ms. richardson. with that ms. richardson we appreciate. >> i'm sure she loves me for that. speaking of people that love me, the gentle lady from new york is recognized, ms. clark. [laughter] >> i do love you, mr. chairman, but i liked to welcome our witnesses and i do want to say for the record my disappointment and the denial of the congressmen's request to address our community, our committee at this hearing as the member of the body that has the largest concentration of the somali americans in the district and has worked very closely with that community. i think we should have afforded him that courtesy and i just want to put that on the record. let me also say that i have also felt a bit troubled about our focus on muslim americans when it comes to radicalization, certainly there isn't a human being alive on the planet right now that does not recognize what is taking place in terms of the islamic threat from specific groups. but when we get into the sort of generalization, and i can't say it better than ms. richardson did about the fact that radicalization is cross-cultu

ms. laura richardson. >> thank you, ms. clarke for the record i want to clarify and build upon the question, the last question i asked you sheriff baca. there have been two issues that mr. king brought up for this hearing, one was the fact of our american muslims cooperating with law enforcement and the second issue is the scope and so i just want to clarify -- your answer was you think these hearings are good and i agree having an open discussion about problems and preventing terrorism is good but what i want to clarify for the record so it's not used against us is do you agree that discussions like this should not -- sure, we should talk about preventing terrorism and radicalization but should the scope be so narrowed only to include american muslim community or should other communities and other groups also be discussed in this same fashion because thus far, we haven't been told of those hearings. >> i believe it depends on the timing and scope. i know that you've heard significantly from all four of us, and i think thes