Claimed credit. World leaders weighing in on standing against the terrorist threat. That is it for us. A busy news night. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight, fair, balanced and unafraid. Continuing coverage with greta next. This is a fox news alert. A blood bath in an International Airport ripping through europe the busiest airports. Right now the death toll is at 50 and more than 100 injured. It all happened at istanbul airport and bomb detonating at Security Check point. Attack viciously similar to marchs attack in brussels. Live in istanbul, laura are a, whats the latest . Well, the istanbul governor has said there were three suicide bombers and that resonates with the other accounts we heard that there were three blasts. There was one in the parking lot outside the International Terminal. This is a stand alone build from the domestic terminal so foreigners and foreign
nationals were definitely those that were targeted, it seems. Also one at the entrance of the International Terminal as well as the entrance of both the departure and the arrival. And if you look at videos, you can see what is alleged to be some of this closed Circuit Television footage of the detonation, the suicide bomb detonation. If we look and analyze the attacks that have happened in its istanbul the past year one claiming 300 lives at this point. Isis being the main culprit this is the mode dison ronde of isis using suicide vest. There is rumor one of these aattackers is a Foreign National that also is something that has happened in some of these terrorist attacks but not with other groups. Just so im clear, the bombing, one is in the parking lot. Thats outside the terminal. One is the entrance to the narmt; is that international
airport. Is that actually inside the terminal . Yes. As you enter the International Terminal, you have to go through the first Security Check. All of the baggage goes through an xray machine and everyone has to go through metal detector. So, at that point, they have actually gone through the first level of security, likely . The video that i have seen it looks like they have. You can see that one attacker is injured by what looks to be a Police Officer and there is another Police Officer seen in the background and then you see him detonate and then afterward there is nothing where he was on the ground it looks like he was injured. Again, another eyewitness had said one of these suicide bombers was injured by a Police Officer before he detonated his vest. The third one, the third bomb is deeper into the airport; is that correct . Well, it looks so from just the footage. Now, this is not something aside from, you know, three suicide attackers and three
blasts something that the governor spoke about. But the were just waiting right now for the Prime Minister, who is at the airport, he has arrived, is going to have a press conference any time now to awaiting more news. This is certainly an international story. They are speaking. Turkish officials are speaking which they usually dont after a tears attack. The turkish officials are now saying 147 are injured. You have heard anything everybody is looking wbr id wbr2110 at isis. Is there any suggestion that its kurdish separatist movement pkk which, of course, has been very violent itself since about 1984 in that nation . Certainly we have seen Splinter Group of the pkk behind three different attacks in which some civilians were killed, including an attack on the other International Airport in istanbul. That was december of last year. And although they said they wanted to kill more people and hurt turkeys tourism, b
they only killed one person. Unfortunately it was a cleaning lady at the airport. All right. And i also read and you can confirm it or not prior to the multiple bombings today at the airport that there was an earlier bombing by a few hours earlier and that a Police Officer was killed . You have heard anything about that . Well, i have not. But certainly this is almost a daily, certainly multiple times a week occurrence in which Security Officials in turkey are targeted and usually that wbrid wbr2710 is either the work of marxist lennonist terrorist groups or the pkk or talk. The Splinter Group of pkk. Laura, thank you. Thank you. There is no doubt turkey is in the middle of an extremely volatile region. Who is it isis or pkk or some other group. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United States ambassador john bolton goes on the record. They are still investigating it nobody has bragged about this so far. But your thoughts . Well with that caveat, i
think it looks like isis. I think its significant that tomorrow is the second anniversary of the declaration of the isis caliphate in syria and iraq. There has been a lot of fighting along the syrian Turkish Border aimed at cutting off isiss access to the land it holds in syria into turkey where they have gotten a lot of recruits, a lot of the weapons. A lot of the commerce has gone through there. As isis has been pressed militarily, they have expanded their terrorist attacks and it stands to reason that an attack on the most visible symbol of commerce into turkey through the International Airport would suit their ends. The odds are they are more than likelily foreign. The state department on monday upgraded to tourists. On monday president erdogan in israel seemed to be doing reset, mending discomfort between those two nations the last couple years. And then you have erdogan apologizing to putin over the death of the december death of a fighter pilot. I erdogan is trying to clear the decks. Hundreds of thousands of refugees. I think the parallel as you mentioned at the beginning to the airport attack in brussels is also significant. We know of at least three bombers here. Cant tell whether when others perhaps realized that the attack had been blown promaturely. Exited running in panic it could have been bigger. We dont know at this point. It seems airports are such soft targets and cafes. I find this significant. Really sort of close to home to isis. You know, its in turkey right at the border. Its not brussels. You know, its not the United States. It is almost i mean its interesting to me its close to home. A target easier to reach and symbolism again of a
