A fremont, california, man is accused of trying to travel to syria to join al-qaeda. he appeared in court last week. in rochester, new york, a pizza shop owner pleading guilty to attempting to recruit for isis. and in pennsylvania another man is charged with trying to provide material support to isis. police say the 19-year-old american citizen called for violation against the u.s. military and officers later found five m-4 rifles in his home. tom ridge is the former secretary of homeland security under president george w. bush as well as the former governor of pennsylvania. it s nice to have you on the program, secretary. nice to join you, jenna. jenna: what a wind-up as far as a segment into talking about this question of home grown terror, but the threat we re facing overall. secretary ridge, what do you think is priority number one right now to keep our country safe? well, i think there are a couple dimensions in response to your question. first of all, it s pretty clear that t
And what they represent, and what part of the party they represent. we are all conservatives running. so how far how deep a conservative do you want, and does that conservative have answers that may appeal to those independence and some democrats, because if you have the wrong person at the top of the ticket, you will lose a senate and you put the house in jeopardy. congressman, governor, and secretary ridge, merry christmas. thank you for being here. always nice to be with you, michael. thank you very much. so i just heard tom ridge say that he thinks donald trump is playing right into the hands of isis. do you agree with that? tweet me @smerconish and i ll respond to some of them later in the program. coming up, she was on the governor ticket in 2008, and trump has said that he would consider her for a cabinet post. what does sarah palin say about the contenders for the nomination in 2016? and a brand-new poll out now shows trump widening his lead. what do the money peopl
So how far how deep a conservative do you want, and does that conservative have answers that may appeal to those independence and some democrats, because if you have the wrong person at the top of the ticket, you will lose a senate and you put the house in jeopardy. congressman, governor, and secretary ridge, merry christmas. thank you for being here. always nice to be with you, michael. thank you very much. so i just heard tom ridge say that he thinks donald trump is playing right into the hands of isis. do you agree with that? tweet me @smerconish and i ll respond to some of them later in the program. coming up, she was on the gop ticket in 2008, and trump has said that he would consider her for a cabinet post. what does sarah palin say about the contenders for the nomination in 2016? and a brand-new poll out now shows trump widening his lead. what do the money people think? i m going to talk to a professional odds-maker about who is really leading the gop field.
This is not just a threat directed towards western democracies. you can undermine them as well. it s now time for the american leadership to rear up and organize this effort and whether or not the white house does it, remains to be seen. i respect the republican candidates over the next couple of months. one of them will emerge and provide the leadership. governor, secretary ridge, thank you so much for your service. new york has been the inane focus of terror attacks, terror focus from september 11th aimed to bomb plots from time square. the city has long been a target. today new york city is an heightened alert and to understand what the challenges are near is new york police commissioner. i walked toward times square last night and saw very heavy police presence in midtown manhattan and i wondered what was taking place i wasn t seeing? what goes on on a night like
In a secure protection and i am sure that the pentagon is going through discussions on how to do this. there s a lot of national guard centers and you name the state that do not have fences around it. somebody could walk in the door and they would be considered soft targets. if you re a terrorist, that s something that you re looking for. you do not want to go up against the straightefkt of america, because you will get defeated. if you look at the soft targets and have targets of opportunity, you will pursue that. that s something that we have to be concerned about. i know that you talked to secretary ridge, and he is exactly right. this is a new order that s out there and in the world with social media and isis and all of the other terrorist groups have a form that they can get to and communicate to very quickly, and