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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news: ISIS has now claimed responsibility for that attack in Garland, Texas.

[05:58:58] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: One of the two gunmen had been on the FBI's radar for years.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ISIS essentially supports what they describe as lone-wolf attacks.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My event was about freedom of speech, period.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Too many communities don't have a relationship of trust with the police.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This cop-watch thing, I'm going to take it to the top. And we're not going to stop.

MARILYN MOSBY, STATE'S PROSECUTOR: My job is to seek justice, fairly and equally to everybody.

BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm Ben Carson, and I'm a candidate for president.

CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yes, I am running for president.

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm running.

SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: For president.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL),PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: President of the United States.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Any kind of exposure is a target.

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ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news. CHRIS CUOMO, CO-HOST: Welcome to our viewers here in the U.S.

and around the world. You are watching NEW DAY. And we do begin with breaking news.

ISIS claiming responsibility for Sunday's attempted ambush at a Prophet Mohammed cartoon competition in Garland, Texas. Now, ISIS using its official radio channel to take credit for the attack, referring to the dead gunman as al-Khalifa brothers or warriors of the caliphate that they hope to create.

CAMEROTA: So does that mean that ISIS ordered the attack, or were the gunmen lone wolf sympathizers of the Islamic State?

CNN has every angle of this breaking story covered, and we begin with senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who is live in Beirut -- Nick.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: At this stage, we don't have in this claim of responsibility from ISIS, any telling key details that would suggest they had foreknowledge or intimate knowledge of the attack in Texas.

What we do have is a message, quite a short one, broadcast on the al-Bayan radio station, and that's said to be mostly heard in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul ISIS swept into. And it says the two brothers were killed in an exchange of fire with a security guard that was injured in that exchange. Very little else except for attempt by ISIS to be as menacing as they can, in which they say there will be future attacks that will be harsher and worse against the defenders of the cross, the United States, and tellingly at the end, the future is just around the corner. That may well be ISIS bid suggests that future such attacks can now follow.

As I say, there was a tweet just ahead of the attack, suggesting these gunmen were loyal to ISIS. But now we have ISIS trying to latch themselves onto that. At this stage, though, investigators frantically combing through evidence to work out if there was a chain of command or it's simply ISIS trying to get some credibility -- sorry, some extra use out of this chilling attempt at an attack for using social media around this statement and al-Bayan.

Back to you.

CUOMO: All right, Nick, thank you very much. Question now is could this have been stopped before it happened?

We now know one of the gunmen was known to the FBI for years. ISIS saying they're behind the attack. Did anyone know or even suspect that these men had anything to do with the group? CNN's Kyung Lah live in Phoenix where the suspects were living.

Kyung, what do we know?

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, investigators here are this morning poring through the evidence they have collected and seized from the apartment that these two men shared here in Phoenix. And they are trying to answer that very question. In addition to how close, if at all, were these two men to ISIS.

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LAH (voice-over): The FBI filled a van with evidence from the gunmen's Phoenix apartment. Investigators scrubbing all items, hoping to piece together a timeline of this plot.

Neighbors in their apartment complex saw nothing outwardly alarming from the two roommates except one of the men, Elton Simpson, put his car up for sale.

ARIEL WHITLOCK, NEIGHBOR: I'm getting goose bumps thinking about it right now.

LAH: Ariel Whitlock exchanged texts with Simpson.

WHITLOCK: You don't think, like, maybe he's just going to go plot something, and you're giving him the money to help him go plot something.

LAH: But he changed his mind, instead driving it to Texas. Shortly before opening fire, Simpson tweeted an oath of allegiance to Amirul Mu'mineen, a pseudonym for the leader of ISIS.

But the first clues date back to a 2011 arrest. Talking to an FBI informant over years, court records show Simpson wanted to go to Somalia to fight, recorded on wiretaps saying, "If you get shot or you get killed, it's heaven straight away. Heaven, that's what we here for, so why not take that route?"

