obama trying to take people s guns away, praised the second amendment. urged people not to jump to conclusions about the two perpetrators motives. joining me, ayman molhedyn. i ve got to imagine the family here is basically in an impossible situation. facing all these questions of people saying how could you not know, how could you not know. what do you make of that press conference we saw today? yeah, i think you really described it well. it was a somewhat bizarre press conference for some of the reasons that were expressed in it. and what i mean by that is certainly the fact that was confirmed by the lawyers, which was that the mother was living with them and she was unaware of all of this activity that was taking place inside the house, i think that struck me as a journalist seemed unusual. he offered an explanation saying he s trying to say that in a conservative household she may not have been going everywhere in the house and things like that. and again, that struck me as a li
lives that day as well. that was one of the lawyers for the family of syed farook who earlier this evening wrapped up what was a somewhat bizarre press conference where they asserted repeatedly there s no evidence the two suspects had any links to extremist ideology, at least not definitive. also one of the lawyers inveighed against president obama trying to take people s guns away, praised the second amendment. urged people not to jump to conclusions about the two perpetrators motives. joining me, ayman molhedyn. i ve got to imagine the family here is basically in an impossible situation. facing all these questions of people saying how could you not know, how could you not know. what do you make of that press conference we saw today? yeah, i think you really described it well. it was a somewhat bizarre press conference for some of the reasons that were expressed in it. and what i mean by that is certainly the fact that was confirmed by the lawyers, which was that the mother was l
enforcement officials have been saying, which is that she made a post pledging allegiance to isis. the way he was characterizing it, at least one of the lawyers was characterizing it in the press conference, he was characterizing it as if she liked a post or that she he wasn t describing visited. right. he wasn t describing it as a pledge. in fact, he made this kind of bizarre analogy of saying if he likes a britney spears post it doesn t mean he likes britney spears music. which again, seemed a little bit a very strange analogy to make given the context of what we are talking about here. ayman, let me ask you this. you spent years doing incredible reporting from throughout north africa and the middle east and in muslim countries. you know, one of the things that happens here, right? is the news media is not covering women in hijabs or inside mosques or looking at prayer mats or korans at all most of the time. then something like this happens and there s this sort of delug
family, saying the family absolutely did not know. we heard it again time and time that the family was not particularly close. they all knew each other well. but they did not know the wife. the wife, obviously the woman who went on that shooting spree. so i think there were a lot of questions. and i don t think he necessarily answered all of those questions apparently. and i think, again, there was some confusion about what law enforcement officials have been saying, which is that she made a post pledging allegiance to isis. the way he was characterizing it, at least one of the lawyers was characterizing it in the press conference, he was characterizing it as if she liked a post or that she he wasn t describing visited. right. he wasn t describing it as a pledge. in fact, he made this kind of bizarre analogy of saying if he likes a britney spears post it doesn t mean he likes britney spears music. which again, seemed a little bit a very strange analogy to make given the cont
categorized into those different groupings. one based on an individual that was known to authorities given the fact he had traveled to syria. an open investigation that had been in the works for some time but the raids and searches only took place today, chris. all right. ayman molhedyn, thank you very much. still to come, the republican-controlled house passes a bill some democrats say is a product of anti-refugee hysteria. and after the mayor of roanoke, virginia cites japanese internment camps in relation to refugee policy, representative mike honda, himself placed in an internment camp as a nine-month-old boy, speaks out. he ll join me ahead. the future belongs to the fast. and to help you accelerate, we ve created a new company. one totally focused on what s next for your business. the true partnership where people,technology and ideas push everyone forward. accelerating innovation. accelerating transformation. accelerating next.