The moment one of the gunmen is shot and then detonated his suicide bomb. There was more shooting. Authorities say signs point to isis. Major airports in the u. S. Are on high alert bracing for the busy holiday weekend. And trump is now weighing in. You have to fight fire with fire. Hterror once again moves to the forefront of the race for president. We better get smart and we better get tough or were not going to have much of a country left, okay . Weve got all the angles covered here this morning from turkey the u. S. Airports and of course the campaign trail. I want to begin with nbc news chief Foreign Correspondent richard engel. What do we know right now . Reporter well, let me describe the scene. I am inside the terminal and there is a i guess you could call it a tremendous symbol of resilience but also one that the quite unusual. The airport has reopened. It is very crowded. There are a lot of passengers here, families, even as the reconstruction work is going on. The ceiling collapsed. Its surrounded by a few makeshift barriers, some advertising. Workmen are behind it doing a little bit of welding trying to put things together. And then right across from them there is a cafe. People are buying sandwiches. People are changing their flights, going to the booking counters. So even as some of these walls are pockmarked with bullets, the plate glass is crashed and there are attendants doing their business, cleaning up amid all of this destruction. Im looking right now at a travel point concierge. Hes dusting off his counter. Behind him is a wall pockmarked with bullet holes. A very unusual scene to have an airport opening, functioning amid the aftermath of a terrorist attack. While it seems that its business as usual and theres no official statement, are signs pointing to this being isis . Reporter yes. The Prime Minister said that this morning. Counter terrorism officials have told us tt it appears to be the work of isis. Isis in the past has not always claimed its attacks in turkey. Isis has a sensitive relationship with turkey because many of its members have family here. They use this as a base. Sometimes they dont want to publicize attacks they have done in turkey. This might change that calculation. We will see. But all indications are that it is isis. We may or may not get an official claim of responsibility based on previous attacks in this country. The faa says flights from resumed from the u. S. To turkey as that istanbul attack races conce raises concerns about safety in america. Tom kos tecostello, does it see security has stepped new a big way . Reporter no. Honestly its business as usual across the country. You have a handful of airports that have put their Tactical Units out as a show of strength and deterrence. But theyre a eere often out, especially in miami and new york. The tsa doesnt see any threats to u. S. Airports. Were expecting 43 Million People to travel over the next week or so and the vast majority of them will be driving. Turkish airlines are flying back to turkey. All flights have resumed today. People who may have been affected by the blast or dont want to travel, they can return their tickets and get a refund or rebook without any penalties whatsoever. Really the concern here, the talk at airports, is the same conversation we had post brussels. That is exactly where is security perimeter. Does the security really begin at a tsa checkpoint or should it been maybe out at the curb side or out in a parking lot. Weve seen other airports try to deal with that, maybe move the perimeter further back. But youre still going to create a target no matter where you start screening people, no matter where large numbers of people gather. In turkey, it would appear that these blasts occurred when the police started intercepting these suspects before they ever made it to security. This is all part of the broader conversation about what really is a good security perimeter and where the different layers of security come into play. As it relates to the United States screening situation as we head into the 4th of july weekend, really no change in the posture to speak of. I want to bring in the former head of the fbi nypd joint Terrorism Task force. We dont know officially if this is isis, but if it is, why havent they claimed credit yet . Its a very complicated relationship between isis and turkey. You know, while it does look like isis, we can look back at what happened in belgium. It bears kind of similarities. As richard pointed out a couple of weeks ago with some great reporting about potentially isis fighters being dispatched to turkey to launch attacks during ramadan. And we see a lot of correlation to what happened yesterday and that reporting. One key similarity with turkey and belgium, it happened in an airport. Are airports the new target, the prime location for these types of attacks . They definitely present a great opportunity. You have massive amounts of people gathering to get into a confined space. You have a security perimeter, but no matter what you can keep moving that perimeter farther and farther out, but at some point theres going to be a choke point. Its not just killing an enormous number of people. Its about economic damage. Its about the psychological effect. Attacks on an airport do all of that. You look at all the people who have potentially cancelled their travel plans to turkey for vacation and the Economic Impacts of this attack. Theres a lot of reasons why airports present themselves as a good opportunity. Is security not the answer in terms of protecting ourselves . Were already talking u. S. Airports need heightened security. If they want to attack, are they going to attack no matter what you do . Security has a lot of dimensions. Youve got the traditional physical security, the guards, gates and guns. Youve got intelligence. The best way to stop an attack is early in the planning stage which takes good intelligence, which takes cooperation from the community. Theres a lot of levels and a lot of people that have a dog in the fight really that need to be part of the whole security apparatus, which is families and friends and clergy and the police and intelligence officials. These days guards, gates and guns certainly are not enough. Thank you so much. Donald trump, no surprise, weighing in on the terror attack saying weve got to fight fire with fire. What hes saying about waterboarding. Thats next. Mother inw wi a keen sense of smell. Gladag, full of trash. What happens next . Nothing. Only glad has febreze to neutralize odors for 5 days. Guaranteed. Even the most perceptive noses wont notice the trash. Be happy. Its glad. Try duo fusion ing antacids . New, two in one heartburn relief. 