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But there is a political impact. we saw what happened after paris and the way donald trump and others capitalized on fears of mai grant migrants migrants. today, he was on "the today show" with savannah and matt and suggested that abdeslam being sberg gaited now, if he were commander in chief, he would authorize water boarding and other forms of torture. anything goes, basically. he said im in that camp. whats your reaction to that and how it may change the political debate this attacking in bru...

Emotional a double blow this will be for them. >> i think thats right. i think in another dimension to this is after the capture of salah abdeslam on friday, well, i cant speak for many belgians out there, i think there was a sense of both it was an anomaly of sorts and that it was over. and it clearly wasnt over and clearly what happened today is a heart attack in the capital of europe. is really frightening people. so just the level of tension, and i just spent hours, literally hours, on movin...

Foreground. and heres video along the rails. again, another harrowing part of this story was the bomb that went off in the subway station. and look at this. people holding on to each other. you see the train tracks there, sporadically. but thats what people did to get out and probably considered themselves fortunate to be able to get out. an attack at the airport. an attack at the metro station. our foreign correspondent richard engel has been part of our coverage since the early, early morning ...

Steve clemens, an msnbc contributor, again, happened to be in brussels today. we have just lost his cell phone signal. and that actually is a part of the story. at first, cellular communications were very, very difficult. it was theorized that perhaps the government had kind of jammed the signals as not to assist the terrorists. it now looks like its just plain crowded cellular signals out of brussels and belgium. we will try to reestablish contact with steve clemens. now on the phone with us fr...

That. brian carol is with us, he is a communications consultant from washington, d.c. who happened to be on a subway car en route to downtown brussels this morning when he heard this blast. brian, take the story from there. >> hi. yeah. i was actually on the train this morning that was attacked. i had -- i dont usually take the metro, but i had to be downtown for a conference this morning. and i got on the station at shoe man, which is right in the heart of the european corridor, one station dow...

And not have repercussions from that. this is an explosive problem and i think were seeing the consequences of it. i was talking to a senior u.s. counterterrorism official a short while ago. when i asked him is this the start of a wave of attacks in europe his answer was, quote, likely. so u.s. officials have watching this closely, they are not encouraged by what theyre seeing. there is a suspicion that this was the action today of an isis cell. that they dont know how large the cell is, how man...

Belgium. as a result, 30 are dead. more than 230 are injured. two of those took place at the main international airport and the other happening at a subway station near the headquarters at the european union i may add. they have raised the terror theft to the highest level. we are hearing from witnesses, including one woman who describes what she experienced at the airport the moments the explosions occurred. >> after five minutes i heard an explosion and the ceiling coming down. i go under the ...

>> i had just arrived at the brussels airport this morning. i was catching a flight back to washington. and the train is in the basement of the airport, it had come up and it was in -- it was going in the main hall, the bombing had already happened. i saw the smoke. people were rushing back. i had tried to sort whatever, but the police and the authorities -- they raided in and the people were pushing down. i was there literally minutes after the bomb blast had occur and saw the smoke, but more i...

That this is a community thats sympathetic to isis or to radical islamism or jihadism, yet you have someone like salah abdeslam who was able to live there for four months after the paris attacks with, one would presume, all law officials looking for him. you put out these pictures and law enforcement is hoping to get some kind of tip. but theyre facing some huge headwinds there. >> thats right, savannah, because the support network, even though its not the greater community there, it certainly i...

Welcome back to msnbcs continuing coverage of the brussels attack. im joined now by evan coleman. evan, first of all, i wanted to ask you about the claim of responsibility by isis. how credible is that given the circumstantial evidence, or at least in any of your reporting? >> its very credible. the agency that issued it, ahmed news agency. an isis-affiliated media outlet people embedded with isis fighters on the front lines of