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So he want to make sure hes not part of a larger plot and not hiding under the bushes, so to speak. >> can i ask you something because people always say lone wolf. chris, can you actually have lone wolf when you have the internet? is there such a thing as a lone wolf? the internet, it can be a group of people on the internet? is that feasible anymore? >> i dont believe you can, don. i dont believe in the term self-radicalization. lone wolf is descriptive in some ways, but your point is well take...

Differently if that is the case? >> the first thing youre looking for, connections that trace back or that joint the fight. you have to look to the internet and social media in particular to see how he encountered this ideology. one thing clear over the past two to three years. you look at the is malamic sta two areas where they gained a lot of recruits, directly related to self-radicalization and internet radicalization. number one was europe and other was central asia. kyrgyzstan, these locati...

>> his travel ban list is essentially just made up sort of ad hoc. if we really want to look where the most number of foreign fighter extremists have come from, saudi arabia would be tops of the chart generation after generation. in the most recent data that has come out, a lot of these countries would show up. >> bill, when you hear about this and turn your television on and watch various leaders come out, officials both from law enforcement and officials from capitol hill or from local or stat...

Self-radicalized? first of all. secondly, what more can we do to stop this self-radicalization? >> well, great comments that im hearing. i mean, definitely this daisht anti-muslim talk is going to make things worse. youre putting fuel on the fire. youre literally and actually doing what the terrorists want. in fact, they wrote about this in black and white. they said, were going to do these attacks. were going to watch the divisions in society. were going to have people hate on islam and muslims...

Self radicalization as this has continued, they are tracking 20,000 individuals and we are tracking more than that so increased concern from all of us and that is why we must collaborate working closely together to track these individuals, make sure we have good data to track them, utilize all our capabilities, social media, cybersecurity and intercept financial capabilities. >> the collaboration part has been mentioned as part of the problem in past attacks and they have been able to follow thr...

Battlefields in iraq and syria this year, many experts were deeply concerned that the jihadists will quietly move back into europe and elsewhere and plan attacks for this summer, are we beginning to see that fear come to fruition. >> well first, weve got to determine whether this was coordinated through isis operatives or whether this was self-radicalization. we dont know that. whether this was a planned attack in barcelona or whether it was just self-radicalization of people in the country. to ...

Updates. we dont know that much right now, what is it like on the ground right now as they try to figure out what is happening and what is still happening on the ground? >> as we ask americans who are there tell their loved ones where they are through social media, what we are learning is through social media, even the communication that weve gone from police, local police saying this is a terrorist attack. that came from the local police department. in this age, whether its the local police dep...

Our thoughts should be with the uk and not look at something to make america less safe. >> we dont have enough information. the brits have not released the name of the attackers or country of origin. if they come from one of these six countries where the president wants the travel ban, doesnt that help bolster his case? >> not at all. a travel ban will not make us more safe. the travel ban will target americans traveling abroad for terrorists. it had as an recruitment tool overseas. they will us...

Many barrel bombs to drop in syria, it is not going to stop folks from self radicalizing in london, and paris, or in san bernardino. so what we have to do instead of spending the justice department time fighting the travel ban, lets use them and find ways to stop self radicalization here on united states oil instead of a frivolous stupid muslim ban. >> self radicalization is a problem. this is the first step. >> melissa: okay, im not sure we solved it. but i love you both. thank you for coming o...

About guns saying, you know, you notice its about knives. of course one might say if the people had ak 47s, a lot more people would have been killed. nonetheless, those instincts of his are totally off the mark. >> let me ask you, bill, because one of the interesting things that the governor just pointed out is we dont know who this is. a lot of terrorists, i think maybe entirely the terrorists that struck london and manchester in the last -- previous month. we dont know about this account. they...