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About the operation today, we don't yet -- it's always hard in the immediate aftermath of these things to know what's connected. it's possible that that house that blew up south of barcelona last night really was a gas leak and it wasn't a bomb and wasn't connected to these things. it's possible that this action tonight was somehow a separate course from what we saw today with that van attack in barcelona. but if it turns out that these things are connected, there was an explosives component, a vehicle born attack, that there were surviving attackers who then mounted a second attack after this...

Vehicle born attack. it mounted a second attack after the spectacular event in barcelona today. does it tell you anything in terms of what is inspired by isis rather than directed by isis? whether it might have been directed from a brawl? >> starting with the very first attack, the van attack, we know there were at least two people that came out of that car. we know it is out of the question. there were at least two people that were directly involved. the attack we believed was a gas attack from last night and appear to have some connection to this. if that theer by proves to be correct we are...

The ""uss fitzgerald" destroyer that left seven people dead. >> coming up next on "morning joe," officials arrested a third suspect in the van attack. >> and now republican senator bob corker is raising questions about the president's stability and competence. plus the senator's only black republican weighs in.

Soldiers of the caliphate. that is the same claim made after the orlando attack. that doesn't mean that isis directed or trained or financed or had anything operational to do with the attack. they believe they inspired the attack. there is no independent proof of that but it is a plausible scenario. >> it makes sense to claim that they were responsible. >> most of their claims are actually accurate. some have been bogus. this one seems quite plausible given the scale of the attack, the nature of the attack. we'll see. >> analysis of the president's tweet shortly after the attack he tweeted tha...

>> we don't know if this attack was directly organized by isis. these attackers could have been inspired by the message. do you believe that so-called self radicalized attackers pose potentially the greatest challenge for counter terrorism authorities? >> they certainly are. and that is because they are very difficult to detect. they are not meeting in a public place and planning these terrorist attacks. very often they are difficult to detect by investigative measures that other terrorists acts are susceptible to. this is just one individual sitting home in front of a computer or communicatin...