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Welcome back. moments ago, british prime minister theresa may raised the terror threat level in the uk to critical. thats the highest level the uk has. it follows last nights terror attack that killed 22 people and injured 59 others after a concert at manchester arena. today police have identified only two of the victims, ages 8 and 18. this afternoon, british officials identified the bombing suspect as the 22-year-old salman ramadan abedi. authorities are now questioning his 23-year-old brother...

It through the database and come up with a name. that name will go through a number of databases, e ours is called the data environment tied. its run by the national terrorism center. the uk authorities, their internal service works with all the other partners in the world. theyll try to match that name with any other aspect of known terrorist network. i predict theyll use that name, identify an address, probably somewhere in the uk and youll see armoured rain forest by the uk, police, apparent ...

Re-electe re-elected. >> what we hope, what i would happy is that rouhani has a new term and he uses that term to gin a process of dismantling iraqs terrorism, dismantling its financing of the terrorist network, dismantling the manning and the logistics and everything that they provide to these de stabilizing forces that exist in this region. thats what we hope he does. >> lets get more now from iran, cnns fred pleitgen is in that capital. he joins us by phone. fred, good to have you at this hou...

Is iran that needs to be stopped. reporter: i apologize that helicopters decided to park themselves right over my head and i hope you can hear me. [inaudible] certainly, the arms agreement is tangible and deliverable. the on note here is what can be done about iran. rex tillerson said now that he has been reelected and he hopes to take the second term and he will disband terrorist network that around supplies and sports and get rid of its ballistic missile support and brings it more itself in li...

Knowledge regarding the person of interest thats been referenced. i might comment on the iranian elections as well, that what we hope, what i would hope, is that rouhani now has a new term and that he use that term to begin a process of dismantling irans network of terrorism, dismantling its financing of the terrorist network, dismantling the manning and the logistics and everything that they provide to these destabilizing forces that exist in this region. thats what we hope he does. we also hop...

Regarding the person of interest. and i might comment on the iranian elections as well. what i would hope is that rahani has a new term and that he use that dismantling irans network of terrorism, dismantle its financing of that terrorist network, dismantling the manning and logistics and everything that they provide to these destabilizing forces that exist in this region. thats what we hope he does. we also hope that he puts an end to their ballistic missile testing. we also hope that he restor...

Could you explain how difficult it is to obtain and use human intelligence on the ground within isis in that area? >> its one of the toughest intelligence targets in the world because you have to basically run a human agent into the heart of the terrorist network. our allied intelligence services all around the world struggle at this, they work at this for months and years to develop these sources. when they finally come to us and say weve got some reporting from an asset on the ground, we treat...

Michael, what would the next step be then? he ironed out and laid out a fairly clear list of provocative actions the iranians have taken. what do you make of that? >> if iran cheats, they get a nuclear weapon in six months to a year. but the jcpoa basically reactivates irans terrorist network. it de-lists, taking sanctions off of the kutz force, banks supporting hezbollah and terrorist groups, freights, shipping companies. so they reactivated tehrans ability to expert terrorism. we shouldnt be s...

Ryan and mitch mcconnell have said torture is illegal. so the question is what is torture? we kind of defined it as the using physical pressure to get information. its ineffective to take out an entire terrorist network. the idea that torture is never useful, if someone is hitting you with a lead pipe to give you your atm number, you probably will give that up. but when youre talking about a larger segment of knowledge, rapport building is much more useful in the long run. >> can you talk about ...

Sustainable im a principled partnerships. thats how we brought most of our troops home. thats how, even as we suffered terrible things at home from boston to orlando, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland these past eight years. >> kennedy: other achievements, the pentagon saluted president obama for include neutralizing irans nuclear threat, decimating al-qaedas terrorist network, putting us on a path to defeating isis, strengthening i...