will always do everything in my power to prevent terrorists from striking american soil. today s terrorism threat still includes sleeper cells, al qaeda, all the kind of major terrorist organizations that you would think of but we are also very focused now on homegrown violent extremists. we had about 120 terrorism-related arrests last year alone. that s just in the arrest context. so there is a lot happening every day, 365 days a year right now in the terrorism front. bret: the fbi director on cbs saying that they get some 15,000 tips about terrorist-related activity every year. that s about two every day. and if you take a look at the al qaeda, taliban isis makeup, according to the u.n., there is an estimate out there that 30,000 members of isis islamic state still exist in syria and iraq.
fisa. is he also specifically looking at evidence of leaks by the fbi and justice department. bret: and we believe that declassifying documents in regard to that investigation could come pretty soon. in a matter of days. republicans on the house side have been pretty optimistic that it will move forward maybe as early as next week. as you know from your own reporting, it has kind of been a moving target. the key things i think it will put to rest is questions about whether one or more confidential sources were run up against a campaign at that time and whether the dossier was the sort of rock solid foundation for the fisa warrant or whether they really had additional intelligence. bret: all right, catherine, thank you. you are welcome. bret: on this september 11th anniversary we will talk about the president s war on terror. what comes next. and also that hurricane bearing down. the panel joins me after a break great service was a given.
going to paint a picture where it was kind of a boomer rang and that they were using not only the dossier but also media reports to tell the fisa judge we need carter page surveilled. right. there is some evidence so, going to the point about strzok s attorney, i don t think that peter strzok deserves the benefit of the doubt. we can t reach any conclusive determination on the point that charlie and you were just making. there is something looking into. this the president tweeting about nothing is being done in the doj or fbi. the inspector general michael horowitz is investigating precisely this point. is he a credible person. i think we should allow him to get to the bottom of it. bret: quickly? guy took the words right out of my mouth. there is a part 2 ig report coming. the first one was quite critical bret: do you think that comes before the mid terms? i think they are under general policy over there not to do things in the 60 days before the mid terms, right? so i gue
of homeland security as well as the tsa. for investigators, some cases never seem finished like the bizarre 2003 plot that killed alleged co-conspirator brian wells, a bomb locked around his neck. collar bomb will stick in my life forever took seven years of my life. basically a bank robber plot by sociopath. one piece out of hundreds that looked to me that was probably part of the bomb, not 100 percent sure. that will haunt me until i retire. the fbi team said the threat from homemade bombs is more complex and forever threat, bret. bret: fascinating oak look. also today we had the politics of the fbi, a presidential tweet about this investigation over text messages between fbi agent peter strzok and lawyer lisa page. well, that s right. a new letter from house republican mark meadows to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein three 2017 texts sent by fbi agent peter strzok may be evidence of a leak campaign against the president. on april 10th, 2017, strzok
you hear people d priority national securely right now because there is not an attack happening today. right after 9/11, iron member everyone prioritizing national security and beefing up the military and being ready for these things. that slowly drifts away the more time you have away from it. the problem is of course you have the fbi come as you talked about working on things behind the scenes. just because you don t see something happening, that means they are working to make sure something doesn t happen. they need the funding in the bakken. the other thing, two things. leadership, extremely important. i remove that moment. i was working in new york city. i ve never seen george bush standing on top of that rubble and what it told me is, a new york city girl at the time, terrified, very young. i had a president was going to do everything he could to put a stop to it. the president needs to make it a priority to instill confidence and safety. the one last point, i was one of those pe