can come out of afghanistan at this point. i wanted to ask you about your latest article in the new yorker. you talk about covid vaccinations, alliance with the u.k. as i was writing this column i received an email from one donald j. trump. the subject was biden s vaccine mandate. i totally oppose this liberal overreach that requires americans to be vaccinated trump wrote. the left is writing overtime to control you, friend. biden, he added, doesn t care about you or your freedoms. cnn had a poll this week that said 78% of republicans who were polled do subscribe to the big lie that trump touts, that president biden is not a le legitimate president. we re watching the second rally of course today in d.c. we re a year out from mid-terms. susan, prognosticate the trump factor as we enter this critical 12-month period before the
how do security officials navigate trying to ensure the lone wolf doesn t have easy targets given, for instance, the person who tried to bomb several different places in washington, d.c., on january 6th is still out there? they haven t been caught. well, boris, the way that i look at this is pretty simple. you know, human threats, this is what we re talking about today, human threats will take the path of least resistance and surrounding the capitol today we have a a large mobilization of law enforcement officers, backup of military. we have fencing. so that path of least resistance is not the u.s. capitol today and that s the challenge for law enforcement because what they have to be, you know, looking for is individual actors, these lone actors who can mobilize violence with little to no warning, not necessarily at the capitol but as ryan nobles just reported a little while ago, there are a lot of other events. there are counter protests,
there. you mentioned 9/11 where you had 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudi nationals, but also lest we forget, the san bernardino shooting that took place about six years ago this december and killed 14 people, the shooters had just visited saudi arabia, and he was engaged to a saudi resident. what s going on here? yeah. i think that s an important point. and we can also talk about the pulse nightclub shooting. just because there aren t accomplices, but because this may have been a lone wolf doesn t mean it is not terrorism. i think we think about 9/11 and the idea there was bin laden and orchestrated directed effort, we ve seen post 9/11, the rise of lone wolf. people who take ahe jans to al qaeda or isis and never travel outside of the country where they perpetuate the attack. you don t need that nexus for
hopefully there will be some community policing, outreach to quell those fears. if this is a lone wolf incident, and we don t know at this point really what it is, whether this person who s been arrested has connections to al qaeda or isis. we re assuming this is what the investigators are now trying to determine. nobody s obviously taken any kind of responsibility for this incident. how would that change the dynamics? london has been in theory pretty much siege with these recent attacks. having a lone wolf incident, does this change the dynamics for the residents of london and the police? certainly. a lone wolf doesn t just have to be someone from isis or al qaeda. there is a strong nationalist front that is unfortunately very prevalent in the uk. and one that has grown over the years. i think in terms of its recruitment. so this very well could be someone inspired by another terrorist organization. doesn t have to be just sort of
again, islamists are very powerful in libya. that s a main threat to europe. again, this back and forth between europe and countries like syria and libya is very, very troublesome. also the fact that again he comes from again a visa waiver country. he could have flown to the united states and again without having to apply for a visa. these are real the magnitude of the overall issue that s facing the brits right now but also faces us every day and we have to accept that. bill: rob o neill last hour shannon said this about lone wolves. it won t be the bomb maker that blows themselves up. they ll give it to one of the mules who can carry it out. someone who wants to be a martyr and go to paradise. a lone wolf doesn t exist. bill: is he right? i would say he is. he is almost right on