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An attack, evacuation of personnel in yemen, drone strikes, closure of nearly two dozen embassies. all of this unprecedented and all overseas. what about at home? could there be a situation where there is an incredible amount of chatter and the u.s. is looking in the wrong place? >> i don't think we're looking in the wrong place. i don't think we ever lay down and don't look at what's going on here in the homeland but it is certainly a threat. the possibility as they said, lone wolf style attacks like boston marathon. that's very real. these are people that want to be allied with al qaeda. and...

So this is a guy who wanted to be on his team, who wanted to keep a kind of parallel life going and his parallel life was taking place online. so i think he's a perfect case of somebody who would lead a parallel life online and that life was very rich. >> you're talking about dzhokhar. he and his brother were very different people, very different in their social interactions and things like that. interesting in terms of some comments that were made, senator marco rubio of the senate intelligence committee talked about this new element of terrorism earlier this week saying we have to face this ...

Bombs that are smaller magnitude, although look at how horrible this was. they want to have major impact, like taking down a train or the like. so i think it does make watch our borders, exactly at we're doing. if we start to see more of a tendency for these kinds of maller level ied type attacks, the government will have to refocus. i would add that local law enforcement and responders are very focused on this kind of thing, though. we've got systems in a lot of major cities where the security cameras used for traffic, for example, can also be used to protect them. >> while they're giving us ...

>> megyn: yet, there was an al-qaeda linked magazine that talked about targeting sporting events not long ago and encouraged more lone wolf type attacks. so we don't know whether that was the inspiration behind this. i want to add this, we're getting this just in from our justice department producer who says that we are looking at a law enforcement source says the f.b.i. has lots of leads and a lot of work to do and says that one of the people they are looking at is this 20-year-old saudi man, but on searching his apartment, they have yet to find anything connecting him or raising any serious ...

That? >> i know the author of the report has testified before the homeland security committee, he's an expert in the field. he raises real issues, all this has to be looked at. we have to assume there are links between these type attacks and these al-qaida affiliates. chairman mike rogers was talking about one of them in one of his recent interviews. the fact is in the middle east it's not going always to be al-qaida per se, it's going to be affiliates. when you look at the attacks happening in a close period of time we have to make the assumption that this is an affiliate of al-qaida, and if ...