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Is this the type of response we need to see more of in the wake of these horrific car attacks? >> we've come to expect that with our law enforcement that these are folks, men and women, that go to the sound of the guns, per se. to see somebody do that who's a citizen, it's heartening. unfortunately, we can't put a police officer on every corner. so the first line of defense is really people that are aware of their surroundings, not in condition white. they're aware of their surroundings. and to intervene so that this gentleman did not get away, or cause more carnage. keep in mind, a van, 4,000...

Most shaped this age is aids, do you see a world where we can get rid of that, eradicate that in my lifetime? >> not in a quick timetime. maybe even goes right back to the 1920s, 1930s. and we're not likely to get a vaccine any time soon. some advances in possible gene therapy type approaches. >> i know this has crossed people's minds, the likelihood a terrorist group or military enemy could initiate this pandemic? and what would that look like? you consider the 1918 spanish flu that killed 5% of the world's population. >> yeah, my own view is they're not very good buy owe terror weapons. an a...

Letters. it came from the same batch, if you will. but they'll also look at forensics. they'll look for fingerprints that aren't accounted for on the envelope or the letter. they'll look for saliva, dna, hair, fingerprints, all of that. and they'll go through that in an effort to find the individual, which will then tell them what was the motive, was it indeed a political motive. >> how big a problem is it, fran, for the intelligence services in particular, and the fbi and the others in relation to the internet. because here you've got ricin, people can learn how to make deadly ricin from look...

Radicalization. it comes back if you are tipped on this guy, didn't the fbi look at these youtube things and didn't they put it all together that this guy was not, you know, a safe guy? >> my impression is there was no social media activity by the time the fbi interviewed him in 2010. two years later goes and spends the six months in russia. now, remember, i cannot overemphasize the bitterness of the chechen muslim people at the russian christian people. it could be they just conflate all the christian west with the enemy, the decadent enemy. but this guy, tamerlan, the 26-year-old clearly was...

It's a very splintered opposition. coalition's almost too good of a word. the united states has thrown in its political lot with them. militarily things are beginning to tilt increasingly in the direction of the opposition against the government. we saw now the government is shooting off scud missiles, old ballistic missiles which are essentially terror weapons. you shoot them off, you don't know where they'll come down. some come down in civilian areas. they're not militarily significant, but this is the beginning of a slow end game. >> richard, i was just going to ask, what is assad's end ga...