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Since he left, up to today i'm on medication. i live by medication. >> reporter: she has testified against her son as recruiters, some imprisoned in the u.s. in recent years, but the threat of just somali-americans coming back into this country with u.s. passports and launching an attack on a soft target like a shopping mall, is what one official told us, keeps us all up at night. >> thanks very much, brian todd. let's bring in fran townsen. >> i know there's been deconcerns about them to recruit americans answers bring them back to the united states. >> the fbi, as a result of this threat, ...

United states. >> what kind of -- what's the role, fran, of this social media in recruiting these potential terrorists out there? >> you know, wolf, we see them like the -- they're an al qaeda affiliate. we see them using these password-protected web sites, the distribution of extremist media, whether it's videotapes or audio tapes. in terms of the social media, in the kenya case, the interesting thing is they were using twitter -- al shabab was, as they went through executing this attack. of course twitter then responsibly quickly acted to take that account down. there versus spoof accounts t...

Kind of most understandable, which was the one to blow up the new york stock exchange, but as fran also said, the one that is a lot more americay about getting information about somebody in somalia action that is the program that people i think are most concerned about, and that has to do with phone records. the other one has to do with the internet, which people are kind of more comfortable with, and most importantly sources here, who have been briefed were concerned about phone records are very comfortable with the internet. that is the one that i think that the burden is on these members of...

To bomb the new york subway system. the plot to bomb the new york stock exchange, i believe that is new. the plot to bomb a danish newspaper, we did already know about that. and finally terrorist activity shortly after 9/11 we had not hard about before. we are monitoring this very closely again we'll go back to it when there's new information. in the meantime i want to bring back in fran townsend action and dana bash on capitol hill, and gloria borger as well. fran, i want to start with the information about these new plots, specifically the new york stock exchange plot. they said they used so...

>> gloria, fran townsend, dana bash, thank you so much. very interesting what's going on. we'll get back to it in just a minute. stay with us. [ female announcer ] the best thing about this bar it's not a candy bar. 130 calories 7 grams of protein the new fiber one caramel nut protein bar. the new fiber one we know it's your videoconference of the day. hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. book a great getaway now and feel the hamptonality