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And importantly, we built a counterterrorism capability that can sustain this pressure against any terrorist network in south asia that might threaten the united states of america. there was because of the work of our outstanding service members. moreover, that early decision to strengthen our efforts in afghanistan, allowed us to build the capacity of afghans to secure and defend their own country. so today, there are less than -- less than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan. instead of being in the lead against the taliban, americans are now supporting 320,000 afghan security forces who a...

Threat here of a paris-type attack, and we have seen no connection at all between the paris attackers and the united states. isil and its supporters put out all kind of propaganda, individual joez magazines, but that is not credible intelligence. of course we investigate all propaganda threats. but instead, the threat here focuses primarily on troubled soles in american being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. we have stopped a lot of those people this year, especially leading up to july 4th, and there are others we worry about and cover across the country using all o...

At all between the paris attackers and the united states. isil and its supporters put out all kinds of propaganda like videos and magazines, but that is not credible intelligence. of course we investigate all of those propaganda threats. but instead the threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in america who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. we have stopped a lot of those people this year, especially leading up to july 4th. and there are others we worry about and we cover all across the country using all of our lawful tools. so that's how we think ab...

Where you can nyou can never se it? >> well, you can do a lot to secure and we've done a lot about. but the lone wolf is always the most difficult to track down. the two successful terrorist attacks in america since 9/11 were carried out by lone wolves. one was nidal hasan who killed 14 people at ft. hood, the other was carlos bledsoe in little rock, arkansas. both in 2009. walked into a army recruiting station and killed a recruiter just because he had a u.s. army uniform on. but we are doing a lot to deal with the lone wolf. the fbi which has developed an extraordinary domestic counterterror...