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Considerable, we missed you. >> great to see you. brian: productive. brand new book out. i wanted to talk to you about what happened on friday. we were covering it as it was breaking. this guy goes home, gets radicalized comes back. watches a few killing videos. buys a gun legally because he wants to hunt and he can do that? so what do you think? is it just one guy. >> this is radical islamic terror. no one is saying that because we're so politically correct today we can't describe it as that. that's what it is. number one, number two, the firearm was purchased legally because he is given spec...

Infiltration on the part of al-qaida or isis as part of a planned effort or was this a one-off radicalization. the end of the day, i think senator scott is absolutely right. we have to get to the bottom of this vetting program. i will say, ed, these programs i personally participated in them. i've trained with british, jordannan, japanese, allies all over the country. they're important for two reasons. one, they're training on american equipment we're selling our allies abod and that interoperability and the ability to fight together is important. we're often training with the foreign nation's...

Regulation that made it harder for some people with mental illnesses to purchase guns. critics said the rule -- which affected about 75,000 people -- violated the second amendment. in tokyo, the president said now is not the time to talk about gun control. >> this isn't a guns situation. i mean, we could go into it, but it's a little bit soon to go into it, but fortunately, somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise, it would have been -- as bad as it was -- it would have been much worse. but this is a mental health problem at the highest level. >> reporter:...

>> it's quite important. i'm interested in seeing what those videos and what those images are and in particular where he got them from. social media companies have found this to be a tough challenge to try to get this content off of their platforms. i'm interested if he got them from the open internet of social media, a file upload site or did he get it from more like a closed chat room, the kind shown on telegram and so on. if so, what led him to go them. >> president trump wrote "i have just ordered homeland security to step up our already extreme vetting program. being politically correct i...

Searches, so for the fbi this is pretty much a nightmare. >> bob, i know in talking with you earlier you said you were part of vetting with the visa lottery and president trump tweeted after the attack on tuesday, "i've just ordered homeland security to step up our already extreme vetting program. being politically correct is fine, but not for this." if i'm hearing you correctly, vetting isn't necessarily the answer it seems, but is it a change of attitude toward people coming into this country? is it inclusiveness, or is that too simplified? >> well, it's a little simple. the problem is the s...