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Motivated by terror? >> because we are afraid it is art of a larger plan. isis has indicated it wants to come to american shores and destroy our freedom and kill our people. we worry more about a part of a large plan than isolated incidents. but if you think some of the great terrorist attacks in this country have been committed by white, quote, patriots who think they are doing the right thing. >> we will continue with this. but i want you to hear this. there is a debate on tuesday about how to...

With conspiring to give material support to terrorists. according to the criminal complaint, farook introduced enrique marquez to islam, and enrique marquez converted in 2007. prosecutors say that syed farook then began introducing mr. marquez to "radical islamic ideology" including the teachings of radical american cleric anwar al awlaki. enrique marquez allegedly told investigators that both he and syed farook together plotted terrorist attacks in late 2011. they planned to attack riverside co...

Time friend and neighbor of san bernardino shooter farook. he appeared in federal court late thursday and charged in a three-count criminal indictment, charged with plotting terrorist attacks that never happened. and with illegally buying the assault rifles used in the mass shooting which, of course, killed 14 people. officials say theres no evidence marquez was involved in that attack. lets bring in nbc news justice correspondent pete williams for more. pete, when you saw the court documents la...

Anniversary of our bill of rights, we find free speech under assault throughout the united states, including on some college campuses. the notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. >> it was born in the 90s and now its back. an obsession with political correctness, and its supposed ills. last night alone in the gop debate, political correctness was assailed again and again and again, but this time for more nefarious reasons. >> weve defunded and tied the hands behi...

Actually will be kind of cold in the great lakes and the northeast. >> all right, bill. thank you for that. chicago police officer jason van dyke has been indicted by a grand jury. hes charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old laquan mcdonald in october of 2014. van dyke is facing six counts of first degree murder and one count of official misconduct. this indictment is the first time in 35 years that a chicago police officer has been charged with first degree murder for an on-duty fatality. ...

Hampshire is state thats more secular and concerned like noan other state about issues of terror. it lessens the bridge gate issue but hes been poised to know what terror looks like. >> does it work? did it work for him last night? >> remember, this wasnt the first time that governor christie has done that whole look at the camera thing. hes done it at every debate. its very effective. hes leapfrogging the moderators and everybody else in the stage and going into the persons living room saying l...

Media in battling terrorism. what are you after here? >> this was a unanimous recommendation. it was part of bipartisan task force that i served on well before paris in march of this year, the chairman of the homeland security committee created a task force. for six months we took a deep dive into isis, the threat of foreign fighter flow and homegrown extremism. isis is using social media in a very sophisticated way. they have an estimated 200,000 pro-isis social media posts a day. they are tryi...

Its a harrowing tale as the way the fbi describes, because now you can see why there was so much concern about what really they were up to in 2012. they never went through with it, but its a remarkable plan that they were coming up with. >> pamela, what else are you learning? >> reporter: its interesting reading through the complaint that marquez actually called 911 after the san bernardino shootings saying, look, my friend who i gave guns to, he did this shooting. and it details how the operato...

Concerned about national security than immigration reform. it plays to donald trump and ted cruz and others on stage. we get away from terrorism and tax it is more of what do you do with illegal immigrants here and how do you grandfather them in. if you think thats the issue, its an issue of national security thats intertwined. right now if you pick a candidate you have the one talking national security and not just immigration reform. >> you are talking about two different kinds of immigration....

You bring up the interesting point about ideology not being copyrighted. that also brings up the point of how this is so difficult to track down and go after people if they are self-radicalizing or meeting with a neighbor who inspires them to do something. >> absolutely. im curious to know where he was reading his material. was it from a group called revolution muslim which was around for a few years and was tied to about 30-40% of the terrorist attacks and plots in the united states from 2009 t...