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Affairs director mark sure to get more insight on president trumps upcoming state of the union address and you will not want to miss that. be sure also to tune in tuesday for a full day of coverage leading up to the state of the union at 9:00 p.m. eastern. leland: afghan authorities releasing information on yesterdays car bombing in kabul that killed more than 100 people. they used an ambulance filled with explosives. the interior minister of afghan afghanistan was carried a patient to check for...

Economy. to bring to the security point, the numbers are independent of the security vetting that obviously there are some countries where the risk of bringing in the terrorist threat is higher than other countries. for instance, its a higher threat environment to bring in an immigrant from say syria or somalia. then it is to bring in an immigrant from luxembourg or australia. thats a genuine concern because you are increasing the volume of immigrants from those countries. based on the random ch...

Here. maximum impact and that is fear. and you -- nothing strikes fear more than children and the vulnerability of children, parents, any love one can tell you that. >> right. so those who know ariana grande, sheesz shes sort of fearless and a lot of the girls who like her emulate that fearlessness. its terrifying to think as we all do to send your child to the other side of a security point to have a good time and not be able to see them on the other end. but thats the purpose here. and i alway...

That creates the huge challenge when trying to secure areas outside the main security point. there was an estimated 21,000 people in attendance at last nights ariana grande concert in manchester. here the capacity is 19,000 on most nights depending on the performer. >> new york is the number one target in the world for international and domestic terrorism. but there are many targets throughout the world like we saw that are vulnerable and that werent expected to be a target and yet they became o...

To just one job, counter terrorism. with the presidents first visit since getting elected, the job becomes that much more critical behind-the-scenes to not only protect the president but to protect this great city and its millions of residents. a job that takes intense screening and many layers within the nypd. >> whether it is the counterterrorism bureau which is the bomb squad, radiation detection, the network of camera systems, the explosive detection dogs, the biohazard detection devices or ...

Terrorism bureau, which is the bomb squad, the radiation detections, the network of camera systems, the explosive detection dogs, the biohazard detection devices or the intelligence bureau, the investigations, sources of information. >> layer one the security armed with long guns visible to the public guarding trump tower together with the secret service every security point is made up of a counter terrorism critical response command teams or crc. layer two, the not so visible nypd sniper team. ...

I have evidence to prove that. the secret service does not evidence to make that appeared with omar gonzalez, make it into the state floor of the white house. we then had this recent case where a guy jumps over the fence of the treasury, had to scale another friend and nearly made it into the white house again. the problem here at the secret service are really sclerotic management. a serious brain drain in the secret service and inadequate security point. hes not safe in fairness to them by thos...

The actual gates are. is that your understanding, and that place has always struck me as kind of an open hole. >> yeah, its confusing in the accounts that ive read but he shot the tsa officer who was checking documents, went up an escalator, came back down, shot him again and went through the security point. i think its important we have the local law enforcement really at different points at the airport to protect not only the perimeter but also things that could happen through security check p...

Are. is that your understanding? and that place has always struck me as kind of an open hole. >> yeah. its confusing in the accounts i read. he shot the tsa officer who was checking documents, went up an escalator, came back down, shot him again. went through the security point. at that standpoint. i think its important that we have the local law enforcement really at different points at the airport to protect not only the perimeter but also things that could happen through the security checkpoi...

We talked about the reality of airports. every airport is different. but the coordination with local police is always key because tsa officers are not armed. the local police provide the perimeter security thats more of a soft target outside the checkpoints. so what we want to do is conduct -- i want to work with the director of tsa to look at how we coordinating with the locals at the airports, the security, police officers, to see if theres something we can do better or differently. i will com...