hello, i m john berman. i m kate bolduan. terrorism front and center today. let s give you a live look at the white house as just a short time from now president obama is set to hold a his year-end press conference. the conference will, no doubt, focus on terror fears and investigations facing the country and this president. then president obama will be traveling to california to meet with the families of the 14 people massacred in the san bernardino terrorist attack. this all comes amidmajor new developments in that case. a friend and former neighbor of the attacker, farook, has been arrested on terrorism charges. this is a picture of him, enrique marquez. they say he and farook planned tax two years ago and they released stunning new details of these plots. want to bring in our justice reporter evan perez, kimberly
family. the most serious charge stems from plots that marquez and who s a muslim convert and farook planned in 2012 but never actually carried out. the idea was to attack a library or cafeteria using pipe bombs and guns. an attack that prosecutors said was, quote, designed for maximum number of casualties. a second chilling plot involved attacking a busy highway at rush hour, an area with no exits and they would use pipe bombs to disable cars and farook would open fire on people in the cars. marquez would stand on a hillside to kill law enforcement and rescuers trying to help these victims. prosecutors also revealed that a few hours after the san bernardino attack, marquez called 911. he talked of wanting to hill himself and that he let farook hold guns for him. alisyn? evan, thanks so much for all of that back ground. joining us now to talk about this and so much more is state department spokesperson john
california, the president heads out to hawaii for his long holiday vacation, will not be back in the united states i m sorry, will not be back here at the white house until the new year. back to you in the studio. all right, joe, thanks so much. that friend of the san bernardino shooter we mentioned is waking up behind bars this morning. what did officials uncover that led them to bring these terror charges? cnn justice reporter evan perez has that part of the story. evan? he s the only person thus far to face charges as a result of the san bernardino terror attack. enrique marquez is the friend and former neighbor that helped syed farook buy two military style rifles. federal prosecutors charged him for lying on a firearms application. he bought two rifles so farook wouldn t have to go through a background check. and immigration fraud. he took money to marry a woman who s part of farook s extend
that allowed one of the attackers in san bernardino to slip into the country. the president adopting a mostly reassuring tone at a time when some of his critics are saying he s a bit too low key on terrorism. listen. for anyone trying to harm americans need to know, they need to know that we re strong and that we re resilient, that we will not be terrorized. after the president s visit to san bernardino, he does fly off to hawaii for his long family vacation there, not back in washington until after the new year. john berman, back to you. joe, thanks so much. that friend of the san bernardino shooter we mentioned is waking up behind bars this morning. what did officials uncover that led them to bring terror charges? cnn justice reporter evan perez has that part of the story. evan? reporter: he s the only person thus far to face any charges as a result of the san bernardino terror attack. enrique marquez is the friend
and we re learning two of the attackers and mastermind passed through a greek island apparently posing as refugees. all that comes as president obama says there s no specific and credible terror threat to the united states homeland right now. he s urging americans not to give in to fear. but a new poll shows the americans doubt the government s ability to stop lone wolf terror attacks. all of this on the same day that disney announces it s added metal detectors at its theme parks and is barring costumes and guests 14 years and older. i ll speak with congressman adam kinzinger and our correspondents, analysts and guest wills have full coverage of the day s top stories. let s begin with our national correspondent kyung lah. she has the latest on the san bernardino investigation whachlt are you learning, kyung? wolf, we re getting this information via pam brown and evan perez in washington, d.c. we re also getting our first look at the criminal complaint that has just been filed against