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But now to new developments in the fight against isis. fbi director james comey is now calling isis a bigger threat than al qaeda. >> what keeps me up at night is the isil threat in the homeland and i worry very much about what i cant see. isil is not your parents al qaeda. its a very different model. by virtue of that model, its currently the threat were worrying about in the homeland most of all. >> let me bring in our msnbc terror analyst. your take on what director comey just said? >> isis i...

I want to bring in msnbc terror analyst and director. as we talk about this how concerning is it when it comes to isis? we already talked about how strong theyve become when it comes to outside social media. now when its encrypted, it takes it to a whole new level. >> exactly. we have not seen any terrorist group, militia and so on use social media and even the back doors of the internet as sophisticated as isis has been. theyre using encrypted platforms, whether its freely available on line or ...

To be of quote/unquote specific concern. scotland yard is also warning the suspected terrorists are being arrested in britain at a rate of almost one every single day. so ive got buck sexton with me former terror analyst and with us here officially at cnn. its not illegal to travel to syria, right. so if youre going from the u.k. you hop over to syria for whatever reason you have at what point does the u.k. or scotland yard say, hm we need to follow this guy and we especially need to follow him ...

>> our own peter bergen terror analyst, whos been covering al qaeda for more than a decade met osama bin laden, has reported that there was an idea at least of somehow connecting the bergdahl transfer to the case of warren weinstein, although they were held by different groups that there was an effort led by a team in the pentagon that was trying that. i wonder you heard about any such efforts to connect those two so that the exchange might have involved more people. >> no i had not heard about ...

And all other electronic devices. fox news terror analyst has more on the plot coming up. and new overnight, a missing ohio state university football player found dead. the body of the 22-year-old was found in a dumpster with a gun near campus. police think that he shot himself. he disappeared wednesday minutes after sending a text to his mom saying concussions were messing with his head. his family claims that he has a history of concussions and sometimes gets disoriented. last night friends ...

Make speculation. >> comparing apples to oranges. peter, if i could come back to you before we finish up, and well have an opportunity to discuss this over the next several hours as we dig deeper on this, but when you look at a terror case still, or some sort of terror nex us is, as analysts look at this, they never want to close down a lead because you could get new information. they could find the wreckage and see evidence of an explosion. the intelligence community, explain how they would be ...

Responsibility. whats your policy? >> back now with the breaking news tonight in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. an official telling our barbara starr that the intelligence community is quote focusing on those in the cockpit of the plane. they believe that one of the people is deliberately responsible for the missing jet. could terror have been the motivation here? back with me is richard quest and also a terror analyst for cbn news. and richard, last voice in the cockpit, "al...

Last night we had a terror analyst. he said this was a sign of weakness about al shabaab, this is the only kind of operation they can do. they cant do a highly technical operation like a 9/11 style. but it also does show you the strength of these al qaeda-inspired groups in africa. whether its in nigeria. >> soft targets soft targets. they cant do the kind of thing at the moment for sure that we saw in 9/11. but soft targets. we discussed this. i was talking to the french president today who as ...

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Syrians when he wouldnt even send our own military to benghazi to save americans who were being slaughtered by terrorists. [ applause ] president obama will be addressing the nation on syria live in primetime on tuesday night and joining me now is former its deputy under defense, who also commanded the green beret, president of the islamic forum for democracy and terror analyst. [ applause ] well, delighted to have all of you here. i want to begin with general boykin. youve been involved in majo...