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Inspect director from comey say something were tied to the holiday. >> think stopped the stuff that was trying to come at us july 4th but now it's the 7th and 8th and they're on to the next things. >> reporter: they were foiled coast to coast, unfirsted, chug xlans with guns knives and other weapons, fitting isis's public calls to attack in any way possible. investigators believe that isis members overseas enabled the plots and encouraging americans to carry out attacks on u.s. soil even selecting possible targets. comey calls it crowd sourcing terrorists. senator james rich telling cnn wednes...

Were linked to the fourth of july plots and also said that some of the people arrested had been in direct communication with isis fighters that were directing them with specific plans on what to do. >> what about the size of these attacks? >> i asked him about the size of the actual plots. he wouldn't go into that and how many they were essentially. he stayed mum on that but we heard from congressman mccaul today, that their concerns were about the new york/new jersey cell they wanted to set off explosive as july 4th parades, possibly near military members. our indications is there was nothing...

>> his last name indicates he's from yemen, which is unusual. a former military commander, part of the prison escape part of the inner circle. interestingly he said i'm pledging allegiance to the leader the al qaeda, not isis so it remains in the al qaeda ambit. >> senator risch yesterday said it's a matter of time until we see a tunisia style of attack here in the u.s. do you agree with that? >> sure. how do you prevent it? 300 million guns in this country and a couple thousands of these that believe in this ideology put the two together. it's going to happen at some point. >> very sobering. ...