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Trains safe. rick leventhal is live for us in middown manhattan -- midtown manhattan. how safe with the subways and snrains. >> that's a good question. a lot has been done to protect our systems, they've added cameras, radiation detector, bomb sniffing dogs and random bag checks but security says it's not enough. consider on average americans take nearly 14 million train or subway rides every single day. in new york city alone, twice as many people ride subway trains as fly nationwide, yet on average, governments are only spending 1/100 as much securing planes as much as rails, in other words,...

>> the nypd does some random bag checks. part of the price of living in an open society is being vulnerability anotherrable to such attacks. israel faces the same thing with suicide bombers. at the erected a huge wall to prevent people from come in from palestine to israel. i don't think you will get away with that in western society, open society. in israel it was a necessity. they were getting bombs on almost a daily basis so there you understand it. here it is a much more difficult task. and my sense is the american public wouldn't put up with the interference. i remember you pointing out t...

Keeping an eye what's going on in boston at fenway park. they don't run there until sunday. the point is, they're worried just the same. if there's buildings nearby, they're keeping an eye on it as is garrett tenney outside national's park in washington d.c. >> yeah, neil. the department of homeland security says they have no credible information. law enforcement is not taking any chances. that includes here in washington at national's stadium for tonight's game against the chicago cubs. there's the normal security. you can see they have the snowplows showing up to help security the perimeter....

Was larger than in years past but it included only fences and bag checks, not magnetometers. >> let's talk about the crowd size. that's what much of the moment was about. here is what sean spicer said about media outlets reporting the number who showed up. >> no one had numbers. the national park service does not put any out. >> now, it is accurate that the national park service does not provide an official card count for the inauguration. his claim there, no one had crowd side numbers. that is absolutely true. we are doing this just out of transparency. we are not trying to attack anybody or ...

Service says the secure area for this year's inauguration was larger than in years past but the extra measures included only fences and bag checks, not metal detecters. >> so the claim that it detoured crowds were also false. >> no one had numbers because the national park service, which controlled the national mall, does not put out. >> and that's accurate, the national park service does not provide an official crowd count for the inauguration, and spicer just said nobody had crowd size numbers accurately, and that's true. >> we have a lot to talk about, and let's welcome in the panel now, cn...