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That's what i was trying to get in that statement i issued with some colleagues of mine yesterday. too long after 9/11 we focused almost exclusively on the overseas aspects of our terrorism fight when there is something we have to deal with at home. this extremism problem at home is one that affects communities all across the country and demands a more urgent response from the federal government. >> specifically, walk us through some ideas that you think would work immediately either within the law or new laws that need to be written? when i think about some of the things that happened after 9...

Crazy. the assault weapons and showing up at places and killing people, the conversation would be completely different. so we need to engage with those communities. why don't we like to we did with the muslim community and isis, go to the gun owner community and say we're about gun safety, i thought you guys were, too. why don't you help us police your own because we have an extremism problem in the ranks and you're the closest to the problem. if you want to protect your rights is to make sure innocent people aren't being killed with these weapons. >> what changes now that someone actually too...

>> like a microcosm of the world there. >> very international target in barcelona. but spain has been grappling with a jihadi extremism problem for decades, more 100 spanish residents have traveled to join jihadi groups in syria and iraq, of which a significant portion have joined isis. that's actually a much lower number than some countries in western europe where you almost had 1,000 each in those countries travel to join the group so the scale of the threat is less big in spain than it is in some other countries but they've been very vigilant. there have been hundreds of counterterrorism ar...

>> we're not immune to it. we have a lot of antibodies set thaupt uk doesn't. the uk muslim population has more of an extremism problem. they're more isolated. there is less engage ment with nonmuslims, they're less economically well off. we don't have those same demographic factors in the united states. so the fbi does look at investigations all across the country. there are risks like this. obviously we have cars. we have knives. we have guns. >> right. >> so we have the risks. but we never had the same degree, same volume, same speed of radicalization that the uk, belgium, and the french ha...

Viewers are concerned about and, frankly, what many of us are. why is this a bigger problem for the uk than the united states? >> we're not immune to it. we have a lot of antibodies set that the uk does not have. the uk muslim population has more of an extremism problem. they're more isolated. there is less engagement with nonmuslims, they're less economically well off. we don't have those same demographic factors in the united states. so the fbi does look at investigations all across the country. there are risks like this. obviously we have cars. we have knives. we have guns. >> right. >> so ...