I would like to thank the attorney for his and his offices work as well as a dedicated terry from the Department CivilRights Division and extend my thanks to the solicitor for being aa partner in this matter. We have a strong working relationship and look forward to continued collaboration at the parallel state and federal prosecutions worked their way through the respective court systems. Thank you for your attention. [inaudible question] yet to be determined. Both cases will proceed through the court system and we will work to reduce unnecessary burden to the families. [inaudible question] deciding who goes 1st. There are a number of factors. Both cases are in the early stages and have yet to have motions. It is difficult to say. This seems to fit the definition of domestic terrorism. There is no specific domestic terrorism statute. However, hate crimes are the original domestic terrorism. The behavior alleged to have occurred his archetypal behavior. We havewe have a defendant who is alleged to have harbored discriminatory views toward africanamericans, to have sought out and africanamerican house of worship and sought out africanamerican parishioners at worship implicating several hate crime statutes. This is exactly the type of case that the federal hate crime statutes were conceived of the cover, racially motivated violence is the original domestic terrorism. If you look at the essence of the case the fact that these people are dead today can you speak to where we stand and what that says . This is obviously a tragic situation from a troubling situation. The allegations reflect the mindset of this young man and his specific purpose to target individuals for death but also to target individuals for death engaged in religious worship we must remain vigilant. We do not no much more about the defendant. The investigation is ongoing. But i but i think that the message that should be clear is that the federal government and our state partners are committed to investigating these matters fully and thoroughly. Maam, targeted mother in manual specifically because of historically significant church, how do you no that is why he chose the church as opposed to any africanamerican church . How do you know the National Significance of the church . I am not going to comment specifically on the evidence that will come forth except to note that we believe the evidence will support the allegation that ruth chose mother emanuel because it was an old Church Historic church, and historically significant, and he and he was looking for the type of church and parishioners his death would draw a great notoriety for his racist views. In your remarks you used the language because of. I am wondering to what extent must all other factors be precluded. He hates everyone in the world, his mother, gays what impact does that have . Hopefully we would now be receiving information like that although we would act upon it if we did. Wherever we have the motivation we have multiple charges. They specifically alleged racially motivated violence and murder and attempted murder but also the federal hate crime statute which prohibits using violence to essentially present anyone present everyone from exercising their religion. We see here activity that supports allegations of more than one intent. With respect to issues you raise all of that we will be taken into consideration. I am i to speculate as to what impact other factors would have. You suggested this was a sevenmonth plan. Can you elaborate about how detailed this plan was whether he made trips to the church prior to that night . Okay. Thank you for the question and i am not able to go and how many months he was planning. It was several months prior to the incident, and i am not able to go into the evidence right now that would show his actions surrounding at this. Following up should theyre be a federala federal domestic Terrorism Law . For the average person who sees the way people and Law Enforcement talk about different types of killings what distinction should they make when they hear talk about the shooting in chattanooga has terrorism with a shooting here as hate crime, does it matter and should theyre be a domestic law . I am not going to speculate. As to the nature of the case, you touched upon the issue that people may feel that because we have such a strong emphasis on terrorism that when we talk about matters and do not use that terminology somehow we do not consider those crimes serious. Nothing could be further from the truth. This type of crime in particular racially motivated violence is of great importance to federal government. This is the archetype. Sometimes focus on the terminology. This particular murder is that many of us are significance. We consider death eligible defendants. It is a detailed and thorough review process that involves submissions from defense counsel involves consultation with the victims families and involves a review of all the various factors that we would utilize to determine whether or not we feel that we could prevail on those factors a trial. Ultimately after this ultimately after this review process at the Us Attorneys Office level and also here and comes to my desk where i make the ultimate decision whether or not to seek the Death Penalty. As i said before, i want to be sure that no decision has been made as to whether or not to seek Death Penalty but we have an obligation to place the defendant on notice that the penalty is an option. Talk a little bit. Talk a little bit about what your office is doing in conjunction with the fbi to close on the issues . As the director announced aboutten days ago he initiated a review into the procedures that unfortunately led to is missing the fact that mr. Applied to purchase that can. This is a matter of grave importance and was disturbing and frankly heartbreaking to