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One for you. were getting new details about an elaborate internet hoax targeting pastor joel olsteen. the prank included several fake web postings and madeup news headlines claiming he was leaving christianity. and now the perpetrator is speaking out. trace. >> trace: the man behind the hoax says he was actually doing a campaign, a media campaign trying to get a hold of somebody he says was essentially inaccessible so he created a fake joel olsteen website and plucked screen grabs from cnn and d...

store. gabby giffords survived and is still recovering. he will avoid the death penalty. after the hearing a number of survivors came together outside the courthouse. >> give up this hopelessness in this country that we cant do anything. because we can and we must. >> these taboo words, gun control can be spoken plainly in the halls of congress again. >> one of ways i believe we can make good come out of this, is to begin some common sense discussion about who should bear arms. what ha...

What are you learning about this threat? >> for the last several weeks fbi and nypd officials have been briefing bank executives and security officials, concerned based on pieces of evidence that package bombs or the like could be sent directly to bank executives at major financial institutions. they stress theres no specific threat information or any specific assassination plot under way, but they remain concerned that based on "inspire" magazine, an english langua language al qaeda publication...

Jihadist web postings to information they have that several bank executives may have, their names may have come up amid some of the terror operatives. >> in spite of being this english language online, its -- >> its put out by al qaeda which is meant to inspire terror attacks here in the west. all of those factors combined has the joint terrorism task force here in new york concerned and so they have now gone out and briefed the major banks, morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase, goldman sachs, citiban...

Patrick bedell of hollister, california, who according to the pentagon police chief showed up at the pentagon last night in a suit, armed with two 9 millimeter pistols and 25 extra clips of ammunition. now, pentagon and fbi officials say theyre still trying to figure out exactly what the motive was for that shooting. they have ruled out a terrorist act. and theyre investigating some interdiet web postings made in his name, which indicate that he could have some kind of disagreements with with th...

We, evan coleman, nbc news analyst, who does a lot of work for the government caught these web postings. we went to the government late last week, is this real? we were told yes, this is significant. an actual guy matching this description had, in fact, been captured. >> had they picked up his intel? >> we were told they are getting useful intelligence from this. theyre being a little bit cautious, but the potential here is if, in fact, its anything like described on the web postings is for -- w...

Ideologically atune with al qaeda leadership in pakistan but never clear to what extent there was direct communication between the two or direct -- >> this courier now suggests -- >> a much more elaborate connection between the two. its interesting the way the story unfolded. in late january, these postings on an islamic jihadi website, fallujah islamic forum, alerting al qaeda people that a commander has been captured in the persian gulf with 300 phone numbers, documents and photographs. he was...

On branding the first 100 days. is it just the media being ridiculous? >> the president said he wants to run the federal government like a business. during the first month of president trumps administration reporters were complaining about him doing too much. it was a neck breaking pace. there was too much to cover and the reporters were exhausted. here we are approaching the first 100 days and he apparently hasnt done enough. he either hasnt done enough or he needs to do more. howie: it goes ba...

Today we might wonder what hath samuel morse without? practically all of us generate with computers, phones and other devices an almost continuous trail of electronic data. that information can be stored 40 knows where are analyzed by who knows whom for who knows what purpose. in recent days we learned how our government is tapping into a lot of that data phone records, e-mails and web postings often provided by private internet companies and individual yes feeds like in the wake of the boston m...

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