Nadir Soofi was the other gunman, a pizza shop owner and father to a young son, says his mosque president. A Pakistani source with knowledge of the family tells CNN when his parents divorced, he moved to Pakistan with his father, where he attended a prestigious private school in Islamabad.

Their plan so secret that mosque president Usama Shami spent years with both men at services and never saw either as a threat.

USAMA SHAMI, PRESIDENT, ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER OF PHOENIX: When that happens, it just shocks you. You know, how good do you know these people? That's a question that people ask themselves.

LAH: A question Elton Simpson's family is also asking. In a statement released Monday night they write, "Just like everyone in our beautiful country, we are struggling to understand how this could happen."

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LAH: And you can hear that confusion just in that statement from the family. And it's certainly something that we're hearing across Phoenix today. A lot of confusion for the people who knew these two men, Alisyn, because a lot of them just didn't see the violence coming -- Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: Absolutely. We can imagine how confusing that is. Kyung Lah, thanks so much.

Let's bring in now Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. He's our counterterrorism analyst and senior fellow for Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. And Tom Fuentes, CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director. Gentlemen, thanks so much. Nice to see you this morning on NEW DAY.

TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Good morning, Alisyn.

Tom, how can -- how can we determine if these were just two lone- wolf sympathizers or if they got direct orders from ISIS?

FUENTES: Well, Alisyn, you know, they're going through all of their material now, their e-mail traffic, to see if there was any kind of command and control that came down and said, "Go to this event and kill people." So that will take some time. When they subpoena phone records, that takes, you know, a few days to get those records from the phone providers, the Internet service providers. So you know, it's going to take a few days to see just how much the connection they actually had to it.

[06:05:08] But in terms of ISIS deploying them, I think the fact that it was such a feeble attack would be a pretty good indicator that they had no really serious training or assistance in trying to pull this off.

CAMEROTA: Right. So Daveed, on one side, this is a failed attack. So it's not a feather in the cap of ISIS.

Yet on the other hand, this would be the first ISIS attack on U.S. soil.

DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST: Or at least the first attack that ISIS has specifically claimed. There are at least two other attacks where the attackers seem to have been, at least in part, inspired by ISIS.

One of them was the ax attack that occurred in New York City just after the two back-to-back days in Canada in which Canadian military personnel were attacked. That came in October of last year. And the attacker there was a convert to Islam, who clearly had sympathies for ISIS, as shown by his social media postings.

The other attack in which the attacker had ISIS sympathies was the Oklahoma case in which a man beheaded a co-worker. Now that was many things. It wasn't just a pure terrorist attack but also a work dispute. But he also was someone who was sympathetic to ISIS, also detailed by his social media postings.

So arguably, there are two other cases in which people who carried out attacks were inspired by, but ISIS did not claim either of those.

CAMEROTA: OK, so Daveed, in that case, is it significant? If they did get orders from ISIS, would you see this as sort of a new frontier? GARTENSTEIN-ROSS: If they did get orders, that's significant.

As Tom said, they didn't have training. And, you know, if you look at other extremists on social media, other pro-ISIS extremists, two things that they seem to agree on, and these are people, by the way, who clearly knew the attackers. Before the media said that Elton Simpson was the attacker and before the media got to the fact that he had tried to go to Somalia previously, they had originally posted on that.

They said, No. 1, these guys had no weapons training, no experience with weapons. And No. 2, that they were merely inspired by ISIS, as opposed to directed. But looking at some of the postings, to me I get the sense that some people in the ISIS network likely knew about the attack before it happened.

For example, there's one British man who's based in Syria, who before the attack occurred first posted about -- something about people trying to take down Islam with their mouths. And then secondly, said the knives have been sharpened and the streets will run with blood, which indicates that he may have had foreknowledge that this attack would occur.

