Donald trump talked tough on National Security and promised to tighten security laws but made no mention of the controversy surntding his own foundation. Back to you. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Erin burnett outfitter starts right now. Isis suspected of launching a chemical attack. That story breaking. And others. The new york city bombing investigation. Police now looking for these two men. And more breaking news. Protests in charlotte after police shoot and kill a black man. Was he carrying a book or a gun . And my interview with the first muslim president to meet with donald trump. What does he think of trumps muslim ban . Lets go outfront. Good everything, im erin burnett. Out front tonight, breaking news
in the new york terror investigation. Fbi looking for two men. Seen on Surveillance Video on a new york city street the night of the bombings. Police say they took a bomb out of the duffal bag. Left the bomb but took the bag. Also the main suspect behind the new york bombings, ahmed khan rahane playsing Osama Bin Laden in a journal found on him. Much to get to on that story but first our Barbara Starr with the breaking news that isis possibly used chemical weapons on american troops. And barbara, this is an extremely significant and of course terrifying development. It is indeed. Good evening. This happened in Northern Iraq at an air base where u. S. And iraqi forces are located. The belief now is isis is responsible for a shell fired into the base. When u. S. Troops looked it a
they noticed something suspicious. They tested it. I tested positive the first time for mustard agent. This is a chemical isis has used in the past against civilians and kurds but the first time they have used it against a location where u. S. Troops are. It is not a very effective chemical weapon but nunlsz a chemical weapon. So it is causing a good deal of concern. The u. S. Has been using over time air strikes against isis. Chemical weapons facilities. They will be looking for this where this one may have come from and their ability to strike back at it. If there is good news in all of this, erin, it is that no u. S. Troops were injured. But the belief is the shell, the shrapnel landed within several hundred yards of where u. S. Troops are located on the base. U. S. Troops already have chemical protective dwe ivive g iraq. They may have to be using it in the days ahead. This is an area where they are
helping the iraqis fight to retake mosul. A place isis does not want to give up. It is their caliphate center. In iraq they are going to hold on with all desperation and there is a lot of concern that this is the latest desperate move by isis. All right. Pretty scary. Thank you very much Barbara Starr. Breaking news a Pressure Cooker found under a new york city overpass. And an Alarming Development considering the bombings that happened in this area just days ago. Yeah there is no question about it. And the nypd bomb squad on scene responding to that report that there was a Pressure Cooker in that area. It was beneath a major new york highway at 134th street. They investigated. It appears it doesnt have any wires but the nypd has been forced to spopd to more than a hundred tips of suspicious packages and devices. And the Police Commissioner says just keep them coming but a they
are nervous. They want to make sure they dont miss anything. Especially because of what happened on saturday. The fbi is eager to talk to these two men. The two men walking along west 27th street in chelsea when they see a carryon bag which they take. After first removing its contents. A doctored Pressure Cook that was in fact a terrorist bomb. We have no reason they are connected. I cant stress enough, they are witnesses at this time. Two minutes after the first bomb detonates on west 23rd street. Surveillance video shows Ahmad Khan Rahami four blacks away. First carrying the bag and then without it. The bomb across the street of fr a hotel with a busy cafe. The device is covered with rahamis dan. That evidence includes 12 fingerprints recovered from the
undetonated bomb from the 27th street location in chelsea. Including on the Pressure Cooker, duct tape and the triggering cell phone. Writing from the terror suspect show he wanted to die a martyr. This is a copy of mr. Rahamis journal. Multiple pages from rahamis bloodsoaked journal with a bullet hole were recovered following a shoot out with linden, new jersey please. He writes, god willing, in ashic, the sounds of bombs in the streets. Gunshots to the police. Oppression. And the slaughter of the mujahideen so called holy warriors in iraq, afghanistan, syria and palestinian. And prosecutors say this summer rahami purchased several bomb components on ebay, shipping them to a new Jersey Business where he worked. Rahami may have tested the explosives two days before the attack. The familys backyard shows what appears to be skorchd earth. A Prosecutor Says video from a relatives phone shows rahami with a cylindrical container filled with incendiary material, partially buried in a backyard. Rahamis wife is on her way back to the United States. She is expected to meet with fbi agents on her return. Authorities have said that she is cooperating. In the meantime rahami, he remains unconscious on a breathing tube. That is after having undergone surgery following a shootout in which he was taken into custody. The situation still fluid. And the only thing erin investigators have to go on right now is why he did this, are really the writings in the journal. But there are stale lot of questions as to why he picked the locations he did and did le
