radical ideology, to discuss former member of the israeli special counteroperations terrorism unit erin cohenod to see you here, i'm going to start out what americans are worried about, what should our officials here in the u.s. be doing so that terror does not strike between now and christmas? >> well, there's no way to stop terrorism, we haven't been able to stop but can slow it down, slow it down by cranking up intel gathering, intelligence is the most critical layer of counterterror operations. you need actionable intelligence, once you've got the intelligence game hammered down, then you can deploy military force as special operations unit to go and neutralize and kill those terrorist leaders, that's what we want to do, kilter risk leaders or capture them alive so we can interrogate them and event future attacks from happening in the united states. i want to differentiate, certain terrorists you want to kill, mid-level, the leaders you want to capture so you can get more juice, squeeze them and prevent further attacks. the other thing we need to be looking at here, since the intelligence