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Allowed to fly home and visit his mother. now, this new article cited u.s. and turkish officials to say that long had been arrested earlier this month near the turkey-syria border as members of an isis cell. when i saw this article i had a few reactions. i'll be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the gov...

By someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens that's precisely the argument that basically everyone on the right has been making for the last week in response to calls to ban people on...

>> reporter: critics say individuals wrongfully place on the terror list would be stripped of their constitutional right to own a gun. while the fbi cannot stop the purchase, they are made aware when someone on a terror watch list has been cleared to buy guns or explosives. if the fbi used about that at that point they have the power to block the sale. they have done it before. legislation has been proposed in both the house and the senate to prevent people on terror watch lists from purchasing guns. but it's gone nowhere in congress. republican may marsh, cnn, washington. renee, thank you v...

She called for a bill that would prevent terrorists on no fly lists from purchasing guns and she said if you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun. but to your point, i'm here in spencer, iowa, and all eyes are on trump who is the gop front runner, according to that new poll that came out. it's not that he is so clearly in front of the horserace, but also that republicans and primary voters believe that he is the best person to serve the country when it is regarding foreign policy and isis. and you can be sure that both will be a factor at his speech today. last night, as ...

>> not one of these mass public shootings the president so-to-speak about during his administration would have been stopped by anyway by the laws he is pushing. >> reporter: critics say individuals wrongfully placed on the terror list would be stripped of their coninstitutional right to own a gun. the fbi are made aware when someone is on the terror watch list and has been cleared to buy guns or explosives. now, the fbi learns about that plan to use those weapons in an attack. at that point they do have the power to block the seam. they've done it before. we should point out, legislation has b...