defense and it's a full year since isol has been able to mount a successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isol continues to lose territory it continues to lose the money that is its life blood. as a result of our strikes against the oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we have cut the revenue from oil by billions of per month. we have deprived isol of many millions more. thanks to the great work of secretary lui and many others today, working with financial institutions around the world, isol is cut off from the international financial system. cutting off the money may not be as dramatic but it's critically important. it's resorting for more extortion and by isol's own admission, some leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. isol's true nature is revealed. this he are not religious warriors but thugs and thieves. continuing to push on this front i want to mention that it's critical for our friends in the senate to confirm adam, my nominee for secretary of terrorism and intelligence. adam has served in democratic and republican administrations, everybody agrees he is

did not go necessarily to syria or iraq and later perform -- later act out. >> do you consider omar mateen long love? -- you consider omar mateen a loan wolf? likely that hehe did not have a direct link or iraq.ctions from he took this decision on his own electing to pledge to isis at the last moment. >> the islamic state group has called him a soldier of the caliphate. expert, our terrorism was saying that when they use the word, it is means they have had a connection, contact with him before. not use that word for instance for the san bernardino shooter. in this instance, that would suggest there was prior contact between omar mateen and the islamic state group? >> well, it is possible. maybe he had contact with isis. those people are very, very sedentary. [indiscernible] they use the word soldier, yes, perhaps the relationship. we need to be there he do, very cautious. >> investigation is ongoing to determine the links between omar mateen and islamic state group. accuray much. -- thank you very much. the does have been held across the u.s. in the wake of the shooting. silence was observ

a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful offensive operation in either syria or iraqas isil continues to lose the money that is its life blood. as a result of our strikes, against otherwise oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe that we have cut isil's revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month. and destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we have deprived isil of many millions more. thanks to the great work of secretary lou and many others here today, and working with nations and financial institutions around the world, isil is now effectively cut off from the international financial system. cutting off isil's money may not be as dramatic as military strikes but it is critically important. and we are seeing the results. isil's cash reserves are down. it has had to cut salaries for its fighters. it's resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip. and by isil's own admission, some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again, isil's true nature has been revealed. these are not religious thieves. and c

isis in syria or iraq, if we are aware of an arm shipment or a cash of arms somewhere in the territory we take it out. we send our fighter planes. we send any resources we have to keep them from getting those arms. that if an isis-inspired terrorist in the united states wants to obtain arms all they have to do is go to a gun store and buy them. we spend so much keeping weapons away from terrorist broad but nothing into the united states. that is why i am supporting this bill, led by susan collins of maine, a common-sense piece of legislation that will simply add to the list of those items when prohibit people from getting guns if you are on the no-fly list or the selective list and are those that require additional stronging at the airport. this is -- screening -- as simple as it gets. to vote for this it is saying it is okay for the people on the no-fly list to get a gun. i cannot understand any argument that would justify that. the position senator collins developed with both sides of the aisle has due process protections for someone who may be on the list through a mistake or improp

a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful offensive operation in either syria or iraq. as isil continues to lose territory, it also continues to lose the money that it -- that is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against the oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we've cut isil's revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month. in destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we've deprived isil of many millions more. thanks to the great work of secretary lew and many others here today and working with nations and financial institutions around the word, isil is now effectively cut off from the international financial system. cutting off isil's money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important, and we're seeing the results. isil's cash reserves are down. it has had to cut salaries for its fighters. it's resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip, and by isil's own admission, some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again, isil's true nature has been revealed. these ar

the fbi director calls them troubled souls, people who didn't ever go to syria or iraq but who have been consuming digi encouraging them to act. that's the concern. we don't know yet if that's definitely what happened here, but that's being aggressively investigated. >> pierre thomas, thank you very much. i want to bring in former fbi special agent brad garrett right now. we're learning more from the eyewitnesss, you got the sense that the gunman came in, strong burst of sustained gunfire for several minutes around 2:00 a.m. takes the hostages and holds them for about three hours. it's hard to know which killing happened when. >> exactly. my sense would be because law enforcement was on the scene in fairly short order. there was an off-duty officer there that engaged the shooter at some point, law enforcement if they continued to hear shots would have gone in long before 5:00. it's a bit of a mystery, based on all these mass shootings we've tke years as to why he stopped and waited for three hours before this ultimately ended in his death. so, there's a lot to be filled in here. but, you

