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A decent sense of what a possible motivation might be. of course, we see these sorts of attacks associated with people from across the political spectrum. beginning with isis, as keir mentioned, in places like nice, but, of course, just recently this weekend, the tragedy in charlottesville and we should also remember the attack on the finsbury mosque in london which was anti-muslim attack. so regrettably cars are very deadly weapons and they can be used by almost anyone with a violent ideology. >> and michael, when we talk about barcelona, unlike other parts of europe, barcelona has not been a...

Americans have been caught up in directly in this incident, but i'm convinced that in an area like this, where there will have been large groups of tourists, some of those will have been u.s. nationals. again, we don't know why this happened, what the -- we know -- we begin to get a picture of what happened, but the crucial question of the motivation, why this happened, we don't know the answer to that yet. >> and stand by, keir, we're joined by michael lighter, the former head of the national counterterrorism center and msnbc and nbc contributor joining us by phone. michael, when incidents li...

Defending against this and tactics from a law enforcement perspective are going to have to slip and change here, andrea. >> and clint watts is still with us. very briefly, at this point, this is now a hunt for the attack or attackers. trying to deal with the victims and also trying to keep people out of that area. >> yeah. i think that's right. and you'll see this manhunt unfold like in brussels and paris last year. you had people that were actually not lone wolves but part of a network. maybe they are just facilitators or family members and friends that are helping them or harboring them and ...

Between his campaign and russia during the election. mike viqueira is on capitol hill. michael, tell us about these new details coming in? >> you're right. and that approach by president trump that nbc has confirmed to mike rogers, the director of the national security agency, admiral mike rogers, and dan coats, the director of national intelligence, to publicly push back on these aelllegations or e public information made public by james comey march 20th testimony to congress there was an active investigation into russian interference in the election. we will hear from the director of nationa...

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