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Yesterday's attack in chattanooga highlights the danger of what some refer to as self radicalization. a former danish gangster turned to radical islam and ended up joining al qaeda before becoming a cia informant. we are joined by brad thor. it's great to have you both on the program. brad we heard a lot of sound from a lot of different leaders of our country. we hear the same sort of tone. we can't stop them all when it comes to the lone wolf. why not? >> first of all, i'm not a big fan of the term lone wolf. how many lone wolves does it take to make a pack? there were the two tsarnaev brothe...

Posts three days before the attack. one of these posts compares life on earth with being a pleasant prison and the other encourages readers to follow historic islamic figures who the writer said fought in jihadi wars. these are pretty abstract writings. we don't know for sure it has not been confirmed that abdulazeez is the author. should they have set off red flags? >> certainly that would be an indicator that a person's gone down this path of self-radicalization. but you know in looking at these events and the fbi and the other organizations involved in investigating these attacks are going ...

Time the cia's fight against terrorism from al qaeda to isis." that's a scary proposition. does isis have the capability currently to undertake a large scale attack like that here in the homeland? >> first of all, it's great to be with you. to answer your question today i think isis poses two threats to the homeland. one is the self-radicalization that they're doing of young men and women here that resulted in the texas attack last week. i think the other is they have the ability to direct individuals to conduct small scale attacks. so not a 9 low pressure 11 style attack today. but i'm absolu...

Actions in countries all over the world. we've known that and it demonstrates more powerfully as we finish nine month os f a war against isil for congress to authorize this mission and to give it some shape and definition. i'm very discouraged that congress has taken so long. but this is the kind of incident that demonstrates that this matter isn't going away. and we can't just kind of turn a blind eye to it. we've got to take it up and authorize military action. >> i want to get to the authorization in a second. but i do wonder in a world where isis is relying in many ways on lone wolves on s...

Extensive google searches that they say showed the path of what he was trying to do. this is as you are reporting and people discussed the kind of self radicalization we see on the internet. in this indictment and accompanying information, prosecutors talk about him searching for specific terms like isis crossing sites, like where in syria he could cross-over, like who was controlling kobani and when, as well as extensive amount of videos, the infamous propaganda videos and beheading videos he was interested in those, all of which they say show he was not simply gathering information or resear...