CAMEROTA: So Tom, you know, the FBI and the Phoenix police both had investigations on Elton Simpson, one of these gunmen. And he gave them a lot of fodder, it seems, to work with, because he was posting online his allegiance to ISIS. So do you think this was an intelligence failure? How could this attack happen when he was already under investigation?

FUENTES: Well, he really wasn't under that serious of an investigation, because -- well, I shouldn't say that. But he's one of so many thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of people that fall in that category that are putting out, you know, tweets and social messages that, unless somebody else who reads them reports it, they can't -- there's not enough analysts to monitor all of that kind of traffic, even if they say, "I'm going to Texas to do an attack." Somebody has to report that. The FBI and the intelligence agencies just aren't tracking the, you know, tens of thousands of postings per day that pertain to various -- to anything, actually, but specifically attacks.

CAMEROTA: You know, Tom, I was amazed to read the numbers. That for every one person under surveillance it takes 30 agents. Why so many?

FUENTES: Because I ran the surveillance squad in Chicago for two years, at the time mostly following organized crime figures who were looking out for surveillance, the Cosa Nostra. And that's what it takes.

I had a squad of 30. And to put 24-hour coverage on somebody for a week, it took all 30. It was 28 ground agents. The rest were pilots, airplanes around the clock. They can only be up so many hours at a time. Agents on the ground that have to, you know, not bumper lock like you see on television but do a discreet surveillance. Very difficult, very resource intensive. And that would be for one person at a time.

CAMEROTA: And yet, Daveed, you say that when you look at Elton Simpson's profile, you see red flags everywhere. Like what?

GARTENSTEIN-ROSS: Well, a number of red flags including, No. 1, he was an open ISIS sympathizer. No. 2, he had a previous conviction in a terrorism related case for making a false statement to authorities.

No. 3 he carried out the attacks, he started talking about the kurias (ph), which is the bride that you'll have in paradise. And then, No. 4, obviously, 25 minutes before he carried out the attack he said that he was going to do so and hashtagged it #TexasAttack.

So all those together -- look, I think Tom has a very good point about law enforcement resources. We cannot at this point say this was an intelligence failure, but all of the signs were there. And so I think that raising the question of whether a failure occurred is very, very fair to do.

CAMEROTA: So, Tom, what's the answer here? Should someone who gives off all those red flags somehow go to the top of the heap?

FUENTES: Well, on the other hand, you know, there weren't the type of red flags that really help. When you have Kyung Lah's interviews with the head of the mosque, neighbors, other people that knew them -- friends, relatives are doing their postings -- none of them had a clue. And the FBI, with all of the outreach, that's what outreach is about, that somebody else hears about something or sees something on a social media posting and notifies the FBI.

[06:10:19] And in this case none of those people -- it's not that they were hiding it from the FBI. They just didn't see anything.

And, you know, when he came up on the radar originally, 2006, he was -- he was convicted of lying to the FBI. The judge did not -- gave him three years' probation, did not convict him on the terrorist charge itself of going to join al Shabaab in Somalia. And he's been off of probation now for over a year.

So he's one -- as I said, there are so many people in this category that it's very difficult.

And might I add, sources of mine at the FBI have told me they haven't recovered yet from sequestration because of the difficulty it takes to hire analysts, to hire linguists, the time it takes to vet them. And they have been placed so far behind by sequestration that they really haven't caught up, in particular at the analytical level.

CAMEROTA: You have both given us such good illustrations of why investigations like this are so complicated. Tom Fuentes, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, thanks so much for being on NEW DAY -- Michaela.

MICHAEL PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Alright, Alisyn, "I wanted to be arrested." Those are the words from a New York University student who illegally entered North Korea. Won-moon Joo spoke exclusively to CNN, unfazed by the punishment he could face. So why did he travel there in the first place?

CNN's Will Ripley is in Pyongyang. He has the -- his exclusive interview this morning -- Will.

