tom fuentes, you're a former assistant director of the fbi. you hear the president of the united states saying the u.s. went after this target presumably because there was a specific, hard information that these khorasan terrorists were plotting some sort of attack against the u.s. homeland. it's pretty extraordinary when you think about it. >> you're right, wolf. and what we're talking about with khorasan is basically an al qaeda all-star team. you have al qaeda from pakistan and afghanistan joining us from al qaeda members from the arabian peninsula which is yemen, which includes the main bomb maker from yemen and they've traveled to syria and formed up there figuring they have a great safe haven at the moment to conduct training and to prepare for the next operation. it's not really a knew group, it's a new name of a group that's already existed, these al qaeda elements and it's not a new strategy for them. they've been targeting the u.s. for as long as i can remember, for many years, the 2009 underwear bomber, the 2010 printer cartridge bo

i'm joined now by law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. tom, does the white house need to be worried? >>el well, it's a good question, ana. i think in terms of the judgment they use, i would say no. and i know it's a terrible thing that somebody jumped over the fence and managed to get to the front door. certainly, the white house security people could have shot him dead long before he got to that door and used their judgment that it just didn't quite look like an attack. it may be looked like a deranged person. they would be able to see if the person had a backpack on or some other bulky clothing that might be an explosive device or something. so i think that -- and the other concern would be if they start shooting at a running subject like that, the bullets would be going, you know, into the tourists out on the sidewalk surrounding the white house. so i think they used the right judgment, the right amount of restraint. the question is, of course, you know, how athletic is this guy? maybe we should get him on our olympic team if he's able

so tom fuentes joins us. nobody was injured. the first family is safe. but this is a significant deal. how in the world could this happen? >> well, fred rica, i think the fence is not adequate that goes around the white house should at the minimum be higher and it has been suggested by former secret service members to have the bar curl back so it is more difficult to climb over it. and secondly, i've been told there is a huge reliance on the canine unit, that the idea is that the officers don't run out to intercept this guy because they turn a log loose and the -- a dog loose and the dog will attack them. and the dog is supposed to knock the person down until the handlers get them into custody so that the officers don't have to open fire. >> so then what would be the decision in your view as to why the dogs would not be used in this case? clearly someone has jumped over and had enough time seen running to the front door. >> that's the question. we don't know if the dog was available. the helicopter carrying the president and the first family had just lef

tom fuentes joining us, law enforcement analyst at cnn. i heard the words "disgruntled" and "disenfranchised." those words are trigger points for people being inspired by isis, aren't they? >> well, that's true, michaela. but senior officials very knowledgeable of the investigation told me the same thing that pamela just reported, that while it appears that he's inspired and may have been led in that way by the media reports that isis has been putting out that in this particular situation they have not found any indication that he was directed by someone in a terrorist organization to actually to this and that this is so far appears to be more workplace related because of the situation with the company that morning and that it appears that he was just intent on going to the company and murdering as many employees as he could murder based on the situation in the workplace more so than being directed by isis or another terrorist organization. >> yet still, tom, i mean, it's awfully chilling when you think of the fact that this person beheade

i want to bring in the former deputy director tom fuentes who is on the phone. o hide for an extended period of time in the woods and survive on his own? >> yes, that is correct, to live on his own, find natural shelter with trees and leaves and materials like that. or find a cave. try to find water and try to kill small animals to feed themselves. that type of thing. so you know if someone is that capable of a woods person then they would be able to theoretically survive. the worry with this guy is that he could know, he could find a home and then do a home invasion or you know, something like that. so that has been fear all along. in this case, they fear that innocent people could be hurt by him. >> yeah, tom, if someone has a vendetta like this person certainly did against authorities are people in danger? and i guess they would be if they goes into their home? and jason carroll just reported that frein has been cornered. what are you hearing specifically that police are going to do in the situation when they know he is armed? >> well, they're going to try to

