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History of criminality. he was convicted of a foiled terrorist plot in 2012, given a long sentence to 16 years and served half of that before released. he was known to the authorities as early as 2008 when his house was raided materiels were taken into police custody on the back of the terrorist attacks that he was alleged to have been linked to even then. >> mark bolton, we certainly appreciate it so much. thank you for being here. >> pleasure. breaking news this hour. we are learning more information about the shooting in new orleans overnight. multiple people have been shot. we have new d...

And spilled out on to the bridge as you see from the pictures. his dad said he was a beautiful spirit and always took the side of the underdog and friends said he had a wonderful soul. there were prisoners at the rehabilitation conference who viewed him as a friend. one of them said he kept faith in me when society had abandoned me. the other person killed, a woman, has yet to be named. three other victims are in hospital receiving treatment. we believe they are all in stable condition. the sassailant was khan who hailed in england and known to the authorities and tagged electronically at the ...

Obama insisted was vital to national security has been shut down. we have you here so we'd like your reaction to that. >> well, the original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, and the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign community kant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot and was put in place during the bush administration for that reason. i always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you would have this to refer to. an example of that was after th...

Remember that news conference chris wray, the director of the fbi gave i guess early last month in response to the inspector general's report. before he started taking questions he talked about some of the work the fbi has been doing the last ten months, rescuing 1400 children from predators, one as young as 7 months old. in the last few months they stopped a terrorist plot against fisherman's wharf in san francisco. they're doing this amazing work from an outdated building, j. edgar hoover in desperate need of replacement. there is a legitimate conversation about the fbi including kevz of con...

Of people? >> very little you can do. once the plot is being executed to avert it. you hope to mitigate casualties? >> maria: what is the cia looking at now? >> they have him. they'll look at if there was a cell at working taking direction. assuming if there was a terror plot based on the tactics and that targets here, the overwhelming probability is a terrorist plot. a lot of people suggest that it's jihadist inspired. not yet reported. so we're going to see what law enforcement was doing, what was he doing in the days before and what could have known and who helped him. >> buck, thank you. j...