phil mudd, talking to stephen miller, what does that mean to you? what does it indicate? >> you have to understand the timing of this. timing is critical. he's got to know about critical issues in the investigation, including the circumstances surrounding the comey firing. but here's why i raise the issue of timing. just a couple of weeks ago we had the mueller team indicting a few people, including papadopoulos for lying to federal agents. when you go into this meeting with steve miller, you have to ask how much does the mueller team know what i know. secondly, if i make a mistake, the mueller team has now proven they will bring 1,001 charge. that is lying to a federal officer. they come right before the conversations with senior white house officials. what does that tell me? the message those white house officials is if you think this is a joke, if you think you can shuck and jive around critical questions, if you lie, we will give you a federal charge that will last for you throughout your entire life. >> one quick point on this, the president keeps saying i'm not unde

he can't pick and choose what analysis he supports. >> except phil mudd. i can. i'm going to do exactly that. sometimes he says things and i agree with it and i don't like this russia investigation. it's bad for me. you are trying to use it to frame me for having been part of something i had nothing to do with. any time someone can-can tamp it down, i'm okay with it. >> in this case he can have his cake and eat it too. as democrats and republicans have said, as the clinton people and as the second george bush said, we need a reset. we have a responsibility to work with the russians. the president is right in places like iran and places like syria. he can walk in and say i disagreed with president putin, be as tough as he is face-to-face, the intelligence community and silicon valley said we had intervention and i am working on a plan for the next election. i don't know why we can't say we need a way forward in syria. >> do you think the president is getting played or he likes what he's saying -- >> yes. >> you think he is getting played? or he allows it. >

cnn legal analyst jeffrey toobin and phil mudd. jeffrey, when we see these developments, the idea of the first notion, it seems that the investigators are moving towards the inner circle. one, is that how investigations work? do you work outside in generally? and what do you see in the latest round of reporting about the talks. >> well, first of all, yes. that's generally how investigators work in any sort of investigation in any organization. whether it's an insider trading ring or organized crime family. you start with the more peripheral figures, see what you can get out of them and ask questions toward the center of the group. as for what's happening right now, certainly the most important substantive development has been the fact that michael flynn's lawyers are no longer cooperating, participating with a joint defense agreement with trump lawyers and other lawyers that certainly suggest that flynn is in the process of negotiating with the mueller office. whether that ends in a guilty plea or it doesn't, i don't pretend to kno

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we go to motive, phil mudd. there was a lapse in the process here.hat will help the guy get a gun. why he wanted it. that seems pretty clear why he wanted it. he went to the place where his in-laws went to church, found his grandmother-in-law there. took her life. >> the it's striking in contrast what we've seen in the last couple of days and what we've seen in las vegas. you can see somebody's life with text messages, match that up with interviews. we're learning motive very quickly in ways i would expect to learn motive in 95% of cases. i contrast that with las vegas and i'm still scratching my head with that one. i think you're right, this will be domestic violence. i'm not sure yet but can give it a couple more day. >> people don't know how close the connection is between domestic violence and gun violence. other than suicide, which is another thing we don't focus on, 35,000 a year that are gun related. you almost never fail when you try to take your life with a gun. it's not just about taking guns from people. it's about stopping these crimes. a

i want to bring informer fbi senior official phillip mudd and former cia analyst and newest cnn national security analyst. you were on the fbi's joint terrorism task force. in terms of where they are at now, what are they facing in terms of what is ahead? >> i think they're trying to find out if he's connected to others in the united states or outside. they are trying to find out if this attack is inspired by isis. it seems like it's inspired by isis or maybe directed by isis or people who are connected to the organization. >> overseas or domestically? >> yes. first of all, the red flag is the fact that he's an uzbek. we've been seeing more than 1500 join in iraq and syria joined isis in iraq and syria from uzbekistan. also, from his region in central asia, that includes uzbek and so many other countries over there. the former soviet republics could use more than any other region, more fighters than any other region to the islamic state. so there's a lot of things that investigators now will be looking at, both domestically and internationally, to see if there is any connection with isis

