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Begin plotting attacks? >> yeah. al qaeda has been established in afghanistan. in 2015, the u.s. raided a -- one of the largest bases its seen since it launched the war on terror in kandahar province and killed 150 al qaeda operatives. the release of these prisoners. this is a boom for jihadism. some of them are islamic state but most of them are al qaeda and affiliated groups and i am told that members of -- and it makes sense because we know we detain them. but of the external operation cells,...

Assumption for a couple reasons. the potential targets would have been, if anything, more tragic than what we witnessed a few weeks ago. targets that included transportation. the same targets that al qaeda hit in london and madrid ten years ago. those would have been reinforcing security services worldwide that isis was trying to reach the level that al qaeda reached when it tried to shut down transportation with attacks against aircraft and metros back in the heyday of isis. the other thing id ...

That have operational control of -- those drug cartels that have operational control of a substantial amount of that border. >> greta: are the cartels in mexico? >> shrrpbly, also in dallas -- >> greta: i meant texas. >> they are -- we are starting to see them as operation cells in these cities. one of the reasons im so upset, frustrated with the department of homeland security. grants that should be coming to the states to assist with this type of border security. and they are cutting them, rat...