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Out. the isis uses social media and technology to spread propaganda. tina is a tech writer and expert. sheena, well go bit by bit. initially after the terrorist attacks we heard about telegram and there was a lot of questions of where terrorist were using encrypted society. how dids cell phone crack the case open, how can that be? >> that is correct. there were channels that the isis were using on telegrams and encrypted channels and on that phone they discovered was geo location was on the phon...

Terrorist attacks. the most we get out of them -- the most excitement out of him is when hes attacking republicans. its time to focus on whats going to keep america safe. i had the privilege to serve on a task force for six months to combat the flow of foreign fighters and terrorists specifically related to this new isis threat. we spent six months. we dove in deep. and identified a lot of our vulnerabilities. we came up with 32 findings and over 50 recommendations to really close some gaping ho...

Terror groups, there are a lot of them, not just isis and al qaeda, are competing with each other, is this now suddenly trigger a serious of continuous an chronic terrorist attacks? what does that mean for american citizens? >> gregg, what really this is doing, it is making more vivid what weve known for quite a while. weve had al qaeda in arabian peninsula. al qaeda in the islamic maghreb. boko haram,al that bob and isis and affiliates join up. they compete with each other. sometimes they coope...

Following a shooting in central paris late friday. that was just the beginning, unfortunately. at this point one week ago the siege of the bataclan concert hall had just begun. and today as the death toll in france rises to 130 from those isis terrorist attacks, 130 people killed mercilessly as the french prime minister put it today, the united states was assisting french special forces in a counterattack to another terrorist atrocity in the west african nation of mali after gunmen there stormed...

Out. >> it was interesting you said silenced, not silent. who has silenced them? >> vocal extremists have silenced them. a media thats not interested has silenced them. but when you ask the vast majority of muslims, you find that our values are very compatib compatible, that they are at least as likely if not more likely to condemn terrorism. but step back and ask a different question, is it justified to demand that muslims condemn terrorism? is that might sound a little radical even asking that...

Assisted by u.n. forces. some type of u.n. meeting going on inside this hotel. the numbers, the procedures were not sure. we do know the u.s. president in kuala lumpur has been briefed on the situation. can you take us through what is going on in this briefing? what are you being told? >> hi, chris. we havent gotten a response whats going on from the white house. what they said was that the president was briefed while on this trip by his national security advisers susan rice and asked this natio...

Of information. now lets get to malaysia, where president obama arrived just earlier today. nbcs ron allen is traveling with the president in kuala lumpur, and ron, what can you tell us from there? >> reporter: well, talking with u.s. officials here and elsewhere, they want to emphasize the context. they say that mali is a place where there have been terrorist attacks, maybe three or four, in the past couple of years, directed at western targets. so, they see whats happening there now as the con...

Himself french police named another suspect in that attack who was not himself arrested. same guy named suspect -- from the church attack in april. and the reason that named suspect was not arrested after either of those two attempted terrorist attacks even though he was a named suspect in both is because police couldnt find him. they did not believe he was in france or even in europe. right after the "charlie hebdo" attacks this past january police chasing down the source of some of the weapons...

West of nigeria. a very unstable region. yes, there have been terror cells in that area. we wait to see what is going to happen as the event unfolds. new information on the ring leaders of the terrorist terrorist attacks that came into france. video emerging of abdelhamid abaaoud the night of the attacks. there are reports that he poatds as a refugee seeking a better life to slip into the country before taking part in the worst terror attack in france. tell us about this new information on the r...

But we as american muslims are also afraid. the very fact that i am here as an american born and raised citizen, a proud midwestern girl, a mother, on national tv, having to speak out against the terrorist attacks of people a continent away is indicative of how those attacks affect us here in this country. our struggle is two-fold. we have to push back against extremist ideology overseas, defend ourselves physically from those attacks and also deal with the political extremists in this country w...