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To me about two hours ago now. it is pretty clear that at times like this the police, their responsibility primarily is to ensure the safety of the public. we have seen that the course of our live coverage tonight. police pushing back members of the public. moving back out and actually i just want to break in for a second and bring you this. theresa may, the prime minister. she is on her way back to london. she has said the terrible incident is being treated in her words as a potential act of te...

What else have you learned? >> the latest intelligence, they are working off of in cooperation with the british is that salman abedi did travel to syria. they believe he went to syria in the month before the attack and he most likely received training and support there from isis. this is the intelligence theyre working off of at this hour. are they trying to get it all perfectly nailed down? yes. but that is what the working assumption is now based on the intelligence they have. that in the mont...

And theres a little breakmanship, do we want to go in and grab them or see what theyre going to do? and its a risk you really have to take sometimes. >> and carrying on this working assumption a law enforcement official says it was probably a suicide bomber, the question has to be was he homegrown, did he come in from somewhere else? i mean these are important questions for law enforcement and how you conduct the investigation going forward. >> thats right. and for years weve been saying lets ta...

>> nsa didnt do this. it asked the white house if it wanted this stuff the white house didnt object it looks fast this information was used by the white house to win congressional votes on the fraudulent iran deal in december 2015. steve: where was the outcry then, fred? >> i dont know. the "wall street journal" had a great article in 2015. i wrote on it a great piece by my friend lee smith who lays it out again. its an outrage. steve: speaking of the tablet article he wrote from inside the whit...

And there was panic." tass, the russian state news agency, spoke to somebody who was on the train who was hit by the explosion, and he said that in the metro car, everyone expected dead. as people were taking us out, everybody was covered in blood. so, absolutely horrific scenes in this, russias second biggest city, today, kate. >> and honestly, still early moments here, a lot still to be known, as you mentioned, matthew. so, paul, no claim of responsibility yet. this is all happening in realtim...

New normal now in russia. i think theres likely to be a significant wave of terrorist akz ta, so many russian nationals have joined groups like isis and theyre learning although this terrorist trade craft in places like syria and iraq, killing people on a regular basis now and migrating back now into russian territory to launch attacks, very, very motivated to do that, but as of this hour, no claim yet of responsibility from any terror group but the working assumption right now is this is an act...

Assumption. it seems a little more now than a working assumption. there seems to be some evidence, really, that this is indeed an act of some kind of terrorism. we dont know at this stage what the motive was, whether there was any link to islamist terrorism. certainly people are going to think that is a possibility given what british officials have been saying for months and months about the state of the threat in the uk. an unprecedented threat to the uk coming from gentlemjihadi te groups, peo...

Having perpetrated the attack was taken down. but its visitors and tourists, as i mentioned as well, i saw a class field trip there. kids 8 and 9 years old walking up to the viewing gallery to see the business of democracy in this country and how it unfolds every day. so it is an extremely, bustling area and hugely symbolic area here in london. wolf? >> hala gore ran knani, thank y. its interesting that they have already said that it appears to be an act of terror at these early stages. its only...

Saying lets not walk the plank, we made a promise to our constituent bus we need to do it right. the key here with this passing the house while the republican study committee is a larger group, they dont have the 216 votes necessary to pass it. its the house that is the key here. its a smaller group but without their united front it wont pass. they are on their way to the white house meeting with administration officials to make sure that what they want gets in he here. theyre responsible work r...

This? >> a lot of excitement on the jihady w y jihadi web sites, social feed that this could be a jihadi that was responsible. we have no indication of that yesterday at this point. the working assumption is this was a terrorist attack, a multi-phase or a multi-pronged terrorist attack right at the heart of london involving a vehicle ramming and, of course, weve seen those kind of attacks in nice where 86 people were killed last year, and more recently in berlin where 12 people were killed. that...