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Focuses on getting money to these joint terrorism task forces, getting money to our state and local partners. i think what you said is exactly right. we have to use our state and local counterparts as force multipliers. they are the people who are going to be most familiar with the communities in which they operate. there are far more of them than there are federal law enforcement officials. and without their assistance, without their partnership, we will not be as successful as we were in foili...

But watching this is like chalk on a blackboard but lets talk about what our law enforcement did, both state and local up the chain, and then you feel you have, what did it take to do that and do you have the resources to make sure whether it is in los angeles or baltimore, or... et cetera, that we have these security mechanisms and people. >> i think that the success of that effort is a direct result of the joint efforts we have between the federal government and our state and local partners, t...

The right equipment? >> well, i think we have to -- >> its just not putting somebody in a uniform on the street, its boots on the ground in urban neighborhoods. they have to be trained and equipped. >> right. there are a number of steps. we have to certainly first support the hiring of state and local law enforcement officials. the cops hiring plan has a -- hiring program, we have a fiscal year 2011 request for $600 million. thats up $297 million from this year. so thats the first step, to get t...

Just hours ago police have arrested a u.s. citizen of pakistani descent. authorities believe faisal shahzad drove the suv in the failed terror attack on times square this weekend. now, the suspect was reportedly taken into custody at john f. kennedy airport last night as he was trying to board a flight to dubai. according to officials, the men had recently returned from a five-month trip to pakistan where he had a wife. a short time ago the fbi held a news conference outside the mans last known ...

High-value interrogation group to talk to him. >> remember, hes a u.s. citizen. meanwhile bridgeport, connecticut, they had a press conference a moment ago. what they said, which is not much unfortunately. >> our first mission is assure the safety of our law enforcement team. that is complete. the public is safe. the new haven and new york joint terrorism task forces have worked tirelessly over the last several days on this critical investigation. the search is related to the times square invest...

And people whose names we will not hear in the public discussion of this investigation are looking at everything they can. after something like this, you want to rule out international or domestic homegrown? who is involved in those conversations? how does that business go about? >> you have the national counterterrorism center that brings together everybody on route to the national security agency. the central intelligence agency on top of the joint terrorism task forces around the country. one...

Off? >> well, i think the abu mutallab attempt is an example. he had an explosive device in his underwear. it was a faulty device. they are unable to carry out these large scale attacks, so they are now opting for individual operatives to carry out the smaller scale attacks. they recognize that they are in need of some kind of demonstration of capability that they have not been able to show because of the tremendous work across the board, not just here in the united states between law enforcemen...

Joint terrorism task forces that the fbi runs in the united states, to make sure we have eyes and ears throughout this country in the event there are sleeper cells out there. very close corroboration between the fbi and local law enforcement. weve been able to stop individuals, nazy azazi and others. we have dedicated a lot of resources to uncover them. >> talk about this political fight over national security as well. scott brown, the 41st republican senator. on the night he was -- of his victo...

Federal agents deployed now in austin to find this suspect. state and local law enforcement are activated. and im convinced were going to find him. >> dana: based on your experience and the u.s. attorneys office, im curious if you can give us some indication of how do law enforcement and investigators work together to try to narrow down who this might be? >> well, you know, ive worked with the joint terrorism task forces, a model of cooperation between local, state and federal law enforcement. w...

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