according to a new fox news poll, 47% of americans believe that botched times square bombing attempt was a failure on the part of homeland security. so is washington doing enough to battle terrorism here at home? let s ask today s panel. richard grinnell is former advisor to ambassador john bolten and defense attorney tamara holder and rick newman, chief business correspondent for u.s. news & world report. richard, are you surprised by that? after all, rick, i ll call you rick even though it says richard on the card, it looks as if americans think even though we dodged a bullet, we got lucky. we clearly got lucky. there s no question about it. i think, you know, the feds messed this up all along the way, not for a t-shirt salesman, we might not have had the same outcome. i think that s outrageous. we have to look at the visa problems of these guys, i think the state department needs a lot more scrutiny because they re the ones who are approving these visas. they re helping to app
one was going to blow up three propane tanks. and the other was going to blow up cans of gasoline, some m-88 s and some nonexplosive fertili r fertilizer. thank goodness this guy didn t have the same information that tim mcveigh had as far as what kind of fertilizer to buy. he did not buy the ammonium nitrate that could have caused a humongous explosion, not that this would not have killed people. it would have including all the pedestrians walking up and down 45th street in times square. but luckily, first of all, luckily the vietnam vet who was working nearby the vendor that saw the car smoking, luckily for him is he going to be on the show coming up? he was booked yesterday. yeah, he ll be on. the t-shirt salesman, the veteran and dwayne johnson with flashers on parked in an odd place. he pulled over at 6:28. within two minutes these two guys walked over and see them smoking and one of them heard
well, yes. i think that it s amazing. it s a good testimony for new york. first, a typical new yorker, a vietnam vet who was a t-shirt salesman, noticed the smoke from in the car. immediately knew just what to do. a police officer, 19 years training, officer radigan, again reported it immediately. and so the car was gotten too quickly. times square was evacuated quickly and without incident. it s a testament to new yorkers and the new york city police department, which is, as peter king said, the greatest police department in the world. listen, you know, the fact of the matter is, i was thinking about this last night as this started to unfold, new york is a big city. it is a free city. if someone wants to drive a carful of explosives into that town, there s not much that you can do about it. this was luck, wasn t it? well, you know, there isn t
looks pretty calm behind you, but last night, very tense. all in all, when you look atint. all in all when you look at what happened, are you fairly certain that once it was known that there was a car bomb that things went as they should have? well, yes. i think it s amazing. it s a good system for new york. first a typical new yorker, a vietnam vet who was a t-shirt salesman noticed the smoke from in the car. immediately knew what to do. a police officer, 19 years training, officer radigan reported it immediately. so the car was gotten too quickly. times square was evacuated quickly and without incident. it s a testament to new yorkers and the new york city police department, which is, as peter king said, the greatest police department in the world. listen, you know, the fact of the matter is, i was thinking about this last night as this started to unfold. new york is a big city, it is a