CNN’s Kayyem: January 6th Had A Lot of Domestic Terrorists But the Brooklyn Subway Shooting Was Not Terrorism

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KAYYEM: "Well, absolutely. And so the idea that it only has to be a foreign act as we know now, January 6, there’s a lot of domestic terrorists. They -- there are people who -- and this the majority of the thread as the FBI tells us, but I am a strong proponent of reserving the word terrorism for a political motivation, because it is different. And so I know this was terrifying. I know it was terrible for the people who encountered it. But if we -- if we use the word terror for every incident like this, it’s going to lose it’s meaning and -- and -- and what it means to prosecute someone for using violence to change our -- our -- our -- our politics, to change our democracy. Look, we have that problem. We have the domestic terrorism problem. We don’t need to create it for every person who may have a mental disorder, who may be for a variety of reasons unrelated to politics, that's done something terrible. And so, that’s where -- that’s where I stand, but I recognize that -- that -- that -- that the word -- you know, what happened was terrifying."