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Revellers can expect to see extra checkpoints. joining us now is national responsibility and cnn law enforcement analyst and former police chief in washington and former police commissioner in philadelphia. i'll start with you, mayor says there is no active or credible threat against the city of new york. this is purely cautionary in terms of the different procedures they are implementing. what more can you tell us about the security plans? >> reporter: hi, ana, that's right. this is of course iconic event, new year's eve celebration in times square and massive security challenge. as you menti...

Emails he's sent, what his vulnerabilities are. you have to prepare a client carefully to be interviewed by the f.b.i. or grand jury. too many people have gone to jail for telling lies to prosecutors. most people don't know it's a crime to lie to a prosecutor. they know it's a crime to lie under oath but you have to prepare your witnesses very carefully to speak to an f.b.i. agent. i don't allow my clients to speak to f.b.i. agents except in extraordinary cases. >> bill: i hope you can come back and we'll go back and forth on it again. alan dershowitz with us today in miami, florida. >> sandra...

Even though evil will be defeated, and i don't think, we as christians can live paralyzed by fear, i do think, this is going to be a wake-up call. what happened today will be a wake-up call to churches of all sizes to do whatever they can to ensure the safety of their members. large churches like mine, we have elaborate security plans. we have plainclothes policeman's, officers, all kinds of plans. i think small churches will realize they need a plan and the good news is, every church can do something. have a volunteer security team. be observant. half an evacuation plan. have some commonsense...

Institutionalized. >> exactly. you see things that took place in vegas, you remember the chief of police in vegas saying, he learned their security measures by going overseas and seeing the way things were done there and then coming back and applying that to his police department in las vegas. do you think that needs to be sort of a federal mandate where security measures are in place to react to situations like this, because they are happening much more frequently? >> i think that it's time for a national discussion on how much and to what degree americans are truly prepared for security. at ...

Devise security plans for schools. you say a comprehensive security plan could do something in a situation like this. explain that. what would you have caught? >> whether it's a school, we do it for corporations and for governments. it is basically the same philosophy. intelligence, enforcement and it is actual security on the street for the things that you miss through your enforcement actions, things that you miss through your intelligence. those three things working together make it a better and safer environment. you can do that anywhere. we can do it in hotels if we wanted to. and again i...