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Today we are going to be talking about terrorism on U.S. soil.

It's a tough topic.

We've got, we've had a couple of attacks in the past week.

We also saw an attack in New York City, an attempted attack in New York City.

These things are, I think, scarier today

because as we go after the leading sponsor of terror

in the entire world, we have concerns about

what could possibly stir up here at home.

And I think it's an interesting conversation

because so many people have

come to me and been like, are you mad that we went to war because this is now causing people

to create these terror attacks on U.S. soil? And I think to myself, what a naive view of things.

Like those people weren't going to, they were just going to sit here and

silently hate us unless we provoked something. Because if they were here planning, I believe that

they have always been here planning and that these people exist and that we need to be careful

about it. So I thought, well, who can I talk to about this? And we found Raphael Manguel. He is a fellow at the Manhattan

Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice.

Rafael, thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Absolutely. So as we look at this, I know you've had a lot to say about what's going on in New York. New York is interesting to me because we have this mayor who was elected on essentially being like, I don't love policing. I don't want these special units that are going to look for terror and take care of issues like this. And I don't really want anybody to police protests. I don't

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