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Counterterrorism police are handling the investigation into the incident. do we still have malcolm nance on the phone? >> yes. >> malcolm, is this -- does that -- the idea that french police, terrorism police, have taken control of this investigation, does that necessarily mean it is terrorism, or does that just mean this is in their lane? this is what they do? >> i think through an overabundance of caution, that those forces, the bri, are definitely going to at least do the initial analysis. th...

The gunfire. that could have been five, ten minutes after the critical incident, we just dont know. >> with westminster being an unfortunate parallel, is this in the, if you will, isis guide book? is this in the terrorism attack guide book? >> oh, yes. this has been -- you know, this has been in the pantheon of terrorist tactics for decades. what were seeing now, certainly with isis, and to a lesser extent with al qaeda, al qaeda was the first one to actually publish this in a manual to use a ve...

Relatively small unit incident where you have individuals, one, two, a maximum of three, who may have done this on their own. thought it up, conceptualized it, took the weapons or took the vehicle, and just did it. and we saw that in -- you see that in israel with what we call vehicle as weapons systems attacks. or suicide individual weapons attacks. where you take a kitchen knife, you get in your own car, you drive it into a group of soldiers, and you take your knife out and you start killing p...

Where senior members of the administration seem to be not just reading off a different script but having a entirely different geopolitical world view than the president himself. ambassador nikki haley condemning russias complisancy with the weapons attacks in syria and contrast that with some of the tweets and your ror struggling to come to an explanation. i think this is invite more of the insidious conspiracy minded theorist about the ties to russia. and for instance theres this theory he has ...

Those air strikes many president obama knew at the time and said at the time and you saw trump administration officials say last night that military action alone cannot remove the capability of syria to launch kept weapons attacks. the only way you can be absolutely sure they wont be able tdo these attacks is if those weapons are removed from the country. if we had taken strikes back in 2013, theres to guarantee first of all that those weapons would have been totally removed. in fact pretty clos...

Against assad in the six-year civil war, what is the reaction from moscow, and what will be the next move when the president said not long ago the u.s. should stay out of syria? ryan brown, put us up to speed. >> reporter: good morning, these strikes were targeted at this air base link toded to the chem weapons attacks, information indicated that planes were involved in a chemical weapons strike including tracking data showing the planes leaving that air base, conducting the strike and returns, ...

Up voting yes for it provided that it had come before the congress and it had been so limited and wasnt going to grow into a decapitation strike like we saw in libya. >> 86 people were killed in the tuesday chemical weapons attack. according to the united nations an estimated 400,000 syrians have been killed since this civil war started in 2011. do you think the u.s. needs to commit to doing more than taking a stand when it comes to chemical weapons attacks? >> well, this is another reason why i...

People are allowed to own shotguns or sporting rifles. there is a very limited population of people who are not police who can have a handgun or pistol. >> youre absolutely right. theres no private ownership and certainly of certain types of weapons. you will see lots of sporting arms. ive gone wind shooting over there. lots of shotguns and hunting rifles, which are firearms but for the most part, handguns, certainly military grade assault rifles, these arent the types of things we see going on ...

Bent on ruining as many lives as possible, it would be far easier to do that with a gun instead of a knife. >> well, if the individual understands that, you know, bringing yourself to buying a weapon, purchasing a weapon requires a lot of documentation, even if youre going to do a suicide type weapons attack, granted, some you can buy or rent on the street amongst gangs but for the most part, a knife is a weapon at hand. its an improvised weapon. you can take it and carry out that effect. also, ...

Anonmizers and things that allow them to get online and obscure who they are. so this might get tougher because some of that over-the-counter software is tougher to track. >> worrisome development. does isis peter, really have the capability to launch some sort of chemical attack here in the united states? does isis have that capability? >> i think the short answer is no. the parent organization of isis al qaeda in iraq launched some weapons attacks in iraq when the u.s. was occupying the countr...