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>> you put your manhood in a blind trust while you're vice president. teddy roosevelt said speak softly and carry a big stick. donald trump does the opposite. >> let's introduce -- >> as you've seen on the table, michael lighter. always good to see you. >> good to be here. >> quickly on barcelona, what did you see there yesterday? 14 dead there, and thwarted attacks down the coast of spain as well. >> i think what we have is a more sophisticated cell than people think when they see the vehicular attacks. my guess is you probably have some disruption with that explosion. people have been launch...

>> the isis-inspired attacks whether using a vehicle or knives or bombs, in europe, usually in france or belgium or the uk, spain, correct me if i'm wrong. not necessarily a, an immediate target, a major target. has it been? >> reporter: it's not been such a big target for isis. spain has not played the same role at the uk, germany, france or belgium in terms of the anti-isis coalition, in terms of air strikes in syria and iraq. while there have been almost 1,000 british extremists that have gone on to join these groups and almost 1,000 french, we've seen only a little over 100 spanish residen...

Barriers to entry, you can't stop this sort of attack. >> so the update that we got which will lead to a bigger investigation is this a senior police official is telling us that the van attack is linked to the explosion the previous day in which one person was killed. so obviously this gets us to a version of a conspiracy. now, a conspiracy, just more than one person we're not saying anything else but that does take this into another direction. >> yes. and the spanish have been very good about fighting terrorism. they had the major attack in madrid in 2004. but since then they've been relative...

I islamism. people retreat to that area as a safe area. does london have something as dangerous as that in its geography? >> reporter: um, actually it does. there are quite a few very angry communities here when you talk to police and security sources. they talk about a pool of around 20,000 people who have some form of radical ideology and that they prioritize the most urgent cases and they say they are watching at any one stage 3,000 people as persons of interest. so that's a pretty large pool when you're talking about a country of about 65 million. so unfortunately, yes, there is a radicali...

A good number have returned to the uk. they're seeing increased return rates all around europe. and there's a homegrown radicalization problem who's feeding this, radicals who are staying behind and being encouraged by groups like isis to take action and being given instructions over the internet and over secure and encrypted channels. >> if memory serves me correct, manchester, we have seen arrests in manchester in recent years, have we not? >> that's right, we have seen quite a few arrests in manchester in the years since 9/11, there has been sort of local islamist scene there, the problem o...