of our error is distortion. we take single incidents and present them without context and proportionality and without any sense of where they fit into the direction of this country. syria has been a critically important war for a very long time. we only came around to it on the later side. i think that s really important. we need to hold ourselves accountable. we got arwa damon and fantastic cnn reporters covering the story and hasn t been on the news agenda as high and from an editorial making decision stand pound a point and that s a failure we have to look at last word, jeremy? yeah, i just want to say bashar assad was a brutal thug torturing prisoners and say ddd hussein was america s friend. we need more than the immediate crisis memory and understand the context how a butcher like assad has more in common with someone
expressed an interest in the event. they said in the alert that they didn t know his whereabouts, they didn t know if he was on the the way there, did not know he had left phoenix. this was not a warning. it was a general alert. he was in connection tweeting with a well-known terrorist, hussein, who was pretty active in the fields. would you think that someone would have been monitoring him. that sounds simple. you would think nsa collects e-mail and phone, why don t they collect twitter. you have to understand this is hard to figure out. the revolution that s going on with intelligence. the intelligence community hasn t figured this out. you grow up in the intelligence world, look at a target in pakistan a foreigner on foreign territory on attorney phones 2015 i want to look at an american citizen going through an american company, talking about travel on american soil i think we re this sounds like an exaggeration. think we re in a pre-911 environment with the way we think ab
communication with this well-known british-born isis recruiter, hussein, currently thought to be in syria. and this american hassan believes to be in somalia. investigators now suspect that the isis and al shabab members had a more direct role in sunday s shooting pushing simpson to carry out an attack. there is no evidence yet that the men had operational control, such as choosing the texas target or the timing. today on capitol hill lawmakers heard the latest on isis reach to the u.s. homeland through social media. our authority can follow the open source social media. the minute those individuals who are really serious about it go offline, we go dark. reporter: the texas shooting raises hard questions about how many other potential isis recruits are lying in wait and communicating overseas.
license plate information with local police. today the fbi director told reporters about that warning but said his agents did not know simpson and his accomplice had already traveled from arizona to texas in a car loaded with body armor and guns. in had this fund-raising video for an arizona mosque he talked about his faith in terms of weapons the. when you come together and you pray five times a day, it provides for you a form of weaponry to go out into the real world. reporter: simpson s online presence showed a more extremists view. cnn learned he not only communicated publicly but privately with mewuhammad hassan. an american-born member of al shabab the cadeal qaeda affiliate in somalia. and junaid haw sane, dd hussein. they encouraged him to carry out an attack. but it s believed simpson chose the target. an evangelical passtor close to