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Giving them that answer. it is still very early on in this investigation. they just started looking at his electronics, his computer last night. still very early. >> only day two. yesterday it happen and now it is the first full day that this investigation has been underway so you're right. absolutely. very early. they're going to be learning a lot more. thank you, pamela brown. let's get more on what's going on. joining us our justice reporter evan and tom fuentes, our law enforcement analyst, the former cia counter terrorism official phillip mudd our cia terrorism analyst and the hln legal a...

Immediate family. my thoughts and prayers are with the marines and the police. i'm so thankful for the chattanooga police and the amnicola police department for protecting us like they did yesterday and they do every day. >> i agree with you completely. >> thank you very much for sharing that video with us. very, very powerful scary material. >> let's get more on what's going on. james risch is joining us a republican a key member of the intelligence and foreign relations committee. you hear those shots. you see what's going on. you've been briefed on this situation, i assume. tell us what you...

Investigation. >> he is obviously an engineer. he just finished college. a smart guy. you would think he would be all over social media like everybody else his age and he wasn't. that's the sound of silence that they're investigating. good work. i want to go back to senator james risch who is joining us. what do you think of these latest developments? did he have four guns not two, not three but four. and a lot of ammunition clips. >> we haven't focused on the guns. he was a united states citizen. he had nothing in his back ground that would stop him from going out and purchasing asle guns as ...

>> his last name indicates he's from yemen, which is unusual. a former military commander, part of the prison escape part of the inner circle. interestingly he said i'm pledging allegiance to the leader the al qaeda, not isis so it remains in the al qaeda ambit. >> senator risch yesterday said it's a matter of time until we see a tunisia style of attack here in the u.s. do you agree with that? >> sure. how do you prevent it? 300 million guns in this country and a couple thousands of these that believe in this ideology put the two together. it's going to happen at some point. >> very sobering. ...

We confront the bad guys whether they're on the battlefield on the street corner. on the internet. >> if you are dealing with trying to break these encryption code jim just raised this issue of whether or not the government can beep trusted to have the code. the government is susceptible to hacks. what do you say to that? >> the government is susceptible to hacks. we in america have a healthy reserved feeling about our government. they need to be watched the they need to be kept in check. and so that i think permeates sall of this. having said all of that. it is a tool that as the director sai...