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Us safe? joining me now the ranking member of the house homeland security committee and a former federal prosecutor, congressman how are you? >> trey, good to see you again, my friend. >> trey: likewise, all right, you're familiar with new york. if crime rates are indeed rising in new york, what do you attribute that to? >> well, last week in my capacity as head of homeland security committee for republicans, i went to new york city and had a roundtable discussion with law enforcement at all levels in the area, and it was unbelievable how profound the problems are in new york city, and they're...

Americans are not broadly familiar with this man. he -- >> but even if he was bin laden, this is a president who's done so much up to this point, everybody has an opinion of him. everybody feels strongly about donald trump. is there anything that can change it one way or another? >> i think maybe a sliver in the middle. >> the president's going to get high marks for the elimination, the neutralization of the top terrorist target on the planet earth and he deserves them. he has taken some actions in the last couple of weeks that have reduced substantially our strategic position in the region an...

That's faeaffected by this, it' all around the country. i deeply appreciate and admire their patriotism. one other point i want to make about this that probably even matters more to most americans in the state of the union, and that's the super bowl. with the super bowl coming up in a couple weeks, this is a major potential terrorist target. the government shutdown is impacting the security effort that comes at the super bowl. that is yet one more reason and one other not so obvious way in which the government shutdown is affecting all these other facets of american life. >> that's an interest...

>> and secondly, longer lines in and of themselves, what we consider to be nuisances, they have a safety impact as well, don't they? >> well, that's right, john. and from the standpoint of the long lines that you mentioned, obviously present an attractive terrorist target for an active shooter or series of terrorists who might want to come in as we've seen in airports around the world what they don't even have to worry about going through or trying to get through the checkpoint because they can just go into a terminal and if there's thousands of people, as we saw for example particularly at ch...

Recent ride along with the new coast guard. jackie is joining us with more on that. reporter: more than 85,000 servicemen and women serving the coast guard. the newly appointed commandant is making sure that they are ready for anything. a hail of machine gun rounds echo off the waters in new york harbor. this is the busiest port traffic in the world and the coast guard new york along with 35 fleet and 1000 servicemen and women tasked with patrolling and protecting it. >> would like to say is we have a lot of everything here. we are one of the busiest container ship ports, one of the busiest po...