An attempted bombing in New York City is raising questions about terrorism threats and security

measures to prevent them.

The Department of Justice charged two young men from Pennsylvania, 18 and 19 years old, both

of whom authorities allege say they were inspired by ISIS.

They're accused of bringing two homemade explosives to an anti-Islamic demonstration outside Mayor

Zoran Mamdani's residence on Saturday and throwing one into the crowd.

The device didn't detonate and there were no injuries, but the incident highlights the challenge

for security agencies, at the same time funding for the Department of Homeland Security is

uncertain.

For more on this, I'm joined by Julia Chayam of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard's Kennedy School.

She previously served as assistant DHS secretary during the Obama administration.

Juliet, welcome back to the NewsHour.

I want to note, given their composition, these devices could have caused much more damage had they detonated,

but the alleged links to ISIS in this case.

What strikes you about that?

What questions do you have there?

And that's exactly right.

You had a very sophisticated, deadly IUD.

This is not something that you just sort of wake up and build.

It had materials that would

TAPT, which is just basically if they had detonated, would have been deadly to over at least

100 people of protesters and counter protesters in front of Gracie Mansion. They didn't,

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