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Very difficult to predict when islamists are going to be violent. the precursors are obvious. it's not rocket science. these are individuals that believe and thus the premises of the islamic state. the anti-liberty, anti-western, anti-semitic, homophobic. misogynist, histories of domestic violence pretty put the picture together and you have an islamists, many groups are nonviolent, but we need to understand that those are the pools in which the violent are swimming in. and unfortunately, as long as the access of counter radicalization focuses on the symptom, we are never going to be able to p...

Islamists are going to be violent. the precursors are obvious. it's not rocket science. these are individuals that believe and thus the premises of the islamic state. the anti-liberty, anti-western, anti-semitic, homophobic. misogynist, histories of domestic violence pretty put the picture together and you have an islamists, many groups are nonviolent, but we need to understand that those are the pools in which the violent are swimming in. and unfortunately, as long as the access of counter radicalization focuses on the symptom, we are never going to be able to predict to these guys. we should...

We are back now with congressman john garamendi, a member of the house armed services committee. we are monitoring right now the terrorist threat here in the u.s. during this fourth of july holiday weekend. we want to get his insight considering there is huge concern about a possible attack by isis sympathizers. i want to ask you about something that one of your colleagues congresswoman martha mcsally told us. she said this week that there are only 16 individuals in the federal government who are working on counter radicalization. you just mentioned how important the strategy to tackle that is...

But you can't take on one half of it without finding a solution to the other. that's where the void is. that's why this iraq first strategy is likely to slow down any progress on syria. >> what are you hearing, u.s. officials you are in touch with them they are worried about the isis threat right now, especially these teenagers. how worried are they that more american kids are going to be recruited and try to get to syria or iraq join forces with isis? >> the alarming thing is that all the measures that they are taking all the steps they are doing to try to reach parents to tell people in the ...

Passions and make it less likely muslims will cooperate with law enforcement. >> i don't know if representative king realizes that, but that's the real danger to all of this. >> according to one study in 48 out of 120 terror cases involving muslim-americans it was the muslim community itself that tipped off law enforcement. >> tips we received. information shared is critical to our efforts at disrupting plots that otherwise may have occurred. >> law enforcement officials say the level of cooperation varies from mosque to mosque. at the dulles area muslim society in northern virginia, the imam ...