major International Airport is hard to resist. I think isis could well have launched other missions. Were close to the end of ramadan. This would fit the pattern of doing more in ramadan. In europe and in the United States well to be on guard here for the next couple of days even more than normal. What would you expect president obamas statement to be in the event that it is isis . Well, if we follow his pattern over the past several years, he will down play it. I think its a mistake. Look, this is not a series of completely isolated events that have taken place by down dense in the middle east, in the europe, and in the United States, its radical ideology it comes in a lot of different forms, al qaeda, isis, taliban, the rulers in iran who are radical islamists in their own right. Unless we recognize the ideology although it may have different
manifestations we will never combat it effectively. We put Safety Measures so that no one can get on a plane with a bomb. Now they have, quote, wised up and they see they can bomb people right as they go into the airport. I was just in israel last week there are checkpoints before you pull up to the terminal. They have bomb sniffing dogs. They may be our future as well. Three or four checkpoints to get into a hotel in pakistan islamabad. You have to go through checkpoints a couple blocks away. It doesnt necessarily secure threw either. No. Similar to an attack that could happen right here in the United States. What is being done to protect american airports. Form are Commanding Officer on Port Authority police jfk and laguardia airports ken note hoenig joins us. Good evening, sir. Geographic. Naturally, sir, tonight as we all watch whats going on, turkey, we all saw those horrible visions coming out of brussels in march. Naturally we turn to our own airports. Is our airports any safer than this turkish airport . Somewhat safer only because of the distance involved. You have got whats happened over the years as we have taken the steps to keep people with weapons and explosives pushed the perimeter around. U. S. Airports the screening points are inside the airport. In this case they had a preliminary screening area right at the entrance to the airport terminal. And these individuals, when they realized they werent going to get through, any began their attack with weapons and hand grenades and the then finally setting off explosive vests. There are also trying to hire alerts where they will set up a screening point off the airport at the airport entrance. Not so much to screen baggage but to question people. We have got to get back into
that habit of not looking for the bomb but looking for the bomber and looking at the people and having Law Enforcement officers trained to screen people by their and question them and pull out the people who need to be checked. The other thing is we need to have like they did there armed officers at the airport. Tsa officers there. But there arent Law Enforcement officers locked down at the screening points. They are usually generally Walking Around the terminals and patrolling. In this case, if the individual had been checked and tried to get through, he would have been able to push his way through the tsa and just opened fire on them and then possibly gotten deeper into the terminal. Thats something we need to look at doing here. All right. If we first of all, that stuff is not likely to be done. Assuming that those are the things we should do until something really awful happens here. Thats when we act is when
something awful. Thats going to cost us 50 lives or whatever it is before that happens. Number two, is we have got the problem is that we have got so many entrance points in this country jfk, logan, lax, miami or any of the big airports. Our Regional Airports are just as busy. Like memphis, milwaukee, those all these airports across the country are very, very busy. How can we protect them all with this . We have to remember that when we harden the International Airports, the Regional Airports become relatively soft targets. If you cant afford and understandably you cant afford to do it all the time what you need to do is have on irregular basis higher levels of security to keep them off guard. What they will do is they will do surveillance beforehand to see where the weak points are in the airports. What we do is keep moving weak points around so they cant predict where its going to be. Another point in terms of response to this incident was we saw was a lot of people who were injured were being thrown at the taxi cabs and being taken to the nearest Emergency Rooms it overloads that local emergency room. It also gives secondary terrorists an opportunity to get in to those Emergency Rooms and to attack them. Thats something the hospitals begin to do very quickly lock down and begin to screen people. Im hoping as americans watch this tonight and realizing this could happen here and as our hearts bleed for what happens in turkey and brussels, realize as much as our airport people try to protect the airport is the truth is we citizens need to back it up a little bit. If we see someone buying weird stuff, acting like really strange, is that we report it going back to the see something, Say Something so we dont put the pressure on the airport to have to try to protect itself. Oftentimes we can help a lot on the really far out