isis in syria or iraq, if we are aware of an arms shipment or a cache of arms somewhere in their territory, we take it out. we said our fighter planes. we send any resources we have to keep them from getting thosest t arms, but if and isis inspired terrorist is in the united states wants to obtain arms, all they have to do is go to a gun store. and by then. it makes no sense to me that we spend millions of dollars to keep arms away from terrorists in the middle east and do nothing to keep arms away from along with states.ith that is why a time supporting, along with a bipartisan group, nonpartisan group group of other senators, led by susan collins of maine, a common sense piece of legislation that will simplyp add to the list of those items which prohibit people from getting guns if you are on the no-fly list or the selectee list, those people who are required to have additional screening at an airport. this is about as simple and common sense as it gets. >> to vote against this is basically saying it's okay that terrorists people on the no-fly list get a gun. i just cannot understand any

individuals like this one, if they were radicalized and had never been to syria or iraq or in direct contact with members of isis, they may have come into contact online with members of isis or through their rhetoric on the internet. >> how do you crush an idea, especially in an open marketplace like the internet? >> well, there are a few ways. you want to be good about getting down some of the really gruesome content. the tech companies have had a lot of pressure on them to take down some of this messaging. organizations like my own and in the u.s. government work on countering the narrative. to be frank, americans, we're not necessarily the best ones to create that counter narrative. part of it is creating partnerships with people on the ground in the countries, in the regions that speak the language and know the culture that can help create narratives and create programs to undermine messages of groups like isis who have been very good at what they do in terms of reaching out to disenfranchised people who are vulnerable to their messaging. >> where it regards the fbi having more r

between saudi arabia and the gulf states, they are vetting people come into their country from syria or iraq, and why can't we vet them coming over here to the united states? that's why we support the nominee, donald trump, because he is going to take a severe action to protect us and as a person from orlando, we don't want to see another situation to see what happened elsewhere in our states. >> you agree with his idea to build a wall? >> of course. again, you have a lot of refugees and a lot of immigrants come illegally to the border on mexico and no patrol can catch them all, and therefore we need to build a wall and we need to let the people come legally into the wall, like the big border he will build. >> we are in the middle of a race for the white house and different perspectives on how you respond to an act of terrorism as we saw yesterday. how do you think it would be different under a trump administration? what would he do differently than what we see playing out with the obama administration? >> what i believe mr. president obama for the last seven or eight years and especially fo

been a full year since isil has been able to mount a successful offensive operation in either syria or iraq. if we want to help a law-enforcement protect people from homegrown extremists, the kind of tragedy that occurred at san bernardino and now in orlando, there is a meaningful way to do that. we have to make it harder for people who want to kill americans to get their hands on weapons of war. we cannot prevent every tragedy. but we know that consistent with the second amendment there are common sense steps that could reduce gun violence and could reduce the lethality of somebody who intends to do other people harm. we should give atf the resources they need to enforce the gun laws we already have. people with possible ties to terrorism who aren't allowed on a airplane shouldn't be allowed to buy a gun. enough talking about being tough on terrorism. actually be tough on terrorism. stop making it easy for terrorists to buy assault weapons. reinstate the assault weapons ban. make it harder for terrorists to use these weapons to kill us. otherwise, despite extraordinary efforts by local law

the decision to abandon iraq and not help free the syrian army three or four years ago gave isil a foot hold in syria and iraq. the rest is history. barack obama is to blame for the rise of isil. he has dismantled the ability to defend this country. we no longer interrogate terror suspects. we read them their rights and put them in federal court. we have less federal agents in 2017 than 2013. in that regard i blame president obama. >> the way i look at this, going back a number of years, i look at this like cancer in the body. if you get the first little tumor before it miss as it size to the brain and lureng and everywhere else. last several years isis just not on the battlefield but beheading, charlie hebdo, paris last november 139. we have had belgium and sphwarn, -- intern. inspired by isis. >> can i add one? >> libya. this president undersells the threats. he says there is no evidence this man was directed by isil. isil is still strong in the minds of twisted people like this. they still follow ago bad daddy's call to attack in place. so, without a caliphate. without al baghdadi land and control