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Michaela, we didn't know until the evening before that we might have the opportunity to speak with this 21-year-old, who until recently was attending NYU. But he says he decided to take a cross-country trip from the East Coast to the West. And when he couldn't find a job in California, he says he had a thought that wouldn't escape his mind. And that thought was to cross illegally into North Korea.

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RIPLEY: Why did you go into North Korea?

WON-MOON JOO, NYU STUDENT DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA: Well, I thought that by my entrance illegally, I acknowledge, but I thought that some great event could happen. And hopefully, that event could have a good effect in the relations between the North and South.

RIPLEY: So what kind of great event did you think could happen?

JOO: I -- of course, I am not completely sure yet. But I hope that, you know, I will be able to tell the world how an ordinary college student entered the DPRK legally, but however, with the generous treatment of the DPRK that I will be able to return home safely.

RIPLEY: Have you spoken to anybody from the South Korean government or United States government?

JOO: Not yet.

RIPLEY: Have you had -- have you been able to make any phone calls or speak to anybody?

JOO: Not yet.

RIPLEY: So this is your first time?

JOO: Uh-huh.

RIPLEY: So what messages would you like to put out about your situation and what people should do to try to get ahold of you?

JOO: Well, of course, I understand my parents and my loved ones are worrying a lot about me. But I would like to say that I'm well. And there's no need to worry because the people here have treated me with the best of humanitarian treatment. I've been fed well, and I've slept well; and I've been very healthy. And would just -- I would just like to apologize for creating a lot of worry among my loved ones.

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RIPLEY: Joo says he's being held in a room with three different beds and a private bathroom. So certainly not a prison situation, at least not at this point. But he hasn't been told by the North Korea government yet what charges he may face.

He also hasn't been able to make any phone calls or had any access to outside media. So essentially, right now, this was his first contact to be able to let the people in his life who care about him know that he is OK.

Because he is a South Korean citizen, even though he's lived in the U.S. since 2001, South Korea will have to handle this. But the problem is, they don't have a diplomatic relationship with North Korea.

So right now in Pyongyang, even though we've been asking the government what their next move is, Chris, they really can't tell us. So this young man's vision of a great event has really turned into a huge mess. And really, nobody knows what's going to happen next.

CUOMO: All right. Thanks, Will.

Break here -- back here we do have breaking news out of Baltimore. The United States' new attorney general, Loretta Lynch, is heading to Baltimore with a delegation to meet with city officials.

And meanwhile, President Obama took to Letterman to discuss some of the problems that are going on there. CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta joins us with more.

Letterman, we've gotten used to using late-night to do serious things. And here's another opportunity.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Chris. And the Obama administration is trying to turn down the heat -- continuing to try to turn down that heat on the already-enflamed situation in Baltimore.

As you said, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, along with other top Justice Department officials, they will be in Baltimore later today.

[06:15:04] And last night on "The Late Show with David Letterman," President Obama urged the country to give the judicial system a chance to sort out the case of the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. He also called on Americans to respect the difficult work of being police officers in tough neighborhoods. And here's more of what the president had to say.

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OBAMA: It's important that, now that charges have been brought in Baltimore, that we let due process play itself out. Those officers who have been charged, they deserve, you know, to be represented and to let the legal system work its way through. I think it's also really important to remember that the

overwhelming majority of police officers are doing an outstanding job.

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ACOSTA: Now, the president is also offering a peek at what he hopes to do after he leaves the White House, and that is to serve as sort of a mentor in chief to at-risk young people. The president will be doing this in part with an organization that he launched in New York yesterday, that nonprofit organization, My Brother's Keeper, will be the next generation of a group he started just in the last couple of years here in the White House as he told a group of teenage boys yesterday he had to grow up without a father, but he was able to make it through hard work and the right guidance through people who cared about him.

It was an important message, and it was good to see him share that with those young people. Something, Alisyn, we're going to be seeing the president doing right into the years after he leaves here at the White House.

