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Politics may affect our law enforcement agencies. there is nothing political about protecting ourselves. i wonder if law enforcement agencies in cities around the country, do they feel like they have the support and the attention on what they need to protect their cities and citizens? >> i can speak from the experience of new york city the last through years during my time as commissioner. we worked extensively to ensure transparency between our respective organizations. federal agencies, new yo...

Obviously if history doesnt repeat itself, it often rhymes. is there going to be a pre-9/11, post paris? >> i want to go as far as to say preand post paris world. but, yes, i absolutely think this is going to have tremendous repercussions throughout europe and the u.s. we are already seeing tightening of security precautions in those cities as well as the united states. when we also look a at this, we have not only the physical systemic effects of tightening of security, different resources bein...

Pre- 9/11 mind-set again. your thoughts? >> i was also a big fan of merkel from germany. im not a fan any more. what shes doing is insane. and we want to take in 200,000, and we dont know where they come from, they have no papers. all we know is theyre young and theyre strong and theyre mostly men. and this could be the greatest trojan horse ever. this could be bigger than the original trojan horse. we shouldnt be taking anybody. we have enough problems. we have to rebuild our country, our infra...

Pre- 9/11 mind-set again. your thoughts? >> i was also a big fan of merkel from germany. im not a fan any more. what shes doing is insane. and we want to take in 200,000, and we dont know where they come from, they have no papers. all we know is theyre young and theyre strong and theyre mostly men. and this could be the greatest trojan horse ever. this could be bigger than the original trojan horse. we shouldnt be taking anybody. we have enough problems. we have to rebuild our country, our infra...

Even if you had the same views that you did now, you wont do it in nine months. if hes elected the same time bush is. but it goes to his broader critique. the immigration system has been broken forever in this country. we suffered a catastrophic attack on our shores partly because of the and its still not fixed. >> let me add one other thing. if you see whats happening in europe right now, theres such a backlash especially to the syrian, iraqi migrant refugee crisis. that same political sentimen...

D.o.d. has sent those armed peace keepers and trainers to cameroon. to say nothing of the reemergence of al qaeda. you would think all those things happening in afghanistan that the white house, president, might rethink the decision to draw down from u.s. force levels. doesnt look like that will be the case. listen to josh ernest today. >> it continues to be important. theres no denying that the risk thats posed by those terrorist elements inside of afghanistan is significantly lower than the ri...

Now, lets look at question number five. after eight years of war and 4500 u.s. combat deaths in iraq, its easy to see why some americans are not eager to go back. maybe you think not our problem or to put it even bolder, why should the united states care? lets bring in eli lake, senior national security correspondent for the daily beast. also terrorism expert robert mcfadden and former special agent with the naval criminal investigative service. thank you to both of you again. eli, lets start wi...

Afghanistan is not the safe haven that it was. is the biggest terrorism threat in the world to the united states sitting now in syria? >> absolutely. in my view, syria is almost as bad as afghanistan was pr pre- 9/11. we have as many americans who have traveled to syria to fight with the opposition than we ever saw go to pakistan, afghanistan -- >> this is what makes it difficult. when you say afghanistan, im thinking afghanistan 1988, which is theyre fighting on the side that americas on, oddly...

Afghanistan training camps there pre- 9/11 and indeed the so called pilot in this case had never fully trained as a pilot. although this information is coming out in the public domain now and may seem to imply that the group in malaysia may have been responsible for this, it was all tied up over ten years ago and thats why it could be removed from the what could bes, jake. >> nic, thank you so much. the 2001 hijack plot is one of several leads that investigators have been chasing to figure out...

People in syria now are thinking about attacking the united states. what hes saying is syria has the potential to return to a pre- 9/11 afghanistan. any number of things have happened in the last couple of weeks that have made john kerry really, really worried about syria and worried that our response is not strong enough. >> the concern from the obama administration is then, okay, what do you do? the last thing that they want to do and the last thing that you could get congress to do would be t...