2027488002. Independents, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us on social media, on twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. Very good monday morning to you. We begin with some of the headlines following this weekends violence. Heres the front page of the Washington Post this morning, three cases widen terror fears is the headline. To the front page of the New York Post in new york, city on edge, talking about the chelsea terror attack. Thats the bombing, 29 injured in that bombing on saturday night. To the front page of the Washington Times this morning, the headline there, terrorism suspected in a series of attacks, front page of the New York Daily News this morning, simply goes with terror. And to the front page of the wall street journal, u. S. Attacks stoke unease is the headline there. As youre reading these headlines this morning, were simply asking to you bring us into your breakfast table conversation. What are you talking about when it comes to how safe nuffle your community . Lines are hone pen. Were going to try to stay away from speculating or get ago head of the investigation this morning. As the New York Times points out this morning, theres a lot we dont know about these attacks when it comes to the chelsea bombing. We dont know who was responsible for the explosions. We dont know the motive behind the explosions. We dont know why the site of the explosion was selected. Wall street journal giving us a rundown behalf we do know about these different attacks. Three Violent Attacks over the weekend left almost 40 people injured and remain shrouded in questions, but today they fueled growing fears among authorities about terror assaults by small groups, lone wolf, or simply deranged individuals. Police said a man dressed as a Security Guard injured nine people late saturday in a Shopping Mall in st. Cloud, minnesota. He was shot and killed by an officer, an offduty Police Officer. In new york, authorities were searching for a bomb maker who set off a blast near a large trash container in manhattan on that manhattan street on saturday evening. It left 29 people injured from flying debris, including shrapnel. Also last night, happening overnight, another device found, this one in new jersey, one of five devices found in a backpack near a train station in new jersey has exploded, while a bomb squad robot was attempting to disarm it. The elizabeth mayor said that the device exploded shorting after 12 30 a. M. This morning. The f. B. I. Was leading the investigation and working to disarm the other four devices. Thats one of three explosions thats happened in new jersey and new york. Were asking our viewers this morning not to get ahead of the investigation, but simply, do you feel safe in your community . What are the conversations youre having this morning as youre heading off to begin your workweek . Light of those attacks, that violence over the weekend . Paul is in lake como, pennsylvania, a republican. Paul, good morning. Caller good morning. How are you today . Host doing well, paul. How do you feel . Do you feel safe in your community . Caller yes, were a small town, you know, maybe a population of you know, a few hundred, you know . Our nearest big town here is big hampton, new york, or scranton, pennsylvania, and were probably about 115 miles from new york city. But i can understand the fear of people getting out today and going to work and sending your children out. But i think that our policemen are doing a great job, and if we listen to them and just give them the credit they need, i think everything is ok. Host paul, what are the conversations people should have with their children as they send them off this week in school, as theyre seeing headlines this morning . Caller just be alert. Just be alert. And if they can have an adult maybe with the small groups going to school, if theyre walking or fire a bus, just be lert on whats around you. And, you know, yesterday morning, i tried to get on if i could just for a second, they were they asked a question what we would ask the people who are running for president. And my question would be this, after the debate is over with, and you have answered all the questions truthfully would you be would one or both of you be interested in sitting down with a professional and taking a Lie Detector Test . Host all right. Caller you have a great day. Host thanks for the call this morning. Were talking about these weekend attacks. We want to hear your thoughts on how you feel about the safety of your community. Brian is in clinton, maryland, independent. Whats the conversation youre having this morning . Caller well, the conversation that me and my wife had yesterday is its time to kind of like almost arm yourself, because the democrats, obama and clinton, have allowed the enemy to enter our country. Theyve let them come in here with open borders. Youve let the islamic radicals into the country. Obama wants to put 100,000 more in here. Clinton says she wants to let hundreds of thousands more in our country. Theyre attacking us every which way they can, and its anybody if anybody doesnt believe that and you want to vote for a democrat, then this is what could happen in your community. You would have no one to blame but yourself for allowing that to take place. Host do you think do you think the gun debate and the immigration debate in the president ial election . You think thats now going to be a central theme . Caller well, sir, theyre attacking us on the streets. I mean, what else can you do but defend yourself . The only thing you can do is arm yourself. Youve allowed the private citizens of the United States to be attacked by an enemy, which the Democrat Party and the communists in this country have allowed in here. The police cant protect you. So what other choice do you have . If theyre going to walk up to you in a mall and start stabbing you, what are you going to do, stand there and wait to call the police . No, you