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We learning, what are you seeing in your world about the attacks is it in any way advancing how to stop them? >> that's an excellent question. i can't say that we have, you know, a good answer at this point. there are certain choke points you can put your finger on. border security,s especially good intelligence on whose been over to the syria theater. there are a lot of syria coordinations of the individuals involved in the paris attack. secondly, it's very clear that there are failures in terms of known terrorists being able to transit past borders. that was the case in the europe attacks. t...

People in place, shrlt it in place where they are where there's no problem, let them have the time on the roads to contain the fire, allow first responders to move back and forth freely because many of the roads have been closed for hours due to the containment of the preparation for the fire display. so there was only a few routes that would be available and they would have created massive choke points so they made a smart move and made it quickly to maintain control of the population. remember, this is an incredibly diverse population of people from all over the world who have come to this h...

Have done something better, could have caught this plot before it happened the one that just took place last week? >> you know, jake, that's actually one of the responsibilities we have on the intelligence committee is as oversight to do this sort of thing. look at it from the monday morning quarterback position. obviously they do that themselves long before it comes to us. having said that and having gone through this in detail, there is very little that they could have done differently in this case. a couple of the choke points that are being looked at is first of all something that struck m...

When you go to see civilian leaders, what do they try to do az team that they don't have as consultants coming in? >> we have to look at it on a case by case basis. we still find it's only half a dozen problems, you know. they're not communicating, there's silos. it's the basic thing people know, and we come in, we assess, we figure out where the real choke points are and we help them get through those. >> i'm actually waiting for their next book. why not, right? it's great to have you here. thank you so much for joining us. and you know what's coming. please go out and buy a copy of their f...

Vitocracy of our government. >> meaning, too many veto points, too many choke points, too many place where 40 members of congress can say, the whole thing's done. >> we've got to focus on the fact that we've allowed this democracy to fall apart. it is a broken machine, to use your metaphor. and there are ways we could fix it. and we could fix it if we just focused on how to do it. >> i guess there's part of me that feels like, there's something about this that feels a little, you know, the term they used to do in chicago was, like, good government type, the machine would crank on and there wer...