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what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he thought was some explosive material. they said not a lot of it was the ...

Accepting perhaps, having these targets hardened is part of the deal going forward? >> it has to be. i used to prosecute firearm cases as a federal prosecutor. many of these cases are stolen firearms. the terrorists have ak-47s that are illegal on the black market. i think what we need to do is look at hardening the targets, the soft targets with the school resource officers. you know the parkland case, we also -- i'm the biggest fan of law enforcement. we had a law enforcement breakdown where the f.b.i. was notified, the sheriff's office was notified. then you had the school resource deputy s...