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To travel around the world, and the conversations of people once they know that i am from new york, they say, what is the deal with donald trump. for the longest time it was out of the mused and the bemused curiosity, and is this guy for real? surely, you cant be serious, this is a kind of the sort of the clown, court jester, and he is going to go away once the political process got seriously, but much later, it is more serious, and people are going from amused to the anxious, and concerned and ...

This yet as just isis inspired or just al qaeda inspired. it could be a variation, a combination of these different terrorist groups. this could be our new reality. but clearly, there were indications that syed rizwan farook was radicalized. we heard it from the father and now the more investigators dig into his background, he did look into reaching overseas terrorist groups that the wife had pledged allegiance to al baghdadi. the fbi said there were no trip wires that they hit or no red flags t...

Of norm, say, listen, this is going too far. but we havent really heard that and were not going to hear much. >> that point that the president was making last night and some people felt on this issue, of course the criticism from the right so often is he wont use the term radical islamic terrorism, some variation of that. he didnt really do that, but a lot of people felt he did go farther in addressing that subject than he has before. and he called on the muslim community to step up more. what s...

Two. in an overall race against hillary clinton, rubio, carson and bush are actually, you know, in a tighter race there. what does that say to you? >> this is interesting. first of all, i think its hard to draw too much or lean too much on general election numbers. that choice isnt defined to voters. the tip off is how little variation there are in numbers. clintons vary between 47 and 50. the republicans are between 47 and 50. you are getting generic readings. whats interesting is, as you know,...

And when youre ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any airline, then use your miles to cover the cost. now youre getting somewhere. whats in your wallet? >> that the female and male suspect have been identified. earlier today we were given a longer version or a variation of the name syed farook.

Robust surveillance tools for our government given the threat. >> we asked you for questions. we got this on facebook "how can we trust the president with vetting refugees," talking about syrian refugees "when he accident doing in about sanctuary cities and open border s." james? thank you is a good one i would say that, look, the president is going to take a national security approach to the vetting of the refugees. wraps, more than he with with the immigration issue. and that can be debated wh...

Theres nobody better to weigh in on the current battles being waged on college campuses and the campaign trail than "wall street journal" columnist peggy newthan. of the book "the time of our lives." the question i get a lot, this is a book about a collection of your writings but also some auto biographical depictions, how you became a writer. is it harder in your estimation to write for somebody else as you did for politicians and presidents or under your own name? >> its very funny. a variatio...

>> people spent the weekend feeling sad and feeling rather desperate, and when people ask you what do we do about isis, how do we degrade and defeat isis, how do you answer? >> well, i take an asymmetric view of this because coming from the intelligence community, i have had the opportunity to simulate al qaeda as a terrorist organization for special operations and operate against these groups in the intelligence community. but one aspect that we havent tackled is how to break their ideology. ho...

Narrative when we act as if theyre a state. and we use routine military tactics, and as i said every several weeks, we sit down with all my national security intelligence and military teams. i just spent the last three questions answering that very question. so i dont know what more you want me to add. i think ive described very specifically what our strategy is, and ive described very specifically why we do not pursue some of the other strategies that have been suggested. this is another variat...

>> all right. so this is another variation on the same question. and i guess -- let me try it one last time. we have been fully aware of the potential capabilities of them carrying out a terrorist attack. thats precisely why we have been mounting a very aggressive strategy to go after them. as i said before, when youre talking about the ability of a handful of people with not wildly sophisticated military equipme equipment, weapons, who are willing to die, they can kill a lot of people and preve...