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But it could -- to be honest with you, he could succeed. someone could. so what we have to do is work on intelligence, wolf. and making sure that the public, if you see something, say something. apart from that, well just continue to do the best job we can. i say that new york, by far, as the best system of protecting its citizens, that we have. weve invested a lot there. the nypd does a wonderful job. they coordinate with state and locals, like they should. so even under the best of times, when...

He has more updates. >> as you might imagine the situation is little bit fluid right now. there are reports out about a name of the suspect. but im not -- there is a little bit of uncertainty, in law enforcement circles as far as what his name may be. there are some connections between him and florida. that does seem certain. we know he is in a new york city area hospital as commissioner oneill said where he was taken after being shot one time in the stomach by a first freechk patrol officer nor...

Having failed to do that he was offering materiel support in other ways back here in the united states, including discussions of other potential plots and one of which included musing about the idea of doing a nice-style type attack in times square with a truck so this was an individual who was -- had already committed a federal crime but was becoming of increasing concern to us. >> so you think you avoided a crisis? >> i dont know that. but, don, i would say this, if you look at the boston mara...

What level, what is the threshold for the fbi? >> what do you think is a good line to draw for that? >> well, i would argue this, and, look, ive talked to the fib, give them the benefit of the doubt. i worked with the joint terrific task force and federal prosecutor and they did close the investigation. but heres the point. when the flag went up he was traveling back to the chechen region, which is very dangerous, chechen rebels worked with al qaeda in pakistan, afghanistan, and iraq, when that ...