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Giving them that answer. it is still very early on in this investigation. they just started looking at his electronics, his computer last night. still very early. >> only day two. yesterday it happen and now it is the first full day that this investigation has been underway so youre right. absolutely. very early. theyre going to be learning a lot more. thank you, pamela brown. lets get more on whats going on. joining us our justice reporter evan and tom fuentes, our law enforcement analyst, the ...

Immediate family. my thoughts and prayers are with the marines and the police. im so thankful for the chattanooga police and the amnicola police department for protecting us like they did yesterday and they do every day. >> i agree with you completely. >> thank you very much for sharing that video with us. very, very powerful scary material. >> lets get more on whats going on. james risch is joining us a republican a key member of the intelligence and foreign relations committee. you hear those ...

Investigation. >> he is obviously an engineer. he just finished college. a smart guy. you would think he would be all over social media like everybody else his age and he wasnt. thats the sound of silence that theyre investigating. good work. i want to go back to senator james risch who is joining us. what do you think of these latest developments? did he have four guns not two, not three but four. and a lot of ammunition clips. >> we havent focused on the guns. he was a united states citizen. h...

>> his last name indicates hes from yemen, which is unusual. a former military commander, part of the prison escape part of the inner circle. interestingly he said im pledging allegiance to the leader the al qaeda, not isis so it remains in the al qaeda ambit. >> senator risch yesterday said its a matter of time until we see a tunisia style of attack here in the u.s. do you agree with that? >> sure. how do you prevent it? 300 million guns in this country and a couple thousands of these that beli...

We confront the bad guys whether theyre on the battlefield on the street corner. on the internet. >> if you are dealing with trying to break these encryption code jim just raised this issue of whether or not the government can beep trusted to have the code. the government is susceptible to hacks. what do you say to that? >> the government is susceptible to hacks. we in america have a healthy reserved feeling about our government. they need to be watched the they need to be kept in check. and so ...

Weve got work to do. were still working very closely on the iran situation, which is extremely important to both russia and us and the entire middle east area. and of course syria remains out there. the world is rapidly changing and we need to be working at least communicating and hopefully find those areas where we can work together. obviously, there are very difficult conflicts ahead of us and weve got to talk about it at least, and find the path to resolving those problems. >> you heard elise...

There is new concern tonight about terror attacks on u.s. military bases. republican senator james risch, he is a member of the intelligence committee just told me a little while ago that isis has specifically named some u.s. bases as targets. were back with democratic congressman john garamendi of california. he is a member of the armed services committee. i know what, you have a couple of air force bases in your district congressman. senator risch says he knows at least two or three specific b...

Either natanz either one will be difficult to get at. you hope that doesnt happen but there are not good -- there are to the good signs that isnt eventually whats going to have to be done. >> yeah. and thats the military option is used by the israelis or u.s. presumably would be more difficult if the missiles were deployed. >> not presumably. that is an actual fact. >> well see what happens. its a tough situation all around as you say. its the least bad situation there. no real good outcomes of ...

The iraqi prime minister haider al abadi is here in washington he had his first official visit with the president on tuesday. you see him in the oval office. hes talking to lawmakers on capitol hill appealing for more u.s. military economic support, military support in the fight against isis. meanwhile, iraqi residents are fleeing in huge numbers right now from their homes in ramadi elsewhere in the anbar province. only about 70 miles or so from baghdad as you can see a wave of people they are t...

And theyre trying to help them with those pieces but we cant do it for them. the iraqis got to figure that piece out. im getting the support up to the front lines and if they dont theyre going to fail. >> all right. thanks very much. its an awful situation over there. seems to be deteriorating by the hour as we speak. guys thanks very much. james reese, bobby go always good to get your perspective. still ahead, more perspective. senator risch about to join us. hes been meeting here in washington...