. >>> i want to bring in our security experts, former fbi and cia senior official, phil mudd, also former fbi supervisory special agent, ali soufan, also nada bakos, the former cia analyst and the newest cnn national security analyst. ali, you were on the fbi joint terrorism task force. just in terms of the investigation, where it's at now, what are they facing in terms of what's ahead? >> i think they are trying to figure out if he is connected to others, either in the united states or outside. they are trying to probably figure out if this attack is inspired by isis. it seems it's inspired by isis. or maybe directed by isis or people who are connected to the organization -- >> either overseas or domestically? >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, first of all, the very first red flag will be the fact that he's an uzbek, and recently we've been seeing a lot of uzbeks joining the so-called islamic state, more than 1,500 joined in iraq and syria -- joined isis in iraq and syria from uzbekistan. also in the same time from his region, in central asia, that includes tajik and uzbeck, and so many other

>> yeah, phil mudd, you used to work at the fbi.evidence right noo to justify another special counsel to look after hillary clinton and the uranium sale? >> i'm not sure. and jeff sessions set him up with an insulation so he doesn't -- that said he's raised itmism let me talk about that point of insulation, he's asked the justice department to look at it, people that the president would call the swamp. if jeff sessions goes to the president and says i can't do anything, mr. president, i can't overrule my experts. if the prosecutors kpl back and say there is something to pursue here, there is something to look at, you go to the democrats and say i didn't make this decision. the people who proceeded made that decision. so he shouldn't have gone down this path. but once he did, he's a smart dude, he insulated himself. >> i remember when trump right after election said he wasn't going to investigate the clintonsmism anymore. he was feeling sort of magnanimous in his moment of victory. and now he's changed his mind. and now jeff sessions

phil mudd i wanted to go to you.ears perked up a few minutes ago with the navy crashes today and collisions we've seen over the last few months p. he said cyber attacks were a possible subject of the investigation. that would be remarkable, would it no snnchnot? >> it would be. make sure you look for the people who didn't. the second question is the difference between -- we've seen a lot of naval accidents recently. the difference between training redness, policy, procedure. did something happen in those ship accidents we've seen recently that could be improved versus accidents. this this case you're talking about millions of people around the world involved in diplomatic military operations. are we sure we have something that suggests that there was a cyber intrusion, a policy problem, a propcedure problem, training problem versus did we have an accident that happens when you have millions of people operating around the world every day. in this case you might see an accident. i wouldn't rush to conclusion. >> it don

let's bring in phil mudd. he came out of the vehicle. he had a note that supposedly pledged some type of devotion to isis. you say not so fast, why? >> i'm saying i'm more cautious. i want to know what did he tell friends and family, did he have drug and alcohol abuse? you're going back to someone that has been in the country for seven years. family history. i'm confident on the outside but on the inside i have to follow the facts. 24 hours or less in he's -- >> that's going to be new in terms of geographical significance. >> the central asians were, they have been involved in isis. >> was there somebody else in the community that knew? what is his travel history over the past years and that digital trail, is he communicating for those who are radicalizing? a lot of dimensions here. >> there is an emotional compote here. >> if it is coordinated or not it is still too easy. he hopped a curb and went on a killing spree. we'll show you later on some of the video people shot in the moment. the devastation this guy was capable to pull off may

gregory, phil mudd, errol louis. phil, he has a way of just spilling it out. it was so counter to all of our reporting. what did you make of it? >> i thought it was specifically to counter all of this reporting. a number of people noted he's fuming, seething, watching cable television, screaming, losing his temper. other aides saying the walls are closing in and on and on and on. this was his way of trying to project some calm and confidence, trying to regain the narrative. not very plausibly i might add. this is somebody who has sort is of made his brand, the danger, the rage, the ability to project strength and strike back. it is is very uncharacteristic for him. it is laced with inaccuracies saying this has nothing to do with me. sir, your campaign manager was just hit with a federal indictment mostly based on documents. he is either going to plead guilty or go to prison most likely. it does have something to do with it. >> phil, i don't know why. people have tip-toed around this a bit in the past. how could you make a good case that the president is not un

samuel mudd were tried by a tribunal for their roles in the assassination of president lincoln. hanged. >> the nazi saboteur trial began july 8th, 1942. it took place behind closed doors inside the department of justice building in washington, d.c., a place very familiar to agent traynor. >> in the same classroom where we were trained as new agents. they were brought to the department of justice every day in armored vehicles with guns. >> the tribunal was made up of seven military officers that fdr personally selected. >> when roosevelt set up the tribunal, he set up a blue ribbon group of lawyers, both to prosecute and to defend the case. biddle was the lead prosecutor. >> attorney general biddle has a photograph identified by one of the fbi men who captured the saboteurs. >> at the trial i was, i guess, the first witness called. and the attorney for dash persisted in asking me who did i meet, where did i meet him, and is the man here that i met. so i said, yes, he is, he's right over there. he said, no, get up off that chair and come over and stand in front of him, which i did

