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Major hasan is obviously another one. the fbi was investigating. also out in chicago the mumbai massacre. the fbi examined them and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders. >> theres a fine line between worrying about whether somebody might carry out terrorism or not, particularly if theyre american citizens, they might hold radical views. but, you know, we cant start arresting people or detaining them because we think they some day might commit terror acts if we...

I would not expect the president to visit boston tomorrow, just based on his past response to terror acts in the u.s. they usually give it a good 72 hours or so, so the presidents visit does not distract law enforcement resources from the investigation. brooke? >> wouldnt be surprised, though, that he makes his way here sooner rather than later to boston, jessica yellin for us at anderson, as i send it back to you, i was here in boston over the weekend, having a great time, went to the red sox g...

Combat. the army has responded to this proposed legislation, directing it to, you know, award the purple heart, and in this statement it reads, quote, u.s. military personnel are organized, trained and equipped to combat foreign, not domestic forces or threats to expand the purple heart award criteria to include domestic criminal acts or domestic terror acts would be a dramatic departure from the traditional purple heart award criteria. so, joe, were talking about, you know, combat versus attack...

Assets here in america, and the transmission, and with all of the officers, trying to coordinate iranian assets and in order to protect government buildings and its serious, i think were aware and the american officials are slowly, but surely informing the american public about such terror acts. >> well, we appreciate you coming and talking with us under these circumstances, and illuminating us to the potential threat. we appreciate it, thanks so much. >> thanks so much for having me. >> clayton...

America, and also, that ayatollah, iranian supreme leader ordered for them to stand by and attack u.s. interests should u.s. decide to attack iran. and also, the former commander of the guards and the current strategist of the guard said over 800 sensitive sites in america has been identified for attack. >> clayton: if youre so aware of this and as a former cia operative, you understand and are we to be heartened by the fact that the u.s. is aware of the potential suicide bombers and 800 potenti...

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Will do what in your state of arizona? >> well, we need to have this bill go into effect. we have a terrible problem of illegal immigration, as you know, in the tucson sector alone, probably 400,000 people crossed the border illegally last year, they include members of crime courtels -- cartels who are not just doing drug smuggling, theyre going to crime vicious that weve seen never. theyve caught people with middle east passports, they could be terrorists ready to do terror acts in the united s...

Theocracy but rather on that the type of society our families came to, in america, in the land of freedom. bill: doc, thank you for coming in. it struck us yesterday as we listened to that woman with greg palkot, saying im sad for him, he was a good luz yim, the terror acts, that is what you guys think. that was not the majority of the opinion but that was hers. good to have you on, thank you, doctor, out of phoenix. alisyn: facial recognition technology played a key role in identifying osama bi...

Pakistan, osama bin laden was captured and killed on sunday by u.s. forces. the compound which bin laden called home for maybe up to six years. abbottabad. also home to pakistani military academy. and army base. pakistani officials claim they didnt know where bin laden was. and were not involved in the missions. that did not sit well with the locals here. >> i think -- [ inaudible ] >> the things they say he did, terror acts? >> this is what you guys think. >> disagree. >> saying getting rid of ...

Interesting thing is, you are -- your belief is that he has connections outside of the u.s. in terms of motivation and capability. to bring terror to our shores. yet, it seemed like investigators came out almost immediately and said he has -- i guess checked his computer and his house, whatever, and, the other cases they had direct connections to spiritual leaders and what do we do with people here in the u.s., whether foreign born or not who want to commit terror acts and it came about because ...