threatening. so i would urge the president and everyone to be responsible in their rhetoric, in their observations, in their commentary. as new yorkers, as a country we should come together and lock arms. people as you pointed out, chris, they re going to be out in the parade. it s a tremendous gathering of the gorgeous mosaic of new york city. but we want to be there for the families moving forward. and i would suggest the president leave his commentary and just expressing thoughts and condolences. we should note that congressman, thank you very much. nbc contributor is the lead correspondent on terrorism at the new york times. you ve covered truck attacks. you ve covered attacks that range from directed to
others. in the wake of the truck attacks in places like the christmas market in berlin, germany, that killed 12, and a 2016 bastille day attack in nice, france, that killed 86 people, new york police have done extensive outreach to trunk rental businesses in the new york area. listen to this. after attacks on the german christmas market, after nice, we repeated those visits two more times, either by making telephonic contact, email, or going back to the same places. the industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the nypd. of course, now the task at hand is figuring out if there were any red flags within new york attack suspect rented a truck at a home depot in passai. shannon prayed shannon: trace gallagher life for us tonight. isis and al qaeda have been telling their sympathizers to use vehicles as weapons for many years. in fact, in 2010, the al qaeda
isis has put out a publication called inspire. and they have been talking about these truck attacks for quite some time. and in the middle east, in the palestinian conflict, there was, in fact, a construction vehicle back in 2006 and 2007. this is not a new idea. what is becoming very apparent is that we have done a great job of lopping off the head of isis and really making al qaeda no longer the operation that they used to be. so what they are doing now, we have heard talk about this, going to a digital caliphate where they are going to message out and try to get people into this activity through the messaging. very, very hard to tell when someone goes from aspirational to operational. michael balboni, thank you for your those final words. appreciate it. we want to talk about what else is happening in the political sphere here in washington. there s a back-and-forth on tax
homeland security adviser for new york state. thank you very much for joining us here. and i want to talk about some of the things we have heard so far. after 9/11, you were responsible in part for building the new sort of security systems for the state of new york. we have now seen the truck attacks abroad, but not like this here at home. so what happens now? what do law enforcement sources do now to make contact with rental companies to try to have more of a sense of communication with them? obviously, they have support from the state and federal agencies. and they also did outreach to the businesses, to a program called nexus and the nypd shield program. and they created the lower manhattan security initiative, which is a kind of a web of cameras and license plate readers. but they have also done things where they have gone out, whenever they had intelligence leads and have done their own interviews, so they can see what
there. it doesn t show you that this person followed instructions which means the ideology leads to oceans a wall can t stop this. you have to untethered this from a religious aspect because that is what is hamstringing our media. whenever you want to preplan against terror, you are is homophobic. you are seen as a brain contaminated disease, it s a brain it turns people into homicidal zombies. if you look at it that way, the first thing to think about his quarantine, found out who these people are, quarantine, if this is what it is, they ve got to go. that s how you do it. if it s tethered to religion it s a bad thing. the other thing we have to talk about is these truck attacks are common but it s going to get