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Inspired by isis, as weve seen before in so many different attacks in the united states and, frankly, in europe. >> phil, in the last hour, former dni james clapper was saying the fact that this guy was taken alive is a potential trove of information and also could help understand, in kind of long term, what drives people in the radicalization process. >> it can, but step back and ask a fundamental question, where is this going to get us in the long term. weve been looking at this stuff for 16 y...

Alive is a potential trove of information and also could help understand long term what drives people in the radicalization process. >> it can but you ask the fundamental question. where is this going to get us in the long run. weve been looking at this for 16 years. once you understand how this happens in a democratic society, hes radicalizing by looking at free speech material. hes looking at material online. and then he goes to rent a truck and people are going to say, why cant you find someb...

Hes been here a long time. and it may be he was here a long time with no signs of anything going on. how long was that radicalization process, the challenge today is the process can be very short, someone can have been here a long time, something goes wrong in their life and they turn to terrorism as something that make their misery seem more symbolic. thats what we just dont know about his history. im curious about foreign travel and who he was with here. >> julia, thank you. i want to thank ev...

Inspired by isis. does that mean he likely has contact or somebody whose as spir rational, or watch stuff online and saying -- >> it could be either. unfortunately isis has given enough information online to people who are inspired by them to conduct these kind of attacks. weve been talking for years as michael talked about there have been people coming from the caucuses joining iraq and also moving into the isis organization, so this has been an ongoing issue. if hes coming from uzbek, hes been...

Thats always the takeaway from these, if we can learn something from that radicalization process, can we try to avoid or deter the next person from doing this. >> chairman rogers, the suspect is from uzbekistan, which is a part of the world in many cases being described as a hotbed of radical islamic activity. but we are also told he was radicalized here in the united states. >> yeah, completely so. and interesting, early on in the air strike campaign in the early part of 2000s, uzbeks had the h...

Matters very little. we know he was radicalized now here on u.s. soil, so at this point, what were really having to deal and grapple with is how do we stem the flow of radicalization here on u.s. soil? because right now the u.s. government doesnt have like a verifiable and measurable program to deal with that. i think were lacking policy at this point, so that leaves law enforcement and intelligence communities to play catch-up. theyre having -- when they are at that point where theyre having to...

This individual came here but became radicalized since he was here. how did that happen? i havent spoken to him. i can speculate that he came across material online -- >> shepard: thats what the authorities have saying. >> exactly. he might have had other issues going on in his life. may have had multifactors and drivers here. i can speculate as authorities have suggested already, that he was supposed to radical extremist content on facebook, twitter and google and youtube. we see this across a ...

Going on, so how long or short was that radicalization process? the challenge for law enforcement today is, that radicalization process can be very short. someone can have been here a long time, nothings going on, and then, you know, something clicks or something goes wrong in their life and they turn to terrorism as something to make their misery seem sort of more symbolic. and thats what we just dont know about his history. he has been here a while, though, so im curious about foreign travel, ...

All we have right now. >> we dont know two significant details relevant for this investigation. the first is are there co-conspirators. he may have been acting alone today, but did someone help him rent the truck. did this require planning? from the looks of it, it didnt require much planning. its very possible he acted solely alone and rented the truck and did this alone. the second question, the big one, what were his ties to any radicalization process either ob line or travel. thats being inv...

Its tied to a mentality about how men are thinking about the world. until e we understand that, we are going to focus our counterterrorism efforts on countries, rather than a radicalization process, which is never going to get the risk down to zero. the benefit. of living in new york city is sort of the flow. people are out and about. >> what does this mean in terms of this is the sort of thing that has happened elsewhere? theres a long list of places where people have done vehicular attacks. wh...