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By a group called the american freedom defense initiative. as you know depicting the prophet muhammad in that way is considered blasfemts to many of the islamic faith. this was billed at a free speech event. we do not know a thing about the suspects who were killed. their identities have not been made public. police have not officially said if this was random or if the event was specifically targeted. listen to this there may be a digital trail, if you will before the shooting a tweet showed up on social media from an account called sharia is light. it said something to the effect of may allah...

We were just talking about sent two hours prior to this attack. i want to go through this tweet briefly because we've been dissecting it trying to figure out what the entire tweet actually means. this is what the tweet says. the bro' with me and myself have given pledge of allegiance to the commander of the faithful. may allah accept us as mujahideen. he added hashtag texas attack. from what we know, closely after that tweet was sent out then an isis known member on social media retweeted that tweet and that is where we get this link to this member of isis that's on social media. so i'm not su...

Assailants that are more trained? >> i don't know what tactics these guys used. there's not a lot of information that been put out by the police as far as how they coordinated their attack. it seems like it's more of a "charlie hebdo" planned attack. they had some kind of preattack surveillance and intelligence on the event to know what time it was closing so they could have the most -- or the largest target possibility with people leaving that venue. they probably thought they were going to be leaving out of one or two doors. if they're outside those doors it's easy to perform an assault in t...

Garland, texas, hours after a pair of gunmen opened fire outside a free speech event where they hit one police officer who was wounded in the ankle. and then a swap team returned fire. >> their identities and motives are unclear. just as shots rang out. a menacing message was posted on twitter warning of the attack. joining us is to discuss this is a possible presidential candidate himself. donald trump. what's your reaction to this shooting overnight? freedom of speech regardless of what they're talking about? you got to feel you can do it without being shot wouldn't you think? >> i do. i thi...

Followed by a tweet just before taking credit for the attack. >> it says there's a connection to islamic extremism. if it's associated with the islamic state or any other islamic extremist organization we have to believe them at face value they're saying this was an attack. there's no reason for us to believe it wasn't. any other individuals associated with that account, finding and tracking down anybody both in the united states and aare broad that was associated with that account or with individuals related to it. very important. that web is going to have to be dug deeper and deeper until we...