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Republican debate. the last gop debate of the year, tuesday night, hosted by our very own wolf blitzer. this morning, new questions being raised about the connection between one san bernardino terrorist and a convicted terror recruiter right into his state, california. tom ridge is with me now, the chairman of ridge global, the former homeland security secretary, the governor of pennsylvania and also congressman. thank you so much for being with me. no one better to get perspective. you said point blank we are not being offensive enough on this front. let's listen to what senator lindsey graha...

Something that is irresponsible, probably illegal, unconstitutional, and contrary to international law, unamerican, and will actually hurt our efforts at homeland security and national security. we have to speak out. >> joining me now is the first secretary of homeland security and former republican governor of pennsylvania, founder of ridge global. mr. ridge is supporting jeb bush for president. good afternoon ridge, let me start with this. are you going to be able to support donald trump if he's the republican nominee? it seems as if many republicans are afraid of going that far in this. whe...

Welcome back. with me now former governor tom ridge. he was the first homeland security secretary for the u.s. he's now ceo of ridge global which deals with security and crisis management. we also have former congressman mike roger, the one-time chairman of the house intelligence committee, two very strong minds on national security and counterterrorism. governor ridge, if i could begin with you. compare the threat to the homeland today, the terror threat to the homeland today to when you had your job just after 9/11. are we safer today or less safe? >> well unfortunately, when it comes to the...

There is clearly now greater concern, even if sochi is locked down that there are potentially other vulnerable targets in other parts of this country. back to you. >> maybe even more so because of the concentration of security around the olympics. there's a lot of concerns and questions. let's dig deeper with someone who has had to find out answers to these type of questions, tom ridge. he was the first secretary of homeland security. was governor of pennsylvania, of course, previous try to that. he's now ceo of ridge global a security and consulting management company. you know what it takes ...

50%:dependent on a massive -- on foreign oil, which has caused a massive transfer of american wealth toç countries that real don't like us that much and want to do us harm. too many of these oil-rich countries have and will continue to use our dependence of their oil against us. >> the u.s., of course, pays about $1 billion a day to import oil, essentially funneling money indirectly into the hands of terrorists, not to mention we fund both sides war on the ground in afghanistan. here to explain, today's specialist, tom rim. he was the first homeland security secretary, former pennsylvania go...