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The indefensible. this is the most irresponse decision any administration made when they said they would hold the trials of khalid sheik muhammad in lower manhattan. you will in effect make it impossible for people to live in the area and businesses with be gone. and new york city and the region is already the number one terrorist target in the world. this would only increase it. i don't believe they should be getting civilian trials anyway. unbrennajohn brennan has to tat how we have to be respectful of the rights of khalid sheik muhammad. if he wanted to do is in an ex-pa dishouse way, he wo...

Counterterrorism with them, making sure their intelligence agencies are up to snuff to be able to weed out these groups and when that fails, we need to look at what other measures can be used to really apply the pressures to them. >> you have a somewhat unique perspective because you are the only member serving on the homeland security committee that is from new york city. >> that's right. >> so do you approach things differently than your colleagues? >> i don't know that i approach it differently but i certainly feel like i have an ownership stake. >> you do. >> making sure nothing occurs in ...

Surprised there haven't been more of this? >> yes, because, and this is one thing charlie and i agree on completely. new york city is the number one terrorist target in the entire country. the nypd, my father was a member of the nypd years ago, under ray kelly they are doing a phenomenal job. but we have a thousand police officers in new york city working on counterterrorism. the average city has two or three. but this is extremely expensive. and we have tunnels. we have bridges. we have roadways. we have a subway system we have ports. we have icons. we have wall street. we have so many church...

Thing charlie and i agree on completely. new york city is the number one terrorist target in the entire country. the nypd, my father was a member of the nypd years ago, under ray kelly they are doing a phenomenal job. but we have a thousand police officers in new york city working on counterterrorism. the average city has two or three. but this is extremely expensive. and we have tunnels. we have bridges. we have roadways. we have a subway system we have ports. we have icons. we have wall street. we have so many churches and synagogues. we have times square. and yet we don't get the federal su...

About 30 seconds left. mayor bloomberg, when he talked last night, pretty much seemed to say, well, the reason that new yorkers are targeted is why we need more homeland security money. do you agree with that? >> absolutely. we are the number one terrorist target in the world. we also need funding for radiation detectors, which is been zeroed out in this year's budget. we have to get the funding in for that. new york is the number one target and we have to have intelligence to spot these before they get here, but once they do get here, we have to have the best investigative and first responder...