Coming? i think one of the things you always see in terms of isis inspired attacks and their material as they call not just for a large gathering places but transportation targets, christmas markets have been the focus of some other propaganda materials as have large gatherings and concerts. i think you re going to see ramped up security all sorts of new year s eve related events, not just times square but if it s around the city. lauren: i m boring and i m staying home. but that s not the message that we want to send. the american way of life is to go out, live your normal life, celebrate 2018. do you think people going to do that liquid seen in years past? i think they should do that. we need to continue to do that. the methods that i always give is to keep calm and carry on. you can t let this impact your life. at the end of the day, there s an infinite amount of targets. you need to live your life. if there is a credible and imminent threat, law enforcement should release tha
To detonate that explosive on the outside which is part of the reason if that attacker had not been able to get in and had been able to detonate the explosive in the arena, there could ve been any number of people killed. instead they had to detonate outside. they were able to keep the attacker from getting in but they weren t able to keep the bomb from going off. there is only so much we can do. at the end of the day, there is an infinite amount of targets, ranging from concerts to sporting events. we have tried to heighten security at these locations, particularly in areas where we know there is a terrorist threa threat, but like with transportation targets, it s really difficult to secure these completely. while you can prevent entry in some of these cases by screening or fact checks, there is
and we can t draw, phil, any hard conclusions about one of these bombs was in a pressure cooker. that s obviously available very easily. you can t draw any conclusions whether that s a signature of a domestic or a foreign terrorist. actually, i would draw conclusions. but more about what it s not than what it is. when you look at the people i faced for a couple decades, that is terrorists inspired by al qaeda, they after 9/11 went to bombs that were much more sophisticated. explosives were more sophisticated. they received training that was pretty advanced. they selected targets that were harder than this target. i would argue more iconic. that is transportation targets that are recognizable worldwide. in this case you ve got folks who selected a very soft target. very primitive devices. and a target that i don t think is iconic globally even though it is in the united states. phil and tom, both of you
But sources tell abc news that schematics found in osama bin laden s home show that he was fixated on transportation targets. it s entirely possible that couriers were bringing bin laden computer disks and other computer material, thumb drives, that might have had plots on them. reporter: a new bulletin issued by homeland security and seen by abc news describes al qaeda s chilling plan. as of february 2010 al qaeda was allegedly contemplating hurting people on trains on the tenth anniversary of september 11, 2001. in one version, bin laden was considering tampering with the rails. the train would fall off of the track of either a valley or a bridge. but it turns out key early details of the raid on bin laden s compound were not accurate. bin laden s resistance? that came from his wife who was unarmed. reports of women used as human shields. it did not happen. the heavy resistance that met the navy s.e.a.l.s, not so much. in fact most of the gunfire came
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