and joining me now is "new york times" national security correspondent mark ma zetty. mar mark, in the midst of all we've been covering about the torture report and issues of isis, for this to happen, it was logical that people would be concerned that this was a lone wolf somehow inspired by isis. it does seem like this is a case of someone with a very specific criminal past and his own behavior issues and criminal case pending. >> right. i mean, it is easy for people under any kind of banner to carry out violence so we have to sort of wait and let things settle to find out exactly what the facts are. as we found out in this country, there are people so-called lone wolves who carry out attacks, whether it was ft. hood or other attacks. so to try to draw conclusions about why this person did this at this moment i think is a little too soon. >> again, the counterterrorism