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Wow! do we have a new threat in the war on terror? >> well, i think people are used to the idea that the threat is overseas. unfortunately, it's only one flight from overseas to the u.s. to bring people in. we've been trained to think it's people overseas, foreign visitors and they need to be screen but now we're approaching the situation britain has dealt with, home grown folks can become radicalized and fit in a very large population. bill: that's critical. in the past we've thought about al-qaeda and al-qaeda suspects but not the taliban out of pakistan. if this is the case, how do we best ...

Failure there. so we are not designed to find people like this. the intelligence as designed in this country isn't going to find an insider like this, even if he has only been here one year. the only way we will if we decide we're going to monitor phone calls back and forth to pakistan with american citizens, which we're not going do do. so we have to have a better system internally, and that's the story and that's the failure. >> fran, i want to get your take on the fbi saying he has confessed to training at this camp in waziristan. i guess why don't we have better intelligence on that when s...

That's our job. we assume the worst and hope for the best. and that's the way we're proceeding with this investigation. >> investigators say they don't believe this is a runaway situation but they've also found no signs of foul play. we'll continue to check in on this story coming up. first, a leading muslim civil rights group is praising the new airport security plan announced by the president's team, going forward the department of homeland security will no longer screen passengers automatically that fly in from 14 countries on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism. instead the tsa ...

Check out our website, msnbc.com. we have some incredible video to show you from texas where two men set fire to a building in ft. worth. the suspects pull up to the building in a truck and start tossing buckets of flammable liquid all over the place. look at that fire. it is unbelievable. some of the suspects set two propane tanks against the front of the building before lighting it up. three firefighters were injured fighting these intense flames, now police are trying to track down the two men you just saw in that video. there are mixed reviews today for a new tsa plan to keep the skies...

People. >> good people. can we bottle that? police watched over the event but didn't make any arrest. recent flash mob incidents in philadelphia have turned violent. turning the page now, mixes revies for a new tsa plan to keep the skies safe from terror. the tsa dropping its mandatory screening of all passengers plying into the u.s. from 14 specific countries. instead it will now single out flyers for extra screening based on a combination of physical description, travel patterns and other intel-based factors. joining me live is nbc terrorism analyst evan kohlmann. thanks for being with us....