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They want him under a different set of rules and john brennan says he personally briefed on the night of his arrest. >> rather than second guessing on the ground with a 500 mile screwdriver from washington to detroit, i think they have to have confidence in the knowledge and experience of these professionals. >> reporter: in response to brennan's comments about abdulmutallab, a spokesman for senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says, quote, during a brief call from the white house, senator mcconnell was given a heads up that abdulmutallab was in custody, but nothing else. he wasn't informe...

Republicans on christmas night about the arrest and that none of them raised objections. >> i'm tiring of politicians using international security issues such as terrorism as a political football. they are going out there and they are downknowing of the facts and making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality. >> officials say abdulmutallab is part of a new group of terrorists trained by splinter groups and harder to track than a centrallenmy with a tight chain of command. secretary of state hillary clinton talked about how terrorists are evolving and upping stakes. >> they co...

Martha: rising up against big government in a big way. here's a live look now, folks at nashville, tennessee inside the tea party national convention and we'll get to that in a second and grassroots opposition to government influence, in your daily lives? it has been the main motivation of the group, taxed enough already is where the name tea party comes from and the core of the futures we are told may be fracturing a little bit and we'll tell the movement we are told may be fracturing, and this is a brand new hour of "america's newsroom." bill: good morning, martha. martha: good morning, bill...

Splinter groups in iraq. they weren't even able to do it with splinter groups in afghanistan. and so it shows that while they were a worldwide organization that command and control structure that they wanted to have was something that was frequently lacking. >> why do you think this came out now, jack? >> well i think part of the reason it came out now is because the intelligence community wants to put it out. the white house wants to put it out. they want to show what it is they were doing. it also is trying to minimize to make al qaeda more incompetent or as incompetent in some ways as they ...

Right now nobody is taking responsibility for these attacks. the gunmen were killed in a gunfight with the tunisian military. but tunisia itself has had quite a problem with islamic extremists in the past. about 3,000 of their citizens have joined the islamic state or are believed to have joined the islamic state. just this month, 30 militants were arrested in tunisia, some of whom had just returned from syria, plotting spectacular attacks. as you know, thomas, this was the place where the arab spring started in 2011. it's one of the places experts say was the shining light for, or the glimmer...