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. >> we want to bring in cnn's tom fuentes. we want to ask him, tom-l we be now here at home in a heightened state of alert because these air strikes have begun in syria? >> well, i think that we've already been at a high state of alert. it's hard to say how you get much higher when everybody's been worried about the foreign fighters that might come back or our lone wolves that could get inspired here to do an attack without even going over to the war zone. so i think yeah, they're on high alert. they'll be on higher alert. but it's hard to get much higher than what they've been in recent times. >> and of course tom we're looking at the white house right now. a live shot of it. this comes on the heels of that iraq war veteran who jumped the fence and had a knife on him and made it across the north lawn and up through the north portico doors before being stopped, and we're looking now i believe at a double fence. they're changing the access, or at least how close you can get now to the white house as a resu result. so i think you

let's talk about that with cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes. hi, tom. >> hi, carol. >> you're former fbi. how do you think authorities reacted when the iraqi prime minister laid that one on us? >> i think with complete surprise, complete shock that he would blurt that out, whether it was true or untrue, that he would blurt it out then later under pressure he more or less recanted that he knew of a specific plot but you know, the u.s. has the largest embassy in this whole series of embassies in baghdad with hundreds, hundreds of people working on security issues, including the fbi office there, the cia office there, defense attaches, the new defense advisers, the deputy chief admission, the ambassador. not one of them was told that this was going on or there had been a threat received in the iraqi system from iraqi intelligence, much less disseminated to any american service here or in europe. so this is completely ridiculous that he would release it in that manner, and then have it turn out to probably be completely untrue. >> new york authoriti

joining us, our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi.sual is it for this individual, jesse matthew, to willingly walk into the police station and say, i'd like to have a lawyer? >> i think it's very unusual. i've not heard of another case similar to that, wolf. but in this case, he knows that the police have been looking at him. they've searched his car. the other night, they searched his apartment while he was there. so they obviously had an initial encounter with him of some sort while there were other people there. so he's known from that time at least that he's at least on a high list of people that the people are interested in talking to and getting more information from. >> take us behind the scenes. what do you think law enforcement is doing right now? they seem to be frustrated. they may be thinking a little bit further ahead than the local prosecutors who say there's not enough in evidence to arrest anyone yet. >> the problem is that for jesse matthew to be walking down the street with her isn't a crime. for them to go into that

tom fuentes is with us now, former deputy director of the fbi. tom, a few angles i want to cover you here. first the u.s. government and now the british government have not been able to save these hostages' lives. why is this group so tough to deal with unlike other hostage taking groups like al nusra? >> al nusra is a much milder version of extremism, i guess is the best way to put it, and i think al nusra wanted to separate themselves from isis by releasing the hostage, peter curtis, a couple weeks ago. from isis' perspective, they want to do the horrific killings. they don't want to negotiate. they don't want to have this be resolved. they don't want to look weak. the more horrific the killings are, the better it helps their recruiting, what they're trying to accomplish on a worldwide basis. they have no desire to resolve these issues and, you know, you have the example of the mothers sending impassioned pleas to them on humanitarian grounds. on muslim grounds. citing, you know, citing the faith as to why isi s shouldn't kill their sons. they e

. >> tom fuentes? >> yes, it must be, otherwise how could all these groups take the name of islam to become violent and do what they do? they're the ones that call themselves islamists. they're the ones that, you know, isis calling themselves the islamic state. we didn't pin that name on them. we didn't say you're the non-christian, the nonbuddhist, the nonhindu, the nonsikh. they said we're the islamist states. they're interpreting the teachings of the prophet, the teachings of the koran, and they're twisting it. they're putting it on it. but the fundamental basis is that they're calling themselves islam and cutting people's heads off. >> go ahead, mr. iftekhar. >> first of all, i find it absolutely astounding that a former assistant director of the fbi would say that islam a more violent religion than most other religions. if you look at the lord's resistance army and joseph coney that was made famous in the coney 2012 campaign, that is a christianist organization. you look at christian extremist org

