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Speech pointing out that he thought aqap was in his words the most concerning al qaeda element in terms of a threat to the homeland. and that raised a lot of eyebrows because everyone's thinking isis is top of mind. >> reporter: they're not mutually exclusive. i was meeting with a european counterterror official this morning. they have the same view. aqap is arguably the more capable terror threat. they still aim for the mass casualty attacks, aqap is intent on getting a bomb on an airliner. that's the kind of thing they're focused on. isis is more the small board kind of attack. they've told ...

Netanyahu in this webcast that was directed toward jewish groups here. so the strength of the argument on both sides is now in full force and we'll wait and see what sort of parameters president obama sets out in this speech coming up. >> michelle kosinski at the white house. we're awaiting the president's speech in a few minutes, crucial in selling this iran deal to a reluctant congress right now, especially some reluctant democrats still on the fence. also looking at some more breaking news at this hour. the defense department telling cnn that the united states has now conducted the first ...

Lethal air strike out of one of those bases in southern turkey into northern syria. this is a result of both countries coming to an agreement that the u.s. military can have access to those southern turkish bases. that puts them much closer to their targets in northern syria. what we don't know at this hour is what the target was. there's two potential options here. either the u.s. flew against an isis target or it was another strike to try and defend those rebels, those u.s.-backed rebels in northern syria that have come under attack from that al qaeda group known as al nusra. the u.s. flies ...

Gun-free zone where you had the marines shot down because they didn't have guns. but this sick guy had guns and shot them down. and these are decorated people. these are people that could have handled guns very easily. they would have had a good chance if they had a gun. and you had the same problem in '09. you had the same thing. >> yes, so he's speaking about in '09. jeb bush telling reporters that laws should be reviewed to allow recruiting officers to carry guns. and you agree with both of those men, don't you? >> oh, absolutely. because i'm a firm believer. had i had a side arm on me in n...

For al qaeda or isis. there seem to be some sympathy for jihad in what he is saying he is saying, look, we muslims need to realize that the companions of the prophet of mohamed at the beginning of islam were jihadis. they weren't priests in some monetaries he was saying -- monasteries he was saying. sympathy for jihad. we weren't seeing pledge allegiance to isis or al baghdadee. we have seen that in other attacks. notably in garland, texas. where one of the shooters actually tweeted out a pledge of allegiance to baghdadi before carrying out at take. we saw a similar dynamic in an attack in cop...