people to do it and furthermore the successes they ve had. if you want to stop it right away, decapitate it. no safe havens for anybody. what i hear is they see a revolution going on on then ter net. this generation has been able to establish a contact online that s really inthe i mat, helps them get over the threshold. pre9/11, you had to have the one on one contact. it s not an accident a that the average age of the suspect is 24 years old. this is the target generation that has grown up in this new digital jihad. it s the internet. it s the internet. not only the spreading of the propaganda but also for trade craft purposes. so what s the difference between al qaeda a few years ago and what we re seeing in terms of
people to do it and furthermore the successes they ve had. if you want to stop it right away decapitate it. no safe havens for anybody. what i hear is they see a revolution going on on then ter net. this generation has been able to establish a contact online that s really inthe i mat, helps them get over the threshold. pre9/11, you had to have the one on one contact. it s not an accident a that the average age of the suspect is 24 years old. this is the target generation that has grown up in this new digital jihad. it s the internet. it s the internet. not only the spreading of the propaganda but also for trade craft purposes. so what s the difference between al qaeda a few years ago and what we re seeing in terms of
pre9/11 and stuff like that we need to take security we have to for the safety of everyone. we need our police presence and i think it makes people feel more secure when we do have police presence. the governor is also asking new yorkers to be vigilant to look for anything suspicious and report it to law enforcement immediately. clearly, a very busy weekend for officers. thanks so much boris and sunlen at the top of the hour. how real is this security threat? i want to bring in michael daily. he es a special correspondent for the daily beast. you have been reporting those individuals making the measure cooker bombs similar to the boston marathon bombs used. i am told fbi headquarters and the white house made a
people shouldn t panic. this is likely to be brief. there are work, arounds that officials can use but there s no doubt this does put us at greater risk. really? what we are doing now is we re trying to fight terrorism in 2015 using pre9/11 authorities and that s just not reasonable. so the way forward here has to be not just scrapping the thing which is where we are now. not just extending the thing which is one proposal out there. but i think it has to be reforming the authority. judge napolitano makes the argument as many others do he is a libertarian and tries to stick close to the constitution but saves if you takeway the lischs we enjoy there s nothing to protect. so if you want to snatch our phone records let s change the constitution. let s not abuse it. you ll always have tension between security and civil liberties and american officials are going to go right up to whatever legal limit you set for them. and that s why it s very important that congress set the
security? this is my new friend charlie. we have been talking and talking about how he would feel in doing that and would you be willing to give up privacy? i would be willing to give up a little bit of privacy to keep the pariot act. reporter: what made it interesting is you said your answer would have been very different pre9/11 and post. it showed us we were vulnerable and we need whatever we can get to catch these things before they happen. reporter: so you don t mind in the nsa is going through your phone records, e-mails just to make sure you re clean and good? they have that information anyway. they can get that anyway. want to bring in a couple from phoenix, arizona. talk to me a little bit about how you feel about this. the question you are asking people would you be willing to give up some of your privacy for security? i would, yes.