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Happens, unfortunately. >> let me stand by for me, please. thank you for all of this. le. >> sure. >> let me bring in a writer at the new york times, the al qaeda and isis expert at the new york times. what are your initial readings of this tell you? >> well, the mode of attack that we saw on london bridge is of course something that isis have been pushing now for more than a year. the idea of using a vehicle to ram civilians. whats interesting is literally a few hours before this occurred, an i...

Londons best is out there working hard tonight. what do you believe they are looking for and what is essential as we understand, again, 12 suspects. that number could increase. >> whatever an attack happens, unfortunately far too often, the police, whether it be here in the states or in the u.k., they form a reactive mode. from the intelligence community, the people i spoken to in law enforcement and downer terrorism want to be proactive. they are treating this as one would an active crime seen....

Right now but as ive been commenting metropolitan police and uk authorities are actually pretty good at briefing the press. they generally the end to be on top of it. the idea that at 3: 30 in the mortgage, five hours after this has transpired that the tweets have stopped, the briefings have stopped, what does that say to you? >> very simply its an active crime scene. seems to me that whatever is happening is still unfolding. look, terror has two components. theres the kinetic attack and thaen t...

Carried out raids on properties in the city this morning. youre seeing some aerial video here. authorities do not believe there are any additional elements after the attack, so the threat level has not been increased. the london attacks started with a vehicle ramming into pedestrians are london bridge. and this use of a vehicle in terror attack is becoming really a new mode of attack for self-radicalized terrorists. is this the most popular now a weapon that is being used? >> cnn national securi...

That we saw in the past. >> we saw in in nice, the concept of using a truck. >> right. >> whats the change in in us thinking about organizational -- you know, organizational structures being behind this like al qaeda ors isis and missing the fact that people might take inspiration from that post that you just described anywhere in the world and go after soft targets. nerd, is there some danger in understanding theyre two different things? >> i actually think its on the other side of the equation...

We have discussed the fact that many london police are not armed. that police officer just said that in the last several years london has increased its patrol of armed response vehicles. so it suggests that some police on the site or someone called their equivalent of 911 and these vehicles that roam around town quickly got to the london bridge and confronts the assailants. >> i think that as we discussed earlier, i think this is still very much an active crime scene. look, it brings a lot of qu...

I dont, no. thank you. thanks very much. gregg.patti ann: even hearing fm scotland yard. that was the commissioner of metro police and unfortunately she did just confirm that the death toll in the london terror attack has now been raised to seven. joining us now, bill gavin, thank you for joining us. what did you think about that press conference? anything hit you? >> patti ann, were still in that defensive mode that europe has been in and addressing these situations and the whole policy of open...

Fulfilling campaign promises. on the other one, well, maybe well forget about those. >> no kidding. heres some strange news about the presidents favorite mode of communication, twitter. this week there were rumors around about a strange spike in the number of followers. 5 million followers added in just three days. hes got a lot of followers so it could be possible. that figure has been disproved but the truth is almost as shocking. since january the presidents account has gained a total of 10...

Back, how big of a concern is that for those in england right now? >> well, when you think about the fact that the estimate is around 850 people and as your law enforcement analysts have explained to me, takes up to 30 people to follow just one suspect round the clock. thats a lot of people to keep an eye on if you really think they might be inclined towards terrorism. right now ive been reaching out to both british and u.s. officials. from one british official i got, we have zero information ri...

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