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Operations, homeland security, 35 years of experience in working in terrorism and counterterrorism. malcolm, i almost made you a terrorist. that would have been a shame given your career. are we lucky most of these guys are just amateurs? >> yes, we're very lucky they're amateurs. let's just take a look at today's case. he built this five-inch pipe bomb, apparently didn't do the chemicals right to our benefit. and for the most part he just went up and thought this thing up. of course new york city police is going to be determining whether there were other people involved in this, whether there...

Here, a mental defect here, because it is nothing like some of the plots that we've seen before, where at least the devices were competently built, they were tested ahead of time, and some planning and forethought went into their missions. >> all of which is why we invite malcolm nance to join us on a night like this after a day like this here in new york. malcolm, can't thank you enough. >> it's my pleasure. >> and coming up after our final break, you can call it a blast from the past. back in the news as part of an aggressive trump administration campaign. we'll explain after this. whoooo.

Actually see, you're probably going to find that people who were around him knew that he had these -- this anger towards the issues that he claims he represented isis for. but may not have actually enunciated that he was a member of isis. that being said, you know, you can never predict what's inside a person's mind. they can just go ahead, think up a plot, get the materials, and do it. and the crudeness of this device tells me there's a mental factor here, a mental defect here, because it is nothing like some of the plots that we've seen before, where at least the devices were competently bui...

Terrorist attempted to blow himself up in the new york city subway and only partially succeeded. he apparently secured a pipe from a job site, assembled a makeshift bomb at home, attached it to himself with velcro and zip ties. surveillance video shows him detonating it. the bomber is hospitalized with burns. he received the worst of it. you might say by design. three other people were injured but did not require hospital stays. it happened during morning rush beneath the port authority terminal, and the police and fire response, as you can guess, was robust. he's been identified as a 27-year-...

27-year-old, akayed ullah, a legal permanent resident with a green card. immigrated from bangladesh in 2011. he told police he was motivated by u.s. bombings in isis-controlled territory. he had not been on law enforcement's radar prior to this incident. his brooklyn neighbors, by the way, told "the new york post" he was aloof, weird, and always angry and there was a loud fight in his residence just last night. with us this evening, malcolm nas, veteran of naval intelligence, sperpg v special operations, homeland security, 35 years of experience in working in terrorism and counterterrorism. ma...