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tom fuentes, when you talk about al-fadhli guy, part of khorasan, 9/11 operative.'t think a 9/11 incident was possible now? >> don, the international financing, coordination, command and control that is required for a major coordinated attack, that requires specialized training for, for, man of the terrorists involved in it such as how to fly the plane into a building. when bin laden was killed in pakistan. by following a currier back to him. he was trying to run it by currier. you can't conduct a global tear railroad attack by pony express in the modern air rachlt you neyou -- modern air rachera. that's why now they're willing to settle for the lone wolf and give us that death by 1,000 cuts. and the other advantage to that strategy, is that, it makes people vulnerable in the heartland. instead of just new york city -- just washington, d.c. you can be anywhere and the guy next door can turn into a jihadist, and, blow up the bus stop. or the cafeteria. and it only kills, two, three, four people. how tolerant are we going to be of that. just look at rest of the fbi l

joining me to talk about this, law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, fbi assistant director. hanks for being with us. we hear the governor say use common sense. we know they've closed schools but i've also heard from law enforcement personnel over the past 24 hours that they believe that this man is really mostly a threat cocops. to law enforcement. and regular citizens don't have to worry as much because they say if eric frein wanted to kill regular people he would have already. >> i don't know that i buy that, john, you need to warn everybody and keep that warning up for the public as well. we're talking about somebody if it's true they're closing in which they believe and by finding the ak-47 and some other material they believe they have gotten closer to him, he's a cornered animal. he's a killer. he's murdered a police officer but he has nothing to lose so what's to stop him from doing a home invasion and taking a family hostage? to seek shelter, food, water, electricity. if he wants to power some equipment or doing a carjacking and taking a family or a person hostage to

our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes joins us. we know that community right now is reeling. errified, they don't know if this man is still among them. they don't know if he's hidden in the woods somewhere. tom, of course, we know given your time with the fbi you have seen cases like this before. we also know there's been a bit of a description of this guy, heavy smoker, a weapons enthusiast, a survivalist, that he has a grudge against law enforcement. give us an idea about what stands out to you the most about this guy and the danger he poses to this community. >> michaela, i think the biggest thing that stands out to me is that he planned that ambush of the police officers at the state police barracks, at their shift change. so he hid himself in the woods nearby, waited for the change, the officers come and he shoots and kills one and severely wounds the second officer and i think it wasn't a spontaneous spontaneous act that he pulled over for a traffic stop and decided to kill the officer who approached his car. this was a planned out assassination assassination of a police

joining me now is tom fuentes. 's the cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. tom, great to have you here. i just want to say the victims' names again. brendon tevlin, who was is the years old, weighs shot in cold blood in new jersey. ahmed sa jeed, 27 years old. dewan anderson young, 23 years young. and leroy henderson, 30 years old. they were in the seattle area. if this suspect says he was doing this out of vengeance for the killing that's going on in iraq, syria, and afghanistan, why aren't prosecutors charging him with terrorism? >> hi, alisyn. well, i think the important thing here is whether the prosecutors could prove that that was his intent at the time he did the killings. had he expressed that kind of attitude and desire to kill people on behalf of jihad before he killed them, whether it was to co-workers or friends, neighbors, family members, social media, e-mails, telephone calls, is this an idea that he had already put out and was pretty clear that that would be his intent? or is

tom fuentes is a cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. rning, carol. >> so this survivalist group frein belonged to, we don't know the name of it, but we do know participants pretended they were eastern european soldiers during the cold war. they didn't use real guns. what do you make of this? >> well, strictly speaking, they may not be what you would call survivalist groups. survivalist groups a are usually anti-federal government, they're planning for armageddon or the takeover of the government and the ability to survive in the woods or in a shelter or if a long period of time without electricity, without additional food or water, that would be stockpiled or live off the land if they're capable. so that's a little bit different than these reenactment group, typically. and here in the washington, d.c. area we have civil war reenactment groups that reenact the bats of bull run and gettysburg. in those reenactments they're carrying black powder weapons with blanks from civil war technology. in these modern groups, they're carrying -- you s

let's bring in cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, and joining us as well, peter brooks, also a fellow at heritage foundation. tom, i want to getspectives on . you have the prime minister of iraq saying one thing, that there is this threat from isis which generally we haven't even conceived of to be threatening the u.s. homeland certainly imminently. are these just signals getting crossed? what's going on here? >> the only cross here is the iraqi prime minister not knowing what he's talking about because nobody in iraq has heard of this, no one at the u.s. embassy which is staffed fully with fbi, cia, the ambassador, the deputy chiefs of mission, the defense atta attashes. nothing, our allies have heard a thing, including the fbi, cia and entire infrastructure of the u.s. he more or less retracted it later. it really was a thing he shouldn't have said, and having said it, he tried to undo it, but no one's been able to put the genie back in the bottle. >> what is it? some people have said this may have been raw intel he was getting from isis fighters captured in iraq, but it migh