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It was striking how quick they came out with a statement referring to our enemies as brutal and ruthless, saying he would do everything in his power to provide the security needed to help keep america safe. He got on that stage. He made that comment about fighting fire with fire. As for water boarding, he said that isnt even tough enough. Hes trying to cast himself as the strong man. Kristen, this is whats interesting to me. Donald trump immediately came out with a statement and then on the mike ripping. Hillary clinton at her town hall meeting didnt even mention it. She said that the attacks strengthens our resolve to defeat the forces of terrorism around the world and it reminds us that the United States cannot retreat. We must deepen our cooperation with our partners and allies to take on this threat. Shes trying to make the argument that donald trump is volatile and that she is the leader whos going to lead with a steady hand. This fits into her broader argument for why she has the qualifications to be president. Weve got mixed polls. What do the voters think . Theres an nbc poll out saying that Voters Trust Trump more. Then theres an abc poll out that says hillary is the one who doing so well. Whats the right answer . I think thats going to be a challenge for secretary clinton. She has to walk a very fine line. When you look at that poll, more people saying they trust donald trump to fight terrorism. Shes got to show shes strong in these situations as well. President obama is going to be on the campaign trail with her very soon. Hes going to start to back her up and make the case, she was my secretary of state. She has the qualifications and experience. Peter, help us understand. I guess i dont have my head around the fact that donald trump is doing so well and others say he is volatile. The bottom line you saw those polls are conflict right now. The simple thought is that both candidates think their responses on this issue of terrorism benefits them greatly. Hillary clinton presenting herself as the steady hand in this situation. Donald trump trying to say he is the strong man. That he is the one that americans can rely onto suggest that the Obama ClintonForeign Policy has failed. Thats why he initially laid out the idea after San Bernardino of this muslim ban. Even as he sort of nuances his language, he is still focused on disallowing people coming in from particular terrorist states. He wants to present himself as the one whos actually going to find a solution given the fact that in his argument what were doing right now is not working. This is not an example where we could say the numbers dont lie or you do the math because none of these numbers seem to pair off. The terror attacks are raising new questions here in the United States. Were asking the question, do we need to rethink how we secure our airports . 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Following the deadly attack at the istanbul airport, that attack occurring, Pay Attention here, before the Security Checkpoint at a security perimeter that we dont even have here in the United States. Walk me through that. Here we are in the istanbul airport. Where exactly did this happen . This is the international terminal. The first bomb went off here in the parking lot, which drew security away from the building. The second bomb went off here at the entrance. It seems like the third bomber then went through a hole in the wall. As you mentioned before, the Security Check point, this is what the first Security Checkpoint looks like when you walk into the airport in the istanbul. You put your bags on here. Its really an eye check, get a look at the passenger, get a look at the bag. Ten years ago this was a very stringent control. They loosened it and now it seep seems as though this is where theyre checking bags. We dont have this in the u. S. This may have saved lives. May have saved lives. Well, weve got to break into this a little further. Joining me now is the former Commanding Officer at new yorks jfk and la guardia airports k kenneth honig. Since the 1970s when checkpoints first began, we concentrated on protecting the aircraft from people getting on. Whats now happening as we saw this belgium, even los angeles back in 2002, the attacks are happening before the screening point passenge points. One of the things that happens in the United States at a lot of airports when the Security Threat is heightened is theyll set up prierimeters. The tsa, the issue is even if they had those kind of screening points at the entrances, the tsa people arent armed. The expense, youve got to consider that, the expense of having armed Law Enforcement officers everywhere is prohibitive. But one of the things you can do is have Police Officers in areas on an irregular basis so that no one knows where they are. One of the things terrorist teams will do is they will surveil an area, a target before arriving. This is obviously a horrible attack we saw in brussels. But youve got more than 100,000 flights in the air a day. 1 Million People on airplanes. Is this really going to affect safety . Should people be concerned about packing up and going on vacation this summer . People should not be concerned because the chances of it happening to them individually is not very high. However, people should take steps to help make the airports more secure. One of the things youve seen, be it terrorist attacks, be it the active shooters, all of these people when they do the investigations afterwards theyve made posting on their facebook pages, said things in blogs, theyve talked to people, theyve made comments in public and nobody said anything until afterwards. If someone knew things were going to happen, if somebody heard something, they have to say something. 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You know, the first thing that went through my mind was someones left a bag by a coffee shop and everyones just got scared. You hear these announcements all the time