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Yesterdays attack in chattanooga highlights the danger of what some refer to as self radicalization. a former danish gangster turned to radical islam and ended up joining al qaeda before becoming a cia informant. we are joined by brad thor. its great to have you both on the program. brad we heard a lot of sound from a lot of different leaders of our country. we hear the same sort of tone. we cant stop them all when it comes to the lone wolf. why not? >> first of all, im not a big fan of the term...

Posts three days before the attack. one of these posts compares life on earth with being a pleasant prison and the other encourages readers to follow historic islamic figures who the writer said fought in jihadi wars. these are pretty abstract writings. we dont know for sure it has not been confirmed that abdulazeez is the author. should they have set off red flags? >> certainly that would be an indicator that a persons gone down this path of self-radicalization. but you know in looking at these...

Time the cias fight against terrorism from al qaeda to isis." thats a scary proposition. does isis have the capability currently to undertake a large scale attack like that here in the homeland? >> first of all, its great to be with you. to answer your question today i think isis poses two threats to the homeland. one is the self-radicalization that theyre doing of young men and women here that resulted in the texas attack last week. i think the other is they have the ability to direct individua...

Actions in countries all over the world. weve known that and it demonstrates more powerfully as we finish nine month os f a war against isil for congress to authorize this mission and to give it some shape and definition. im very discouraged that congress has taken so long. but this is the kind of incident that demonstrates that this matter isnt going away. and we cant just kind of turn a blind eye to it. weve got to take it up and authorize military action. >> i want to get to the authorization...

Extensive google searches that they say showed the path of what he was trying to do. this is as you are reporting and people discussed the kind of self radicalization we see on the internet. in this indictment and accompanying information, prosecutors talk about him searching for specific terms like isis crossing sites, like where in syria he could cross-over, like who was controlling kobani and when, as well as extensive amount of videos, the infamous propaganda videos and beheading videos he w...

To 1990 n. 2001 the fbi got a tip that he sympathized with osama bin laden. now, terrorism experts say at 47-years-old its highly unlikely he would have ended up on the front lines as an isis fighter. but as a former u.s. military service member he would have been a tremendous a huge propaganda tool for isis. now, since he was in the air force for such a short period of time so long ago, nobody believes that there was any connection between his military service and his self radicalization. on hi...

But i will say the states case and the evidence look strong from what weve seen. but weve only seen essentially one side. but what they showed there was a kind of self-radicalization on the internet with and this is important, with specifics. meaning they showed google searches by this individual not just saying oh whats going on with isis or whats going on with beheadings like anyone might look for information. more specifically searches for how do you find the border crossing, who is in contro...

Grenade attacks against shopping malls, against consulates in australia, if he couldnt go and travel to syria and iraq. of course he was able to get the contacts he needed to travel. but since the beginning of bombing by the u.s. coalition against isis isis have called on muslims overseas to launch these lone wolf attacks. this australian teen actually traveled before that, jake. >> his case is really interesting for a lot of reasons, but also because he doesnt appear to have been recruited in a...

Problem for their country, a threat to their country. >> self radicalization, too, which may have no connection with any sort of organized group in iraq or syria. >> that makes it accessible to anybody with a wifi connection. >> we are following this news out of eastern paris, witnesses say there was sustained gunfire inside this satirical newspaper, two men walked in open hoods and opened rifles before escaping. if this last bbc report is correct, they are on the run. >> we are seeing new video...

Self-radicalization. heather: well continue to cover a lot more developments from australia. up next well develop into a looming question, what is stopping something like this from happening in america, when we come back.