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Dizziness or confusion. ask your health care provider if youre tresiba® ready. covered by most insurance and medicare plans. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ rick: terrorist target a christian church in pakistan killing nine and wounding more than 50 others. isis takes responsibility which came eight days before christmas. taking down one of the attackers at the entrance the other made it inside where he set off the bomb. international protest over the trump recognition of jerusalem as israels capital s...

Something, this is a reminder of how important this is. >> you know this kind of reality. you ran the jerusalem post. we see these types of things happen there. whats life like then? >> one of the things i find striking is when i returned to new york from jerusalem i thought this is the biggest city in the world, its the most attractive terrorist target. and yet coming from 9/11, apart from a few relatively minor incident, the citys been extraordinarily safe. so to some extent, this incident is ...

Of people and the ideal target, certainly ideal for a terrorist target in new york city he came out injured and not so much for everybody else is really miraculous. >> neil: what do you think in terms of help he may have had? >> it looks like he was not a particularly good craftsman and this was the first device he built. it certainly law enforcement will be looking for evidence that he built others and may have taken them someplace to detonate them. he was not a very good craftsman, and as i sa...

Year. however, new york is always on high alert because it is the number one terrorist target in this country. over 20 attempted attacks in new york city. and again last year we had chelsea, last month we had the by the world trade center. theyre on high alert. right now i think its too early to come to a final conclusion other than it appears to be terrorist-inspired and its important if anyone gives out the name of this person rather than tip anybody else off to -- full-court press and run it ...

U.s. all pledged allegiance to isis. >> we are the number one terrorist target in this country and potentially in the world. >> reporter: in 2012, a 21-year-old bangladeshi man inspired by al qaeda thought he built a 1,000-pound bomb to blow up the federal reserve bank in new york. he hoped to strike at heart of the american economy. in 2010, times square, again, a failed plot by pakistani-born faisal shahzad inspired by al qaeda and funded by the pakistani taliban, tipped off, when smoke starte...

Word of an attack. connell mcshane is in times square. what are they doing? >> neil, its almost routine. we see an attack like kitty describes overseas and the security gets stepped up here back at home. it was in the middle of the morning rush in london. as we went through the morning rush in new york, we started to see the usual measures. more counter terrorism officers and more k-9s and more heavy weapons teams. they came to places like times square that could be a terrorist target and places...

The likes of a steve feinberg, a hedge fund manager with no military experience, and eric prince from blackwater. why not trust the u.s. military in afghanistan? >> oh, we do. we trust them so much that we allow the local commander to on his own authority decide to drop a 21,000-pound bomb on a terrorist target in afghanistan. thats how much this president trusts the military. unlike his predecessor. when we look for alternatives to the disasters of the last eight years, when we denied the reali...

Rights in your country. >> let me give you a quick reaction to what the secretary of homeland security john kelly said in an event here today. he was talking about the united states being a nation under attack from cyber threats, drugs, and terrorism. listen to this. >> and as a coalition we lead wins against what are best described as conventional terrorist formations. the expectations that many of these holy warriors will survive, come back to their home countries where they would wreak murd m...

Foreign policy. we dont know which banks he is in debt, if his children are still running his company and there is a hotel to be built in dubai does that influence his reaction if their government acts in a way we dont know or turkey or other countries. these entanglements become really important. this is a republican strategist to said to me repeatedly, you start to have anything with the trump name on it around the world becoming an instant terrorist target. how do we react to a world in which...

And hes going to be tested from day one, does he actually work with vladimir putin? how does he interact with assad? how does he confront the crisis in syria and isis? even though he had so much support from working class americans, disgruntled by the wars, weary by them, to be this non-interventionist candidate. hes going to get pressure from hawks in his party to intervene in the middle east. >> we cannot discount how his personal conflicts of interest wind up influencing his foreign policy. w...