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American public after paris and particularly after san bernardino before he goes to san bernardino and heads on towards hawaii and a vacation? >> that's the essence of obama's challenge, how to make a policy that's fairly reserved deliberately is not committing u.s. ground troops, is not going all-in, also reassuring the american public that people are frightened about terrorism coming to this country. they want the president to be a strong commander in chief. obama has to say i'm protecting you even though i'm reluctant to take us deeper into war in the middle east. >> now, you have been ther...

Killers, but maybe something a little different. maybe lone wolf on steroids, maybe networked wolf, where they have extensive preplanning, extensive self-training, extensive stockpiles of weapons and connection online to other extremists and the fact those people undertook that operation and engaged in that killing in that very unorthodox, unusual target in san bernardino i think is really what's weighing heavily on the minds of law enforcement and school officials in los angeles. now of course, post-9/11, i think you had the same dynamic in new york city. so i think as pete and others have po...

I think that's interesting, right? post-9/11, you have one dominant elite message in terms of what we need to do to keep ourselves safe. perhaps we're lucky to in an election season now where we have thoughts about what's appropriate to keep us safe. >> every time trump says something outrageous, i wonder if the other responses to keep looking at what the thought is, okay, what are other candidates, even in the republican party, saying in these moments. >> what's interesting is trump has used these outrageous proposals to come out on top of polls of who would be the toughest when it comes to c...

With the aumf, in other words, authorizing officially this war. but strategically or tactically speaking, how would that change what the administration is doing to fight isis? >> you know, i think that is sensible for the president to suggest that. what it might do is help to unite the congress with the executive branch, with our military in establishing what we're trying to do and get the country united behind that. the president is relying on authorities that are well more than a decade old. it's been from the post-9/11 era, after the attacks on the united states then, we clearly need a new ...

Influence young impressionable individuals. they buy the half truth of groups like al qaeda or isis. of course, we still need to wait for this to be confirmed this is connected to international terrorism, but it's becoming far too common that sometimes people are accepting the very simple base narrative of joining a death cult effectively that somehow by being part of this network, it provides greater meaning for one's life. what they end up doing is not only killing innocent people but besmirching. it feeds into the dark agenda that terrorist groups are trying to purport. far too often we're ...