have help carrying this out. Obviously the crucial question tonight. They are now looking for two men. Outfront, james gag la know, paul cruickshank, and bob bear. When deb says they are talking about who knew. You think the family knew. Oh i think the family knew. And id go beyond that. Now that more evidence is coming out ux i think there are probably other people on the ground. New york city, you just dont steal a suitcase, empty the content. That is not the way it happens. The other thing is you look at this explosive aluminum powder. Hmtd. Someone twoebt a lot of effort. If you go that much effort, that much planning, all the other bombs. You dont simply through the first device in a dumpster and hope more the best. Something else happened there. Rahami got cold feet. There were some wires
disconnected. We wanted to dump it. He wanted to dump the second bomb. And by the way this bag was a key piece of evidence. Was there manifesto in in. A command detonator that you could set this off by phone . Were missing a lot of pieces. And the fact he was found in a i do in a bar they may have abandoned him. Who wants to claim an operation that failed to this degree . And certainly the Islamic State wouldnt or al qaeda and when someone like that does mess up they just let him go. And lets show the picture again. With have a picture of these two men they are look for. Look, it is a very strange thing. They are walking down the street. They take the bag. They take out the Pressure Cooker bomb and then they walk off with the bag. And if they were up to no harm, why havent they contacted police . Well the longer they dont come forward the more questions are going to be asked. Crucial forensics on the bag. But we know if you leave anything in value in the street in new york it can be gone very quickly. It happens all the time, you leave something out and someone picks it up. So that may actually not but a Pressure Cook we are wires and ball bears coming. They liked the look of the bag and, you know, well fancy a bag and they were opportunists and that happens all the time in new york city ive got say. Bob . If i could just add something. Ive had a suitcase o e stolen a duffal bag. They dont go through it. They dont take the time. Especially if something heavy and shiny like that it is something you want to steal as well. That makes no sense that somebody would empty a duffle bag and just take the bag. We have video of this. It is small and enclosed in this backyard. There it is. You can see all the houses right next to it. There is where an explosion happened they believe. And we have rahamis brothers
cell phone. We know that cell phone was used to film an explosion in what they believe was that enclosed space. And you heard deb describe it. Billowing smoke and laughter. Did the family know or help . Well i think erin party of that is going to be it is specs. Ive seen a number of instances over the years where people were involved in criminal acts in their own basement or in a room in their house and it will rally no one else in the house was aware. Also cases where the. So the hope is that someone that did see that test bomb in the backyard would have called somebody in Law Enforcement and said hey i saw this. This didnt look like right. So paul let me ask you about this. This keeps coming back. It defies common sense that someone would have been testing explosives in such a small space and we know there were at least ten bombs. That is what they found. So ten bombs they believe were at some point in that momehoemt. And apparently laughter on the recording. Was that just one person laughing . Generally, there tends to be perhaps two people when laughter is exchanged. So they will be looking into that. Did he just film this himself and then go around and do this . Or was there someone else there . But erin, this was a powerful bomb, high explosive. Tricky detonator. All of that could be pointed towards the international terrorism, a link up gone oaf successfully you would see perhaps dozens of people who lost their lives. Absolutely. And to make a device like this generally you need some kind of training. Not impossible he could have done this. But i think that is a point to people i speak to in the Counterterrorism Community towards possible terrorist training over seas. What do you make of the fact that the journal, the
bladstained journal looks like a bullet hole in it. Found on his body. He had his journal on him. When you find the evidence on a subjects body, it doesnt get anymore close to the subject. I think this is also going to be a very important piece of this that the fbis got 60 Different League at attaches. And pictures out everywhere now. And that is going to help those men realize hey we were in the wrong place, wrong time or the world is going to notice. Pretty full frontal pictures if someone know whose they are. Up front next. Earning in the streets. After police shoot and kill a black man. Does it matter if the shooting officer is black too . And boxing promoter don kings
