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I speak only spanish to my children and not just at home, but out in public. but i got to tell you, if i didn't live in washington, d.c., an incredibly progressive multiethnic, multicultural city, i would think twice about doing that now as well because of exactly what luis just said. and it is time for us to step up to the plate. all of us, no matter what party, democratic, republican, independent, because this has gone further than politics. this is about who we are as a nation. this is about our character. this is about our values. this is about why our parents, my parents, your grandparent...

Assessing what they care about? >> that's one of the things that the pakistani military has, this is the frankenstein's monday monster come back to haunt pakistan. keep in mind, peshawar is the crucible of modern islamist jihadi militancy. this is where the c.i.a. and the pakistani military collaborated to create the jihadi groups that attacked the soviet union when, during the occupation of afghanistan. this is where the afghan taliban essentially was born. this is a city that is very familiar with this kind of unfortunately, with this kind of activity. a year ago, two suicide bombers attacke...

Tell us what was going on through your mind as you watched this siege. >> well, collective horror, i think, really 23 million people in australia, but at any one time, a million of us are offshore. when we looked down the television screen and see this unfolding on our own shores, rather than other countries in the world where these things tend to happen more, we are stunned and we are shocked. and the reason is, australia is a very open, welcoming, sydney is a cosmopolitan. multicultural city. we have absorbed one generation of immigrants after another, peacefully. and having said that, this ...

When you have this widespread perception driven by the despairty between thoughts in the minority communities in new york, which are now the majority communities, new york is now a majority-minority city. where you have those divides. you have to address it directly. and that means better community relations, more outreach to the community. better training for the police officers, because the simple fact of the matter is, if that is how people perceive their police if that's how they feel, you only way you can do that is through engagement. right now the crime picture is pretty good. we're abo...

We have so-called lone wolf and new types of terror attacks. on monday, the new york police department went on high alert. beefing up security at key locations around the city, including the australian consulate. some people are wondering what can you do in situations like? can you really be safe enough? we have someone who can answer the questions, nypd deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, mr. john miller, welcome to new day. you look at pakistan, attacking a school, kids, you think that everything has some line of decency, even more, it turns out not to be true. can you ...