phil mudd, the implications.here has been a political spin, whatever flynn did, it's about money, accounting, fara requirements, it's an acronym. look it up for yourself. this is different. that is after the election. in december. what does this mean in terms of the implications for the investigation? >> there's a couple of differences here. as you mentioned, this happened after the election. the simple question is whether something illegal happened. whether there was a conversation about money and exchange. number one, ethics. if there is a pre-existing relationship with the turks, when you go into an official position in the white house, you ought to be declaring on paper what your previous relationships are so when there are follow-on conversations in the oval office, everybody knows general flynn may have a perspective but he had a pre-existing relationship with the turks. the second subsidiary question is even more interesting. we had the mueller team drop 1001, lying to a federal officer on pop tkop loss, w

let's bring in our panel john avlon and gregory and phillip mudd. this is a multipronged approach to attack the judicial system, due process. by the way, let's read what he wrote overnight about the death penalty. nyc terrorist was happy as he asked to hang an isis flag in his hospital room. he killed 8 people, badly injured 12. should get the death penalty. this makes it harder for prosecutors. >> and it is outside the american tradition. after 9/11, george w. bush said we wanted owe osama bin laden dead or alive. we need to rush an execution. saying the justice system is a laughing stock. it is too slow. it is against our traditions and another best tradition. george w. bush. this is donald trump's hometown where this occurred. it took a full day to reach out to our elected leaders. >> and his first impulse wasn't to comfort the victims and speak to people directly. he played politics right out of the box. i love you, john of lop. but gregory, all of that, snowflake talk. >> oh! >> danger towards the people who do this to us. we want them dead. th

so it's basically reconstruction and you had nada bakos and phil mudd on earlier.are the folks i used to bring into my office to help me understand these things and those are the things they suggested we have to do. >> would the fbi joint terrorism task force, would they be working in coordination with other intelligence agencies, with the cia at this point? >> of course, they would. of course the national agencies would now be trying to discover anything they might have on this man and his connections with the broader globalist jihadist movement. frankly, anderson, my instincts are, if we're going to get information on this man, it's going to come from local authorities, from law enforcement, and from the people around him in his community rather than the national intelligence services of the united states. >> in terms of the investigation, it's got to be extremely significant that the attacker has been taken alive. and doesn't have to be mirandized right away. >> well, that's a very important thing that you point out. and this is going to give us a rare opportuni

you obviously have a gap and an inconsistency here, phil mudd.eople say, what law would have made a difference? enforcing these laws and having consistency with them, maybe you would have ended up in a different spot with this guy, maybe you would haven't. and you have president trump weighing in on this on his trip to asia. he's in japan, that's a big population, they deal with lots of different kind of violence, but they don't have mass murders like this. i'm sure it won't come up in their conversation, but it's worth asking. >> the basic questions to me mind would be, if someone has a history of assault, how do they get a weapon? do we have a national database of people with assault convictions? the same would hold true in my word for psychological problems. if it turns out he had some kind of psychological, do we have a national debate that people shouldn't have access to a weapon. you're raising a bigger question that has to do with humility in the united states. this country suffers from a lack of humility. let's look north border, canada,

"mudd bound" is all those things and never lets us settle on one particular point of view. >> rose: tellabout your character, mary. >> my character is forens jackson, powerful, and reserved. she is confident in her own skin. she is a woman who absolutely loves her family, like most women in the world, and she would do anything for them. i love you, too, baby. and she's a woman who understands another woman because she's a woman. this is yet relationship between her and laura becomes very powerful because she understands a woman. and she's just like-- like, she's just a woman who loves her family and would do anything for them. >> rose: and your character? >> so i play laura. >> rose: right. >> and she's the mother in the other household. and she starts the story as a sort of awkward misfit who has never really found out who she is. she describes herself as a 31-year-old virgin and is sort of destined for spinsterhood until she meets henry. she goes into marriage and motherhood and feels this is sort of a journey she should be on and then meets henry's brother, jamie, and then moves to th

