priority for the united states intelligence community as well as our liaison partners. on those foreign fighters such a crucial part of getting them across the border into syria are fixers. we are learning tonight that the man who got those british girls across the border may have been a double agent. turkey s foreign minister says his security forces arrested a man he called a spy who allegedly helped those girls get into syria. the foreign minister says the man also worked for a country that is part of the international coalition against isis. turkish officials say he is not turkish and is not a citizen of the country he is working for. there s a chance he could be syrian but it s amazing, he works for the coalition and smuggled those girls across the border. yeah. it s very very disturbing. brian, thank you. let s go in depth with our counter terrorism analyst philip mudd a former cia official. our security analyst peter bergen and cnn intelligence and security analyst bob baer,
middle east significantly degrades them without providing more recruitment fodder for folks that are trying to organize in the homeland right here in the united states. one of these three guys was arrested at john f. kennedy airport in new york getting ready to board a flight to turkey. once you re in istanbul it s not that hard to cross that border get into syria and align yourself hook up with isis. that seems like there was a pretty specific plot at least in this individual s case, right? well we know that there are americans who are moving into that fight. we know there are europeans who are flooding into turkey into syria, into iraq and one of the most important conversations we re having is with our allies in europe to make sure they are doing the things necessary to try to track these individuals to make sure they don t use what s called the visa waiver program to come back into europe come into the united states. we do a pretty good job of figuring out who is moving over th
evan peres is joining us. what are you hearing from your law enforcement sources? this case really represents an escalation of this threat from isis. until now, we have been hearing about isis and we have been hearing about their recruits most of them have come from around the country and you know they are trying to reach syria to join the militants. in this case we are talking about new york and that s something that we hadn t seen before. i m told by law enforcement officials that there are other cases they are investigating. they expect they will be able to bring charges against other individuals who are planning to join isis or trying to carry out attacks here in this country. one of the things they are watching is jfk. jfk is a point of departure for a lot of flights to europe which is a conduit for people trying to get over there. i want you to listen to what james comey, the fbi director said today about the growth of
brooklyn. two of the three suspects arrested today, suspicious the suspects believed to be trying to get to syria to work with isis. two of them are going to be arraigned here in brooklyn. we are standing by. our own susan candiotti is inside. we will get the latest. deborah feyerick i should say, is inside. we will get the latest from deb feyerick when she comes out. we will see what happens inside. but we are watching this very very closely right now. as soon as she comes out, we will go there live. in the meantime we are back with democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. he s a member of the senate foreign relations committee. we heard the fbi director say today, senator, that there are now radicalized individuals who are being monitored by the fbi in all 50 states. including alaska he said that was the last state. does this worry you? of course it worries us. we know that this is nothing new to the united states. for decades we have had radicals
of the united states. the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce is standing by live. first, let s go to our justice correspondent pamela brown with all the latest details coming in. this is a very unique isis material support case. it s concerning because it involves several individuals living in the u.s. conspireing and allegedly wanting to launch an attack against high-profile u.s. targets in the name of isis if they couldn t link up with the group overseas. the fbi says one of the men arrested today boasted about wanting to kill president obama and blow up coney island in new york city. another man proposed shooting police and fbi agents plans they put into place if they weren t able to join isis in syria. two of the individuals were seeking to fly to syria. one was arrested at the