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bernardino using my gun. the operator says how did he get your guns? he says i had given them to syed farook for safe storage which is odd given that he had been plotting to use these guns for terror attacks. >> what about the role of his wife? not marquez's wife. >> tashfeen malik. she doesn't really feature much in this indictment which is understandable. this is -- i shouldn't say indictment, in this criminal complaint, because these are charges against enrique marquez and it all has to do with syed farook and what they did together. it doesn't even say that tashfeen malik was one of the people who shot at the inland regional center. it just says at least one person fired shots there. now, i'm not sure why they word it that way. the only reference to her is that it says that after the shooting, a statement was posted to a facebook account associated with her pledging support for al baghdadi. doesn't even say she posted it. could have been her husband, could have been her, but that's the only reference to isis in
busy california freeway. according to court papers, marquez not only bought the assault rifles that wound up being used in the san bernardino shooting, but also the powder used to build pipe bombs. marquez appeared in federal court late yesterday to face charges, including conspiring to carry out attacks in 2001 and '12 and unlawfully purchasing those two assault rifles. nbc news correspondent pete williams is joining us. we've learned more about when marquez allegedly became radicalized and just what brewed behind the scenes between these two friends. >> well, it's pretty clear that the fbi believes that syed farooq, there on the left, radicalized his friend, the next door neighbor, first converted marquez to islam and then radicalized him based on anwar al awlaki, the al qaeda figure prominent in so many attacks. and according to the fbi, starting in 2011, they
discussed, anyway, two attacks, one on riverside community college where both of them had been students, and the other on a busy california furrreeway th they were going to attack in rush hour. in both, they were going to throw bombs at people in the cafeteria the at school and shoot them, stop them in traffic and shoot people in their cars. it's also clear from the court documents that the fbi says that marquez when he bought these rifles and when he bought the powder for the explosives, did so with the intent that they would be used to carry out these terrorist attacks. now, the fbi says that marquez and farooq actually went to firing ranges to practice shooting these weapons but that by 2012, marquez sort of stops, drops out of the terror plotting picture because he says he got cold feet when there was the arrest of, in an unrelated terror case in southern california, and they thought maybe the heat was on them. and so, the fbi does not claim that he had any foreknowledge of or any participation in the
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planning for the shooting in san bernardino. >> and we also are learning, at least how much marquez is cooperating, the number of hours he's spoken with federal investigators, right, pete? >> 11 days, tamron, you're right. and the fbi says he did so willingly, that every day they gave him his miranda warning and said you can have a lawyer and that he waived it. the impression you get from this is that marquez was so overcome with guilt after the san bernardino shootings that he wanted to sort of make a clean breath to the fbi. he actually drank a lot, got seriously drunk, checked into a hospital, he was so upset, called 911 and said i think my neighbor just did the shootings with the guns that i gave him, and that's why the fbi's contention here is that's why he agreed to talk with them so much. >> wow. >> but you're right, now they're basically, his words are the main weapon against him here in this case. >> all right, major development there. thank you, pete. and we have breaking news in right now. a massive spending bill easily
and we're learning two of the attackers and mastermind passed through a greek island apparently posing as refugees. all that comes as president obama says there's no specific and credible terror threat to the united states homeland right now. he's urging americans not to give in to fear. but a new poll shows the americans doubt the government's ability to stop lone wolf terror attacks. all of this on the same day that disney announces it's added metal detectors at its theme parks and is barring costumes and guests 14 years and older. i'll speak with congressman adam kinzinger and our correspondents, analysts and guest wills have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with our national correspondent kyung lah. she has the latest on the san bernardino investigation whachlt are you learning, kyung? >> wolf, we're getting this information via pam brown and evan perez in washington, d.c. we're also getting our first look at the criminal complaint that has just been filed against enrique marquez.
material support charge, which goes to the 2011, 2012 plot, part of which you just described, the idea that they were going to attack riverside community college where marquez and farook both attended. that carries a 15-year sentence. the 10-year sentences are for the two -- the weapons charges, the charge that he essentially straw purchased these two rifles which the -- which farook and his wife used to carry out the deadly attack in san bernardino. and then finally, the ten years for marriage and visa fraud. he married a russian woman who is related to the farook family to farook's brother, and so, you know, clearly the biggest part of this last week that he has been talking to the fbi, the biggest part of this has been this incredible revelation of this harrowing plan they had to kill a lot of people back in 2011 and 2012 until marquez apparently decided that he was going to back away from this idea. >> phil, the complaint spells
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or the guns he bought that would murder and terrorize this community. >> that's what makes him so spooky is because he's just a normal everyday joe blow that you don't give the time of day to. and the next thing you know -- >> now, marquez did appear -- he did just show up at the federal courthouse in riverside. we anticipate that there will be a hearing later today. we don't have an exact time on when that hearing will be. and looking through this criminal complaint, wolf, something's very clear. it isn't this attack that the federal government is charging him with material support, it is some of the statements he made about a prior plan back in 20 2012 -- 2011-2012. something we should also mention, wolf, that is approximately the time that he did convert to islam and he became much more entrenched with the farook family. >> all right. a major, major development. thanks very much for that, kyung
out detailed plans to attack a community college, a busy state highway back in 2011. how close could these two guys have been to actually carrying out such terror attacks? >> pretty close, i would say, wolf. let's go through quickly a mental checklist that you would look at if you're conducting this investigation and looking at the intelligence. the hardest thing to figure out is intent. clearly they were already radicalized which suggests they had an intent to attack a target and they had discussed targets already. both intent and targeting are checked. the second is capability. do they have access to weapons and explosives? clearly they did. marquez supplied the weapons. we're talking about the acquisition of explosives already. if you put the two together, did they have a mindset that indicated that they might attack and the capability and target to attack? i don't know what else you have to check. they would have been ready to go. >> general, farook told marquez he wanted to join aqap and yemen