a big pharma boss facing time in the big house. tonight why many says karma. plus this. there was stories about what happened. star wars was already a force at the box office even before the official opening. we are live with theaters doors for one of the most anticipated movie openings ever. good thursday evening. thanks so much for being with us. i m erika hill in new york. we begin with the breaking news out of california. for the first time, charges filed in connection with the san bernardino shootings that killed 14 people earlier this month. federal prosecutors have charged markez with three counts including conspiring to commit counts of terrorism with farook, one of the two shooters. they describe him as a long term friend of farook. he bought the assault rifles used during the mass shooting. we begin our coverage with
now. they re still doing an investigation. there s a lot he has said that the fbi wants to, frankly, check out. you know, he checked into a mental health facility right after the attacks. that s right. so, that s also going to add some complications to this case for federal prosecutors. seems like he s the best asset they have in this investigation. he really is. thank you very much. what a puzzling information. around this guy. let s discuss more with cnn intelligence and security analyst and former cia operative bob bair joining me now. evan lays out this complicated involvement or noninvolvement of this guy, enrique marquez. he still maintains he has nothing to do he knew nothing about the attack in san bernardino. though as evan points out, he also said he planned a previous attack with farook. but didn t follow through on it. does that add up to you? no, it doesn t add up. making the pipe bombs as a hobby doesn t add up. his statement that he could have
let me get straight to evan perez and with us here is defense attorney randy cellen. you have more news on the charges. that s right. we expect that the charges for enrique marquez will center on the firearms that he says he bought for syed rizwan farook. he says syed rizwan farook he asked hum to get them because he didn t want to draw attention. these firearms were bought in 2011 and 2012. . it s interesting that s around the period that marquez claims that he and farook cooked up this plan to carry out a terrorist attack of their own. marquez says he converted to islam before then. that s part of the story he s been telling the fbi. he s been talking to the fbi now cooperatively telling them everything he knows for the past
what we re seeing is someone these are people inspired by the ideology but it s copyrighted. markez wanted to commit attacks a few years ago. there s a conspiracy to commit terrorism charge there and a conspiracy requires an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime even if the crime never occurs plus an overt or identifiable step towards the furtherens of the crime. there s other things as well, the weapons used by farook in his attack in our community. also, the charge of defrauding immigration authorities by entering into what the epidemic says was a shammed marriage.
to the rest of the nation he s on top of this as he heads to vacation. kristin, thank you. i want to bring in brian levin. also, director of the center for the study of hate and extremism. nice to have you back with us tonight. thank you. as we look at what we are seeing and hearing and learning today, one of the other things that president obama said today was the san bernardinos describing them as self-initiating and self-moting. how does this change the way this country tackles terror? well, i think this is something that we ve been watching for a while just evolve. interestingly enough, the complaint shows that farook read who was basically internet radicalizer 2.0. not the 1.0 who came previous but 2.0 and not the 3.0 of isis.