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Any he ordinary homicide or crime, but on the other hand the wording of terrorism statutes are clunky and its -- this -- the shooting doesnt necessarily fit exactly into the wording of michigan state statute, an intent to intimidate or coerce a government unit. it will be interesting to see how the prosecution succeeded on that front and whether that might be replicated in other instances like this. >> andy, given that the prosecutor in this case was asked about something related to somebody und...

Domestic terrorism than in foreign-inspired terrorism. but heres the problem for the fbi and law enforcement. the terrorism statutes give the fbi jurisdiction to investigate people in foreign terrorism who are connected with specific groups: isis, al qaeda, hamas, al-shabab and so forth. here at home, there is no specific group and its harder for the fbi to have dots to connect and thats why theres fewer resources. >> peter, i always appreciate your insight. we mentioned president trump was spea...

Statute per se. a lot of our terrorism statutes are geared toward international terrorists. in this case, this guy seemed to have a cause but it was a political caused ad hoc. if theyre able to, theyll add additional charges. >> all right. i appreciate that. next on ft. lauderdale where senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been learning more about the suspect. and again, i should point out. we normally dont name people who are charged with things like this. the fbi asking for more...

Democratic donor in san francisco, in the san francisco area. and another one to senator kamala harris in sacramento. so they were finding new devices even as they were rolling to try arrest him in that van that you now see. so the concern throughout is that there might be others. he briefly spoke to the fbi before he lawyered up. so the great concern is that there might be others. >> so there are no terrorism charges? >> not at this point. one of the things here is that there is no domestic ter...

Say that outsiders do not tell our story and also that charlottesville is not going to be remembered for an incident such as heinous as this. i want to bring back into our conversation jim cavanaugh, who is an msnbc analyst and law enforcement expert on this. so, jim, specifically when we talk about how the police chief characterized a criminal homicide investigation, what does that mean? does that mean that this is basically vehicular homicide? >> exactly. its a criminal homicide. its a vehicul...

Have been self reported. so how much abuse is there that they personally either havent detected or havent reported? i think a lot of the stories over the next two months are going to focus on exactly that question, just how much abuse is there in this system. >> you know, you and your partner, david miranda, seem to have come under government scrutiny. last month david was stopped at an airport in britain for nine hours. he was held by the authorities. do you worry that your movements, your tra...

Arkansas has no terrorism statutes. thats a purely federal province. theyre talking about overturning the ndaa because little rock or agarkansas prosecutor didnt go after terrorism charges. thats something that the fed his to do and they did not do it. there has not been any grand jury convened on this stuff. i was told at one point that, was probably the best way to go. notice, it is not. if we are going to deal with terrorism, we need to deal with terrorism. >> shannon: we know that the two of...

Journalistic publishing. >> gregg: what about this the taliban spokesman, its coming through the documents to find the informants presumably to kill them. if assange is clearly helping the enemy, cant he be held as an enemy combatant and cant he be charged under terrorism statutes, as well. >> i absolutely believe so. forgetting about the first amendment, were talking about national security. it is clear that when up against national security first amendment is clearly subservient to national in...