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Religion. a white man named joe stack flew his single engine airplane into an irs building in austin, texas. we didn't hear people call it domestic terrorism. if it was a brown man named mohammad we would have probably shut down every irs building in the country. there is a double standard when it comes to acts of extremism committed by white men or brown muslim people. something else to keep in mind -- >> before you go, i will let you make your other point. why do you think it is a double standard? >> again, i think that the term terrorism sadly within our public discourse has been co-opted t...

And 'wuhl need to work together as a nation to work on bringing back the sense of security that we have been missing in this country for a while now. >> mm-hmm. i want to ask arsalan this. we've had several things, muslim americans like the times square, the alleged bomber, the suspect, the army psychiatrist that we saw at ft. hood, and all that -- nidal hasan. there's also adam gadahn, born here, a known member of al qaeda. what do you think of this, the terrorists coming from outside of the country, but now it seems that they're maybe coming from people who were either born here or were natu...

>> well, i think it does, don. i think another important thing to keep in mind is that terrorism knows no race or religion. we remember a few months ago when a white man named joe stack flew his single engine airplane into the irs building in austin, texas. he d we didn't hear anybody call it a domestic act of terrorism, but we would have shut down every other irs building in the country. there is a double standard here when it comes to acts of extremism committed by, you know, white men or committed by brown muslim people. something else important to keep in mind and i think your viewer -- >>...

Addition to housing the local office of the fbi, we can assume that there are other offices in play, plus people driving in the area, and jon, you're a pilot, so basically, what are the options of what can happen? jon: well, we'll get to that in just a moment. robert mark is with us on the phone, he's a commercial pilot, also editor of jetline.com. robert, when you see pictures like this, and again, the indications are that this was a relatively small single engine airplane, what are the first thoughts that come to your mind? >> i think the first thought that comes to my mind is there was some...

This all morning. what have we learned? >> megyn, it's believed this was a cherokee, a piper cherokee, the 140 model. it is a very basic single engine airplane, very common, probably thousands of them built and flying in this country. capable of carrying, oh, 50 gallons of fuel or so. there's a look at one there. very simple, you know, single engine airplane, and i keep making the point that even though there is a fairly small amount of fuel carried on board these planes, when you take 50 gallons of aviation fuel and slam it into a building at, say, 120, 130 miles an hour, as this one may have...