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Event Location(s): Manchester, United Kingdom | Description: EJ 07:35:00 INT MANCHESTER, ENGLAND IN MANCHESTER ARENA (Shaky Cam) POV shot of people evacuate in aftermath of suicide bombing. EJ 07:35:34 INT MANCHESTER IN MANCHESTER ARENA (Shaky Cam) POV shot of people evacuating in a panic in aftermath of the bombing. (REPEATS) 07:36:02 STILLS Photo of police officers and concertgoers Photo of police officers helping injured teenage girl Photo of man in thermal blanket Photo of armed tactical police officers Photo of police officers Photo man and boy with a dog Photo of people seated on pavement by steps 07:36:54 STILLS Photos of people walking Photo of people hugging Photo of man carrying little girl on his shoulders EXT NIGHT MANCHESTER MS: Ambulance (with flashing lights) speeds down the street. MS: Police vehicles (with flashing lights) drive down the street. MS: Police officers walk down street lined with emergency vehicles. MS: Investigators walk past police officers. Former Chief Counterterrorism Advisor Richard Clarke joins Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb live in Studio 1A. Clarke says the British have arrested over 200 people in the last year, they’ve broke up plots, there might have been five or six of these last year if the British police and intelligence services hadn’t been better, but you can’t stop them all, no matter how good you are one will get through, one of the problems is knowing when people who have become radicalized become activated, another problem is that there are tens of thousands, in England they are looking at 14 thousand radicalized people, and then there’s that moment when a radicalized person flips to be an activated person who is willing to kill themselves, you can’t tell when that happens, most certainly the suicide bomber would have been on British intelligence’s monitoring list, but you cannot monitor people every moment every day in these numbers, that’s why we have to get at the root of the problem, we can’t just try to stop these attacks, there’s an ideology here that says it’s OK to kill children, we have to get at that ideology and convince people that it’s wrong, and there is no religious justification, the only way we’re going to stop this so we don’t keep doing it year after year after year is to get religious leaders and others to speak out and say this is not Islam, and get at the root causes for the socioeconomic reasons too, the one thing we have going that makes the US different from Britain is we have not ostracized we have embraced our Muslim-Americans, that’s why the talk against Muslims in the campaign and since has been very counter-productive , the only way to solve this problem is to have everyone thing they’re on the same side.