collect human intelligence whether it is in our own communities here or if we'll send them back to syria or iraq on not just isis and al qaeda but the next -- >> that sounds like at the hillary clinton approach. >> broadly speaking, i tend to agree more with her than mr. trump for sure. and it is the david petraeus approach, the brennan approach. there is a consensus within the security establishment that we need to rely on arabs and muslims to help us collect the information and intelligence to make america safer. >> saying we need to strengthen relationships with allies is a plattetude that doesn't get us anywhere because the consensus is so strong that anybody who spends five minutes on the issue at any level of government already knows, of course we have to work with allies and should be recruiting people from inside of these communities, the question then becomes one of a number's game. where are the majority of major terrorist attacks coming from. we talked about some that are home grown, others coming from people from certain countries. some might need additional scrutiny in the immigrati

don't come to syria or iraq. do it in your own home base and it is more effective and go after soft targets. how do we protect the homeland against that? >> well, as john brennan pointed out it is one of the biggest challenges we face. the effort to go after a lone wolf, a person decides to self radicalized because of inspiration either something from social media or something else that person has been exposed to and being able to determine when that person becomes self radicalized is the toughest challenge that the intelligence of law enforcement community faces. the key is obviously, trying to get the american people as vigilant as possible about individuals in their community that indicate recharacteristics similar to what we saw of the individual in orlando that indicates he had a tendency to talk about the attack and seems to be the individual who's thinking about that. those kind of individuals should be reported to law enforcement so we can take step to hopefully prevent the long wolf attack. >> i want to

defense and it's been now a full year since isl was able to mount a successful operation in either syria or iraqo continuing to lose money that its life blood. as a result of our strikes against oil supply lines, we have cut their revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month and destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we deprive isl of many more. thanks to the great work of secretary lew and many here today, isl is cut off from the international financial system. cutting off their money may not be as dramatic as military strikes but it is --ally as is critically important. some it own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. they show their true colors. they are not reap lidge just leaders, but thugs. >>> and i push for my friends in the senate to confirm adam silverman who served in democratic and republican nominations. everyone agrees he is eminently qualified, has been working on these kinds of issues for years. it's now been more than a years since i nominated him. more than 420 days and he still has not been given a full vote. there is no good reason for it. i

is on defense and it has been a full year since they were able to mount a defense of in either syria or iraq they continue to lose territory, they continue to lose is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against its oil infrastructure, we believe we have got the revenue by millions of dollars per month. it end in destroying the storage sites, we have the primed i soul of many millions more. thanks to the right work of secretary lou and many others and working with institutions around the world, i soul is now cut off from the international sector.l it is critical in and we are seeing the results. down andh results are they have had to cut the salaries for fighters. it is resorting to more extortion of those in its grip and by their own admission, some of the leaders had been caught stealing cash and gold. once again, i soul's true nature is revealed. these are not true religious warriors, they are thugs and leaves. to continue to push on this front, it is critical for our friends in the senate to confirm my nominee for undersecretary of terrorism and financial intelligence. adam has serv

they don't need to necessarily coordinate or link up with guys in syria or iraq, let alone be sent back, i don't know why they're pushing that line if it's not true. maybe it is. we don't know. >> there in lies a problem, the internet. people can become radicalized without having to go near the people they're aspiring to be like p. >> and it's great source of information to determine what happened with him and gives people access to the outside world and makes people appreciate the other in many ways so it's just a tool, a platform. it's the content that matters and isis has been successful in the content and this is where we don't know the extent of which the relationship between the orlando shooter and isis is. i suspect it was isis motivated. we actually don't seem to have any evidence yet of travel that would then suggest that there was some meet up or training. but this case will unfold and we'll learn more over the next couple daydays. >> when we come back, the worst mass shooting here in orlando. and this is a live picture of the castro district in san fr k francisco where a vigi

do we think he's in syria or do we think he's in iraq?do we think he has been grievously wounded and, therefore, cannot command i.s.i.l anymore? >> well, i know that there are many different reports out there, but we've seen reports in the past from other sources about what may or may not have happened to baghdadi. we do not have any independent information about whether or not he has been injured in any type of strike. what we will say is that we have made taking out the leadership of i.s.i.l which would obviously include baghdadi a priority and we have been able to take out a number of i.s.i.l leaders, a significant number of i.s.i.l leaders in months because we have been able to get better intelligence over the course of this year and a half we have been engaged in the military campaign. the fact is even though they have characteristics of insurgency, they have a core leadership that is very important to their operations, so you can make a dent in their ability both to direct their efforts in iraq and syria and around the world by focu

