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But now to new developments in the fight against isis. fbi director james comey is now calling isis a bigger threat than al qaeda. >> what keeps me up at night is the isil threat in the homeland and i worry very much about what i can't see. isil is not your parents' al qaeda. it's a very different model. by virtue of that model, it's currently the threat we're worrying about in the homeland most of all. >> let me bring in our msnbc terror analyst. your take on what director comey just said? >> isis is the most single greater threat that we are facing today. it is indeed the emerging threat, if...

I want to bring in msnbc terror analyst and director. as we talk about this how concerning is it when it comes to isis? we already talked about how strong they've become when it comes to outside social media. now when it's encrypted, it takes it to a whole new level. >> exactly. we have not seen any terrorist group, militia and so on use social media and even the back doors of the internet as sophisticated as isis has been. they're using encrypted platforms, whether it's freely available on line or proprietary jihadi software and even share files. >> interesting to see how they're tech savvy. ...

To be of quote/unquote specific concern. scotland yard is also warning the suspected terrorists are being arrested in britain at a rate of almost one every single day. so i've got buck sexton with me former terror analyst and with us here officially at cnn. it's not illegal to travel to syria, right. so if you're going from the u.k. you hop over to syria for whatever reason you have at what point does the u.k. or scotland yard say, hm we need to follow this guy and we especially need to follow him upon return home? >> there's an additional level of complication because it's certainly not illeg...

>> our own peter bergen terror analyst, who's been covering al qaeda for more than a decade met osama bin laden, has reported that there was an idea at least of somehow connecting the bergdahl transfer to the case of warren weinstein, although they were held by different groups that there was an effort led by a team in the pentagon that was trying that. i wonder you heard about any such efforts to connect those two so that the exchange might have involved more people. >> no i had not heard about that. although our congressman from pittsburgh mike doyle, was in contact with john kerry, the secr...

And all other electronic devices. fox news terror analyst has more on the plot coming up. and new overnight, a missing ohio state university football player found dead. the body of the 22-year-old was found in a dumpster with a gun near campus. police think that he shot himself. he disappeared wednesday minutes after sending a text to his mom saying concussions were messing with his head. his family claims that he has a history of concussions and sometimes gets disoriented. last night friends and teammates gathered on campus to share their memories. >> everyone loved being around him. he had...