CAMEROTA: Yes, always interesting to hear his personal story and how he got to become president.

ACOSTA: That's right.

CAMEROTA: Jim, thanks so much.

Well, John Kerry making history in Africa, becoming the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Somalia. He's in Mogadishu to reinforce Somalia's ongoing Democratic transition. A spokeswoman says he will meet with federal and regional government leaders as well as civil society leaders. He will also thank African Union troops for their efforts to help stabilize Somalia.

PEREIRA: An attorney for Hillary Clinton says the former secretary of state is ready and willing to testify before Congress later this month on the Benghazi attacks and her e-mails. But she's rejecting a request by the U.S. House select committee chairman to appear all lawmakers' questions at one session, and that there's no basis, logic or precedent for the extra session.

CUOMO: We had a very unusual show of emotion as the Boston bomber cried in court. Not for the victims that he maimed and killed, but for his relatives, who were flown in from Russia to be character witnesses. They're trying to spare his life. Of course, prosecutors pushing for the death penalty, saying the bomber has never shown a shred of remorse.

CAMEROTA: That's telling, right? He only cries for the pain he's causing his relatives but not all the victims.

PEREIRA: Think about all the tears shed by thousands and thousands of people in the wake of Boston.

CAMEROTA: Well, President Obama promising to spend the rest of his life helping disadvantaged young men of color as Baltimore and other cities try to bridge the divide between citizens and police. Some possible solutions ahead.

CUOMO: So why can't someone draw a picture of the Prophet Mohammed? You're going to meet a man who says not only can you draw one, but you have a duty to do exactly that. He is a "Charlie Hebdo" staffer, and he's going to make the case when NEW DAY comes back.

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[06:22:08] OBAMA: Too many places in this country, black boys and black men, Latino boys, Latino men, they experience being treated differently by law enforcement. In stops and in arrests and in charges and in incarcerations, the statistics are clear: up and down the criminal justice system, there's no dispute.

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CUOMO: There's a big dispute about what to do about it, though. You now have a poll out that says 61 percent of you says that race is bad. It's the highest poll percentage on that issue since 1992. So what do we do?

The president says he's got a program to help young black and Hispanic men, and it's going to help mentor them and help with this divide between police and the communities that they work.

Let's weigh in on this, about what the problem is and is this a solution? And if not, what is one? She is the author of "The Creation of a Manifesto: Black and Blue," former LAPD Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey.

So let's just start with what the problem is. Is there a problem, and what motivates it?

CHERYL DORSEY, FORMER LAPD SERGEANT/AUTHOR: Absolutely there's a problem. And I've coined a term that I like to use, which is contempt of cop. And I believe when officers become personally involved in a situation and someone doesn't do what they've ordered them to do, there's a price to pay. And we've seen it. And too often it's been death.

And so what I want to see first and foremost is I want to see officers stop using lethal force as a first resort and use it as a last resort. Because that's what we're taught. Deadly force is used when you've exhausted every other means, every other tool, you're in the fight for your life and the only thing you can do in the immediate defense of life, yours or someone else, is to use deadly force.

We see officers going to it right away: "I can't catch you. You won't get out of the street. You won't turn around. You won't come here and talk to me for this investigative stop." Deadly force. And it shouldn't be that way. CAMEROTA: The contempt of cop phrase is so interesting. Because

when we've just watched the video, you know, we don't watch it with the same eyes that you do, but it does seems as though the police are mad; they're angry. And you suggest finding a way through -- I don't know -- psychiatric evaluation or training to just take it down a notch.

DORSEY: Well, officers are taught to escalate and deescalate force. Right? And I don't know how it's gotten lost in the translation of what they're taught and what they're doing in the field. And so I believe that really, truly officers should be re- evaluated psychologically every so often just to make sure their head's on straight.

PEREIRA: That actually makes a lot of sense. We've talked about it a lot in the commercial break between the three of us. The fact that you look at the fire department, there's training daily for what they have to do. And granted, it's probably every day a more physical job. But the training of a police officer, you say it starts with that kind of approach, but something changes along the way?