or element that shows omar mateen was directly coordinated by isis cells or isis leadership in syria or iraq. when you saw some of the footage came out following the paris or brussels attack, a lot of the isis propaganda showed those attackers in different settings. mostly on the battlefields of syria and iraq. in this, we didn't see that. most of the content that is related to the orlando shooting is stuff that is harvested from news organizations, news clips that have been online or satellite television. in that sense, it is a little bit different. it doesn't have a will or testimony that has been put out attributable to the isis group on behalf of omar mateen, which would then show a much stronger relationship between the organization and the attacker he pledged allegiance too. >> what did you see given what ayman was just mentioning? >> he is absolutely right. there is no indication that omar mateen was directed by the group. it is an attempt of exploiting this and capitalizing on the frenzy. they featured a couple of individuals who spoke in english. again, it's an element of fear just

back to november of 2014 and what isil tried to do is say you can join the caliphate by coming to syria or iraqnd receiving training and deploying back to europe. or you can join the ranks in iraq and syria so there is an active directed, controlled operational side which, for example, european counterterrorism forces are concerned about. at the same time with the black banner, the isil flag, the interpretation of islam, every time isil has a success around the world they gain more fealty. a good example is boko haram, pakistan and that generates more recruits in the pool. every time there is an attack it gives people on the periphery of society a belief that they can become part of a cause that's moral and ordained and be part of a global war. unless you puncture the flag, say the flag is simply a magnet for a hellfire missile, ordained purity for someone very sick, i disagree with doug when he says the administration has taken it seriously enough. they haven't. you talk to the europeans whether they think it is taken seriously enough and the answer is no. >> i will give you a chance to respon

. >> the argument also against her is that the entire middle east region, whether in syria or iraq, north libya for example, elsewhere in the region, the whole arab spring has become obviously a disaster for all practical purposes. and there is a lot of blame on her as the u.s. secretary of state. how much of that blame is credible, how much of that blame is realistic? >> well, i don't think the blame is credible. first of all, she has said on the syrian issue she's favoring a no-fly zone. i think there may have been some foreign policy differences. she wanted always bet more of a muscular policy when we dealt with assad.bet more of a muscular policy when we dealt with assad. with russia. but you look at the record. she has gone head to head with russia, with china, when it comes to nuclear weapons and climate change on isis. she has been aggressive. she's united the european union and arab countries. i think she's made some very tough decisions as i mentioned on bin laden, so this relationship in the middle east, gaza and eisrael, the cease tir there. being secretary of state in these ti

been a whole year since isil has been able to mount a successful offensive operation in either syria or iraq isil continues to lose territory it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe that we cut isil's revenue from oil bymillions of dollars . and destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we deprived isil of many millions more. next to the great work of secretary lou and many others here today, and working with nations and financial institutions around the world, isil is now effectively cut off from the international financial system. cutting off isil's money may not be as america's military strikes but it is critically important and we are seeing the results. isil's cash reserves are down, it has had to cut salaries for its fighters, it's resorting to more extortion of those in its grip and by isil's own admission, some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again, isil's truenature has been revealed. these are not religious warriors. they are funds an

i can guarantee you that christian refugees from syria or iraq would not be members of isis and it's very easy to know who's a christian and who's not. the other christians will tell you. >> we can also -- for those victims of a syrian civil war, i'm all in favor of a safe zone. militarily we can help protect them, provide food, water, medicine, baby formula, cots and blankets and supplies. we can take care of them, but we're told by our top intelligence officials that they will infiltrate, meaning the terrorists. why would any president risk the lives of americans? can we say with a certainty after paris and belgium that americans are going to die at the hands of some of these refugees? is that a fair statement? a fair conclusion? >> well, it's certainly the odds are greatly in favor of americans being killed by some of these refugees. whether here or in europe. but one of the complicating aggravating factors, sean, is that president obama because of his peculiar psychological makeup can never, never admit he's wrong about anything. the guy has no reverse gear. you saw, heard his ta

