there are millions of people in manhattan. you walk through the streets during christmastime, you know how crowded they are. the subways, 6 million passengers on new york city subways every day. it s not like an airport. you can t put them through mag nottometers, checking their id es. the nypd will be stepping up security. in between attacks, people feel how real a threat is. if it was done slightly different team, more people could have been killed or maimed. this is the message that isis is putting out there about christmas. obviously they have po propagana all over the place. this guy was like a failed tsarnaev brother. he lived in his basement. weird thing from neighbors said
i can hear the cries of civil libertarians and constitutionalists right now congressman. they can cry all they want. the fact is that s where the threat is coming from. we can say that 98%, 99% of muslims in this country are good people, i m swearing in the first elected muslim on long island into office, a good friend of mine. this is nothing against muslims, but the fact is that is where the threat is coming from. we re kidding ourselves. we have this blind political correctness that makes no sense. for instance, in boston, with the bombing, you have the tsarnaev brother who was put out of a mosque because of his radical thoughts and radical statements made in that mosque. but nobody in the mosque told the police. nobody ever told the fbi. if they had known that in advance, you combine that with the fact that the russians had already told us to be on the lookout for him, we could have prevented possibly the boston marathon bombing. we ve had a number of muslims
i can hear the cries of civil libertarians and constitutionalists right now congressman. they can cry all they want. the fact is that s where the threat is coming from. we can say that 98%, 99% of muslims in this country are good people, i m swearing in the first elected muslim on long island into office, a good friend of mine. this is nothing against muslims, but the fact is that is where the threat is coming from. we re kidding ourselves. we have this blind political correctness that makes no sense. for instance, in boston, with the bombing, you have the tsarnaev brother who was put out of a mosque because of his radical thoughts and radical statements made in that mosque. but nobody in the mosque told the police. nobody ever told the fbi. if they had known that in advance, you combine that with the fact that the russians had already told us to be on the lookout for him, we could have prevented possibly the boston marathon bombing. we ve had a number of muslims
psychological impact that a single individual can close down an entire city. look, i m from boston. we closed down a city for ten hours during the hunt for the younger tsarnaev brother. i recognize during a hunt, we sometimes need to do that. but we re heading into day three and it s unsustainable, economically, but also, i think, psychologically, for the europeans. paul and juliette, thanks so much for your expertise. great to have you on this morning. secretary of state john kerry is looking to tackle major issues on a three-day trip to the middle east. kerry is in abu dhabi today to meet with top officials from the united arab elm rats. the goal, to build a coalition to lead peace talks to try to end a civil war in syria. secretary kerry will travel to israel and the palestinian territories where he ll continue the ongoing effort to stop the bloodshed in jerusalem and the west bank. eight people are dead and eight others injured after a suicide bombing at a military checkpoint