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Allowed to fly home and visit his mother. now, this new article cited u.s. and turkish officials to say that long had been arrested earlier this month near the turkey-syria border as members of an isis cell. when i saw this article i had a few reactions. ill be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the...

By someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens thats precisely the argument that basi...

>> reporter: critics say individuals wrongfully place on the terror list would be stripped of their constitutional right to own a gun. while the fbi cannot stop the purchase, they are made aware when someone on a terror watch list has been cleared to buy guns or explosives. if the fbi used about that at that point they have the power to block the sale. they have done it before. legislation has been proposed in both the house and the senate to prevent people on terror watch lists from purchasing ...

>> we have a no fly list where people cant get on planes, but those same people who we dont allow to fly can go into a store right now in the united states and buy a firearm. >> reporter: such a law would not have prevented the mass shooting in san bernardino. neither killer was on the terror watch list. they didnt have criminal records. syed farook legally purchased at least two of the guns used in the massacre. >> not one of the mass public shootings the president spoke out about during his ad...

>> not one of these mass public shootings the president so-to-speak about during his administration would have been stopped by anyway by the laws he is pushing. >> reporter: critics say individuals wrongfully placed on the terror list would be stripped of their coninstitutional right to own a gun. the fbi are made aware when someone is on the terror watch list and has been cleared to buy guns or explosives. now, the fbi learns about that plan to use those weapons in an attack. at that point they...

And the sfeps that chien and a half are things like safe storage requirements to reduce child accidents. we have dmes dmesing violence warrant against them. people who have problems with alcoholism and violence. and those steps are the things that would make the greatest impact. >> and guess what, maybe people on the terror list, maybe we should single out terrorists as a class of people who shouldnt get guns. >> doesnt get crazierer. well be right back. constipated?

Impact. >> and guess what, maybe people on the terror list, maybe we should single out terrorists as a class of people who shouldnt get guns. >> doesnt get crazierer. well be right back. get in the way? try nexium 24hr, now the #1 selling brand for frequent heartburn. get complete protection with the new leader in frequent heartburn. thats nexium level protection.

In london. the sunday times is reporting that nearly 60 employees at that airport that were recently screened ended up being on a terror watch list. thats pretty alarming news. well, greta, here in belgium today, we heard prime minister say he wants european intelligence agency similar to the one in the cia. that doesnt have support all across europe, but european leaders definitely are on board with having a various intelligence agencies across continent sharing information in a much more open,...

Number. we dont know the extent to which they were on a terror list, a no-fly list, which presumably they werent or they had been on a bad website. regardless, that is a bad number. thats why youll see the department of homeland security focus on the trusted pool of people who have access to the airports. its not just airports. theres hundreds of contracting companies this are supporting airline and airport maintenance, food, luggage. and picking up on ray anyways point about foreign airports, i...

>> but heres the -- i just want to be clear here. is this an argument about the hypocrisy of the nra and how insidious their role is in this debate or is this a first order argument for this policy and this bill? >> i think its both. and i think its -- the argument for the bill because while we can agree that the terror watch list, how people are put onto it and who is put onto it is flawed, its what we have right now. so lets assume that okay, were in a time of great turbulence here in the worl...