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Magazine "inspired" had an article that trace totals about, urging followers to use trucks to mow down what they called the enemies of allah. isis later had something similar. what can we do, if anything, to prevent the next tragedy? let's talk about it with a former cia analyst. he joins us now from new york to walk us through what happened. what we are able to learn from us. welcome tonight, good to have you with us. trace told us about what we heard from "inspired," but you have pointed out that the islamic states magazine essentially gave bullet points for exactly what we saw happen today....

Selection. the question here, do we turn into a police state or train people to say we need not have been able to catch this guy but based on his behaviors are there things we can train staff after a couple days, security out to be going in saying after 48 hours we are coming in to check to see if things are okay. this is a tough call, no magic answer. rob: this went as far as june. you can plan a lot of things in that many months. thank you for coming on this morning. heather: it is 20 minutes until the top of the hour, liberal attacks sinking to a new low in the wake of the vegas massacre, t...

Target selection was and trying to utilize that and trying to better our plans to identify them before the situations occur. >> neil: and people that can't escape as well. it's tough for people to get moving if something like this happens. one other quick question to ask you, sal. this area -- we're looking outside. it seems to be well-cordoned off. as they can't to search for, additional accomplices or others. how wide would that range be? this is by some estimates just a couple miles away from yankee stadium, for example. how wide do you keep this berth? >> depending on what is occurring. it...

Callization process. three years passed between 2012 and 2015. nobody else was radicalized. we went through a process of target selection. in those three years between 2012 and 2015 the subject never thought about another target? i don't get that. finally and most significantly, as pamela was saying, they were looking at those targets in 2012 to maximize casualties. why then three years later do you pick a target that resulted in significantly fewer casualties at that county building. there are questions that i think are unresolved and may never be resolved. >> jeffrey, some of those questions...

And 2015. nobody else was radicalized? we went through a process of target selection. in those three years between 2012 and 2015, the subject never thought about another target? i don't get that. and finally and most significantly, as pamela was saying they were looking at the targets in 2012 to maximize casualties. why then three years later do you pick a target that resulted in significantly fewer casualties at that county building. there are these questions still that are unresolved and may never be resolved. >> at least some of the questions may have to do with the way that the feds are pr...