. >> dan benjamin joining me from dartmouth college. thank you so much for your time today. former new york city mayor rudolph giuliani joins me on the phone. welcome to "bottom line." thank you for your time. >> thank you very much for having me. >> in the wake of the attack in paris, have you been getting calls from officials concerned about terror prevention methods? >> yes. i think -- in fact i just finished a discussion with a client about that. i think there is a feeling that there is much greater risk. of course, this feeling has been out there for some time. something like this just reminds you of it. it isn't as if this attack has increased the risk. the risk has been there for several years. i think part of it has been increased by the president's very weak reaction to these things. my experience with this islam extremist terrorism which goes back to the 1970's, i should tell you, when i was an assistant u.s. attorney, is that when america is timid about these things, they take more advantage, and when america is on the offensive, as we were during the iraq and afg