it s not a crime to travel to a foreign country for terrorist training. jamie: are they tracking his moves and have they said how serious the threat is? reporter: he s considered to be operational which means he s completed his training and is waiting instructions on his target. but yemen of course remains most dangerous stronghold for al qaeda and u.s. authorities have long worried just such a scenario would unfold. someone of european descent, training in yemen and being deployed to attack a western target. they won t say how they know he s operational. it could be martyrdom videos or the severing of contact with friend and relatives to avoid detection. bill: darrell issa calling out
amounts are so large, that it raised flags amongst the investigators. we are making big-time money and it s going right to the terrorist training, recruiting, corruption. things needed to carry out terrorist acts across the world. heather: they are not the only one. the dealership allegedly one of 30 in the u.s. set up to raise money for terrorism. police now identifying that suspect in a deadly shooting in southern california. 48-year-old andre turner. shot four people before allegedly turning the gun on himself. two of the victims died. the others are in critical conditionm the police describedescribed the scene. we got here and cordoned off the facility. evacuated people on the facility. we did an active search of the
the prescription for justice. apparently, according to one report, the f.b.i. had an opportunity twice to get involved with this case based on the intelligence from the nypd and they decided not to. that somehow this lone wolf suspect didn t have the capacity mentally or physically in order to get the job done. and so what the allegation is now is that he was building three bombs, that he was an hour away from making one bomb operational. this man from washington heights, born in the dominican republic who had come to the attention of the nypd based on earlier reports from the albany, new york, police department that he had intended to travel to yemen for terrorist training. that never came true. but that put him under the microscope for the nypd for a long time. sure. so the nypd tells the f.b.i. we got this guy. we think he s going to do something stupid and twice, they said we re not interested because he doesn t seem smart enough to pull it off.
but what s going to prevent terrorists from buying and using them? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he entered the race at the top of the polls, but rick perry has been watching his numbers slide and slide. his momentum rather slow. now, with a closely watched speech, the texas governor is trying to reverse his declining campaign fortunes. jim acosta is joining us now. he delivered what his campaign described as a major speech today. that s right. the speech was called the energizing american jobs and security speech, wolf, but it was also designed to energize his campaign. looking to jump-start a campaign that s been stalled for weeks, rick perry laid out a texas-sized energy plan that the governor claims will create more than a million jobs. america s the saudi arabia of code. if elected president, perry says he ll push for new coal mining, oil exploration. perry would even expand production to the gulf of mexico
national spotlight and those who have decided and may yet decide to try cracking that glass ceiling 2012. it would be wonderful to have a female president in the united states and it would be nice if we had more than one. alisynone. in the meantime the numbers of women in congress did increase after that 1992 election. but now women represent just 16% of congressional seats. alisyn: anita vogel. thank you very much. bill rar americans recruited to go overseas for terrorist training. where and why one lawmaker says that s happening right now. alisyn: the clock is ticking down to a looming deadline. a republican senator says if the boehner bill makes it to the senate he will not support it. what will change senator lindsey graham s mind? turn left.