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Traveling between libya and europe in the weeks and days before the attack. this is a surveillance photo of the suspect in the days before the bombing. authorities say this is salman abedi. the author of enemies foreign and domestic a seals story carl higbie. neighbors and imam were concerned. apparently a recruiter had been operating out of this area and bringing in a lot of disaffected young people from this neighborhood. why wasnt it caught? >> im the first person to hit the islamic community...

>> in addition to the conversation, the whole paradigm of law enforcement has toce change. we know that the imam from this mans mosque and his neighbors spoke out -- we know hes been to the two countries, libya and syria that are the strongholds of the islamic state and his brother is an member ofli the islamic state. this is a redo of the boston bombers. law enforcement has to now change their paradigm as to what they are going to look at. you have to follow social media. >> sean: one last poin...

They say manchester will not be divided by this terror attack. that they remain united and strong here. >> rick levinthal, thank you. for more on this, eric sackobeck, author of isis exposed. were getting reports that there are those who had concerns, from family members to neighbors, and yet nobody says anything until after its over. what burden do the rest of us bear in making sure this kind of thing doesnt happen in our own community? >> shannon, this is a great point. one of the things that ...

You dont have that happening in europe in the same way. they are seen as other in europe. they are not seen as french or belgian or british. and thats a big problem for their society is that they are not -- they dont have the tradition of the melting pot that we do. that causes a great deal of alienation and they dont have the security structures we do as well. >> shannon: overseas talking about where this young man was living there was a neighborhood with other people who were libyan directly f...

The underbelly of which we need to have a revolution against political islam. islamism. this separatist ideology. every time we hear whether it was the boston bombers, the intersan bernardino killers. he 150e78d like a normal man. quiet and religion. his mother taught quran. we need to wake up. we have a problem. the problem is theocratic islamism. brian: but this guy evidently was not hiding in the woodwork. his imam at the mosque said every time he would ridicule isis this guy would look at hi...

Former navy seal rob oneill. we have so much hindsight with these cases. we know his parents were concerned. the imam and mosque was concerned. there are neighbors coming out saying he was chanting in the streets. he was flying an islam flag over his home. why do we hear about these things afterwards and not before? >> people are worried about getting labeled. people in the muslims are worried about safety and the parents who are libyan moved back to libya, took the passport away from this guy. ...

>> that tends to be controversial when you engage with the imam. he can bypass the embalming going to them neighbors themselves and develop relationships with the local policing and demonstrate that this is not a police force that used muslim community in these countries is an adversarial group. to ensure that people that you think of the name of islam dont get the whole group of that name. its so important to engage. the reason we were able to defeat al qaeda in iraq is because we did exactly t...

This imam gave a speech against isis and the terrorist was there and he wouldnt greet him as they passed each other because he was mad because he gave an anti-isis speech. the neighbors seeing him with the prayer in the streets. one god mohammed yelling in the streets and hanging the flags. you see a lot of people hang flags from their country because theyre proud of it. this guy was doing stuff that was crazy but nobody wanted to say anything out of fear or being labeled. thats an issue. even -...

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Happen. [laughter] this is called a bar fight. >> donald trump has been the cause of many of the rise of islamophobia. anti-semitism as well. but im or very sad, but im very happy also. why? because i truly wanted to see a connection between these two great religions. he is going to saudi arabia, going to israel, going to rome. i think these religions must be on the front lines -- greg: great response. quickly, rabbi -- let me just get -- >> sorry. greg: i think, imam, when you conflate trumps r...