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Operations, homeland security, 35 years of experience in working in terrorism and counterterrorism. malcolm, i almost made you a terrorist. that would have been a shame given your career. are we lucky most of these guys are just amateurs? >> yes, were very lucky theyre amateurs. lets just take a look at todays case. he built this five-inch pipe bomb, apparently didnt do the chemicals right to our benefit. and for the most part he just went up and thought this thing up. of course new york city po...

Here, a mental defect here, because it is nothing like some of the plots that weve seen before, where at least the devices were competently built, they were tested ahead of time, and some planning and forethought went into their missions. >> all of which is why we invite malcolm nance to join us on a night like this after a day like this here in new york. malcolm, cant thank you enough. >> its my pleasure. >> and coming up after our final break, you can call it a blast from the past. back in the...

Actually see, youre probably going to find that people who were around him knew that he had these -- this anger towards the issues that he claims he represented isis for. but may not have actually enunciated that he was a member of isis. that being said, you know, you can never predict whats inside a persons mind. they can just go ahead, think up a plot, get the materials, and do it. and the crudeness of this device tells me theres a mental factor here, a mental defect here, because it is nothin...

Terrorist attempted to blow himself up in the new york city subway and only partially succeeded. he apparently secured a pipe from a job site, assembled a makeshift bomb at home, attached it to himself with velcro and zip ties. surveillance video shows him detonating it. the bomber is hospitalized with burns. he received the worst of it. you might say by design. three other people were injured but did not require hospital stays. it happened during morning rush beneath the port authority terminal...

27-year-old, akayed ullah, a legal permanent resident with a green card. immigrated from bangladesh in 2011. he told police he was motivated by u.s. bombings in isis-controlled territory. he had not been on law enforcements radar prior to this incident. his brooklyn neighbors, by the way, told "the new york post" he was aloof, weird, and always angry and there was a loud fight in his residence just last night. with us this evening, malcolm nas, veteran of naval intelligence, sperpg v special ope...