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A former dc detective. fred, this is accelerating. where is this going? >> you know what, it's very interesting and scary. we don't know where this is going. i can tell you it's a dangerous period that we are in because right now when you look at what's going on in the trump administration and look at the various demonstrate tors. each one has their corners and it's very concerning as to whether someone could be seriously harmed. >> you were telling me. i don't know what the rule of thumb is. when protestors can come into a restaurant and bother someone. it's one thing to target a cabinet secr...

Show up for court appearances down the line. neil? >> neil: connell, thank you very much. what do you do about them? they're in all 50 states. a little more than ten years ago, they were in california and southern arizona. now what? former d.c. police detective on all of this. what do we do, ted? >> you know, neil, that's the $64,000 question. i think what our viewers need to know -- and i taught organized crime at american university here in washington d.c. i can tell you, that ms-13 is one of the premier most dangerous gangs in this country. they're in money laundering, prostitution, drugs, ...

And if that student is overly tight, then unfortunately that student is overburdened with his own problem. what happens here is collectively the community, law enforcement, and school administrators have to work together to try to keep these things from happening like what has happened here at santa fe high school. >> harris: ted williams, former d.c. police detective, we'll ask you to stand by with your expertise and experience. something has developed here and we need to go to one of our correspondents, lauraingle. reportedly some sort of explosive devices coming into play in the story. laur...

>> melissa: >> harris: you hear from people it's going to be this way. >> for some reason they fear there's going to be untrained people in the schools with guns. there's just a lot of unnecessary. nothing to fear but fear itself as roosevelt said. we need to take the action necessary and that action is get cops in our schools as a first step. >> harris: metal detectors, bulletproof glass? some of the schools have these things. >> yes, but not all of them. what's the downside? i ask people against this, what is the down side to have trained officers in the school, to confront an individual and...

My panel, brian lanza, cnn political commentator and former communications director for president trump's transition team, mary catherine hamm with us, cnn political commentator and senior writer at the federalist, and a. scott boldon, former d.c. democratic chairman and chair of the national bar association pac. so, well, first off, i'm always a fan of seeing how the sausage is made over there in the senate. they're going to let us see how it all goes down, which is never pretty i think for a lot of people. certainly satisfies some curiosity, i will say. you heard sunlen laying out the diffic...