all of us. We would forward to reviewing the results. A slightly different topic. You said you were working on the case. Can you expand on that . Referring to ms. Bland who died in taxes in police custody. As noted that matter is under investigation. The fbi is monitoring the case as we often do and are awaiting the results of local investigations as well talk about what you were queues are on the planned parenthood videos that have been out when i receive letters from members of congress. There is an important federal law and is that something that you are going to open an investigation on . I am aware of those matters generally from the media and from inquiries that have been made and we will review the information and determine what steps are deemed appropriate. Just switching gears can we expect charges andthe department of justice kind of the traitor . An Ongoing Investigation and open matter so i am not able to comment as to what charges may or may not result but the department of justice as well as other federal agencies are actively involved in notifying everyone subjected to that breach and providing them with tools necessary to protect personal data. The families of the victims in South Carolina your reaction. From the beginning the families of the victims have provided an example to the country of what true grace and spirit and faith looks like. They are an inspiration to us all. I do not no how many of us would be able to find that type of forgiveness and our hearts so soon after such a terrible my heartbreaking loss. In particular what was hopeful for everyone watching was to see that the families acknowledge that they were angry. They did have anger toward the person who had taken there loved ones that they were able to move to forgiveness. I forgiveness. I thought that was an incredible lesson and message for office. It has been sometime since your office began the investigation into the deaths of eric garner. When can we expect resolution . I cannot comment on the timing except to say that it is active and ongoing. The Eastern District is moving ahead. One more question. Given that more people are killed by nonmuslims do you think you are properly organizing resources to focus on the domestic terrorism threat . We are tracking number of threats. Certainly the death of any one is a matter of grave importance. Without commenting on how were allocating resources we take all threats seriously whether they come from a foreign terrorist organization, domestic Militia Organization or an individual posts threats online we take those matters seriously and devote what we feel are the resources necessary to protect individuals who come under those threats. Thank you all. On the next washington journal talk to congressman Carlos Cabello about efforts to pass aa multiyear highway spending bill. Congressman branch the House Financial Services committee. To debra how we are recent cdc report on heroin use that fund increases in heroin related deaths. Live with phone calls at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. How the use of social media by extremists has changed Counterterrorism Operations in the us and from former Reagan Administration attorney general member of the fbi 911 review commission. The Heritage Foundation hosted this event. [applause] let me thank you all for coming. It is a nice day. Thank you. Theyre could not be a more timely time for this event. Breaking news about significant terrorist figures being taken out in syria. Evaluating the state of the threat and what is going on particularly in light of potentially a deal with iran they could not be a better to do this. Iran. We have a terrific panel and he is going to make some remarks and its not that we never get to talk but we are going to have a conversation so that we can flesh out some of the issues because there are so many and then we like to bring everyone into the conversation and we will do that for about 15 15 minutes or so in and bringing panel out and continue with the panel. I ran up and i said here is the secretary. It didnt work out so well. So i actually have the biography here. So watching this is important because what he has done in the expertise he brings is very admirable in 2013 he began the chairman of the Homeland Security committee which has oversight of department of Homeland Security and all that is protecting the American People from terrorist attacks and he recently is making sure that these forces are strong, he recently discussed a whole range of issues and he is also the cofounder and cochair of the caucus and the cybersecurity caucus and the cochair of the commission for the 44th president see and that includes on cybersecurity. And so please give him a round of applause. [applause] [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] i am going to cover a lot of territory, but we will have a very robust q a discussion and dialogue and we just mentioned this strike yesterday where we took out the leader of the group that was hugely significant in one of the big external threats to the homeland and the United States and i commend the military efforts in doing that. And last week tears dropped in the american heartland and this is a type of event that we have been worried about probably the most lately. Not on the radar screen, launching an assault on u. S. Oil. Killing United States marines and sailors. And this was inspired by hateful ideology, he risked his life in the name of freedom. Our hearts go out to the families and friends were killed in chattanooga. We can honor the memory of the victims by confronting the roots of the violence we saw and refusing to allow complacency to fall in the we of terrorism. And that is why im here to cellular radicalism is on the rise and war is being brought to our doorstep. It could happen in chattanooga or anywhere and