terrorist actions used by the boston information out there. on the internet. radicalization process is alive and well on the sweater. >> we have got to stay alert. commissioner, thank you for service for keeping us safe and come in tonight. >> straight...

And other social media should be tasked with blocking the recruitment. is that really where we are? what would make a difference? >> well, that might help. certainly wouldnt hurt. but the fact is the radicalization process can continue 24 hours a day seven days a week completely unabated as we try to whack the moles and knock down web sites and social social media sites and a dozen more can pop up. the solution has to be countering it but we have to do that to get to the minded and vulnerable mi...

Shy. and i dont want to say that people stop looking at right-wing extremism. i think aryan nations and other associated groups, a lot of the ones youve mentioned, the intelligence community, the department of homeland security, the fbi, still did focus on them. but there is no doubt in my mind that that sort of reaction to the paper itself absolutely made people a little more risk averse than, frankly, they should have been, given some of the history that we saw. >> and the counterterrorism cen...

I think aryan nations and other associated groups, a lot of the ones youve mentioned, the intelligence community, the department of homeland security, the fbi, still did focus on them. but there is no doubt in my mind that that sort of reaction to the paper itself absolutely made people a little more risk averse than, frankly, they should have been, given some of the history that we saw. >> and the counterterrorism center, forgive me if ive got this wrong, but i understand that the national coun...

>> i think its probably a mistake. i think its largely a response to 9/11 and al qaeda and international terrorism. but the fact is that extremism and terrorists and people who turn to violence are all going through a very similar radicalization process. theyre motivated by different causes. it could be a skewed islamic ideology or it could be right-wing extremism, but almost always, there are people who have gone through some sort of crisis or looking for a higher meaning, create a sense of us ...