our law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes, is with us. you think about that, tom, that he not only gets up the stairs at the north portico, runs into the lobby there, if you will, but also at the same time manages to get all the way into the east room. he's armeded with a knife. the secret service didn't know it at the time. he has a lot of rounds of ammunition in his vehicle. this is amazing when you think about it. >> this story is incredible if it turns out to be true. so many layers of security were breached ant didn't work as they should have worked that night. first of all, a lot of people have breached the fence, jumped over it and ran across the yard. that's not an uncommon occurrence. but the dog's not released, the officers don't run close to intercept him in the grass. then he gets to the door. he gets through the door. and we're told originally that he's stopped at the door. then we find out he's run all around on the first floor of the white house, the main floor, and that the red alarm button that they have for the officer to

let's get more now with cnn's don lemon, john gaskin of the naacp and our law enforcement analyst tom fuentesjohn, to you first. we talked so much over the past several weeks what happened in ferguson. what's your reaction to chief thomas jackson apologizing? >> well, i'll say this much, it is good that he's apologized. the family deserves that. the community deserves that. to be quite frank with you, the world deserves that. but we've got some concerns about that apology, as some of the people on the ground mentioned, actions speak louder than words. but you know, to prerecord this type of apology, something like that, to prerecord it, to have it done by really a pr group or pr firm, to have the pr firm's logo flashing in the video is almost though it's a production is concerning to us. it almost questions the sincerity of it to an extent. we, i hope that he has reached out personally to ms. mcfadden and michael brown's family, to go to them personally and apologize. and i hope he's apologized to many of those protesters in ferguson that have had their rights infringed upon that have had to

the naacp board member john gaston, the missouri state senator and our law enforcement analyst tom fuentesformer assistant director of the fbi. john, what do you make of this? i know the naacp is very upset about this four hours which that body was allowed to remain on that street. >> well, mr. blitzer, literally hours after the shooting, we spoke with st. louis county police chief john bellmer and we were very concerned because the body did lay there for a number of hours. you only have one chance to comb that area and to get all the evidence that you need that the grand jury will potentially need. and we understand that. here's the other side of this that we want to take a look at. you're looking at an unarmed teenager, black man that was killed in an african-american area by a caucasian cop. you've got an area that was very upset. this is already a very sensitive situation where you have people that are getting -- that got very angry about this. you would think that local law enforcement would be as sensitive as possible, would get that body covered up, get the information that they nee

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. >> joining us now, law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. i want to get your initial thoughts on what happened in ferguson and st. louis. >> i think the ferguson incident first, they believe it's completely unrelated to the protests. this is just police officers doing police work. and it's a dangerous line of work. sometimes this happens. individuals turn and fire on an officer who is not initiated a violent act against them but it just happens. fortunately, it doesn't look like that's escalated out of control and they were able to keep a lid on it. i do think that there was a great deal of that frustration and disrespect both when you see captain johnson trying to -- trying to disperse the crowd and they don't want to hear it. they don't want to hear what even he had to say. and no police officer has been more reasonable and more peaceful and more respectful of people in the street protesting than captain johnson. whether they start to turn on him, i think that -- i hope that is just an isolated situation for him last night and that doesn't

. >> yes, digging deeper now, with the deputy director, tom fuente.cting in some kind of military simulation role as police believe he is, it certainly seems he may be looking to engage in combat or with officers searching for him. >> yeah, that may be the possibility. anderson, this is just the beginning, he ambushed the two officers using the .308 sniper hunting rifle he used, he can kill officers from far away, where the victim actually gets hit with the bullet before the sound even gets there. so he could have shot these two officers before they ever knew what hit them, wounding one, killing the other. so that is a very dangerous scenario. the ak-47, if he is doing cold war reenactments. the cankalishnakov, the weapon terrorists, if that is a semiautomatic or maybe he converted it back to being a fully automatic weapon. that is dangerous. we don't know the number of magazines he has, what capacity he has for the sustained gun battle. but just the fact he can kill from a long way off makes him very, very dangerous. >> and the state police in pennsy

