company. a series of arrests this week serves as a stark reminder of al qaeda s determination to attack the united states. officials in norway say a plot overseas has links to last year s would be bombing of the new york city subway system. let s bring in nbc news terrorism analyst. michael, good morning to you. these links between plots in europe and here. does this give us a scope about al qaeda s reach? is this can they go anywhere? it does remind us, again, alex, that they are everywhere. here we have arrests of this guy zazi trying to blow up the subway system in new york city. came from denver, had links in uk. and the plot originated in western pakistan. it reminds us they have networks all over the world. a naturalized u.s. citizen personally directed the failed bomb plot. we ve been looking for guys since 9/11. why is it we can t find this guy right here?
before something happens. who s lazy? i think everybody is. i think we re all lazy. no, i think it s just a matter of time, you know, americans are lazy. the fort hood report was released the day of the haiti earthquake and we didn t talk about it in the media. the american public didn t read it. i read it one night on a friday night because i didn t have a date and it was, you know, 78 pages long and there was it was full of excuses. the american public needs to wake up. the government needs to wake up and eventually something bad is going to happen. we can t just say we got lucky every single time. i think the feds need to wake up. i don t know if the american public we need some answers. that s the problem. i think tamara is right in one way. i mean the guy zazi who tried to do the backpack bombings was almost like a sleeper story. the other story we re trying to avoid, why are you not dating on friday night? what s wrong with america? straight ahead, the media keeps
courts, or military tribunals. having said that, i believe that the zazi confession and subsequent guilty plea shows just how critical a role the fbi and our criminal justice system can play in combating terrorism and keeping us safe. megyn: jennifer, you knew it was going to happen, this guy zazi agreed to plead guilty and the department of justice said look, the federal criminal justice system works, that s the system this guy went through, and this is further justification for our decision to try people like ksm or abdulmutallab in that same system. well, it was giving zazi a break, that is the headline. because he cooperated with us he gets a break. this is the same system we want khalid shaikh mohammed, the proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, to go through? there are more contradictions with this administration when it comes to how to handle these kinds of cases than i can possibly count. let s take for example the fact that you have everyone from the president on down saying khalid