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Pattern, robin, you go to the london bridge, westminster bridge, and you know that these attacks are happening because they are in very popular places. a lot of tourists. isis is not only attacking the spaniards or the brits, they are going after everybody. they are hoping they can kill as many people from as many countries as possible. if they do that, they get news coverage from all over the world, and it just illuminates their cause, correct? >> yes, 15 european countries since the beginning ...

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That is to treat this as a generational war, internal to our society, are people who hate our freedom, the hate that we live differently than we do, they take advantage of our freedom, they take advantage of the way we live, they go to the lowest level side of life which of people walking around in public places and a stamp and they shoot and they drive cars into them. the only way to do it that is human intelligence. theres only what to do it that is to find out on the ground, the way the israe...

And they put out a variety of assessments and analysis. and and a somewhat general warns on a fairly regular basis. so the fact that they specifically cite las ramblas which is a very heavy tourist area which is similar to nice, westminster bridge in london, does not mean there are specific operational leads or intelligence i would say, okay, now you have a name to go on. a date or a methodology to go on. to be fair, you know, a number of government acted on the various warnings. it was not just...

They take this threat very seriously that has suffered from terrorism in the past, its from 23,000 suspects are the radar as a country thats just not able to monitor the amount of people. that means further attacks will take place. >> heather: how you monitor the internet, paul, no ones come up with an answer for that yet. >> thats exactly right. robins right. we keep hearing that people that are being caught now we are already on the radar. that begs the question, what we doing about that? is g...

We are living with the consequences of this all to regulatory now in europe. >> trace: and robin, very quickly, you look at the social media sites. the isis propaganda sites talking about getting a truck, do it in your own hunt he met country, kill as many as you can, get out and start stabbing. it seems like it to me, wow, how do you defend against that? >> so hard. nothing publicly disclosed where european security agencies have been able to stop one of these vehicular style attacks. thats bec...

And doing so indiscriminately. we are living with the consequences of this all to regulatory now in europe. >> trace: and robin, very quickly, you look at the social media sites. the isis propaganda sites talking about getting a truck, do it in your own country, kill as many as you can, get out and start stabbing. it seems like to me, wow, how do you defend against that? >> so hard. no publicly disclosed where european security agencies have been able to stop one of these vehicular style attacks...

And that it exists. but intel services relying heavily on the cia, nsa, and the other intel members to be able to combat this. >> trace: mike baker, boise, idaho, robin simcox, thank you both. straight ahead, protecting theon homeland from attacks like in barcelona. much more breaking news on the attacks in barcelona and the possibility of a second attack foil. thats next. ♪ cr lidents unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, f...

Need to improve intelligence sharing, and that it exists. but intel services relying heavily on the cia, nsa, and the other intel members to be able to combat this. >> trace: mike baker, boise, idaho, robin simcox, thank you, both. straight ahead, protecting the homeland from attacks like in barcelona. much more breaking news on the attacks in barcelona and the possibility of a second attacked. thats next.

Assessments and analysis. and a somewhat general warnings on a fairly regular basis. so the fact that they specifically cite las ramblas which is a very heavy tourist area which is similar to nice, westminster bridge in london, does not mean there are specific operational leads or intelligence i would say, okay, now you have a name to go on. a date or a methodology to go on. to be fair, you know, a number of government acted on the various warnings. it was not just citing nice, the british intel...