he's one of our cnn -- tom fuentes is our law enforcement analyst. ing to take a while for the u.s. law enforcement community, the united states, to find the killers of steven sotloff. >> that's right, wolf. it's going to be very difficult because, you know, to be able on go with these killers are, whatever camp location they have in syria, where they're protected and they've established enough of well own soldiers around them to protect them. it will be difficult to on penetrate that to even identify who exactly did it, gather the evidence and determine well location and figure out how they can be arrested later if that's at all possible. >> just give me your reaction to what you just heard from this spokesman for the family? >> i just think it is so sad, and you know, the families are showing their sons that have gone over to report the stories are humane, caring, compassionate people who want the world to know what's going on, who's being oppressed whether it's the bashar al assad, whoever it might be that's doing harm to other people, they want to

jeffrey toobin is with us and law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi how common is it for a month later for new video to surface like this? >> i think it's a little bit long as far as o video to come out by know and the whole video, you know, it may be this is hidden or already given it to the authorities a while back and come forward but it has been a long time for this suddenly now to come out publicly and for them to i assume it was them that wanted this to be in the hands of the media and shown on television. >> we don't know, jeffrey, if there's other videotapes that may be out there, audio recordings, the law enforcement authorities may have that. they haven't been released to the public, right? >> absolutely. the authorities are under no obligation to disclose what evidence they receive. in fact, it's their practice not to disclose it. it certainly is of no benefit to them. as for this tape, i don't really think it's significant that it's been a while since the crime. the video speaks for -- if it's a crime i should add that. the -- the video sp

erin mcpike is live in the white house and tom fuentes is in our washington bureau. two incidents and the two suspects in custody? >> reporter: it is the 42-year-old man from texas. he was on active dutyn

let's get more perspective on this from tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi and most importantlyu actually ran the fbi program that is in charge of personnel recovery or would be in charge of recovering people like jim foley. you hear this claim from diane foley where she's saying her family was threatened with criminal action if they were to try to raise a ransom. i think some people have even talked in certain cases about almost -- i don't want to say crowd funding but trying to fund-raise from other places to do this. when you hear that, what is your thought? is that possible that it came from the fbi? >> no, my thought was that possibly the policy changed from the time i left because when i was there, it was the policy of the fbi to not interfere. if a family wanted to pay the ransom or raise ransom money, they could do so and the fbi would not obstruct it. it took a neutral position with the family with regard to that. now, we know it's u.s. government policy to not pay ransom. but that's different for the family. they can pay it if they want to or are able to. so i checked

we want to get more now on the hannah graham case with cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, formering us is journalist cory barefoot. you wrote a very detailed report, a great report focusing on jesse matthew, or l.j. as he is own. you interviewed his acquaintances before he was seen with hannah graham. explain what they said to you about his behavior, because he had a run-in with a man and also appeared to be harassing some women, right? >> that's right. made an effort to talk to a number of people who were eyewitnesss that night to the events that took place in the couple of hours leading up to her disappearance. i spoke with people who were partying with mr. matthew that night. i spoke with people who were in tempo, and they described his behavior as disturbing, erratic, aggressive. he was constantly tracking these women around the bar, touching their hair, touching their back, touching their legs. and one of the young women with whom i spoke told me that she had to tell him, keep your "f"-ing hands off me. that took place just about an hour before he ran into hannah hear on the

as we harrod tom fuentes say earlier.ng to be seeing some of the after-effects of the bombing against the khorasan group. that's what you see, not just file footage. after-effects of people on the ground looking through what happened after these attacks in northwestern syria, around aleppo against a group called khorasan. they're seen as this all-star team of al qaeda. the reason given by the united states for these united states-only attacks, the coalition not involved here, was because of what they saw was imminent threat or imminent threat plotting against the u.s. and again, this idea of, the u.s. couldn't have done this before, because there was no mandate to go into syria. so now that that has been broached and it's okay to be there. who knows what they'll do. >> the effects of going into syria are huge. this really starts shaping the operations for future operations, even though we can't get boots on the ground. being able to cross the red line is huge for us, especially for u.s. and the other coalition partners. >

cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes explains why they acted the way they did. >> certainly the white house people could have shot him dead long before he got to the door and used their judgment that it didn't look like an attack, it looked like a deranged person. so i think that the other concern would be if they start shooting at a running subject like that, the bullets would be going, you know, into the tourists that are out on the sidewalk surrounding the white house. i think they used the right judgment, the right amount of restraint. >> the intruder is set to appear before a u.s. magistrate on monday. >>> we'll have the latest on the search in the u.s. for a man suspected of murdering a state trooper when we come back. that search taking place in pennsylvania. >>> also ahead, the terror attack that changed kenya. the first anniversary of the horrific westgate mall terrorist activity. we'll look back one year on in a moment. and whitens with 3x the stain lifting ingredient... ...for a smile that dazzles. only from crest 3d white. >>> political gridlock is apparently over in afgha

joining us now to discuss john of the naacp, don lemon and our cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentessistant director of the fbi. what's been the reaction there in missouri, john gasket? how important is this civil rights probe, for example, for african-americans on the scene? >> well, as i've spoken with the local naacp leadership here, this is long overdue. many people feel finally our cries have been answered. people feel that now that this is getting national attention finally some light is going to be shed on issues that were taking place for decades. not just in the city of ferguson, but within other neighboring municipal. this is a big problem and it needs to be addressed and a small victory efor the naacp since day one. we have been asking for the justice department and the civil rights division to come in and take a clear look at this and evaluate what has been taking place. the attorney general in the meeting that we had with him when he was in st. louis mentioned that he was taking a look at it and this just goes to show that he's about action and not just talk. he's got to

louis county alderman, antonio french along with our cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and cnnal analyst jeffrey toobin. antonio, what do you make of this report? what's been the reaction that the police officer spent four hours before that grand jury? >> yeah. and so first people were already shocked and arc alarmed that the period of the grand jury had beeneccen itted into last year and to hear that officer wilson had a chance to present his side of the story for four hours yesterday, people were just very anxious right now. we have what we call a fragile piece and people are looking for a resolution and an arrest and indictment pretty soon. >> but isn't it it fair to allow the police officer it to try to make his case? what would be wrong with that? >> well, with the the evidence that we've seen so far in public especially with the six witnesses so far, folks believe that well is enough evidence to warrant an arrest which does not mean there is a guilt implied there, but at least a trial, in a public trial, an opportunity for everyone to publicly see the information. this gr

i hope so tom fuentes, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >>> today, president obama and his top diplomat, john kerry, will press forward on the administration's strategy in washington and beyond. the president in tampa, florida, will meet with people in charge of planning the military operation against isis. the meantime, kerry will be on capitol hill this afternoon to testify before the senate foreign relations committee. our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta, joins me now with more on this. good morning, jim. >> good morning, carol. that's rightful, president obama is in tampa to hear from u.s. central command leaders coordinating the fight against isis, as he arrived in florida last night the white house was busy clarifying some surprising statements from joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey on whether there it would be u.s. combat troops fighting against isis in iraq. he told a senate hearing yesterday not the plan but at the moment, he added, if i found that circumstance evolving, i works of course, change my recommendation and when asked about that,

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well, nick valencia, tom fuentes, thank you very much.erence coming up, perhaps then authorities will have a little bit more information, either as to the status of the injured officer, as well as perhaps the person or people that they're looking for. >>> and we turn to the nfl. he was a star and he seemed to have it all. baltimore ravens number 27, ray rice. but after that video of him punching his wife in an elevator went absolutely viral, his world is now falling apart. cnn's alexandra steel reports on how two minutes changed absolutely everything. >> reporter: at 27 years old, number 27 had it all and he knew it. >> when i got called for the ravens, it was the best day of my life. you know, i knew my mom's situation would be different. i knew my living situation would be different. >> reporter: a high school football standout, a college record smasher. ray rice made it to the nfl with a team of supporters, who were blindsided by what happened behind closed elevator doors. >> we love ray, so we have a tendency to hear what we want to h

