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Matters very little. we know he was radicalized now here on u.s. soil, so at this point, what we're really having to deal and grapple with is how do we stem the flow of radicalization here on u.s. soil? because right now the u.s. government doesn't have like a verifiable and measurable program to deal with that. i think we're lacking policy at this point, so that leaves law enforcement and intelligence communities to play catch-up. they're having -- when they are at that point where they're having to deal with a suspect, it is too late in the radicalization process. >> james, what we've also l...

This individual came here but became radicalized since he was here. how did that happen? i haven't spoken to him. i can speculate that he came across material online -- >> shepard: that's what the authorities have saying. >> exactly. he might have had other issues going on in his life. may have had multifactors and drivers here. i can speculate as authorities have suggested already, that he was supposed to radical extremist content on facebook, twitter and google and youtube. we see this across a lot of cases and the radicalization process becoming shorter. the time of exposure to attack, it's...

Going on, so how long or short was that radicalization process? the challenge for law enforcement today is, that radicalization process can be very short. someone can have been here a long time, nothing's going on, and then, you know, something clicks or something goes wrong in their life and they turn to terrorism as something to make their misery seem sort of more symbolic. and that's what we just don't know about his history. he has been here a while, though, so i'm curious about foreign travel, and i'm curious about who he was with here. >> all right, juliette, i want to thank everybody on...

All we have right now. >> we don't know two significant details relevant for this investigation. the first is are there co-conspirators. he may have been acting alone today, but did someone help him rent the truck. did this require planning? from the looks of it, it didn't require much planning. it's very possible he acted solely alone and rented the truck and did this alone. the second question, the big one, what were his ties to any radicalization process either ob line or travel. that's being investigated right now. we know and paul will speak to this in greater detail that isis is not take...

It's tied to a mentality about how men are thinking about the world. until e we understand that, we are going to focus our counterterrorism efforts on countries, rather than a radicalization process, which is never going to get the risk down to zero. the benefit. of living in new york city is sort of the flow. people are out and about. >> what does this mean in terms of this is the sort of thing that has happened elsewhere? there's a long list of places where people have done vehicular attacks. whether you're talking about france or germany. this has happened in new york city. >> erin, i think...