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We do not like to think of someone along the way might have seen something or to say something but it is not always the case. how to be get there? >> i think what we need to do is figure out where this person came from, figure out their neighborhood, then try to track back and figure out whether or not this person walked into a hardware store, electronics store to purchase some items. talk to the likely owners of those stores and in a certain radius. then work backwards peer the other thing of c...

Based on forensics and video they havent released. they may actually be on the hunt or watching assistants to this. but, you know, terrorists are not crazy, terrorists are determined. as a matter of fact, most terrorist groups weed out people who are mentally ill. there is an ideology at play here. it is a corruption, a cult-like version of islam. but, you know, just calling them names is not going to stop it. >> malcolm, i think youre going to stick with me through the hour. i suspect you and i...

About cracking down on this terrorist content online, on platforms that are helping give people instructions, helping with propaganda and to help incite this radicalization that were seeing predominantly in europe and here in the united states as well. >> trace: we learned a couple of fascinating things from catherine herridge, one, that this was for all intents and purposes like the cooker bomb. and isis has claimed responsibility, which is awfully fast. do you think theres any kind of connecti...

To this point there hasnt been hard evidence of that but it raises the question again. >> what are the legal ramifications here? >> facebook didnt do anything legal here. its perfectly legal to sell those ads. and theyre doing their part to trace the forensics to see where the ads came from. no legal ramifications of facebook. in the investigation, it raises questions of was there help on the u.s. end as russian troll farms were buying the ads, targeting particular voters in particular districts...

Ramifications here? >> facebook didnt do anything illegal here. its perfectly legal to sell those ads. and theyre doing their part now for by doing the forensics to trace where the ads came from. so no legal ramifications for facebook. i mean certainly in the investigations of russian interference, it raises questions like i just brought up. was there help on the u.s. end as russia, russian troll farms were buying these ads, targeting particular voters in particular districts. thats a fair quest...

Until i read that times story this morning, i was part of that group that believed, hey, the russians didnt manage to get down to the electoral process. president obama warned them off of that. that story makes me wonder. theres been no forensics done on this. no one has really looked backwards to see and certainly homeland security hasnt. this is a national infrastructure project. russia has weaponized information and learned to effectively ae tack democracy with our own democrat systems. >> is...

He instructed every cabinet agency to lean in, lean in, provide every service needed. that is very much appreciated, the governor is doing a tremendous job leading the assets, and we are seeing cooperation across the state dealing with the crisis. >> i believe harris faulkner may have a question for you. >> harris: senator, thank you so much for giving us a forensics and all the details of what youre doing there on the ground. i know youre to be a person of faith coming into this is your home, s...

Information through social media in an authorized fashion that identifies these people is going to be the best opportunity to try and disrupt these attacks in advance. >> and meantime, they have this very real concern in spain that this may not be the last of it. jim, i want to play for you what the former national counterterrorism center director michael leiter said today on "today." >> this is a little bit more dynamic than we normally see 12 hours after the fact. this is not just forensics. t...

David sanger. paul, we were covering the terrorist attack in 2015, you were there. that was a big cell. this is strikingly similar in that it seems like a pretty big cell with what may have been a bomb making factory. >> were hearing extraordinary details that this cell could have been as large as 12 individuals. that puts it on the scale of the paris attacks. there may well have been a bomb factory. there was a huge house explosion near barcelona the night before. theyre doing the forensics the...

Police say in addition to the crash, another 15 were injured at todays protest. lets go right to nbcs correspondent who has been in the crowd. maya, where do we stand now, including on those injured? >> reporter: right now we know that 35 people were injured total. three deaths. one woman was run down during that incident where the car plowed into the crowd and then we have those two virginia state police officers who died when the helicopter crashed about seven miles southwest of here on a golf...