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Attack, particularly, using in that way, this which happens outside the venue, there is this kind of adjustments by security services to secure public spaces and make them safe and then just sort of degree to which there is only so much that can be done in that respect. >> yes, absolutely. this is something that we throughout, i personally seen throughout my work in counter terrori terrorism, first, you know, al qaeda attacked twin -- you know, conducted the twin bombings in east africa in nairobi. so when we start securing embassies around the world, they attack ship, we start securing ships ...

19 people have been killed in this. it's not clear how many of those people were killed by the explosion or, perhaps, by the rush or the crush to get out of that arena. some 50 or so are reported injured, again, by great erman chester p -- by great greater manchester pd. they're telling us at this point they are treating this as a terrorist incident until or unless they learn otherwise. we're learning from our sources, various multiple u.s. officials that uk is treating this as, potential potentially, the work of a suicide bomber. that's where we stand at this point. emergency services still t...

Who's coming back from fighting with i.c.e. or al qaeda or simple support a radicalized individual. this is difficult work, counterterrorism work, and the brits have done a really good job in recent years in part with u.s. help, but due to their own efforts largely. we may be seeing something that made it through those security protocols and efforts. >> i just want to note obviously that if indeed it first a suicide bomb, it's by definition terrorism, no matter the ideological component is. you are at some level engaged in terrorism. regardless of what we learn about the specific ideological m...

And appear to be the work of bots. they died in with other social media campaign pushing russian propaganda months before. >> clinton watts testifying at the senate intelligence committee about some of the more ham-handed russian influence operations he's noticed in his counterterrorism work -- counterintelligence work in the united states. notice how even stupid stuff like that, even when it's dumb, it gives you a place to start. in terms of seeing what tools they have, in terms of seeing how they operate. so basically getting 39,000 signatures instantly on this groovy mistranslated white hou...

Intelligence committee about some of the more ham-handed russian influence operations he's noticed in his counterterrorism work -- counterintelligence work in the united states. noticing how even stupid stuff like that around a poorly spelled white house petition, even when it's dumb, it gives you a place to start in terms of seeing what tools they have, in terms of seeing how they operate. so basically getting 39,000 signatures instantly on this groovy, mistranslated petition, it gave away a little bit how they worked because they operate in lots of ways, serious and not, some of those signat...