spooky, he s just a normal every day joe blow that you don t give the time of day to and the next thing you know and the next thing you know, kyung there saying he bought the guns, plotted to kill people at a community college, as you re reporting on a freeway. terrifying acts and what was the reasoning that he was the one that bought the weapons that farook used? because farook had already purchased weapons. that s why he asked that s why marquez was asked to go ahead and purchase them for farook. you know, it s a bit of a mystery as to exactly why he did it other than they had this very close friendship. we should add, erin, he s expected to make an initial court appearance in federal court today. kyung lah, thank you very much. the breaking news of marquez s arrest came a few
to admit, the government cannot stop these. but we re learning it wasn t just the plots that they were working on together, farook and marquez, but that marquez, who was arrested today, bought the assault rifles in the san bernardino attack and in the complaint it says that one major reason for that was it was because he was white and he and farook thought he would not attract attention as farook would because is he middle eastern. they outplayed any racial profiling? buy a gun is less suspicious than a muslim. we profile. gun stores do as well. as well as airports. we don t like to admit it but we do. it wouldn t be as suspicious about the planning and in fact
operator, quote, the explative used my gun in the shooting and oh, my god. when he asked him saying how do you know it s gun, he said they can trace all the guns back to me. he claims he gave farook the guns for safe storage but authorities believe he bought them with deadly intentions for the aborted 2012 attack. so far investigators do not believe that marquez was involved in or had advance warning of the san bernardino shooting. however, he is charged with providing material support to terrorism in part as a warning to others. it is a statement by the fbi and by the administration that if you even come close to these cases or to helping them, we will charge you as if you are a terrorist yourself. this is now a serious line of inquiry in the investigation into san bernardino, which is how could three people with many family connections in the u.s., they had day jobs, farook in the local government, they had
highways in america. let s bring in cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, it appears farook was radicalized much earlier than previously thought. he recruited marquez years ago. they ve been planning attacks carefully together? this is one of the most alarming results of the investigation, and that is that the san bernardino shooting was not farook s first plot. the second, farook and marquez, had another plan three years ago potentially just as deadly or more so to attack a major california highway and a college. that attack thwarted not by authorities having any inkling of the radicalization or planning including buying the weapons, but simply farook and his partner marquez getting spooked. this busy california highway nearly became the sight of a deadly terror attack. enrique marquez, long-time friend of san bernardino shooter syed farook has told law enforcement the two watched videos of al qaeda cleric anwar
we have a statement also from a senior administration official, jake, that says we are aware of the vulnerabilities recently announced by juniper. the administration remains committed to enhancing our national cyber security by raising our cyber defenses. this is a very important issue for the obama administration, jake, as you know they re trying to make nice with the chinese. the chinese have promised to stop some of these activities. we ll see where this investigation goes, jake. alarming news. evan perez, thanks so much for bringing us that story. we just heard president obama addressing fears of a terrorist attack here at home. of course those fears fanned by the deadliest terror attack since 9/11 in san bernardino, california. today we re learning new details about the man behind the attack and his friend who bought the rifles. the friend s name, enrique marquez, it turns out that the bond between marquez and the shooter goes way back, almost a decade, way before isis was even