had declared or established a caliphate in mid-2014, it unleashed the most aggressive and effective global recruitment and incitement campaign of any terrorist group in history and a majority of that activity has occurred in the cyberdomain. what you re seeing is all of this propaganda, like the propaganda they re talking about today in these hearings, these pressers, it s oriented around not only terrorizing the group s enemies here in the west, but it also helps condition a would-be terrorist to go out and do these types of terrible things. somebody who has not spent time in a conflict zone, somebody who is not accustomed to engaging in acts of violence like this does require some degree of desensitization, if you will, oftentimes, in order for them to be able to go out and do the types of things that islamic state has been repeatedly calling on its supporters to do here in the united states, in europe, in canada and australia and elsewhere in the world for years now. listen, i kno
is this a new training ground? absolutely not. this is something that s been a persistent issue for years, don. when the group announced that it had declared or established a caliphate in mid-2014, it unleashed the most aggressive and effective global recruitment and incitement campaign of any terrorist group in history and a majority of that has occurred in the cyber domain. what you re seeing is all of this propaganda, like the propaganda they re talking about today in these hearings, these pressers, it s oriented around not only terrorizing the enemies here in the west but also helps condition a would-be terrorist to go out and do these types of terrible things. somebody who has not spent time in a conflict zone, somebody who is not accustomed to engaging in acts of violence like this does require some degree of desensitization, if you will, oftentimes, in order for them to be able to go out and do the types of things that islamic state has been repeatedly calling on its supporter
event would occur. bill: thank you. john shadegg out of phoenix today. good to have you on. our best to arizona. martha: all right. we are waiting for a hospital briefing on congressman gabrielle giffords condition a while from now. the last update, she is in critical condition. by many accounts it s a miracle she survived being shot in the head at point blank range. we know that there was an entrance and exit wound as a result of the shooting. joining me now is dr. jeffrey brown, a neurosurgeon with good insight on how all of this would be treated. welcome. good to have you here this morning. thank you, martha. martha: basically, the surgery she had yesterday, you know, is an effort to limit the damage, to get pregments out and get the bullet out. the bullet passed all the way through. go ahead. first, let me offer a prayer for her recovery. pleased to be here to give you information. we know four hard facts.
we ve been clearing it for the past few days, so we re making good progress. let s head to tokyo and nbc s lee cowan who s developing stories there. reporter: it all stems from the injuries to the workers we talked about yesterday, the ones that were in the basement level of unit number three. they were trying to strip a cable there. they came in contact with radioactive water and had to be taken to the water. they were actually transferred to a hospital here in tokyo today so they could monitor their condition a little more closely. the consider is that the radiation levels were so high, and the water they stepped in, some 10,000 times that it should be, that the fear is now there is some kind of leak at the reactor itself. they don t know whether it s an actual breach in the core or the pipes themselves that are leaking but something is leaking. we don t know how much or how long it s been leaking and we don t know why. it could have been causeded by the initial hydrogen explos