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>> a strike inside gaza kills a hamas commander, but turn scores of civilians into collateral. thats tonight, on news night. ♪ ♪ ♪ and good evening, i am abby phillip in washington. tonight, a fight for the narrative, and to explain what these pictures really mean. you are looking here at a crater. this is the aftermath of what israel calls a wide scale attack. but it is also a gaza refugee camp, jabalya, where the idf claims a senior hamas commander was using civilians as shield...

Impediments. he knew where to enter. he entered somewhere below tribecca in lower manhattan where a used to work by the federal building and he entered there and was able to run 16 blocks in one mile and kill eight people. the important thing here is to determine this for motive. was he isis directed, which means it was definitely a conspiracy. isis inspired, which means he looked at things online. >> the video as miguel is reporting. >> or an aspirant. somebody that just saw something sand hey ...

I would say, las romblas is the most iconic place in all of spain. its a very high profile target and that again testifies to the planning that has gone into thi this. >> sandra: want to continue to get more perspective, i want to let you know as well that the nypd counterterrorism unit has spoken out on this saying we are closely monitoring the developments of the incident in barcelona. buck saxton joins us, he is a former cia counterterrorism analyst. obviously, when we see a situation like th...

Theyre talking. its a pedestrian thoroughfare. so, weve seen it and so its beyond this incident. its -- the first thought is where else. first, do i know anybody there. second, where else is this going to happen. its only the middle of august. and thats the intent. and so, thats the first thought. >> beyond that. >> beyond that, you really have to wonder about, look, spain has very strong anti-terrorism laws. theyve had them since before 9/11, since before islamic terrorism, when they had their ...

Attack, the kind of things weve seen here in the united states. this was clearly isis directed. they knew who it was, they knew when it was going to happen. they had announcements taking place notice all languages on social media within an hour or two. so they are more organized than were often led to believe by some of the successes that are going on in syria and iraq in terms of disrupting the center of isis, theyre still planning these things. it wasnt a large bun with you nevertheless it was...

Esteban santiago. and people have been reading into his finger and that. art what does this say to you if anything? >> could be some peripheral involvement here with terrorist group. its hard to say right now. but definitely iekological issues. and psychological issues and terrorist acts not mutually exclusive. we tend to put something in a particular bucket to label it. this is this. but one is not mutually exclusive of the other. i think well find terrorism was peripheral issue but this indivi...

To be in some way unislamic. i thiake the claim of responsibility at face value, the kurdish terrorists dont attack nightclubs where there are many civilians including turks. so the choice of target and isis claiming responsibility mean that it is slightly, if not isis directed, at least isis inspired. >> there have been so many terrorist attacks within turkey in the past several months, phil. isis has claimed responsibility. other terror groups have claimed responsibility. other rebel groups ha...

Latest information? >> well, it all fits in with i think what most peoples expectations were given that a lot of the tactics, techniques, procedures that we see in this attack mimic a couple of other ones. in fact, there have now been three attacks the islamic state has claimed credit for using its channels, propaganda channels online, involving vehicles. just given the initial reports on this, it certainly seems to be a jihadist attack, probably isis inspired, if not isis directed, and so this ...

Doing more, we should be helping. yes, we should have five years ago whenever the civil war started in syria. we should have never withdrawn our troops so quickly out of iraq which led to isis taking over. whats really important, i think, about this attack in germany. isis inspired, is this radical or isis directed? if its isis directed, that means the gains we tried to make in iraq in syria against them are not as significant as we thought. >> the thing is, they were giving three, four years to...

Of new jersey, a former chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thank you very much for joining us. i want to get to all of these issues. very quickly, the fbi is saying that they are missing 18 minutes of the terrorist movements in san bernardino. they are working on the assumption that this was isis-inspired, not isis-directed. what are you hearing? >> i dont know much more, wolf, than what youve reported. they are trying to figure out what those 18 minutes represent in te...