they may have been in syria or iraq. many of these former terrorists have actually traveled to syria and iraq to align themselves with isis. >> as far as we know traditionally when there's an attack they take credit. you said that's not normally the case in turkey. why? >> i don't know exactly the reason. isis related attacks have not claimed the actual attacks taken credit for them and through investigation. it has been determined they were associated with or inspired by isis. >> a lot of us at home afraid saying we could very much see an isis attack on u.s. soil. is that normal or has something happened to amp that up and we should be concerned? >> the u.s. government has said there's no specific threat right now. absolutely, it's something we have been concerned about for many years. there seems to be what we use to call the summer threat. the fbi and joint terrorism task force have worked to disrupt potential cells. they have been a lot more aggressive in their patrols and executing search and arrest warrants. they h

a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful offensive operation in either syria or iraq continues to lose territory, it continues to lose the money that is it's life blood. as a result of the strikes against oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we've cut the revenue from oil by millions of dollars per month and destroyed the storage sites where they keep cash, deprived of many more. thanks to the great work of secretary lou and working with nations and financial institutions around the world, isil is now effectively cut off from the international financial system. cutting off the money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important and we see the results. isil's cash reserves are down. it has had to cut salaries for its fighters, resorting to more extortion of those trap in its grap and by some admission, some leaders caught stealing cash and gold. once again, isil's true nature has been revealed. these are not religious warriors. they are thugs and they are thieves. in continue to push on the front, it's critical for friends in the

is on defense, and it is a full year since isil has mounted a a successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isil continues to lose territory, it is losing the money that it is its life blood, and as a result of the strike is against the oil infrastructure and supply revenue, we have cut their rev by millions of dollars per month. in addition, we have deprive d them of many millions more. and thanks for the work of secretary le with, and others here today, and institutions around the world, isil is cut off from the international financial system. and cutting off isil's money may not be as dramatic as the air strikes, but it is critical. their cash reserves are down, and they have had to cut salaries for the fighters and had to resort to extortion for those in its grip, and even some of the leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. and once again, the true nature of isil is revealed. they are not religious warriors, but thugs. i want to mention that it is critical for the friends in the senate to confirm adam zubin my nominee for secretary of terrorism, and intelligence. he has ser

it is not clear whether those targets are in syria or iraq.ut the navy is touting its ability to hit isis targets without using the persian gulf as a launch point. we'll continue to get more information. if we find out more exactly what they have been hitting, we'll certainly let you know. >>> latest on terrifying case of workplace violence, after police say a construction worker used a piece of heavy equipment to settle a dispute with his boss. >>> plus, an amazing medical break-through, as surgeons attach a high-tech prosthetic hand, giving the patient individual finger control. we'll talk to the doctors behind this groundbreaking procedure. ♪ ...clear for take off. see ya! when you're living with diabetes. steady is exciting. oh this is living baby! only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full. when it comes to quitting cigarettes, why does it feel like all or nothing? would you expect me to lose 25 pounds overnight? i'm taking it one cigarette at a time. that's h

there's a big difference in terms of an investigation between isis directed, there's some person in syria or iraq the u.s. or sort of telling them, dreshthing them what to do and someone who is alone in the room or has mental illness and radicalizing and going out and doing a tragedy or horror like this. it means who are you going to investigate? where is the path going to lead you? who else might know? so i think this is going to be a domestic investigation for the most part and there will probably be other arrests. there's no question in my mind that some people will be arrested because of knowledge or complicity in this. >> who else will be arrested. if no one else was part of the attack or the planning, how will they be culpable. >> they may be part of the planning. we don't know that yet. fbi has been doing a search warrant at his residence. that information i'm sure will come out of there. if he had a playstation 4, if he had some type of gaming console, there could be communication on that also. so i think they'll get to the bottom if he did have any help and if there was a conspiracy. >>

because of their violent tendencies and because of the videos they watch and perhaps travel to syria or iraq that that person can go legally can go into any gun store in america, go online and buy weapons he or she wants, that makes no sense. that's not upholding our duty to protect the american people. if that watch list is no good, then we fix the list, but the thought that we would not try to keep those guns out of the hands of dangerous people, including would be terrorists, makes absolutely no sense. >> what about passports? there have been talk about including passports in that legislation if someone is a would be terrorist so they could travel to a place like syria. >> let's be clear. i was elected 3 1/2 years ago and in that time representing newton where those murders happened a few weeks after my election, we have not been allowed one single hearing, much less a vote. nothing in the house of representatives in any way, shape or form to address this gun violence epidemic in america. so here we have last week another 49 americans gunned down in a matter of hours in a nightclub. it ha

