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>> well, i could tell you from decades working counter-terrorism and the fbi and running the fbi counter-terrorism program for a while, the work of countering terrorism never stops. so you get really ramped up when a particular event is on the horizon like this upcoming rally on the 18th or when a particular anniversary, a significant anniversary is aupon us like the anniversary of 9/11. any events that could be triggering or could cause extremists to maybe want to mark those events with acts of violence, you have focused on those. but you immediately have to then turn your focus to the next t...

Muslim that doesn't want to kill me. i expect that we're not talking about all muslims. we are talking about jihaddists. stop conflating them together. stop broad brushing muslims, all jihadis. >> you are not going to stop. >> it's irrelevant. >> you are not going to self-starting themselves on this ideology. what you have to do now is good police work, good surveillance. pass those sections of the patriot act that have lapsed. >> they have been dismantled. nypd has dismantled their counter terrorism program. thank you, mayor de blasio. >> sean: stereotyping. >> remember that nut election boot...

Of those countries are indeed who they say that are. that is reasonable for a president to make that judgment. the congress has made the same judgment and his predecessor made a similar judgment about those countries. it's unfortunate because there's so many anti-mr. trump in this nation that we have lost sight of what is truly happening. >> neil: bottom line is, you now have many people looking at this and saying, america doesn't have its act together on terror issues. is that a fair rap? that seems to be the read you're getting from abroad. >> no, absolutely. there's no country on the planet...

Say he made an oval office speech he could debate the balance between national security -- >> absolutely. >> and civil liberty. at some point people say what about this? are you in fact spying on us? that is a bigger question. he can have a press conference or have dana in for an intese options. i think if you are a media manager you say right now you are not the person. let the american people hear from the fbi director. let them hear from the national director of intelligence. >> i want to go to a sot, sound on table. i think she said it concisely as she always does. >> i think we need to be...

>> if the president had let's say he made an oval office speech he could debate the balance between national security -- >> absolutely. >> and civil liberty. at some point people say what about this? are you in fact spying on us? that is a bigger question. he can have a press conference or have dana in for an interview. he has these options. i think if you are a media manager you say right now you are not the person. let the american people hear from the fbi director. let them hear from the national director of intelligence. >> i want to go to a sot, sound on table. i think she said it concise...