. >> let me let phil mudd weigh in on this.ou hear the president in his tweets and his statements saying not just the justice department but the fbi has to start investigating hillary clinton or as he calls her crooked hilly and the other democrats. >> i don't think the american people understand how profound his statement is. we live in a country that has a gift that we take for granted. if you're black, white, christian, jewish, regardless, you're blind in the pursuit of justice. what the president has suggested is regardless of the facts the department of justice finds. when president putin does it we sanction him, when president trump says it we say it's weird. the president just under mined any prospect the justice department would do that. as you know the department has declined to pursue charges against secretary clinton. let's say they reopened the case tomorrow, what would everybody say? they would say it's a result of the political pressure from the president. he's not thinking enough, in a sort of tillerson moment, a

chris cillizza, gregory, and counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. great to see all of you. phil, let me start with you. we have this picture of the march 2016 meeting with then candidate donald trump. you see jeff sessions, george papadopoulos and j.d. gordon. gordon now says this is where he made his pitch, be that he could arrange a meeting between vladimir putin and candidate trump. does that change the investigation for you? >> it doesn't change the investigation for me. the meeting with the ambassador. you are meeting with the representative of a foreign power and you can't remember. >> jeff sessions in. >> jeff sessions. >> one of a thousand conversations a day with a chump change adviser. and a year later, more than a year later you don't remember that one. if someone said did you ever talk about xyz, you had a five-minute conversation 15 minutes ago, i would write that off. meeting with the ambassador is significant. >> a chump change guy who is now a cooperative witness in the special counsel investigation which elevates him beyond the realm of chump change perhaps

he's a co agent of agent storm, and also philip mudd, a senior terrorism official. what a harrowing story we've heard this evening. 29 years old, came to the united states in 2010. why is this significant? what can you tell us about terrorist activity in uzbekistan? >> there are two major groups. the first affiliated with isis and the second affiliated with al-qaeda. both those groups have significant presence in syria and iraq. at least 1,500 ubeks have traveled to those foreign countries, there's a lot of jihadi propaganda in uzbek. and some have notably carried out attacks in the west. so investigators are going to look at perhaps if there was travel back and forth between uzbekistan. also there was a dhs study which looked at foreign-born violent extremists and found that most of them had become radicalized after they came to the united states and through social media, propaganda on the internet and so on and foe forth, don. >> it's interesting, phil. i don't know if you were the last guest. he said what he found -- what he struck him was the biinality of evil j

also cnn investigative reporter for international affairs, michael weiss, philip mudd and assistant secretary for homeland security. just now, the fact they have found this note, how that may shift the investigation or widen the investigation in some ways. >> absolutely gives them something to work with, just like all the human intelligence gained by talking to people at the scene. one of the things important to stress in this month, october 1st we had the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. we close out the month with the worst attack since 9/11. i'm glad we put up the 800 number there for tips. for events like this, here are the things you are to do, run first. if you can't run away, hide. if you can't hide, fight. and lastly, tell. i talked to a couple people in the crowd and they were showing me pictures of the subject. and i asked them, have you given this o to the police, and they said, yes. that's what people need to do. >> that run, hide, fight, is an important thing to keep in mind. the fight aspect is a in your thing that law enforcement is encouraging people to do given what they'

phil mudd, steve hall and jeffrey toobin. tooef th steve this alleged offer of women to citizen trump, would you be more surprised if the russians didn't try something like this? >> frankly would have been more surprised. standard operating procedure for the russians. 2014, before trump was candidate but nevertheless what the russians would consider american oligarch. someone from their world view, money, power and never know one day what they'll end up being. that triggers low threshold for fsb, internal russian intelligence service, beginning of collecting all sorts of information, anything to get their hands on or set up that could be used in compromising situation in the future. if not donald trump, i don't know how many senior american billionaires came through at that time, all would have had this type of collection. very aggressive. been doing it since lenin's time. very good at it and would have been routine. >> jeff, keith schiller admitted to this much. >> i think to be fair, this is scuptory towards donald trump. a

