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Separately there was another incident of violence occurring around westminster. what we believe hes probably referring to separate reports that there was a 4x4 vehicle that plowed over as many as five pedestrians on westminster bridge which joins the area of parliament to south london. so he was -- he was actually very careful and said he didnt want to go into too many details or alarm the members of parliament who would then be having to walk out into this when they left the building. so he was...

Video of the westminster bridge. the area is in lockdown. people have been injured on that bridge. no traffic moving at all, clearly a serious situation. were also told that president trump has now been briefed on the situation by his national security advisers. but were showing our viewers some pictures from the bridge. kevin brennan is still with us, member of parliament. how unusual is this in london? >> well, of course we did have a major terrorist incident back in 2005, wolf, when there was...

Electronics band which went into effect yesterday, but u.s. defense officials we just spoke to in the pentagon yesterday have not seen the same object and chatter in the wake of that. the following information has been compiled by the counter extremism project which monitors terrorist chatter. it is worth noting that following the london attacks, prior to the london attacks, excuse me, there were guidelines put out by isiss spokesman. this was guidance given on november 16th, in their official m...

Remains is that this is still a very volatile situation, quite a lot of people who cverged on this. do you remember last year the british police announced in response to terrorist attacks throughout europe that theyre going to be deploying some 600 additional police officers to central london, who would be armed, some of them with long weapons, and thats new, of course, and britain, police dont typically carry live ammunition with firearms. theyd sometimes carry stun guns or just carry batones o...

Level, that is that an attack is highly likely. at the highest level is critical, which means effectively an attack is underway. we havent heard from the home offices yet as to whether that threat level is likely to rise or whether they think this may be just a one off they can stay severe. in those briefings that we get regularly, this stress, were almost weary at times of the constant stressing of the security services about the threat that we face. there is a sense that there have been no inc...

Little bit, my assessment of this is that we could just have a one vehicle that was driven across the bridge hitting pedestrians on that that bridge then crashing into the railings next to parliament. its possible then that one or maybe two attackers, perhaps even more, have got out of the vehicle and run round the corner to try and get into parliament, which is the scene that quentin has been describing to you. theres a gate there where vehicles can drive in, parliamentary vehicles for mps norm...

So in the universe of possible motives for felonious information we can rule out wanting to help the intelligence communities and the law enforcement communities. those are two motives that are gone now. that leaves some more nefarious motives. ishe investigation into the leak of classified information, has it begun yet? >> i cant say because i dont want to confirm that that was classified information. >> well, i dont want to quarrel with you, director comey, and i do understand that you cannot ...

U.s. persons information related to either presidential campaign who would have approved dissemination? >> one of the 20 and i provided that in my national response and outlined the procedure. >> thank you, admiral. i look forward to working with you on the subcommittee. >> mr. gowdy is recognize >> director comey well begin the lining questioning and finish at the next round. similar programs have been described this morning as vital, critical and in dispensable to our national security and man...

Here as refugee are under an fbi investigation today for potential terrorism related activities. >> sean: in europe, it has become far worse and more violent. the continent has become the epicenter of terrorist attacks against the west. since 2014, europe has taken in over 3 million refugees and asylum-seekers. germany has led the way in western europe by excepting nearly 900,000 refugees in 2015 alone. last month, germanys domestic security and intelligence agency, the bf v said the number of r...

What does the presidents preliminary budget blueprint mean for police forces around the country. tonight the nypd commissioner james oneill slamming the presidents proposal. tweeted this under potus budget virtually all -- how much money are we talking about? >> break it down for you don. $700 million affected. all the states affected with that money. if you break down to new york, $190 million would be cut according to the proposed budget and 110 of that to nypd. talking about a police departme...