concern is not so much like what we saw in paris, france in terms of people who have gone over to syria or iraq and gained training. the concern is people here sitting in their homes or sitting at work being radicalized online or through their smartphones to do something who would then take the time and get some guns. as you can see, you can execute a pretty horrific attack. >> all right. we do want to thank you. and we'll bring in brad garrett who is a retired fbi agent. we keep hearing the shooter was very well prepared and organized. it sounds like he had been planning this for a long time? >> yeah. think about this. he had to travel maybe a couple of hours presuming he was at his home in florida. he would have to know that nightclub is there. how do you get into this nightclub. what weapon are you going to use? if he had explosives he would have to acquire those along the way. the idea this could be a impulsive act, this isn't going to work. i suspect that law enforcement may now already start seeing some of those links. this is a kid in his late 20s. there's social media traffic by him. th

a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful offensive operation in either syria or iraqiring on all cylinders. >> now, dozens of isis leaders have been killed and iraqi forces backed by the u.s. military have retaken large portions of isis territory, but do those successes equal a strategy? is the united states firing on all cylinders? no not according to former and current members of the military in the obama administration who have said to me on background that years into this effort the u.s. lacks a coherent plan to accomplish the mission that the president has stated destroying isis. here is retired marine general james maddis former centcom commander testifying before the u.s. senate last year. >> i don't know what our policy is on syria. i don't know what the political end state is that people want to accomplish, and if you wander into a war without knowing that, you're probably going to get lost. we've been somewhat in a strategy-free environment for quite some time. >> to this day in speeches the general refers to sear yand iraq as a strategy-free zone. former se

the fbi director calls them troubled souls, people who didn't ever go to syria or iraq but who have been consuming digital information from isis encouraging them to act. that's the concern. we don't know yet if that's definitely what happened here, but that's being aggressively investigated. >> pierre thomas, thank you very much. i want to bring in former fbi special agent brad garrett right now. we're learning more from the eyewitnesss, you got the sense that the gunman came in, strong burst of sustained gunfire for several minutes around 2:00 a.m. takes the hostages and holds them for about three hours. it's hard to know which killing happened when. >> exactly. my sense would be because law enforcement was on the scene in fairly short order. there was an off-duty officer there that engaged the shooter at some point, law enforcement if they continued to hear shots would have gone in long before 5:00. it's a bit of a mystery, based on all these mass shootings we've talked about over the years as to why he stopped and waited for three hours before this ultimately ended in his death. so, t

not these are individuals who came from inside syria or iraq, but they are close to that aread we have the benefit of an ocean between us as well as some very, very comprehensive efforts that have been undertaken since 9/11 to help protect this homeland. >> woodruff: does the fact, though, that they continue to be able to pull off these kinds of attacks give you any better understanding of what is lacking in either the u.s. approach or the approach of u.s. allies in fighting i.s.i.s.? >> it gives me better insight into their determination to continue to kill as many innocent men, women and children as possible, and it also, i think, demonstrates that we really have to be on our guard against all different types of attacks, particularly since individuals who try to carry out these attacks are suicide bombers and shooters. that makes it very difficult for law enforcement security agencies to be able to stop them from carrying out. i don't think we're ever going to have a situation where we are immune from this type of violence. >> woodruff: of course, the core of what's behind s

the truth is that there haven't been that many americans that have actually managed to get to syria or iraqeive training, receive that expertise and actually managed to get back here in one piece. on the other hand, there plenty of people that have watched isis video recordings and have read isis magazines that are in english and chatted with isis representatives on twitter or kik, using the different social media platforms that everyone in the u.s. uses on a daily basis, and those people, as it turns out, are the more serious threat because there's more of them, and because here in this country it is possible for a single individual who has received no specialized training to get their hands on a weapon that can kill 50 people at once. and i think that's something we have to ask ourselves is do we want to live in a country where a single radicalized individual who has received no training, who has never traveled abroad to a conflict zone and likely has had no direct contact with any terrorist, do we want to live in a place where someone like that can get their hands on an arsenal in a matt

