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Get tossed in the garbage. there is no lost in found in the constant alert against terrorism. hours before the incidents here last night, there was a suspicious package under investigation just a few blocks away from police headquarters as president obama was visiting right nearby. >>allan chernoff, thanks. i say there's a lot of suspicious anything happening in new york city. >> there's so much and people -- obviously everybody's attention is up these days. the bombing attempt raising new concerns about homegrown terrorism. we'll ask two experts coming up now. [ music playing, indistinct co...

It's that strand that is infecting the minds of impressionable people. that is a hardest task to deal with. you can capture and kill terrorists, but you have to try to defeat and undermine the ideology being used to recruit individuals. if you cannot import terrorism, terrorist groups will try to recruit americans because that is an easier task in some ways and it's harder for the authorities to monitor and detect. >> has the united states failed to acknowledge that we do have a homegrown terrorism problem here? >> i don't think we have. they have tried to get out in front of this in the last ...

Tell and chris voss who now works for inside security. many of the threats against the united states i guess sort of most grossly illuminated by the 9/11 terror attack, were coming from offshore. there's still some of that, abdulmutallab tried to blow up the plane on christmas day. increasingly we've seen threats from within. how do you fight that? >> this is the big challenge because since 9/11 the u.s. has done a lot to insure its borders are safer and it's harder for terrorists to come in imported from groups like al qaeda. there will be cases like the christmas day plot. not just about imp...

Terrorist-related activity. the fact it could be used to plot and plan terrorist activities in the u.s. is a huge concern. i would point out terrorism is very cost effective, it's a cheap approach and doesn't cost that much to execute a mass casualty plot. >> sajjan and chris, thanks for joining us. the top stories minutes away, including drilling for truth. whether bp is low balling the size and scope of the oil spill. a professor who has seen the video says this could be pumping "exxon valdez" into the water every four days. tear down this wall. people are running from facebook over privac...

It and who else they may have included in this arrangement. so it's going to be a long-term investigation. it's very complicated in trying to determine who knew, who participated, who assisted him with the bomb plot or financing of the plot. the investigation will continue and this is just one more phase of it. >> we know always the first thing to do is always follow the money. clearly that is what authorities are doing. thank you so much. also, paul cruickshank, thanks. what do you think about homegrown terrorism? are we doing enough? we want to hear from you, go to cnn.com/amfix. how to ...