DORSEY: Well, I think you get tainted and you get jaded. And if you work with someone who's used to pushing the envelope, and they get away with a little thing, because it starts off small. Right? They don't start off killing people. They start off talking to people rough. They start off being aggressive. They start off being abusive, right?

[06:25:05] And then it escalates to something really egregious, where we see a loss of life. And then we're wondering, "Oh, my God. How did it get to this?"

And you look in that officer's package, and you see, like in the case of Michael Slager, he had Tased two other people before Walter Scott, and he got away with it. The second gentleman that he Tased, Mario Givens, who was in his own home and arrested for burglary out of his own home, complained the next day; and the officer was exonerated. So if there's no consequence for that choice that an officer makes, how do you deter it?

CUOMO: Well, you know the job very well. You did it for many years, and there's a counterargument, which is that these people that they're dealing with in the streets are less respectful than they used to be. They don't listen to orders. That they resist arrest so much. And that the officers are worried for their own preservation of safety.

And they don't get the training that they used to get in terms of physicality. In terms of, you know, using restraining holds and being able to fight. And that combination winds up making situations where you have a mismatches.

DORSEY: Well, if officers aren't receiving the training that they need, they should surely speak on it to their...

CUOMO: But the demeanor of who you take on... DORSEY: Listen, that's inherent to law enforcement, OK? So I

understand that suspects, bad people, run from me, right? I understand that they're going to be non-cooperative, right? And so that's inherent to police work.

So if you run from me, I got two choices. I can either get ready to get some exercise and go after you, right? Or let you go. I don't get to kill you because you run. I don't get to kill you, because you're a bad guy dealing guns and drugs. I don't get to kill you, because you won't come here. That's why we train. That's why we practice.

In L.A. we have things called situation simulations, where we go into a house where there's domestic violence; and you're dealing with an angry combative spouse, right? So that you learn how to deal with people who don't come right away, who don't stop when you tell them to stop. So that, when that thing happens in the real world, what you do is just second nature. You don't have to think about it, because you've practiced and you've trained. And hopefully, you're confident and comfortable in what it is that you need to do to resolve that situation, escalate, deescalate force.

CAMEROTA: What do you think about how President Obama has been talking about this issue?

DORSEY: Well, I like what he's saying. And you know, I was joking with someone, because I would like to see someone on one of these panels that they put together who will speak in a real way about the problems on the police department.

Because if you have law enforcement officials on the panel, certainly that's important. But you need someone who's not just talking company talk, right? Who's going to say something contrary to what everybody else tells.

Because if you don't admit that there's a problem, then there's nothing to fix. I'm here to tell you there's a problem. And I have an idea about how to fix that. So President Obama pick me.

PEREIRA: Oh, I think she just said follow your girls (ph). You have a conversation.

So you think it's fixable. We have about 30 seconds left. You think it's fixable. It's a pivoting time, a pivotal time for the law enforcement in this country.

Clearly, with all this going on right now, it's got the world's attention, right? And so I think it's doable. I think it's going to take some time. Because obviously the problems are cultural, and they're systemic. And I'll say this. They're top down, and I mean chief of police down to the ground pounders.

And so it's going to take a little time. And it's going to take more than one facet to fix it, but I think it's fixable.

PEREIRA: All right. CUOMO: You've pointed out in the past that, you know, you always

hear about the cops. You never hear about it going up the chain over command.

PEREIRA: Yes. That's vital.

CAMEROTA: Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey, great to see you.

DORSEY: I appreciate it. Thank you.

CAMEROTA: All right. Organizers in Texas called it a free speech event, but is a Prophet Mohammed cartoon drawing contest free speech, or is it something else? A staffer who narrowly avoided the "Charlie Hebdo" attack weighs in. And his take will surprise you.

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