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We can join my colleague we canjoin my colleague ben brown who is there. Im ben brown in north london, where police are investigating the third Terror Attack in the city in as many months. Once again, a vehicle was used to target people as a van was driven at speed into a crowd of muslim worshippers outside a mosque. One person died and ten people were injured. Bystanders pinned down the terror suspect before handing him over to police. When he was running, he was saying, iam going when he was r...

Dont know the path or exactly how the shootings occurred. Where were you when you got that phone call and your heart had to have dropped . So today has baeen we last our footage there. That was the superintendent going through and taking questions there for a few minutes. Let me go down to our nbc correspondent who has been on the scene for the last few hour, Tammy Leitner. What codo you feel like you kno factually and what are some of the Unanswered Questions youre trying to get answers to . Re...

For the region, potentially for the west again. theres a risk of womens rights and deep political instability. the argument is what is a small presence of american soldiers staying there for months and years to come going to do? the reality is probably not a lot. what can the u.s. do long term there. both of those presidents have looked at the same situation and said, its time to go. >> i think he was absolutely right. theres broad support. the open question is what happens if things start to ge...

Our school system. there is tactical preparations and there is profiling preparations. what do you do? >> youre saying in preparation for a school shooting in advance of a school shooting? >> yes, trying to sort of both help a high school identified troubled students and both on a tactical front and the profiling front. >> on the profiles front, i dont think it is much different than the way we profile from a terrorist perspective. ive talked on the air here many times about how we need to have ...

All of these plots either conceived or partially carried out. none deadly. until now. miguel marquez, cnn. >> with me now, cnn national security analyst peter bergen as well as cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. peter, clearly there have been a number of close calls in new york city, obviously since 9/11, plots foiled, attackers caught. none of those attempts had been like this attack today, however. >> yeah, a number of the attacks in that piece were informant driven. the two serious attac...

With me in national security analyst peter bergen. there have been a number of close calls since 9/11. plots foiled, attackers caught, none of those attacks have been like this attack today, however. >> a number of attacks in that piece for informant driven. lucky they they didnt pan out. but it shows from a terrorist perspective, theyre like school shooters, they learn from other inciden incidents. weve seen 15 of these attacks in the west since 2014. they killed 142 people including the eight ...

Is that right, malcolm? >> absolutely right. i spent many times in barcelona. >> before we start our conversation here, for our viewers at home, on the left side of your screen, thats a news conference that is ongoing. it is in spanish. we have someone standing by for us and we are going to try and decipher precisely what was just said. he appeared to take some questions. a spanish official just wrapping up a news conference. kelly cobiella is standing by. malcolm, this part of barcelona that we...

Tech fang-type companies like facebook, apple, amazon, those will be a magnet for increased investment. those will be there fore targets that can cause a big problem if something went wrong from a terrorist perspective. >> one more wild card at you since you dismissed the ones that i did. one could be the debt ceiling argument and the fact that democrats might want to try to hold it hostage as well by limiting tax cuts. well raise the debt ceiling for you if you go slow on the tax cuts. you dont...

>> your honor, im sorry. i havent thought -- as i said, i had not done that math before the argument. i have not thought about the case in those terms because -- >> let me switch to the other part of it. i mean, do you deny that, in fact, there is concern about people coming from those countries separate and apart from what their religion might be because as congress and the previous administration have concluded, those countries are a concern from a terrorist perspective? >> your honor, congres...

The probability this was some kind of horrific accident is small. it looks like it fits in with the criteria would expect for a jihadist attack, similar to what we saw in nice, from the jihadist perspective, an attack on a french national holiday -- >> there were weapons there. it is different in the sense that im not hearing reports of shots. it sounds like this individual we know nothing about this individual or if this person has even been caught, drove up going who knows how fast into this c...