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Confusion. i say this because we get so many correspondences from viewers. literally by the hundreds, even thousands they're saying that he can fire anybody he wants. and he can, except -- >> except robert mueller. that's what it comes down to. it's an understandable belief. the president of the united states heads the executive branch, the department of justice works for him. the fbi works for him. but this is a special counsel. that is slightly different. the only one under regular circumstances that can fire a special counsel would be the attorney general. he's recused himself. that leaves ...

Intelligence. they're ramping it up because there's a lot of threats out there in terms of the chatter. specificity to them. they have doubled down even after this latest attack on how the islamic state and others want to hit new york city. >> neil: i was reading somewhere, sometimes when they go back and look at a failed attack, sometimes people are more inspired, the more nutty cases are more inspired to make their case the one that works. what do you make of that? >> a big part of how jihadists pick their targets is symbolism. that's why new york continues to be a high profile target. that'...

Times square, what we can say tonight is that there was a growing body of evidence either from social media or the intelligence stream that to these groups were getting very focused on the port city of barcelona and to what consider y symbolic high profile target in the center of that city. >> melissa: catherine, it's melissa melissa francis. we have three locations, three events, i understand that there were two people in the custody, what do we know about the perpetrators? the original van driver, what do we have? >> the picture today, the latest information coming from spanish police is tha...

I would say, las romblas is the most iconic place in all of spain. it's a very high profile target and that again testifies to the planning that has gone into thi this. >> sandra: want to continue to get more perspective, i want to let you know as well that the nypd counterterrorism unit has spoken out on this saying we are closely monitoring the developments of the incident in barcelona. buck saxton joins us, he is a former cia counterterrorism analyst. obviously, when we see a situation like this overseas, we tend to tighten up security here at home. what do you make of what you're seeing an...

That all the chemical weapons were destroyed. kerry came out and celebrated it because the russians said so. now we find out that assad regime used them. and there is even questions about whether the russians knew, they may have known prior to this attack. so we're basing this on the russians' word. there is no doubt assad held back some chemical weapons and probably has plenty more. >> bill: he made the remarks before receiving the john f. kennedy profile in courage award aweek ago. more in that article, if you want to check it out it will be online. see you in washington real soon. >> shanno...