doing background investigations, especially on individuals that were born in iran or afghanistan or iraq or syriaat can take two or three years to try to get somebody through the process to be hired as an agent or an analyst. those operations stop completely and you can't turn a light switch and turn it back on. they have taken years to recover from that. they ought to think about what it does to agencies like the fbi when they shut it down. >> there's more information coming in. we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, they could help pay some of what medicare doesn't, saving you in out-of-pocket medical costs. you've learned that taking informed steps

and been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isil continues to lose territory, it continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood. isil is cut off from the financial system, cutting off its money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important. isil cash reserves are down and resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip and by isil's own admission, some of its leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. its true nature has been revealed. it is critical for our friends in the senate to confirm adam, my nominee for undersecretary depor counterterrorism. everyone agrees he is qualified and has been working on these kinds of issues for years. and it's now been more than a year since i nominated him. more than 420 days and has not been given a full vote. no good reason for it. it is inexcusable and time for the senate to do its job and put our national security and have a vote on adam and help keep our country safe. as one defector said, isil is not bringing islam to the world and peo

they're not part of an operational cell, they're not going overseas to syria or iraq but at the end ofday it's almost as detrimental. this was a homegrown case, one individual, self radicalized via online potential contacts or messaging from overseas or potentially domestically as well. and they were, you know, moved up the chain in terms of potential radicalization and there may have been other issues as well. but at the end of the day, one individual was still able to carry out horrific and tragic attack and kill, you know, an unprecedented. charles: one individual this time but there's been more than one overall. and, mike, i guess the big argument in the country that we pride ourselves in civil liberties in the constitution. where do we bump up against these things? in other words, where can we flag someone what do has gone to these sites or travel abroad more than one occasion? who's under investigation? how do we actually become proactive and stop them from perhaps getting guns and things like that? >> some of the courts have taken a look at in these types of cases is the differe

whether directed from the self-declared caliphate of isis inside syria are or iraq or whether or not these individuals were radicalized inside cells inside that country and never travelled to that country, the end result ends up being the same. so i think for authorities, the challenge will be how do you protect these areas and how do you target these cells and these individuals. it's a very difficult task. and many countries outside of the middle east will have to deal with the aftermath of these atrocious murderous attacks. >> the most frightening part may be that very little training went into preparing for this attack. thank you very much. >>> airports across the united states ramping up security in the wake of a terrorist attack in turkey. the tsa increasing security at major airports from new york to l.a. authorities will be adding highly visible security personnel on the perimeter of the terminal that includes heavily armed officers who will conduct random sweeps and certains. one lawmaker tells us authorities are doing all they can to keep people safe. >> in the faa bill that

defeats on the battlefield in syria, in iraq, as you see them suffer defeat there's, then they pull back and say don't come and fight with us here on the ground in syria or iraq, but strike where you live. and that does a lot of things, including instill fear in all of us. we're sitting here talking about it right now, right. and it also makes people feel vulnerable everywhere they are and gives them this -- however many people you actually think they have, it gives them a sense of being strong. >> right. and you still have that festering wound that is syria. and so many say that is resolved, this problem will not go away. thank you, gayle lemmon. more than 100 people are still in the hospital after the attack. as i was mentioning, one man was badly wounded trying to help save others. many individual stories of heroism as is so often the case in these tragedies. matt rivers talked with that man's brother. >> he walked into the hospital wednesday night near midnight. the doctors had called him to tell him whether his brother would make it. we met him earlier that afternoon when he told us at the exact moment the attacks happened, he was on the phone talki

has been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isil continues to lose territory it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against its oil infrastructure and supply lines we have cut isil's revenue. and destroying the storage sites, and we deprive them of many more. thanks to the great work of secretary lou and others today and working with nations and financial institutions around the world isil has effectively cut off from the international financial situation. cutting off isil's money may not be as dramatic as military strikes but it is critically important and we are seeing results. cash reserves are down, it had to cut salaries for its fighters, resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip and by isil's own admission some of its own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again isil's true nature has been revealed. these are not religious warriors. they are thugs and thieves. continuing to push on this front, it is critical for friends in the senate to c

