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Sheriff that they dont think there is, but what can you tell us about that? >> of course thats something that we always have to be concerned about. now, you saw the panic envelope with the shots, the film that you were showing. but you know, were getting super sensitive to this because especially in florida, we had the pulse night club slaughter, and needless to say, these are times that unfortunately at airports, you have crowds, its a soft target, theyre all bunched up, either outside the tick...

Outside tsa, automatic soft target. and one of the things that we have, because of the german shooting a year ago, we doubled the dog teams, because the dog is one of the best deterrents that we have. but still, you cant cover every airport, every crowd that bunches up. this shooter, his name is esteban santiago. he was carrying a military i.d. we dont know if thats active, if thats another family members i.d. we will have to determine that. and, of course, we dont know a motive at this point. b...

Evan coleman who spent years as a terrorism analyst and consulted for the pentagon, among others, he is senior partner at flash point. gentlemen, welcome to you both. evan, home field advantage because youre here, ill start with you. also because were here in new york. out back we keep this christmas tree every year. right now its surrounded by people, thousands of people. in your business that call that a big soft target. its also surrounded by a lot of nypd with automatic weapons. the folks wa...

While there is this understandable negativity and trauma and horror that would of happened in paris the silver lining it may give an impe tus to finally resolve conflict in syria and drain that swamp that isis lives and thrives in. >> thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. coming up, increased security in the u.s. whats done to protect americans from soft target attacks here at home.

Airports say moving toward full employee screening would simply be too costly and too time consuming for airport workers to wait in line like you and i. but some members of congress just arent buying that demanding the department of homeland security review employee screening policies to make sure airports arent leaving a door open to a possible disaster. drew griffin, cnn, los angeles. >> pretty telling. lets talk about it. former cia operative bob baer back with me. and robert mcfadden, specia...

>> do you agree with that, that an attack here in the u.s. is unlikely? >> i think it is unlikely. i think its unlikely by those who have left the united states to go fight with al shabaab. you worry about a small cell here in the united states, radicalized over the internet. we saw this happen with al al awlaki. thats what i worry about. and truthfully, soft target attacks, whether its malls, hotels, that sort of attack, thats been the target of the fbi working with the private sector to watch ...

Americans going on safari, american businesses. that, of course, these are often soft targets. so thats the real concern, i think, rather than happening here in the u.s. >> fran, do you agree with that? >> i think it is unlikely. i think its unlikely by those who left the united states to go and fight with al shabaab. what you worry about is a small cell here in the united states radicalized over the internet. weve seen this happen with al awlaki when he was alive. see, thats what i worry about....

Truthfully, anderson, soft target attacks, malls, hotels, that sort of an attack has long been the focus of a fbi effort working with the private sector to harden those targets, to make people more aware so they watch for suspicious behavior. so you try to disrupt that. >> fran townsend, peter bergen, steve moore, thanks for being on. theres no official confirmation the british national samantha lewthwaite known as the white widow or called that was involved in the nairobi mall attack but ther...

This stage. >> arwa damon, thank you very much. the taecket at that mall in nairobi so-called soft target is raising concerns about a potential similar attack at locations in the u.s. its long been one of terrorism experts greatest fears. we have more on that. >> reporter: it may be more than 7,000 miles from nairobi, kenya, to the united states, but the mall massacre halfway around the world couldnt bring a tragedy any closer to home. washington, d.c. resident sarah head was inside the mall w...

Button this sort of thing down, what? >> well, i can only tell from you my experiences being one of the ranking members that the pokes and prods and attacks on a daily basis we get not only through cyber, but through actual physical potential attacks and the like, its unbelievable. my hat goes off to the homeland security folks and what theyve been doing. we have been providing good taxpayer dollars to allow them to do their jobs and are things going to happen like this? yes. it was a target, so...