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Require any training or buying explosives or chemicals or buying weapons, the kind of things that the attracts attention. we have seen these attacks in berlin and barcelona and london and paris and in the streets of manhattan and you have tunfortu are going the see more of them. as the deputy commissioner of new york says the perpetrator of manhattan terrorist attack follows the play book literally to the letter down to ways how he planned the attack and he had knives that he did not use. he was...

Where you jump out of a truck you just used to hit a school truck carrying what amounts to a paint ball gun. >> probably the most consistent theory is he wanted to have death by or suicide by police officers. he wanted to get out with the guns and try to create a confrontation and have the video of him being gunned down in the streets of manhattan which would in the isis mind set would hopefully inflame other supporters and sympathizers to their cause. >> jon: so that part didnt turn out the way...

Conduct an act of violence on the west side highway thats going to kill eight people. thats really difficult to figure out in a country of 330 million people. >> in terms of the investigation, does it make much difference whether he was directed by isis or whether he just watched, you know, propaganda videos online or was talking to other radicals in the u.s. and went about doing this? >> you know, im not really sure that it does at this point. theres enough propaganda, enough information for hi...

Vulnerabilities and makes. if they dont talk to the wrong person, e-mail the wrong person, get on the wrong chat room, how do you decide when someone transitions from whats legal in the united states, i like isis, thats legal, to whats illegal, im going to conduct an act of violence on the west side highway thats going to kill 8 people. thats really difficult to figure out in a country of 330 million people. >> in terms of the investigation, does it make much difference whether he was directed b...

They are. this is the first vehicle attack. we have seen about 15 across europe and other places in the last several years. this is the first time that this type of attack has come to the united states, and it really follows the isis playbook of inspiring people to act where they are. >> look, i hear you on the politics. i dont think its a coincidence the president of the united states did not mention the isis affiliation that killed the soldiers in niger, it doesnt play to his advantage. but th...

Deterred. from the moment he got the car, he was on the mission. >> why went the truck is one question you had. why is that a question in your mind? >> if hes going to take a vehicle and have a vehicle attack and hes got a van and another car at home, why go to a home depot and expose yourself to someone else? another point of identification potentially instead of just taking the car he has and driving it into the city? the other thing is targeting. what was the route? he took there and did he p...

Defense and the reason why, intelligence gathering takes years to become experts in editor takes another 10 or 20 years to figure this out which it very well could, defense has to be, everyone here is tired of that security, time to boost personal security for private companies and get them in places bag can be checked and get the police the assistance they need, they cant do everything. jillian: tired of talking about another vehicle attack, there was one in july of last year. as regular civili...

They might be the people you talk to every day, they just have a switch go on. >> we see the suspect having a paint ball gun and a bb gun. why have those guns? >> i think almost certainly he wanted to be killed by the police, that he craved -- in his vision he wanted to depot to paradise. you see that in so many plots in the west and elsewhere where this is a big motivating factor. and that is similar thing that happened in niece, france in 2016 whether it was the deadly truck attack killing 80 ...

That these sources but we need as many resources as possible and drones are the cheapest way of doing it. jillian: a couple months ago the driver i referenced was the terror related but as an example of how it is hard to control these vehicles that are hitting people. >> one of the things we mentioned, in times square we had that vehicle attack. the nypd is proliferating these throughout the city so it is just a matter of time before we have them up and that could have assisted us with the situa...

Happened in nice, france, in 2016 whether it was the deadly truck attack killing 86 people. the suspect in that case had a fake grenade, a replica gun, also appeared to want to be shot by the police. here in the uk, we saw a case with another vehicle attack on london bridge where the three suspects were wearing fake suicide vests again because they wanted to be shot dead by law enforcement. in that case they were. in this case the suspect in his estimation likely has failed to get what they want...