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The fireworks and insults sure have. we will take you there live. good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin today with our world lead. today the fbi made a stunning admission. the u.s. is losing the battle to stop isis recruiting on the internet. in front of congress the director of the fbi's counter terrorism unit conceded that while the united states is furiously trying to counter the terrorist narrative online isis is still succeeding in radicalizing countless americans on u.s. soil. also today, testimony that 180 americans have tried or have successfully gone to syri...

Some of the so-called vetted groups but also there are a lost concerns it may be going to the al-nusra front and islamic state of iraq and isam. i'm back from qatar and turkey, that some of the funds they have been providing to the so-called vetted opposition is also trickling down to these al qaeda groups as well. so there's a huge amount of money going into syria to fund, and arm and train these opposition groups and some of course are going to al qaeda. jenna: to pick up a conversation we had last hour with ed hussein, he said we need to invest more in the right groups overseas to counter t...

Involve a trip abroad that may be part of the radicalization process, but there are two things to identify more with the global jihady movement than to identify with their neighbors, and i think there is a personal vulnerable when we see this kind of radicalization in the west. >> i think that's exactly right. these are individuals who are engaging in these type of violent behaviors because they are radicalizing on their own, and i think the key to really getting and stopping that is that law enforcement on the local level needs to partner with local communities, particularly vulnerable commun...

The terrorist narrative, false narrative that this is a war of religion. i mean, this is really a conflict that involves -- chris: but tweets are antimuslim, muslim violence. he was making it. >> those who adhere to this ideology are really irreligious criminals that use perverted, what the president called wicked interpretation of religion in an effort to recruit young oppressional people to their cause, toment -- to foment hatred and we have to break the cycle, hatred, violence, we are defeating daesh in caliphate -- chris: isis. >> isis, 95% of territory that was controlled by them has been...

It is dangerous. but these terrorists want to cast themselves as the vanguard of a new world order, they are not. they are thugs, and they are murderers, and they should be treated that way. we need the wisdom to see that upholding our values and adhering to the rule of law is not a weakness in the long-term, it is our greatest strength. >> we prohibited torture everywhere at all times, and that includes tactics likes water boarding and at no time has anybody who has worked with me has told me that doing so has cost us good intelligence. >> but what was most striking perhaps, was at the end of...