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Turning out to the ariana grande in spite of last night's tragic attack. >> keep calm and carry on. lucy, great to see you, thank you. we'll be back to lucy in a bit. joining me is brian dillon, former head of the ldon metropolitan police armed response unit. as we heard from the police commissioner, eight minutes seems like a short time for police to get on the scene and also to eliminate the threat here, kill these attackers. what do you think was on the mind of these officers as they were rushing into the unknown here of this scene? >> i think what was on mind probably of the officers, it's...

Towards the west bank, towards borough market. run, run, run. bottles, wine glasses, chairs, i tried to help as many people as i could. >> joining me now is brian dillon, and this is the police unitt that uneutralized the suspects in eight minutes. tell us how it all went down? >> this was a swift operation from start to conclusion. within eight minutes of the first emergency call being received, officers deployed and neutralized the threats. that's an incredibly challenging and difficult situation. let's not forget when a phone call is made, the operator has to hear what's being said, underst...

Mind, that kind of thing. i'm not surprised to see the effort going into each a hoax vest. i think there was more to it than a straight intimidation. we don't know that. i'm just going by my experience in seeing how criminals prepare and do things. certainly, it can be only to intimidate passersby and trying to stop them. that's possible. >> jim, thank you so much for that. if you'd be so kind to hold on one second. we'd like to bring in the former head of the london metropolitan police armed response unit. that very unit is the one that tracked down and killed the terrorists in just eight min...

Network, what's their association with friends and family, both in the united kingdom and globally, looking at social media connections. there will also be extensive work taking place to provide support and really difficult circumstances to the relatives of those who sadly lost their lives or were injured, and as we know, there's a very high number of those people, 48 people seriously injured in addition to the seven casualties. that's a large operation. plus, of course, all of the witnesses, hundreds, i would imagine, that need to be seen and interviewed to understand what's gone on. then, of...

Where officers should be deployed and posted both armed and unarmed and as i believe police have announced today, members of the public can expect to see more officers out on patrol, very visibly on patrol providing reassurance and the ability to engage very swifltly should any incident take place. >> michael here at the studio as, again, former new york state homeland security advisor. you understand these processes as well as brian does. these are two areas and we were talking about this last night. folks were out just having a good time. they were families, friends taking a meal, taking a w...