avoid additional scrutiny, according to marquez. this is a story marquez has told. he s been cooperating with the fbi. he s the one who checked himself sbo the mental facility. that s right. immediately after the attack he checked himself into a mental health facility and soon after started cooperating with the fbi. he s been talking to them almost daily pretty much since then just over a wook. he waived his miranda rights and was able to get a lawyer in the last week or so. he s been cooperating providing all kinds of information including he says back in 2012 he and farook converted to islam at that time. e he and farook planned a terrorist attack around that time around 2012. they never carried it out. we don t know what specifically they were planning to do, but just that it never happened. again, this is his story. this is a story he s been telling the fbi as part of his cooperation. he s also told them that he and farook were building pipe bombs as part of a hobby.
role in this because i think from his lawyer s perspective, he s going to try to argue, i think, that perhaps that s one reason to have some leniency. he says he went in there because he was upset about the attacks. says had e had nothing to do with it. he even says he helped farook build ieds in the past but takes no speedometer for those associated with the event. he says he didn t know about the plot. he checks himself in. when you re hearing all of that and thinking as his if you re prosecuting him, what do you do? if i m prosecuting him, i would love to have this guy in my conference room because i would love to ask him about what the real bad people were doing, who they were talking to, who they were networking with, maybe you can tell me where the hard drive is. maybe you can tell me where there s other evidence so i can
state department, homeland security, all to review how they vet social media before granting fiancee visas and the whole visa process. of course, tashfeen malik, syed farook s partner in if san bernardino killings. joining me, malcolm nance, a career counterterrorism and intelligence officer, david ignatius, editorial columnist and ari melber, chief legal correspondent for msnbc. ari, first to you. to your exclusive reporting today, the whole question of social media postings and what homeland does. as we now know, it was erroneously reported that homeland and the state department had ignored social media postings by tashfeen malik. it turns out she hadn t. there had been only direct messages which were not as accessible. but this is a memo that you have obtained showing that homeland
back into europe, given the fact that isis is increasingly pivoting towards international terrorism, increasingly wants to launch terror attacks against europe and is actively plotting that right now. there s already a concern in europe what was happening, that folks were exploiting this refugee path this pathway, especially only add to it if it turns out that the ringleader of this attack came through that path as well. paul, thank you very, very much. let s turn our focus, speaking of terrorism, but more breaking news on nor terror investigation. prosecutors are expected to file charges against this man, the former neighbor of the san bernardino attackers. they say enrique marquez, you ll remember that, he s admitted to investigators that he bought the two rifles used by farook and his wife in the mass shooting that killed 14 people. but he told investigators he did not know about their plans for the attack. want to bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez. what do we know ab
in 2011, one of which was to bomb the community college he and farook attended. one was to bomb a stretch of freeway. they chose this because there were no exit lanes. the plan was to bomb this so no one was escape and farook was to go shoot inside the individual cars while markez was parked on a hill shooting with a rifle. he s expected to face the charges any moment and walk inside the courtroom. chilling details. mar morgan, thank you. news of the charges comes on the heels of obama after meeting with his national security team. we are in a new phase of terrorism including loan actors and small groups of terrorist like those in san bernardino. because they are smaller, often self-initiating, self-motivating, they re harder to detect. that makes it harder to prevent.