destruction. welcome to a brand new hour of america s newsroom on this good friday. i m bill hemmer. welcome here. nice to see you. alisyn: nice to see you too, bill. thanks so much, i m alisyn camerota in for martha maccallum today. this is confusing case. they arrested 30-year-old army veteran eric harroun. they arrested him in virginia plotting to use a rocket-propelled grenade against syrian president bashar al-assad. this could give him life in prison. doug, how did this army veteran end up in syria? reporter: good northerning. by all indications he wanted to join the fight and after he went. this is 30-year-old eric harroun who hails from arizona. he is charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. was in federal court outside of d.c. yesterday. this guy hasn t exactly made the secret of the fact he joined syrian rebels to overthrow syria s president bashar al-assad.