. >> with me now here in "the situation room," cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes.ng to recreate hannah's steps that evening. >> okay. >> this is charlottesville. the campus is right over here of she started that evening at her apartment right here, then she went to a friend's apartment for dinner and drinks. she was seen at mcgrade's pub sb intoxicated at 12:46 a.m., then caught on camera here at sal's pizza, then seen on a camera here at the jewellers. this is her walking with someone who authorities believe to be jesse matthew. and then after that, there is another man walking behind who later got in touch with police, even before this video came out. but what sort of is fascinating about all of this is that in the end, she ends up toward the end of her journey that evening, she's at 1:08 a.m. at the tempo bar where she's seen with matthew, who leaves in a car right here, and then it is 12 minutes later where she is here and sends a text saying that she is lost near this area. what to you make of this? this is a 25-minute walk, but 12 minutes later when this text

let's do analysis and bring in tom fuentes, cnn analyst. and let's deal with the news, the issue, the potential solution. so they're chasing this guy through the house, the door sun locked, the alarm is on mute. he knock throughs one of the guys, they need basically a whole team to take him on. the explanation is -- well the rings of security broke down. >> it sounds like something that you would have as a worst-case scenario when teaching. what is your take on how this could have happened? >> i don't know, chris. you're right this is a terrible occurrence, for the secret service, and do you have so many things break down. and you start right at the beginning, all these years, we have people jumping over the fence on a monthly basis, that hasn't been fixed. they can fix it so it meets the specifications of the pennsylvania avenue beautification committee. or whoever controls that. he does the 100-yard dash across the lawn. and whoever supposed to release the dog, doesn't, we don't know where the dog is we don't know how many dogs they have

. >> let's talk about this with cnn analyst and former fbi director tom fuentes. thank you.do you believe it's an isis copycat attack? >> i think it's too early to tell at this point. i agree with phil mudd. we don't know, do we have a jihadist, or a garden variety psychopath who has these tendencies and then saw the videos that we've seen from isis and heard about the attempt bead headings like in australia, their case and the recent beheading in algeria, so we don't know but it's very, very possible. especially when we hear reports from witnesses and employees at the company that he was trying to convert other employees to islam. the fbi is going to have to, in addition to his social media pages, check e-mail, interview all other colleagues, friends, neighbors, people who have known him over the years to see if this is the possibility that he converted and suddenly decided that he was going to do this for the as you of isis. >> yeah, we know that he is in the hospital in sedation, in stable condition. but once he awakens, they'll be questioning him. what leeway do they hav

here to break this down, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director and patrick skinner, former cia caser of special projects for the suffin group. tom, i want to start with you here. i want you to explain to people what are the specific environmental threats facing britain right now. how does britain see things differently than the united states, tom? >> john, they see it differently because it is different for them. united states has maybe 100 people or slightly more that have traveled to join isis and syria in iraq and some of them have thankfully, i guess you could almost say, made that a one-way trip. so that reduces the fact that they're going to come back here and attack us at home. but for britain, they have more than 500 of their citizens that they know of that have traveled there. they don't have the resources that we have. in the past when i worked with them, they said they'd be lucky if they had enough resources to cover 20 or 30 small groups of terrorists. we saw an example of that in july of 2005 when they had looked at the group and didn't have the ability to keep them cov

tom fuentes, bobby ghosh, thank you for helping us understand the situation. because as we learn how effective the strikes were against the khorasan group in syria, that will impact what the threat is as home as well. >>> the man who is in control of this situation, ostensibly is president obama. and he is trying to extend the coalition. warning arab nations that air strikes on extremist groups in syria and iraq could go on for years, they should be part of the situation, we're going to break down what he says the mission is and the possible repercussions, joined on "new day," by secretary of state john kerry, the man at the center of this for an exclusive interview and we'll speak with pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kishy. he'll tell us how effective the attacks were and josh earnest and former secretary of state madeline albright, we have all the good guys talking about what should happen them, former nato high commander general wesley clark. plus, exactly what did we target. why as it so quiet overnight? what does that mean? we'll get answers right a