. >>> phil mudd i want to get your reaction.president says the criminal justice system is now a joke and a laughing stock and he adds no wonder so much of this, meaning terrorism, takes place. what's your reaction when you hear the president say that? >> first before that, i want to thank all the attorneys in manhattan within a day of the attack they're talking about charges we just heard that in the news conference just minutes ago, they worked overnight to do this. and they talked about charges that lead to a life sentence and potentially a death penalty. despite what the president says those are pretty serious charges. let me get to the president's points about the justice system. that man deals with facts like most people deal with the ebola. there have been hundreds who have been charged in federal courts, the rates of successful prosecution is extremely high. i'm not aware of any of those cases when they were held in court and the speed is vastly faster than what happened in guantanamo bay. if you don't believe it, google

we have phillip mudd, cnn intelligence and terror analyst, and james gagliano, investigating this on the federal level for many years. lucky for us, a law enforcement analyst. phil, i heard you last night. this lays out pretty flat to you. how do you see it? >> don't rush to judgment here. you see the public perspective, that he wants not what you have. he is a foreigner from central asia. there must be terrorism. i want to look at the first layer of this. >> and he leaves a note. >> which the reporting is that was supposedly in english and said i'm doing this as a supporter of isis. i know there is a whole debate about what that expression is supposed to mean versus how it is used by the terror guys. >> i need to know a lot. drug and mental state, what his family says, employers say. he's been in the united states seven years. i'm just following the facts. i'm not putting a phrase or a term on this guy. give me a couple days to determine what the facts are. >> when they start off saying it's a terror investigation, do you think they're getting ahead of themselves? >> no. i'm 95% sur

i want to welcome cnn investigator reporter and internuncial affairs editor michael wiese, phil mudd. know this kind of attack well. it's very hard to protect against unless you're going to put up expansions on every street corner, it's impossible to stop suspects if they're going to go onto a bike path. >> absolutely, anderson, over our shoulders where the path of the driver ended over here, it's not far from offices and places that many of us have run or driven through to get to the west side highway. we know he traveled from north to south so there was easy access way to that pedestrian walk way. i think what's going to happen, i know we're resistant to doing it, anderson, because we want to continue to live ow our lives and not allow terrorism to influence our lives, bullet those expansions you're talking about, the concrete barriers, you're going to see it, it's already happening in europe and you're probably going to see it probably in the metro polytic areas in the united states. the separation of those to separate vehicle traffic from pedestrian areas. >> what do the next coup

also with us is phillip mudd. what a harrowing story we've heard this evening. paul, i'm going to start with you, sayfullo saipov, 29 years old from uzbekistan, came to the united states in 2010. why is this significant? what can you tell us about terrorist activity in uzbekistan? >> well, there's significant jihadism in uzbekistan, don. there are two major jihadi groups. the first affiliated with isis and the second affiliated with al qaeda. both those groups have significant presence in syria and iraq. at least 1500 uzbeks have traveled to those foreign countries, there's a lot of jihadi propaganda in uzbek. and some have been motivated to launch terror attacks in the west, notably a truck attack in stockholm, sweden in april which killed several people. so investigators are going to look at perhaps if there was travel back and forth between uzbekistan. but it's quite possible that all the radicalization in this case happened in the united states, given that this individual came to the united states in 2010. also there was a dhs study which looked at foreign-b

joining me now to discuss cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, phil mudd, david frohm. >> jeff, theat donald trump jr. is basically acting on the advice of wikileaks at times, it's certainly incredible. is it unlawful. >> it may be. you know, we're getting a lot closer to an actual violation of the law with this evidence. for example, it's illegal for a campaign to solicit or receive campaign contributions from a foreign individual or a foreign company. now, that campaign contribution can be cash or it can be an in-kind contribution, anything of value. here you have at least suggestive evidence that the trump campaign is soliciting and receiving information from -- which has value. this is opposition research. and opposition research campaigns pay for all the time. the fact that the campaign seems in active coordination with this nonamerican entity, wikileaks, certainly suggests the possibility of at least a criminal investigation if not an actual crime. >> and phil, according to the atlantic, donald trump jr. then sends an e-mail to the other top people in the campaign saying, hey,

that's been our problem in mudd midterms before. >> so what that electorate looks like. >> right. >> and how much that's a question of persuasion versus motivation. that oklahoma state senate seat, that was getting out the base in a very low turnout election, because it's a special election in a state senate, not even in a midterm year. it's going to be a bigger challenge, i think, in the midterms, don't you think? >> i think the midterms are going to be more difficult because of the gerrymandering, because of these voter i.d. laws. but i'll point out some examples. in new hampshire, are we picked up seats, we picked up seats in the state legislature, in new hampshire, after a voter i.d. law had been passed. and this is the 33rd. this seat last night was the 33rd seat that democrats have flipped since trump became elected. the seat before that, democrats won that other seat before that ruby red seat by 60%. so, yes, there are some challenges. but democrats are energized. and also, i want to point out one thing. it's women and people of color that are running, too. >> particularly in

