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Will always do everything in my power to prevent terrorists from striking american soil. >> today's terrorism threat still includes sleeper cells, al qaeda, all the kind of major terrorist organizations that you would think of but we are also very focused now on homegrown violent extremists. we had about 120 terrorism-related arrests last year alone. that's just in the arrest context. so there is a lot happening every day, 365 days a year right now in the terrorism front. >> bret: the fbi director on cbs saying that they get some 15,000 tips about terrorist-related activity every year. that's ...

Doesn't include al qaeda. doesn't include domestic terrorism even. this is a significant issue. we had about 120 terrorism-related arrests last year alone, and that's just in the arrest context. >> i want to bring in msnbc terrorism analyst malcolm nanst. he spent decades in the navy and nbc intelligence and national security ken delaney. listening to the fbi director talking about the shift in threat, what do you make of that? >> it's absolutely what i've seen over my career covering intelligence. i used to spend almost all my time focused on al qaeda and drone strikes in pakistan and the lat...