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Im back now to talk with our guest. joining me noe now is benjamin haidad, rick francona. i wonder if you heard the last conversation, julia, between my two guests and whether or not the threat against muslim necessary this country, whether its real or i think he said whining. >> well, you know, no one has a monopoly on what will make america safe and secure. so i just want to give you my opinion from the security perspective. which is if you compare the united states to europe, the one thing th...

Sense of who is coming in. but youre never going to get that risk to zero because so many people are undocumented. what youre going to see the europeans do, certainly what the united states has done in the past, is try to get familial verification, is there anyone else in europe that can vouch for these syrians, any family members. theres large middle eastern populations throughout europe. we certainly do that here in the united states. but it is never-yurs never going to make that risk zero and...

Venue in a cosmopolitan area of france knowing that a lot of expia expats would be there. >> you know the french authorities are doing this. and that led to the closing of the borders. you have a bomb maker out there. getting these folks to martyr themselves and well likely see their martyr videos released in the next few days is a process. you dont just show up and say lets strap it up and go and have the event. this is a process. its a psychological process and radicalization process. and then...

Attention now to it a lot of other details. for example, you know, the radicalization process. many people are going to ask how is this happening? this is going to be a cultural shock in france. >> many people are going to be asking and they already are, how could an attack this sophisticated, this coordinated involving this many people, how could it have escapedcz the notice of authorities, intelligence authorities? >> let me share what i heard last night when i spoke with some of the analysts ...

In a lot of videos of the killing of americans, because of his fluent english, because of his english accent, he garnered a lot of following among jihadists online. his father at the time when his identity was revealed, really disowned him, came out and spoke against what he was doing, and that put his father in the spotlight in critical ways in terms of what his sons radicalization process was, in terms of what lhe endured, from how he became this individual living in a western society, to bein...

Technologies together. were not merging people who travel overseas against people who use social media to communicate with these groups. were not matching up people like youre suggesting who have relatives associated with maybe an investigation with these individuals who maybe, you know, offspring of them. >> are we kidding ourselves? do we have any shot at stopping domestic terror lone wolves whatever you call them? >> you can increase your chances of intercepting it by building partners within...

People using social media to communicate with groups. were not matching up relatives in these investigations and offspring of them. >> do we have shot of stopping domestic terrorism? >> you cant eliminate it. you can build partners to provide you with the information you need. we need a public to identify extremism beyond picking up a gun going to shoot someone. we have to face the reality this radicalization process happens very quickly. you have to defeat this group overseas. isis success over...

I think there are other steps that we should take as well though. gun control is not going to prevent i think the kind of thing that we saw happen in chattanooga, but i think what we should be looking at more is what our policy is toward mental health. particularly as it relates to south carolina. and also our policies towards how we treat domestic terror how we treat the radicalization process. in this case i think the timeframe is so short in terms of what we knew about this fellow and what we...

Communicate with these groups. patch matching up. investigation with these individuals who may be off spring. >> do we have any shot of stopping domestic terror on the home front lone wolfs or whatever you want to call it? >> you build partners in the muslim community to provide you with the intelligent you need. we need educated public that knows how to identify extremism beyond just obviously picking up a gun and going to shoot someone. but we also have to face the reality, which is that this ...

>> that quote, i bought a t-shirt with that same quote on it. and what makes me reflect on this is how did we go in such different directions? i work on countering radical extremism. and from what we know so far, he appears to have been radicalized in some way, shape, or form. how do you deflect them? how do you stop them? theyre being increasingly reticent about expressing their views because they know that raises red flags. they know they cant talk about this in mosques because theres no toler...