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Here we have an extraordinary case where there is not just a very severe crime. one of the -- as you were saying earlier, worst terrorist attacks in the united states. but its also a case in which there was a lot of evidence. and so the doubts that weve seen in very many cases with the death penalty where we now have 153 people who have been exonerated from death row, found to be innocent even after they were sent to death row. this is not the kind of case where you have those particular concern...

Sure fewer people do you i if terrorist attacks that we know come is having an infrastructure that knows how to withstand that withstand even you know nature like from sandy and other katrina. >> there are lots of things you cant prevent. it turns out resilience the ability to absorb and bounce back is one of the more characteristics of a successful society. i dont care whether you talk about the tornadoes earlier this week or terrorism. its everything from your electricity grid or your travel i...

Situation is there is also nothing more valuable to a strong national defense than a strong empowered intelligence community. and im very concerned about those who want to weaken our intelligence community. these president has done it already and there are those runs for president right now that want to weaken the intelligence community more. i am not one of those people. thats one of the lessons we should have learned. sometimes real mistakes of national consequence can be made if we dont have ...

Cooperate. we saw with -- remember the boston bombers from the marathon there were some exchanges going back and forth on that not nearly what we needed. but they were in a cooperative mood. >> were or were not? >> well they were i think. what you have to remember is they have their own problems with terrorism. if you look at the terrorist attacks that they have in russia they have the check kneeian issue there and very radical islamics there who have the same view towards russia as isis does to...

The key here when you look at social media, the fact that there are tens of thousands of accounts on various social media platforms, different websites where you have people who are recruiting directing terrorist attacks, spreading propaganda these social media accounts need to be shut down. theres no question the strategy that has been in place in allowing these to go really without check has failed, because were seeing this threat growing here at home this radicalization threat here. >> what a...

Collection program is illegal. were back with a panel. we have a lot of briefings in washington. fred as i mentioned with chairman mccaul, i thought the briefing this week from jim comey was as alarming as anything ive heard. hundreds, maybe thousands of this home grown terrorists all around the country being sent to encrypted websites that they cant penetrate. >> think about this for a moment one of promises of the administrations approach to isis has been that they dont pose a threat u.s. home...

I want to hurt other people. law enforcement has to find a way to zero in on these guys. >> law enforcement does it. twitter has a right and duty all these social media sites are making billions. they have a duty to behave responsibility responsibly and help the government. alert the authorities immediately. they have a responsibility. >> guys lets leave it there. forbes on fox is just about ready to go. david, whats coming up? >> hi charles. the presidents next executive action may be to close ...

Crisis." gideon welcome back. >> good to be here. >> heres my question. this hasnt happened just context wise since the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. so what do you think, you know, law enforcement are picking up? we know its not a specific threat. >> well look what you have is a situation in which there arent -- isis doesnt have operatives here the way al qaeda guys sent to blow up the twin towers were. what they have is a pool of disaffected, radicalized allies who might be ...

On the internet. former hackers say hes so skilled that he could steal millions of dollars from bank accounts online. in 2013 he went and joined isis in syria. hes put all his skills at their disposal. he appears to have a link to this texas attack. and he appears to have potentially had some foreknowledge of this attack. so the worry is if hes predicting some kind of future attack that may not just be bravado. he could have some knowledge. because hes somebody interacting with all sorts of peop...

Communication with a known isis fighter, that recruiter you were mentioning. he was having public exchanges on twitter. that isis fighter retweeting one of simpsons tweets. the focus now is looking at social media. how close were these two men? at this point investigators believe that it may be shy of being directed that the two men may not have been directed but certainly they were more than just inspired. chris. >> kyung, thanks for digging. lets bring in former chair of the u.s. house intelli...