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Presented with another opportunity to be president ial and he chose to offer a factually inaccurate tweet. At least 13 people are dead after a van deliberately swerved on to a Pedestrian Mall in a popular tourist district. Two people have been arrested. Isis has claimed responsibility and theres Police Activity in a town south of bars locelonbarce. Spanish police are calling it a raid. Well bring you details as they become available. Today president first tweeted his He Condemnation of the attac...

Possibly eyewitnesses may have seen some kind of activity involving that van before that van careened into a crowd. so talk to me about the importance of what people are saying about what happened just prior to this incident and even in the midst of. >> right. so what people are seeing, saying, excuse me, is often less reliable than, you know, the pictures, any videos, things like that. because, remember, when youre in a crisis like this, your viewpoint is only from the position that youre in. i...

We were told in the past hour or so by authorities that quite frankly they do not have any idea where he is. there have been three arrests, we are told, associated with the attack in employebarcelona that 13, injured more than 100, from as many as 24 different nations. in the-- this is an incredibly touristic area. the long zone that runs from here at plaza catalonia toward the sea. it was full of tourists at around 5:00 in the afternoon yesterday when this van careened down this pedestrian zone...

Van careened through this pedestrian street cutting down tourists and locals. a moment frozen in time for those who survived. a moment they expected to die. authorities say it could have been so much worse. the sign simply reads, "pray for barcelona." most tell us they were placing themselves for some sort of attack, hardly lessening the shock, sorrow or impact. this now say they believe that this terror assault was likely planning something, using massive explosive power. not just vehicles as a...

Obviously he has the power in the senate but i dont understand the lack of courage. >> history will judge. thank you. appreciate you both. were following breaking news at this hour. a second terrorist attack in a town called cambrils south of the site of the earlier attack in barcelona where van careened down a busy street. two people were in custody but the driver is still at large. the latest from barcelona. tell us what you know. claudio? tell us what you know. >> reporter: well, the town o...

Supporters. many mitch mcconnell has been fwakd this president and when this president stoop ed to his lowest point. obviously he has the power in the senate but i dont understand the lack of courage. >> history will judge. thank you. appreciate you both. were following breaking news at this hour. a second terrorist attack in a town called cambrils south of the site of the earlier attack in barcelona where van careened down a busy street. two people were in custody but the driver is still at l...

People from the mosque? what more can you tell us about the area? >> its a mix of people really. i was able to spe to a number of them. a lot of the people were just locals. theres a number of mosques in this area. so, when they heard about this incident, many people came from those mosques to see what was going on and there were a few people who were lingering around who were at the scene when it happened. one man that i spoke with who was an eyewitness was escorted from behind the police cordo...

Im going to let you carry on with you work. i know youre working very hard today across religions and churches and the mosques as well. thank you very much as well. >> my pleasure. >> reporter: were going to speak to ian lee who is another police line. ian, just take us through what we know about how the event unfolded. there was this amazing heroic moment, wasnt there, where members of the public detained the man in the van. there was a lot of anger around that, but they handed him over to poli...

Jumping 20, 30 feet in the air. the van careened past london bridge. at that point the assailants got out of the vehicle. they were carrying large knives and they began essentially, fareed, to run into restaurants and bars and stab people. now, within eight minutes, eight minutes, a really extraordinarily rapid response time, police were on the scene and had shot all three assailants dead. but nonetheless, during those eight minutes, they were able to kill seven people, 48 people remain injured....

And do your thing. welcome back to "state of the union." jiem jake tapper. seven people are dead in london after a van careened into people. president trump used the event to bring attention to his travel ban.