have to defend yourself. The American People need to fight this war themselves. But the enemy that were fighting is our own democrat government. Host all right. Thats brian in clinton, maryland, this morning. For more information on that mall attack in minnesota, on saturday night, a man dressed as a Security Guard began attacking people with a knife, making references to allah and asking at least one victim if he was a muslim, authorities said, this according to the wall street journal report. Nine people were injured, all were expected to survive. The man was eventually killed by an offduty Police Officer from another community who had to fire several shots as he repeatedly tried to get up and lunge at him. The aalleged attacker was identified as a somali american, and he was claimed as a soldier who was inspired by the groups message. Usa today in its reporting on this attack makes this note in light of that identification by the Islamic State it was not immediately clear if they planned at tack or knew about it beforehand. Isil has encouraged socalled lone wolf attacks and also claimed past attacks that are not believed to have been planned by a central leadership. Thats some of the reporting this morning. As we said, were not going to try to get ahead of the investigation. We just want to hear your thoughts this morning as you think about your safety and your community. Norma is in kentucky, republican. Good morning, norma. Caller hello. Thanks for taking my call, cspan. I agree with the caller from maryland. He said about everything i was going to say, bless his heart. But we do feel unsafe, even with my husband cutting the grass these days. And we need someone in office like trump to take up for us. Because this has been going on for so many years that older people are terrified that even stay in our own home. But like i said, the caller from maryland said everything i was going to say. Host norma, why do you specifically feel unsafe in kentucky . Why do you feel unsafe with your husband on the lawn mower . You think something is going to nap your community . Caller well, you see new people coming in, and they look at you like theyre going to jump out and do something any minute. Host what do you mean by new people, norma . Ller well, theyre just next, and it terrifies the way they sandact when you go to the store. Some of them walks out, they slam the door right in your face. And when you get older, youre ore terrified. You know, were jersey living in a world right now that everything is just going crazy. I guess its a much stuff going on that we all live in fear. Host all right. Lets go to illinois. Independent, steve, good morning. Youre on the washington journal. Caller yes, i want to first thank you for letting me people. But, yeah, i live in a rural community, and i feel safe. But for the east coast, i secretary of state john he and the russian secretary of state did three or four weeks of talks to stop the bombing in aleppo, and on saturday, the United States dropped the bomb and killed 62 soldiers or whatever and injured 100. That just ruined all the talk i believe that john kerry worked so hard for. I just dont understand what the president did in ordering the strikes. Host this is from the associated press, its exactly what youre talking about, just want to put us all 09 same page. The headline is allied tense as syrian ceasefire fizzles amidair strike. Syrias fragile ceasefire started to unravel with the fist attacks in aleppo in a southern village that killed at least eight people, violations that came as tensions between the american and russian brokers of the deal worsen following a deadly u. S. Strike on the Syrian Government forces host with this unraling caller how come nobody in the media had covered that and, you know, john kerry worked so hard for this, and its just like a slap in the face. And i really dont think that we have the intelligence to because we isil, dont speak the language and our ulture and basically country country are kind of like white or, you know, we dont and were 6,000 miles away. Host all right. Lets go to john. Were talking to our viewers this morning in light of those attacks over the weekend, that violence, the bombings that happened in new york and new jersey, that stabbing in. Innesota john, a republican. What was your conversation like this morning . Caller well, in answer to your question, i dont believe that anybody honestly feels safe in our communities anymore. Our border down here is a sieve. A lot of folks dont see local news. A lot of folks dont see the front line, as it were, of the damage caused by the present policies of our government. Our communities down here are overflowing with all sorts of refugees, Illegal Immigrants and so forth. Our infrastructures are overburdened to the point where police cant even respond anymore. The thing that i would tell anybody, you know, listening at this point is this. When you head to the polls, when you head to make your vote , the one thing that i would remind everybody is this i go back to the question that Ronald Reagan asked, do you feel that youre better off now than you were four years ago . My question is, do you feel better off now than you felt that you were eight, 12 years ago . The decline, the true decline in the response by our government to the present situation is pathetic. And people dont host if people feel that way, what can they do . Caller you mean the general citizenship . Host yeah. Caller well, what they can do is study their candidates. You take a look at Hillary Clinton, for instance, and the record speaks for itself. When people honestly dont pay attention, when they dont listen, and when they are turned out of the process thats going on right now, these are the very people that are responsible for the situation that were in right now. If youre not an informed voter, then youre not a voter. You need to study this. And im going to say this once, mr. Trump is the best possible option