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i guarantee you. >> hopefully that's more than optimism, evan perez, philip mudd, tom fuentes, thankntlemen. >> thanks. >>> we have been talking to you this morning and talk to you again because it need your attention. stunning video raising questions out of south carolina, a state trooper shooting an unarmed black man during a traffic stop, should have been routine. could argue the man was only following the directions of the trooper. we'll show you what happened. will you stye. >>> in ferguson, site of another police shooting, the chief gives an apology, tries to march with demonstrators and this happens. you're looking at it right now, what set people off, what did he say in his apology and what's going to happen next? michael brown shooting still very much a controversy there. stay with us. osophy is, reynold? no. not exactly. to attain success, one must project success. that's why we use fedex one rate. their flat rate shipping. exactly. it makes us look top-notch but we know it's affordable. [ garage door opening ] [ sighs ] honey, haven't i asked you to please use the -- we do

tom fuentes is with us, jeffrey toobin is here as well. what did you make of the police chief, what he said? they went do this house early in the morning, three men were there. they questioned the so-called person of interest. he repeatedly described him as a black man with dreadlocks, 6'2", 270 pounds, but they said that the lawyers, the prosecutors, they didn't have enough evidence to go ahead and arrest him. >> i have to admit, i'm confused by this whole thing. they've taken the car into custody, presumably to do a forensic search on him. they were talking to the person of interest at the apartment last night. if they let him go, do they keep him under surveillance? do they have some close watch on him? do they know right now where he's at and how to get ahold of him if they find evidence that's important in the search of that vehicle? i just don't understand really all of the dynamics. >> certainly haven't found enough evidence to go ahead and arrest this individual. >> apparently the local prosecutor doesn't think so. you certainly go

. >>> now joining us, fran thompson and tom fuentes.ere homeland security adviser to president bush. fran, walk us through the impact. now not one, but two gruesome beheading videos. killing, murder of to two americans now. what is the likely impact on the president of the united states? >> well, offo obviously, wolf, the white house is feeling additional pressure. every time something like this happens. but this should have been expected, right? once they saw the execution of foley and the threat against sotloff, it was clearly unfortunately coming. now you have the threat against a british citizen. the colonel is quite right. what you hope is going on is military planning. is there intelligence that allows the opportunity to plan a tactical military operation but that becomes much harder because the white house did confirm there was a failed russ cue attempt against foley. and that was, you know, at the time, when the white house confirmed that, there was a lot of criticism and this is why. because in this situation, where you hope th

let's get more from tom fuentes.istant director and as well democratic attorney state senator maria chappelle. give us a sense of how these body cameras work and how common these are. >> they're becoming so. i think it's very similar to the dashboard cameras in police cars and originally when these devices were being proposed for law enforcement, a lot of uniformed police officers thought we don't want this. we don't want people watching every move we make, misconstruing that. now they're starting to realize, i think, gradually that there's been a tipping point to where they want people to see what they go through and that they would like their communities to know that it is just about an impossible job. it's not just the minority communities or african-americans or hispanic or asian. a uniformed officer, a cop, i did it for 6 1/2 years before i was in the bureau, you can't believe how big of a jerk, family audience here, people are. i don't care if they're a ceo of a fortune 500 company or a family, when they're on

. >> let's get more now with jeffrey toobin, tom fuentes and patricia byne. your reaction to this st. louis dispatch witness account that officer wilson fired at brown while he was running away and then when he turned around he was shot multiple times? >> first, i'm glad that more people are -- more witnesses are coming forward with giving their accounts of what they've seen. we really just want the truth to come out. this really corroborates the other witness statements that said they have seen the same thing. even what gives it more credibility is that he's not from the area. so it lends a voice to say this is what happened in this case. >> is that true, jeffrey? so because this is someone who is not from the area, there may be more credibility? >> there might be. but i really think it's important that we give the investigators time to assimilate all the information. if this is the only witness and if this witness is born out to be true, this sounds like cold blooded murder. but there are other witnesses, there are scientific tests that need to be done. it

first thing, this man that we're talking about right now, an american, tom fuentes, let's start with you. what is the relevance that he is a syrian and u.s. citizen and may be behind social media? why does it matter more that he's america? >> just the fact that he would have known our country so well, grown up and gone to college here, fluent english and fluent arabic, a major in computer technology and telecommunications so that gives them the ability to use his skills for marketing and recruiting of americans. >> a quick follow on that. how important, tom, is propaganda on social media to terror these days? >> well, it's terrifically important. that's how they recruiting hundreds of people if not thousands from all over the world to travel there and join the fight, join isis, and in his case being a dual citizen with u.s. and syria it was no problem for him to go to syria and fit right in in both cultures, in the u.s. and in syria. >> so two pieces of news this morning. the first is that this american really goes to how they may be recruiting, this terror group, and how they may be