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If this is one person who's been inspired from overseas, it's very, very difficult to defend against that. >> malcolm nance, this is where we enter your expertise. one of my point that four seconds before this happened, this was just a car. after this sudden left turn, it was a terrorist weapon. >> absolutely right. and, you know, keir brings a very important point to the table. as your question indicated, what level of security do we want? what level of security we need. if you leaf it to counterterrorism professionals like, my we'll be building 20-foot high texas barriers around your buildin...

>> tom fuentes, those kinds of weapons, those kind of long guns as jim says they're readily available, right? >> absolutely. the ar-15 is weapon of choice for most american shooters and gunsmen and militia shooters as well, as opposed to the ak-47 known to be a terrorist weapon kind of been taken over by terrorists all over the world. ar-15, same thing, 30 rounds magazines, fires at 700 rounds a minute if you reload fast enough. and it's a deadly weapon. and that's the weapon we saw at sandy hook elementary. and so many of these other mass shootings it's been the weapon of choice, the ar-15 as...

India, we've seen fire used as a terrorist weapon before, as a result, big city fire departments, including but not limited to the fdny here in new york city, trained for fire as a terrorist weapon notable. chris matthews, watching along with us, out in san francisco today. chris, we haven't checked in with you since the afternoon break. >> yeah. well, it is -- they've not been effective in coordinating their thinking or their strain of thought here this afternoon. i thought hillary clinton grabbed a great moment that i was hoping she would in these hearings today to tell the given narrative w...

Not need mora reason guards or diplomatic security or cia security for the cia mission? such reluctance to disclose it wasn't an intelligence. part of the mission to reclaim weapons that the insurgents had, weapons that we helped supply them and the insurrection against gadhafi, because, as you remember, we didn't have boots on the ground, it was a nato air operation but we supplied them with a lot of the weaponens and that mission to get the weaponry back. the reason they were well armed, classic blowback, again, as we'd seen in afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. >> andrea mitchell, ...

>> pete, just for folks that may not be up to speed, what exactly a dirty bomb -- what is a dirty bomb and how effective can it be? >> well, the two kinds of things that people are worried about is an actual nuclear weapon. the kind that you think of that would make a mushroom cloud. but easier to make, although not that easy, turns out, it simply taking some radiological material and wrapping it around some explosive and detonating it to just spread the nuclear material out. it's not a nuclear explosion but it spreads out radiological material that could make an area unsafe to inhabit. and if...