i asked the people of this city the night of september 11th to be stronger as a result of this, and they ve more than exceeded my expectations. i think that, however you judge a city, this city is a stronger and better city now. more people come here, more tourists come here, more people live here. the economy of the city is doing better than the economy of the country, which is pretty unusual for a major city in any country, so i think this city has healed to the extent that it can. but is it a city that lives with apprehension? i mean, i guess it has to. associated press reported just a couple of days ago that 1,000 new york city police officers, day by day, on average, are assigned to counterterror operations. i think it would be more than that. it d be more than 1,000. of course, the city realises it s the number one target, along maybe with washington, dc, and, as a result of that, i think this city does more to prepare.
counterterror operations, keep on eye on iran and pakistan, that was the military argument for leaving a small residual force behind. and i think that then you had the president say, no, when donald trump said we re getting out completely, that means that once we leave anybody there, they become targets, and i also think he saw the possibility and the opportunity to do what no other president had been able to do before and end it. that was more important to him than any of the arguments about why a very small force might be cost effective in the long run. kristen, mitch mcconnell was on one side of this inside the republican coalition and donald trump was on the other. it s pretty clear this probably would have been just as bad, if not worse, under what trump wanted to do. he wanted to pull everybody out by christmas. if he had won re-election, perhaps he may have done that. is this a big blow for the
this administration with the policies crafted for counterterror operations are working. we are seeing less territory held by isis, they are down to a tiny little slice of land, who knows how long they will have it before they are eradicated out of that space and disappear back into the crowd which is what terrorists do and we have to keep squeezing the last pieces of the bumble. it is a significant to almost 0 reduction of isis which is a extremely positive step operation. heather: down to a little slice of land and these maps show that. you can see this is syrian territory under isis a couple days ago and under isis today, there you have it. i m curious what you think.
tweeting and talking about this administration, you all have made it about politics, not the president. let s take a beat here for a second. and phil, i appreciate your patience because i know it s getting personal here. paris, a point of fact here, and phil makes a point which is a point of fact. when a phil mudd who serves an advisory board for counterterror threats and goes and participates in conversations with the agency about those threats, he is not getting paid for that. that s not what i m talking about. when bill mcraven is consulted on counterterror operations because he led dozens of missions, deadly missions. absolutely. where soldiers risked their live, he is not paid for that. what you seem to be doing here no. is saying that because people have jobs outside of government after they leave government, that therefore you re saying that is justification to take away their clearances when government and agencies rely on them for their counsel? is that what yo
rampage and what needs to be done to crush radical ideology, to discuss former member of the israeli special counteroperations terrorism unit erin cohen. good 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.