kelly, thanks for the report. this afternoon fbi director james comey and attorney general loretta lynch briefed reporters on the terror threat here in the u.s. here was director comey. we are not aware of any credible thread here of a paris-type attack. we ve seen no connection with the paris attackers and the united states. isil and the supporters put out all kind of propaganda like video and magazine, but that was not credible intelligence. of course we investigate all those propaganda threats, but instead the threat here focuses primarily on troubled souls in america who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. well, nbc s justice correspondent pete williams was at that briefing today. mete, thank you for joining us. why are they so confidence that
isis, and then come back to the u.s. is in the teens. we have heard for weeks this number 250 americans who have potential foreign fighters, but he says that s the number of people who tried to go and couldn t, who have gone and not come back, who have gone and not been killed. those who have been there and been with isis and came back is in the teens. such a contrast to this huge number of people estimated at 5,000 in western europe who have done that. and the other thing he told us is he has seen no indication that any isis members overseas have tried to come to the u.s. in the past days and weeks. that s all good news for us. thanks so much, pete williams. u.s. congressman michael mccaul, the chairman of the homeland security committee it says said the threats across new york and washington should be taken seriously. that s his call.
hillary clinton, calling for an intensives of president obama s effort to fight isis in terrorism around the world. her approach stands in cast with the froont returner also from new york, donald trump. this is what he said. i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. i would blow up the pipes. i would blow up every single inch. there would be nothing left. clinton said troops on the ground are necessary, but they shouldn t come from the united states. like president obama, i do not believe we shouldv again have 100,000 troops in the middle east, but we can and should support local and regional ground forces. trump said twice this week he would send troops to fight isis. if need be, yeah.
unpredictable. you cannot look, the threat to new york remains steadfast before isis issued the video and after. new york city is probably the most desirable targets among jihadists worldwide. so we have to take the threat seriously, but it s not because isis released the video about it. they have recycled video before, but new york city remains the number one threat. they said so. i read something interesting in the new york times today. about the challenges that officials face monitoring home-grown terrorists. it scares me. for fbi agents, watching islamic state suspect in the u.s. is a study in anxiety. being an islamic state sympathizer is not against the law. neither is expressing hatred for the united states on twitter.
irchlts always worried about new york. i travel to new york periodically to check with the nypd and fbi, state and locals. new york, washington, d.c., they re crying out for attacks right now in these two cities. these are the two biggest tarts in the united states. i think our sense of security has heightened, but i m very worried, when you look at the number of arrests that have taken place, the 1,000 investigations in at 50 states that the fbi is conducting, and the return of foreign fighters to the united states, all ticking time bombs. this is a very high-threat environment. those comments echo a similar warning earlier this week from dianne feinstein. i ve never been more concerned. i read the intelligence faithfully. isil is not contained, isil is expanding. they have just put out a video