what was the context for it? we run the prisons, i m county executive so it was a county facility. cardinal dolan was there to celebrate mass before christmas. it was totally voluntary for anyone who wanted to be there for the inmates. and after the mass, i said some words, about a minute and a half. i spoke to the prisoners about redemption. they re there for presentencing or up to a year, so they re going to be getting out. sometimes good people do bad things. i just sort of looked them in the eye and said, you ve got an opportunity when you get out to repent and to be a better person. and that was the message. it was very well-received. i spoke to a lot of the inmates after the mass. i think i got more out of it than they did, maybe. i really felt great there with them. what about the criticism from the nyclu, saying separation of church and state here, let s protect the institutions of government? how dare a catholic be a catholic at a catholic mass. on christmas. on chri
experts. our national security analyst peterbergen, phillip mudd, and law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. so tashfeen malik, she may have been radicalized long before she came to the united states. that must send some alarm bells to u.s. officials. it does, but it sends more questions than answers. you d think as the investigation would go along that the questions start to diminish, but two come to me with this process. the first is in a lot of these cases, radicalization can be weeks or months. she went through a year, two years, it took that long to select a target. the second and the most interesting question or problem i have in the whole case is the target selection. if if you have somebody that s this radicalized, if you look at the past 14 years of history, they are beginning to pick a target with a lot of consideration. twin towers, subway, in this case, she picks a county
understand. he is being questioned. you wonder why he purchased two guns. so many coincidences here. so many people touched. was this an isis inspired plot or was this an isis directed plot? we don t know, yet. it s at least isis inspired by the reports, whether it was isis or al qaeda they were probably leaning in that direction. right now, terrorist wise, isis is the flavor of the day. they are the ones out there, the most prominent. obviously, the use of firearms, they were well trained, they practiced in firing ranges. they had equipment there for 19 pipe bombs. is it your suspicion that this attack, the round of killing 14 people at the county facility was the first of several they were planning? i think all that ammo they had, all the supplies and to carry out the attack, they
radicalization by the killers and of the potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organizations. reporter: but he declined to specify which terror organizations and there s no sign that they were in direct contact with any terrorists here or overseas. we have no indication that these killers are part of an organized larger group or form part of a cell. there s no indication that they are part of a network. reporter: comey stressed the investigation is only 50 hours old and there s no way to tell yet what the couple s intent was, why they attacked the county facility or whether they planned other attacks. an internet media site posted a message saying that the attack was carried out by two supporters of the islamic state. a roadblock in the investigation is analyzing computers and cell phones left behind in the apartment in redlands. the fbi said those devices were damaged. i was told in a nearby trash
put here in the first place. she s too good of a person. she s standing for what s right. msnbc s sarah dallof live on the scene for us. explain as we re looking for the rowan county clerk held at the carter county detention center. reporter: it was the closest facility is what the jailer told me in and allowed the family to visit her while she was jailed, basically. this is a county facility. it was in federal court but they have an agreement with the u.s. marshal service. that is why she is held here since thursday. five nights since she was found in contempt of court. this is really become somewhat of an impromptu christian church service praising kim davis for a stance that the people in the crowd believe was right. now, when the supreme court first issued ruling, kim davis