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President trump facing criticism over his response to the terror attacks in barcelona, first taking a measured tone offering support in his first tweets to the u.s. ally. moments later, bringing up this debunked mythical war crimes story to stop what he calls radical islamic terrorism. lets bring back our panel. molly, to you, this is a story about general pershing who he said -- shall we play this? he tweeted about it yesterday but said this to explain it more during the campaign. >> general pe...

Competence and tact required to be the leader of this nation. but beyond that, this is a long -- the next in a long line of incidents with the president more or less using his platform to pass along right wing mails. donald trump is the president of the united states. he is not your grandfather in a basement or that guy you went to high school with posting on facebook. hes the president. when he says something i think it is important what he says is at least in some semblance true. >> lets go ba...

It is monday, june 5th, 5:00 in the east, and we do have breaking news. our starting line has isis claiming responsibility for saturday nights terror attack in london. seven people lost their lives. 48 others injured. london police have not released the identities of the three attackers, but they say they have seized a huge amount of forensic material after several raids. 11 people are in custody at this hour, and the police chief just seemed to indicate that theyre dealing with a homegrown terr...

At the end of the day we will see these attacks can change unless we take a broader approach to countering the ideology of islamic extremism. >> such a great point. the longer the caliphate exists, the more motivation for extremes. in order to go on the offense until of the u.k. has a terror problem. you dont want to play defense of police. you got to go on the offense. you have to have human intelligence. how do they go into the space races, no go zones, mosques, madrassas for a faster and get ...

From the depths of the threat, and radical is on the terror problem? >> yeah. this thing is with terrorism, its an ever present and theres no denial. they have a strategy in place. they are doing as much of the job as they can possibly do for this. its very important that we say those things. i was very impressed. >> how quickly were you able to call your family last night and why did you say? >> i couldnt get a hold of my family right away. they were out somewhere and they dont actually have ce...

But that is important that these statements generally have to go through a number of layers of checks before they put them out to the public. and the president is not doing that. >> well, and that also often put the white house behind news reports. always this balance between being quick and making sure that you have it nailed down. the president also tweeting today, jillian, that were not having a gun debate as often follows these attacks because this particular attack was carried out by a van ...

The election campaign resumes in britain today after being suspended following the manchester terror attack. also back on this morning, intelligence-sharing between the uk and the u.s. after president trump met with prime minister theresa may and vowed to plug the leaks that led britain to briefly suspend the intel sharing. lets bring in cnns erin mclaughlin live in manchester. erin, good morning to you. weve learned that the uk is running 500 terror plot investigations. this certainly speaks to...

The president was referring to what he saw on television and you wonder were people going to take what he said as some idea that he knows something more than someone else does. and just saw that as i was walking out. >> indications are it was irresponsible. lets use some logic here. he knows about threats happening overseas. in the country known for tight done laws, and ak-47, one thing leads to another, a state of emergency, terror problem, the capital, he says it looks like terror. why cant th...

>> if you listen to the entire interview that rudy giuliani said, he said, and we told him that a muslim -- you know, he taught him that a muslim ban would be unconstitutional, illegal. >> you believe that -- >> absolutely, that would be -- >> the president, as a campaigner, what he originally said, donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states, he went on to say until we can figure out a way to resolve the terror problem or whatever. when he ...

It doesnt have the same terror problem that so many other countries do. uk and france and belgium. the issue here is lone wolf, self radicalized. you have the boston marathon bombers refugees. they did not come here as trojan horses. >> the san bernardino couple. that is another case where the wife was using immigration system to get here. does the u.s. have the big problem that the president seems to think it does? >> not according to his critics. there is frustration that not only would this m...