speaking at a series of fundraisers, one happening right behind me. in a few hours expected to make some sort of remark to that breakfast and obviously a lot of questions and topics that the president can address. i don t know if you can hear the loud chanting behind me but on one side of grand central, the other side of one of those fundraisers, the busy time of the year particularly in new york, so there are sand trucks barricading grand central station and the protests are getting louder as the president gets near, neil. neil: i know it s hard for me to hear me but sounds like they are protest has to do with the tax cut passed fbi senate but i heard them earlier in the break, they were talking about all other sorts of problems including the general flynn thing. across the board rants or what? i asked one of the protestors, i said why are you here, and he said i m here to
and make sure it will be here for the people. three reason, to deter, prevent and reassure. that s what they re doing. just as your reporter said, it s in layers. work agains way before today. is there anybody talking about trying to mount some type of attack. then you look at the parade route. the key to security and event like this is to eliminate the unknown to the extent possible so you don t have people who are able to do things like drive a car into this area and you saw the sand trucks. it s preventing, it s limiting the access of any type of vehicle into the parade area. i saw these huge sand trucks barricading along the central park route which i had never seen before.