perimeter. Do you agree . You know. If you look at every one of these terrorist attacks. Whether its san bernardino, whether it was orlando. After the event happens, they begin to talk to people, and their friends, their relatives, their acquaintances all turn around and say, you know, he talked about this. He mentioned it he said bad things. He posted on facebook. He had a twitter account. He subscribed to these things. But nobody said anything until after it was over. The idea is, you know, you cant be afraid to Say Something. You have got to Say Something and you know, we would rather get 100 phone calls that turn out to be nothing than miss the one that turns out to be something we could change. Well, the theme should be the American People dont let the terrorist get to the airport or Something Like that. Anyway. Kenneth, thank you. Thank you. And turkey has been marred with violence. The United States state department as i noted yesterday warned americans will increased terrorist attacks throughout turkey what are people saying in turkey tonight. The washington post
correspondent Aaron Cunningham is live in istanbul. What are they saying there . Well, i think there was a feeling that Something Like this would happen. That it was expected to happen and there had been attacks a number of attacks over the past few months. So, so there was that expectation. But people are upset, obviously. Theyre worried about the direction that the country is going and whether or not there will be more violence like this. I assume you have american friends there. I mean, are the americans who are there, whether they are on business or living there, and studying there, do you talk to snem do they have increased fear being in this nation . I think so. I think there have been more americans that have left turkey in recent months than previously. I know that in april there was a very specific warning from the state department about a terrorist attack in istanbul. And people, measures that were here did leave as a result of that warning. So, i think that there are people that are trickling
out. And they realize that they might not be as big as they thought they were particularly in places like the airport or on shopping streets like earlier this year. Do you feel safer goinged into the istanbul airport or into jfk airport . Which seems to have better security . Whats your sense . Thats an interesting question. I know the airport i flown in and out of a number of times has very tight security. Very impressive security. I think i would be safer going through jfk because i know the islamic state, although they have not claimed responsibility for this and its unclear if they carried out this attack, they have a wide network in turkey. And so its just unclear when these things will be able to happen. And, of course, any airport is unsafe outside where you arrive at the
airport and you have got long lines before anyone has even hit security going through the lines. People are just standing there. Erin, thank you. Youre welcome. And another airport attack. Is the Obama Administration asleep at the terror wheel . Senator Lindsey Graham is here next. Plus, instant live updates from istanbul. The long awaited benghazi report is out. Should secretary Hillary Clinton be worried about this report . Thats coming up. Its here, but its going by fast. The opportunity of the year is back the mercedesbenz summer event. Get to your dealer today for incredible onceaseason offers, and start firing up those grilles. Lease the e350 for 499 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Fight heartburn fast. With tums chewy delights. The mouthwatering soft chew that goes to work in seconds to conquer heartburn fast. Tum tum tum tum. Chewy delights. Only from tums. Attack rocking istanbul and in fact rocking
everybody. Its a turkish airport. Officials saying 31 people are dead. Earlier they reported 50 were killed. The minister says 147 injured. Airport attack coming months after airport bombing in brussels. South carolina and United States senator Lindsey Graham is here to go on the record. Thank you. Prayers for those in turkey. Very terrible. What do we do. You have to go where isil resides and destroy the caliphate. This is going to be with us a long time. We ever making it harder on ourselves not having a game plan to go into syria that will destroy the root of this problem which is in raqqa, syria coming back to haunt us all. This is what brennan was trying to warn you about. Why arent we . President obama, is his military telling him to do that . No. I think he just doesnt want to reengage in iraq and syria. Doesnt want to be like bush. Is he not trying to destroy isil. Is he trying to pass this on to the next president. Even secretary Hillary Clinton said the goal is not
to contain isis but to destroy it she is more hawkish about it . She has to change the strategy. What president obama is doing in iraq is having some success about it will never destroy isil until you deal with syria. They are one battlefield. At the end of the day, if you are commit to do killing yourself and willing to take other people with you, its hard to stop. This turkey is a pretty tight fisted security environment right now. For these guys to get through was pretty sophisticated attack. I worry that we get to a point where it gets too big, too insidious that it