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U.s. officials to secure this nations railways. the question is, what can be done? joining me now, shawn henry, former fbi executive assistant director. shawn, good to see you as always. my first question to you, according to the "washington post" earlier this week, how can they stop terrorist attacks on trains. what can you tell us about the existing security policies and what are some of the messages that should be put in place in the wake of the attack in france? >> you know, alex, when youre...

>> i would say to go through encryption. be able to penetrate it with court orders and that would involve working with companies that would allow the government in with a warrant to monitor these conversations or monitor these communications. in addition to that, i would not be apologetic like the president. i would be more supportive of the fbi, local police, and joint terrorism task forces. and a stronger more aggressive overseas helps us. i think the next president has to be stronger about ov...

Terrorism task forces. they assist fbi and all that. affs going to be looking at the weapons. the agent in charge for the fbi said there were a lot of weapons there. or the chief did. one of them said that. so theyre going to be tracking those, what are they where did he get them. they look at the bombs, guns bullets trying to work that angle for the terrorism task force. but the fbi, the police, the sheriffs, the state troopers theyre all going to be trying to find out where this guy lived, get...

Local law enforcement. how much more are these departments afforded? is it just the bulletin thats made public or supportive information, support documents thats sent as well? >> victor, in virtually every major city in the country, the fbi and the state and local law enforcement agencies work together on the joint terrorism task forces. now, the officers from the departments that are assigned to that work full time, they have top-secret security clearance, access to everything. in the event som...

There are increasing concerns tonight about just what kind of fireworks americans can expect this fourth of july. many worry islamic extremists may try to crash americas birthday party. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story tonight from the pentagon. >> reporter: as americans prepare to celebrate that which u.s. military commanders say threatens terrorist groups like isis the most freedom, the fbi is setting up command centers in cities across the u.s. to share intellige...

The republican chairman of the hows homeland security committee says july 4th is a target rich environment. >> im extremely concerned about the way the syrian isis recruiters can use the internet to recruit followers in the united states and then activate them to do whatever they want to do. >> fox news learned the six page bulletin from the fbi and homeland security was sent to the joint terrorism task forces across the country. warning of a heightened of a terror assault over the holiday weeke...

Institutional reluctance. theres an inertia -- pardon me? >> this was supposed to be corrected after the 9/11 commission, this kind of intelligence sharing and information -- >> i think the intelligence sharing is good. its not exactly where it needs to be. the fact of the matter remains that i talked to commissioner davis in boston and he was awear of the tsarnaev brothers after the bombs went off. now, im not saying that the fbi did -- should have advised him then, but one wonders. actually i ...

Should try to say everyone should be on alert? >> i think unfortunately that is where we are today. i think we look to hear it in texas weve had the fort hood shooting there and other incidents that have been intercepted by the authorities and fbi and joint terrorism task forces. >> were looking at daytime video of this right now. you can see police moving in. i wanted to let people know were looking at what is videotaped earlier. and were showing that to them now. we can see police on an active...

Could have visited a number of sites preparing for this very segment. if im raising flags meantime were sending people on the wrong rabbit trails. that is where using resources in efficient way is critically important. sharing information. joint terrorism task forces there are many across the country. there is one here in minneapolis. you have the national level of the fbi collaborating with the local sheriffs office and municipalities so families with a sheriff great example of our sheriff in m...

The other terrorism task forces in great britain, facing the same issues its hard to keep track of all the people engaging in jihad. >> you talk about the 14-year-old and the 16-year-old, do you think these young kids were argumenting alone or do you expect there will be other arrests to take place maybe supporting these allegations that they are now facing? >> they normally the authorities try to round up everybody and not just arrest a couple of people which might cause the others to flee. so ...