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>> coming up, police forced to cancel outreach programs for school children. hem high-fives and some thought it was

The threat that they were seeing, and that is when they did have to draw the agents from the criminal cases to try to do more surveillance on the national security cases. that is a period that the fbi director says was unsustainable. they are not doing that right now, but i can tell you that they are concerned that the more of the cases that they have to open, it is going to draw on more resources. >> and tom, take us behind the scenes to take us to what significant the threat may be for another person are requiring more surveillance. >> well, they are gathering as much intelligence as they ca...

Watching a, one of the people arrested in san diego was a brother of one of the people there, they're watching these folks and to the degree that they set up conduits for transfer of money or identifying people who could join that does come back and hit u.s. interests. so it's very unnerving. >> you mentioned the somali community. we know that minneapolis is one of the largest concentrations of somalis in america. we also know that there have been a number of outreach programs launched locally on the federal level trying to reach out to the folks who lived there in minneapolis specifically. ar...

Outreach programs. here's something else we can send you to other than jail. another place other than jail. that's a good goal because the court can't handle these petty crimes. they just can't handle it. it is very expensive to take a lot of the tax dollars to prosecute people arrested for the small types of offenses, petty offenses. we have to have room in the jails and the police focused on the small petty offenses and the searches in the community when what they should focusing on is major crime and combatting major crime instead of the small offenses. so i think it makes sense to shift th...

Some float -- how come you decided to meet an older demo? >> we have numerous outreach programs that we have in the city. this is just one of multi-facetted approach that we take when we reach out to our youth. we do a new video every week. this is just one way we want to reach to them. we want to do do something that would be memorable and get people talking about youth violence and hopefully prevent crime before we have to do any enforcement action. >> you were able to tap into your theatrical background. here is a further example of how you're getting your message across. ♪ i want to chan...