i agree with the british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron who said this week that we face the struggle of our generation and a deceitful perverted brand of islam expanding globally and we need to act decisively to defeat it. First i will talk about how this new age of terror has altered the Security Landscape on the homefront and spread rapidly throughout our communities. Then i will address the second front in our struggle with extremists of how important it is for us to take this and challenge the ideological core. But i believe that we are losing on both fronts in this war against islamic terrorism. The enemies have the momentum and they have thrown us off balance. The numbers dont lie. Last year was a deadly year the deadliest on record for global terrorism with attacks rising and nearly doubling. The power behind this is affiliated with al qaedas persistence. And by any measure we have failed to turn the tide against them. The Global Recruitment has soared in the territory held or expanded. The pace is so staggering that i directed my Committee Staff to begin issuing a monthly Terror Threat snapshot. Cataloging the rise in extremist activity. Since the president declared them to be the Gigabyte Team of terror last year, the group has inspired or directed more than 50 terrorist plots against the west. They also went from a single terrorist sanctuary to having a direct presence or affiliates in 18 countries. The rapid rise has inspired more than 25000 citizens from at least 100 countries to flock to syria as foreign fighters have tripled since last july. And officials now estimate more than 250 americans in syria. Terrorist groups have succeeded in spreading influence because they have evolved. Gone are the days when they plotted through caves. We are seeing a new generation of terrorists radicalizing and recruiting online and we are losing on the homefront were groups like this have started to permeate our society there are people intent on striking from within. Captivated by an evil and twisted ideology that drives vulnerable minds into conscionable acts of violence. We have seen more than a dozen ices terror plots in the United States including recent plots to set off hide bombs on capitol hill they had lawenforcement officers, conduct mass shootings, detonate bombs at new york city landmarks and white stream this was a College Campus and in fact more than 50 ices supporters have been arrested or indicted in the United States. [inaudible] and now the fbi director says that he has that he has opened the isis investigations in all 50 states. The majority have never set foot in a faraway safe haven and were recruited by isis online or distributed the Group Social Media propaganda. And with over 200000 isis tweets per day, a there are over 200,000 per day how can we possibly get a handle on this. The chatter is so high and the volume is so loud that its difficult to get a handle. This is not terror as usual this is terror gone viral. And i commend the fbi on Homeland Security and state and locals for their disrupting others many plots and as we saw in chattanooga we cannot stop all of them and authorities are searching for suspects to use secure applications to communicate and to outsource the calls for attacks, inspiring operatives who have never crossed into the borders of syria, the crossover through the internet to combat acts of terror. The cybercommanders now regularly send out internet directives and missives to their followers as we saw in sometimes that includes an internet hash tag. We need to have a frank conversation about the challenges posed by violent extremists using social media and dark space to further violent plots. Extremists have migrated away from telephones and onto new platforms that the laws and policies have not kept pace, making it difficult to uncover terrorist plots. They communicate in darkness and we cannot shine a light to see what the communications are to attack in the United States. I do not claim to have all the answers to this, but i have started a working group with the fbi and the hightech community to get some answers. And what i know is that we all share some Common Ground from silken ballet to the halls of congress that we want to see terrorists brought to justice. This has to be the starting point in an urgent dialogue in the hightech sector and policymakers to ein solutions for the lawful monitoring of violent extremists while at the same time protecting Civil Liberties. We also need to do more to stop the spread of fanaticism. Before it leads to violent things. We spend billions of dollars to detect and disrupt terror plots and we have dedicated few resources toward combating and preventing the radicalization at the root of terror. This is called the crucial prevention aspect of terrorism. Sadly while they are moving at broadband speeds we are moving at bureaucratic speeds. The administration has not appointed elite agency in charge of combating domestic resources and few are even allocated to it. When asked by our committee of the Top Department and agency can only identify around 50 million within a million being spent in around two dozen people working fulltime on this issue. And that is basically it. And that means that we have arrested twice as many isis recruits in the United States this year than there are fulltime officials working to prevent isis from radicalizing americans in the first place. In a high threat environment i believe that this is unacceptable. Every day we wait we see more ground going to the average adversaries. I will not stand on the sidelines asking for more reports and studies while terrorists murder our people and our military. Killing our u. S. Marines and servicemen and seek to divide our nation. That includes raising the priority and focus of the department of Homeland Securit