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Discharged from the u.s. coast guard. we have shocking excerpts from his journal. >> and radical offshoots of al qaeda are rapidly gaining ground. we asked are the splinter groups a threat to u.s. security interests? >> and he came ready for war. we are learning more about the oregon school shooters arsenal. a live report coming up right after this break. they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. its what makes a subaru, a subar...

By the very nature of detective work and building up sources, confidential sources, confident informants, we do work in a covert way. thats not spying. thats legend police work. and, mike, i think in many ways, the threat today is more dangerous than it was on september 11. because thats where al qaeda has really been hit hard. the fact is now, any number of splinter groups of al qaeda, supporters of al qaeda, and people in places like new york. >> peter, were out of time which means we dont hav...

People who claimed they didnt exist in the first place. which i think the evidence that we do have clearly refutes that. as to why we havent been attack attacked, i think we have been attacked. but the attacks have been overseas in places like syria, afghanistan, yemen. there have been attempts made, particularly by some of the splinter groups of big al qaeda, such as those located in yemen to attack the united states. fortunately to date none of those attacks have been successful. but i think w...

3 million syrians remain out of reach of humanitarian assistance after a second round of talks fell apart over the week, the chief mediator issued in unusual apology to the people of syria. >> im very, very sorry, and i apologize to the syrian people about their hopes which were very, very high that something will happen here. >> the collapse of the peace talks leaves the president with few options. hed hoped a deal to force assad to give up chemical weapon wuss bear some fruit, but its been rep...

The splinter groups. and clapper was talking about that, the homeland security, and said we couldnt tell if we were any safer now. do you believe right now -- you know, forget what either of these guys say. what do you believe in terms of the likelihood of the attack on the homeland today? >> well, i think it is higher than it was in several years because the accumulated mass of al-qaeda has been growing. but i think if anything they are now more concentrated on the region where they live. and t...

The splinter groups. and clapper was talking about that, the homeland security, and said we couldnt tell if we were any safer now. do you believe right now -- you know, forget what either of these guys say. what do you believe in terms of the likelihood of the attack on the homeland today? >> well, i think it is higher than it was in several years because the accumulated mass of al-qaeda has been growing. but i think if anything they are now more concentrated on the region where they live. and t...

With the security apparatus that is being used to put it plainly, how safe you think it will be? >> we have to be very sober about the threat, there is a real threat. there will probably be some copycats, threats that may not actually be backed up by anything that we know with this al qaeda affiliated group, some of the splinter groups, the search for these potential black widows. it is a real threat there. im sure the international community including the united states is offering a lot of help...

They couldnt distinguish which was a group threatening the united states interest and which was simply a violent non-state actor pursuing its own agenda. so there was a real deficit of understanding, a real lack of situational awareness. >> and all of this could have been prevented. of course it was part of a broader narrative at the time, that the core of al qaeda has been destroyed so these smaller splinter groups arent anybody to be truly afraid of. obviously the u.s. learned that case, that ...

Might actually be a sign of weakness, even desperation; on the other hand there clearly are a lot of these splinter groups and they do have the ability and certainly the willingness to still attack u.s. interests. thats what this obviously is all about. >> shepard: seems to be. well get back to balloon boy -- or coffin guy in just a moment. balloon boy was more interesting. >> because we saw it the whole time. >> shepard: today its coffin guy. maybe theres video of coffin guy getting out of coff...

Criticism on his stance on counter terrorism, he made a speech to thursday and called for an end to a climate of perpetual war that we have had since 9/11. joining me is major general bob sales and fox news military analyst. as they say, general, the conflicts we are involved with, this is not your first rodeo. you have seen a lot of this. the president hasnt served, but he has had a chance -- it is not only overseas in the splinter groups of al qaeda, we have boston and the streets of of the u....