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An attack, evacuation of personnel in yemen, drone strikes, closure of nearly two dozen embassies. all of this unprecedented and all overseas. what about at home? could there be a situation where there is an incredible amount of chatter and the u.s. is looking in the wrong place? >> i dont think were looking in the wrong place. i dont think we ever lay down and dont look at whats going on here in the homeland but it is certainly a threat. the possibility as they said, lone wolf style attacks lik...

So this is a guy who wanted to be on his team, who wanted to keep a kind of parallel life going and his parallel life was taking place online. so i think hes a perfect case of somebody who would lead a parallel life online and that life was very rich. >> youre talking about dzhokhar. he and his brother were very different people, very different in their social interactions and things like that. interesting in terms of some comments that were made, senator marco rubio of the senate intelligence c...

Bombs that are smaller magnitude, although look at how horrible this was. they want to have major impact, like taking down a train or the like. so i think it does make watch our borders, exactly at were doing. if we start to see more of a tendency for these kinds of maller level ied type attacks, the government will have to refocus. i would add that local law enforcement and responders are very focused on this kind of thing, though. weve got systems in a lot of major cities where the security ca...

>> megyn: yet, there was an al-qaeda linked magazine that talked about targeting sporting events not long ago and encouraged more lone wolf type attacks. so we dont know whether that was the inspiration behind this. i want to add this, were getting this just in from our justice department producer who says that we are looking at a law enforcement source says the f.b.i. has lots of leads and a lot of work to do and says that one of the people they are looking at is this 20-year-old saudi man, but...

That? >> i know the author of the report has testified before the homeland security committee, hes an expert in the field. he raises real issues, all this has to be looked at. we have to assume there are links between these type attacks and these al-qaida affiliates. chairman mike rogers was talking about one of them in one of his recent interviews. the fact is in the middle east its not going always to be al-qaida per se, its going to be affiliates. when you look at the attacks happening in a c...

president obama today paid tribute to americas war dead, laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, he then spoke at the vietnam veterans memorial on the 50th anniversary of their bloody conflict. and milt romney led a tribute at the veterans memorial center in san diego. it was a somber break from the election campaign, but politics has a way of seeping into one of the most somber occasions, dan lothian is standing by, but first lets go to cnns dana bash. and a slight political unde...

Is immune from these type threats and these type attacks. this committee cannot live in denial which is what some of us would do when they suggest that this hearing dilute focus by investigating threats unrelated to al qaeda. the department of homeland security and this committee was formed in response to the al qaeda attacks of september 11th. there is no equivalency of threat between al qaeda and neonazis, environmental extremists, or other isolated mad men. only al qaeda and islamist affiliat...

Type attacks. this committee cannot live in denial, which is what some of us would do when they suggest that this hearing dilute its focus by investigating threats unrelated to al qaeda. the department of homeland security and this committee were formed in response to the al qaeda attacks of september 11th. there is no equivalency of threat between al qaeda and n - neo-nazis, environmental extremists or other isolated madmen. only al qaeda. islamists affiliates in this country are part of an int...

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