that we have at this point in time when it comes to true leadership. We never would have had to deal with this if we had a Different Administration in there. Host were taking your calls, getting comments as we talk about this violence in minnesota, at tax in minnesota, the bombings that happened in new york and new jersey. Peter king was on face the nation yesterday morning, was asked about that bombing in chelsea in new york city. Heres a bit of what he had to say. Whether or not this turns out to be overseas terrorism, necessary particular terrorism, any terrorism at all, its another wakeup call as to how vulnerable we are, and its so important for the police and f. B. I. To be given the tools to do what they have to do. If new york can be had, a city thats been on top of this issue obviously since 9 11, what more can be done . Doesnt these things just happen, part of the new normal . I dont think we can accept it as being part of the new normal. Go to the larger debate, why the n. S. S. Is important, its why surveillance of communities is important. Why we cant allow over concern about Civil Liberties to get in the way of solid Law Enforcement. Lets not let Political Correctness stop the police and f. B. I. Doing the investigations. Ive used an example many times. When youre going after the mafia, go to the italian communities. Irish communities, when youre looking for the west, and right now if the islamic terrorism, we go to muslim communities. Host members of Congress Talking about the violence over the weekend. Heres a democrat from california, on the new york city explosion, a bomb in new jersey, and eight people stabbed in minnesota, god bless the hands of Law Enforcement that toil away to keep us safe, his comment on twitter yesterday. And brad sherman, also of california, democrat, says clearly the new york city bombing was terrorism. We need to investigate the motive of of the terrorist. Some discussion about using the term terrorism in light of the explosions in new york and new jersey. In the New York Times article that talks about what we do and dont know, one of the questions that is posed is was this an act of terrorism . They write, on sunday, the governor, Governor Cuomo said theres no ed of an International Terrorist connection to the explosion, and that no groups had claimed mr. Responsibility. Still he cautioned it was early in the investigation and said that whether it was an act of terrorism depended on how the word was defined. A bomb exploding in new york city is obviously an act of terrorism, he said. The mayor called the explosion an internal act, that from the New York Times much were getting your thoughts this morning on the safety of your community, how safe you feel. Dawn is in maryland, an independent. Dawn, good morning. Caller good morning to you. Im maybe about 15 minutes from baltimore and d. C. I feel perfectly safe. I think whats going on here, the ill the say president , he made a comment, he said a couple of issues are going to be on the ballot. He mentioned one would be fear and one would be hope. Right now, i think theres so much paranoia out there that i ink we basically are kind of i think were feeding into the fear narrative, and i totally reject donald trump said hes going to be the law and order president , so i think you got a lot of paranoia, paranoid people out there, if i said it right. Host do you think some of the fear and paranoia becomes more justified for those individuals in light of what happened this weekend, a stabbing attack that the Islamic State has claimed some sort of responsibility for , and these explogse that are still being investigate and these explosions that are still being investmented . Caller personally, no, i dont, because i could almost see it coming. I could see it coming, because basically a lot of your callers, i hate to say it, but the way theyre talking, they actually want a police state. Theyre talking like they want a police state. That wont fare well for ertain people in this country. I totally reject it. Im definitely not going to fall into that trap of fear. Most of the country, you know, they want a and law order people. If they want one, then i guarantee theyll regret it if he becomes the new president. Host all right, don in maryland this morning, talking about the president ial candidates. Both talking about these incidents over the weekend. Hillary clinton in her statement saying i strongly condemn the apparent terrorist attacks in minnesota, new jersey and new york. I pray for all of those who are wound and had for their families. Once again, we saw the bravery of our First Responders who run towards danger and help others. She went on to say their quick action saved lives, officials are working to identify who are behind the attacks, and we should give them the support they need to finish the job and bring those responsible to justice. We will not rest until that happens. They should defeat isis and other terrorist groups. Donald trump also tweeting about this as well in a series of tweets. One of them he notes trnl attacks in new york, new jersey and minnesota this weekend, hes thinking of the victims, their families and all americans. We need to be strong. He also said saturdays attacks show that the failed obama, Hillary Clinton policies wont keep us safe, i will make america safe again. Under the leadership of kobe and clinton, americans have experienced more attacks at home than victories abroad, time to change the playbook. A series of tweets from donald trump yesterday on what happened over the weekend. Want to get your thoughts, got about 20 minutes left in this segment, just opening our phones. Want to hear the conversations happening at your breakfast table this morning. In west virginia, a republican. Good morning, bud. Good morning, cspan, i enjoy your show. My comment is that we are letting our enemies in and oing all wars. Every terrorist that comes in, they come in and setting up their own little