iraq and now into syria. the best way to keep isis fighters from coming to the united states or inspiring people in the unitedstates is to continue to pound them and scrub them from iraq and syria and make sure our middle east partners are stepping up on the ground, in the air to help us do >> that. >> go to alexandria, virginia, john is waiting, republican. john, good morning. >> hey, good morning. can you hear me? >> yes, sir. >> great. thank you. i just had a couple comments about gun control. it seems like with a tragedy that just happened like this, everything goes right to the it guns. it seems like it's a comment agenda that's being pushed and you're not looking at the the problem. the problem isn't the guns. there's millions and millions of guns in the united states that are owned legally and handled it's responsibly. it's the few that are sick, or as you guys refer to as extremists, that they can get these guns legally or illegally and they are going to commit the crimes regardless. so you keep going down a path, and everybody says stricter gun laws. well, i think well, i think if everybody knew what

isis in syria or iraq, if we are aware of an arms shipment or a cache of arms somewhere in their territory, we take it out. we send our fighter planes. we send any resources that we io to a gun store and buy them. it makes no sense to me that we spend millions of dollars to keep arms away from terrorists in the middle east and do nothing to keep arms away from terrorists here in the united states. that's why i am supporting, along with a bipartisan group, a nonpartisan group of other of maine aommonsense piece of legislation that will simply add to the list of those items which prohibit people from getting guns if you are on the no-fly list or the selectee list of those people who are required to have additional screening at an airport. this is about as simple and common sense as it gets. to vote against this is basically saying it's okay with us that terrorists, people on the no-fly list get a gun. i just can't understand any argument that would justify that. and the provision that senator collins has painstakingly developed with consultation with both sides of the aisle has in it due pro

and it has been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful operation in syria or iraq. as they continue to lose territory, they continue to lose the money that is its lifeblood. as a result of airstrikes against their oil and supply lines, we have cut their revenue by millions of dollars a month. in destroying the storage sites where they keep their cash, we deprived isil of many millions more. thinks to the great work of secretary lew and others here isil is cut off from the international financial system. we are seeing the results. their cash reserves are down, salaries for their fighters, they have andrted to more extortion some of their own leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. isil's true nature has been revealed. these are not religious warriors. they are thugs. think there are successes in the military efforts, but they all fall short of what we need to do to destroy isis. they continue to have been recruiting additional fighters to come to that region -- while slowing down the financial resources is a help, we need to do more in the direct fight agai

has been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful operation in either syria or iraqas isil continues to lose territory, it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against its infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we have cut their revenue by millions of dollars per month. sites where they keep their cash, and we have deprived them of many millions more. thanks to the great work of secretary lew and many others here today. and working with nations and financial institutions around the world, isil is cut off from the international financial system. cutting off its money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important. isil cash reserves are down and isil cash reserves are down and and, we are seeing the results. it has had to cut salaries for its fighters. it is resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip and by isil's own admission, some of its leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. s trueisil' ' nature has been revealed. they are not religious warriors but thugs and thi

has been a full year since isil has been able to mount a major successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isil continues to lose territory, it also continues to lose the money that is its lifeblood. as a result of our strikes against its infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we have cut their revenue by millions of dollars per month. we destroy the sites where they keep their cash, and we have deprived them of many millions more. thanks to the great work of secretary lew and many others here today, and working with nations and financial institutions around the world, isil is cut off from the international financial system. cutting off its money may not be as dramatic as military strikes, but it is critically important. isil cash reserves are down and it has had to cut salaries for its fighters. it is resorting to more extortion of those trapped in its grip and by isil's own admission, some of its leaders have been caught stealing cash and gold. once again, isil's true nature has been revealed. they are not religious warriors but thugs and thieves. in continuing to push on this f

as their spiritual leader, but i don't think this will change their tactics in somalia or syria or northern iraqal-qaeda franchise is operating steadily successfully on their own without directive from the taliban. >> okay, i have more questions but i've got to go. i did enjoy your perspective, sir. >> thanks. >> thank you. >>> when you think of famous russian authors, who do you think of? not putin. why and how the russian strong man is being published. does he have any choice? >> republican leaders trying to come to grips with donald trump as their eventual nominee. our next guest has some tips for what he calls the grumpy old party. to get it together. what's it like to be in good hands? man, it's like pure power at your finger tips. like the power to earn allstate reward points, every time i drive. ...want my number? and cash back for driving safe. and the power to automatically find your car... i see you car! and i got the power to know who's coming and when if i break down. ...you must be gerry. hey... in means getting more from your car insurance with the all-powerful drivewise app. it's