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. >> roger mudd. >> hello again.t the press" today -- >> senator john mccain thanks for joining us. >> i haven't had so much fun since my last interrogation. >> and anyone who says that vote wasn't a vote for war is bunk. >> well, tim, if i had a lot of paper in front of me i could quote people who say something very differently. i know you're very good at this and i respect that but let's look at the context here. >> very unpopular ones. which are the most unpopular the country has to deal with? >> fortunately as tough as times are right now, and things are going to get worse before they get better, there is a convergence between circumstances and agenda. >> i don't see the president-elect as a legitimate president. >> sean spicer, our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. >> wait. alternative facts are not facts. they're falsehoods. >> what i'm telling trump flying from this space. fu. >> >> you used initials. i think that's a first. >> if it's sunday, it's "meet the press.." >> if it's sunday, it's "meet

. >> well, let me get phil mudd to weigh in.ow extraordinary is it that they put out a document like this with the guy's picture seeking information? they want to talk to him. i ask the question because the chairman of the house homeland security committee mike mccaul just told us, and he's been well-briefed by the fbi and others, that this wasn't a typical lone wolf attack. there may have been others involved. >> this is still a people business. there is a lot of conversation around here in new york, wolf, and i'm sure down in washington about what motivate serrated this individual who conducted the attack yesterday. inside the business, it's still a hunt for people and those people have a few characteristics. this publication of the photo is hugely significant. you still have a basic question about whether someone knew that the attack was going to take place or whether they even participated in planning or radicalizing. you have a secondary question, which is whether someone was so closely associated with the suspect they knew

i want to talk more about this with cnn counterterrorism analyst philip mudd. hello to both of you.ood to have you on. first things first here, is this kidnapping? >> i don't think so. i think the media focus has been on a big question, which is whether general flynn participated in a conversation with the turks about kidnapping a turkish cleric here in the united states. going behind the scenes, don, i think the questions are more complicated but also more interesting. that is if general flynn went into a conversation with the turks about this cleric, this individual in pennsylvania in the united states, did he declare that as general flynn, did he declare his relationship with the turks to the u.s. government and did he declare to the u.s. government all the money he collected from the turks? as you saw in the initial mueller indictments, if you didn't declare the money, mueller will come down on you. the second question is even simpler. when he went into a conversation about this with federal officials, was he truthful or did he lie? because regardless of what happened, if he did

and historically, if you look at mudd term elections, it always swings in the other direction.democrats have a huge advantage already in 2018. trump is a doeeply unpopular president. so anyone who goes with the establishment is going to feel voters' wrath. >> so where does the relationship stand between mcconnell and the white house? because they both need each other to get anything done in the coming week. >> it's a good question. i think that relationship is solid, but president trump -- >> can we replay the way jeff just said that. solid. okay. >> i think president donald trump needs mitch mcconnell, so he works with him and the white house works with him, but he's also very clearly been willing to throw him under the bus or be critical of him, when he does something or fails to do something that the white house wants to get done. so mitch mcconnell is more inclined to kind of play that down and be a workhorse and continue to work on things. but the truth is, his record hasn't been great. it is important to note, though, that the context of this first year of president trump

phil mudd, juliette kayyem, the former assistant secretary in the department of homeland security and retired congressman mike rogers. phil, let me start with you. does the diversity visa lottery do any good? is it worth considering the u.s. getting rid of it? >> look, this is a very for politicians and for americans thinking about american culture as an immigrant society. as a counterterrorism professional, i don't think people in my industry would view people coming into that program as a particular threat. if you look at the people who are threats in this country over time, you're talking about native american -- people who are american citizens who are radicalized after they are born here or people, for example, in this case who came to this country and i believe we'll find who were radicalized after they came to this country. i doubt this individual was radicalized before seven years ago. so if you're looking at the question of whether it epps us from a counterterrorism or security perspective to keep immigrants out from some of these countries, i don't think it's a significant t

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