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keep the calm just days after the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man in tulsa, oklahoma. Terrence crutcher was walking with his hands in the air when he got shot. Lets go outfront. Reporter last erring last night outside of this apartment complex after police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott. A 43 yard black man. Within hours it was a scene spiraling out of control. As protesters thrashed a police vehicle, targeted officers with rocks, blocked the highway and set a tractortrailer on fire. It all started 4 00 tuesday afternoon when Police Arrived at the apartment complex to serve a warrant unrelated to scott. That is when officers say they saw him get out of his car with a firearm and then jump back in. When they approached they say he came out again Still Holding the handgun. Witnesses say they heard police loudly order scott to put it down. That is when two year veteran bentley vincent also an African American opened fire killing scott. It is unclear if scott aimed his gun at officers but family members deny scott even had a gun. Instead saying he was holding a book. He came out here every day to read him a because he cant do nothing. She. Reporter the police just shot hi daddy four times for being black. My daddy is dead. Police say no book was recovered but they did find a handgun. My daddy aint got no [ bleep ] gun. Look. Today, chief putny lamented what he called the misinformation being spread on social media. But it is time for the
voiceless majority to stand up and be heard. It is time to change the narrative. Because i can tell you from the facts, that the storys a little bit different as to how its been portrayed so far especially through social media. Reporter police home hope the right information will prevent violent protests tonight. Hoping for the best and preparing if are the worst. Here this Downtown Charlotte where we followed this group of about 150200 protesters. There were some tense moments at police head yours a few blocks away. And the wife of Keith Lamont Scott put out a statement a new moments ago saying shes glad people are exercising their First Amendment rights but says she wants people to remain peaceful and keep cool heads in this tense time. Also one final note. Though she heard from the chief
of police she said she still has more questions than answers, erin. Thank you very much. Outfront, now van jones who served as an advisor to president obama. Mark, let me just start with you here an this. People were injured last nigh. Quite a few. 16 officers were actually injured. We now know the victim was shot by a black Police Officer. Not a white Police Officer. Police say he had a gun. His daughter says not but the police say he had a gun. Did the proertsers mistake by going out without all the facts . General sense and frustration and outrage around the nation not just about charlotte. People are going to go out and be outraged. Even if a person has a gun it doesnt necessarily mean they should be killed or they were pointing a gun or they were an imminent threat. It doesnt mean they werent. We want all the facts but there is a sense there is no reason to trust the police. There is no reason to give the police the benefit of the doubt. We dont operate from the assumption that police are necessarily telling the truth that their narrate sieve the accurate one and whether hes black or not isnt the point. We didnt march and struggle and fight to get shot by black plifrs either. You think the race is not erlt. The family says they had a book. His daughter is saying that officers placed the gun there. Police are saying absolutely not. There was no book. He had a gun. Well lets never let facts get in the way of a good protest. I agree with what a lot of what mark was saying but i disagree with the benefit of the doubt. If you do not givePolice Officers across the country the benefit of the doubt, the whole social contract breaks down. Because then what will compel a cop to go out and fight crime like they did in new jersey with the bombs like they did in new york . We need to trust the cops. And what were seeing here. Let the facts play out. But in ferguson, what kind there
[ baltimore what happened there. It started as one narrative and when the facts came to be no one wants to hear it then. What im for is let the facts come out and lets go where the facts take out. If they are bad cops, they are not cops, they are criminals. I want to play again more of what scotts daughter said in that Facebook Live video. Let me just play her. Here she is. Look, the police just shot my daddy four times for being black. So do you think that that is what might have happened . Again, keeping in mind i know mark says it is not relevant. But the shooting officer also was black. I think it is difficult to make that assessment at this stage. One problem i have is a feel the Police Department could have gotten in front of this as quick as possible by providing an element of transparency. This