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>> right. but did they know exactly what was going to happen? i mean, you know, let's look at the assassination of the russian ambassador, there are many different groups, it could be responsible for that. it could be as simple as someone who is so distraught about the killing in if aleppo and make a point to kill the russians who they blame as being responsible for helping the syrian government. it could be much more complicated. it could be isis, kurdish groups, there are many different people and all of these strains of information are coming into intelligence agencies, both in the united s...

Call out alla akbar and also talk about aleppo, they don't really know necessarily what the motives are, president-elect trump going a little further and labelling this an act of islamic terrorism, i think we'll know more in the coming hours and days about who this person was and why they did it. but certainly president-elect trump has said that it's islamic terrorism, don? >> thank you, elise lav it. i want to bring in now, michael weiss, a co author of inside the army of terror, national security analyst the author of security mom. and jill dougherty and bob baird. let's start in berlin, sha...

And al qaeda in his thoughts. >> so on that, on that point, the state department was asked if this was an act of terrorism and the spokesperson, john kirby, said "we need to let the investigation run its course." donald trump, of course, put out a statement saying the ambassador was assassinated by a "radical islamic terrorist." did trump go too far on this? we don't know the motive and, of course, he said "remember aleppo" which could mean that he is angry at russia for killing civilians which would be very different than being motivated in support of isis. >> it's hard to know. that's why yo...

>> russian president vladimir putin is calling this a provocation. how are turkey responding tonight? >> there's been real strain and relations between moscow and turkey, they seem to be kind of working together now, trying to repair ties. they both cast this as the asail an the trying to undermine the normalization of relations they weren't going to fall for it. putin also said the criminals will pay for this, the fear is that the syrian civilians in aleppo are going to be the ones that pay for this don. obviously a lot of brutality in aleppo over the last several months. the fear is that the...

Was. just the fact that he screamed, remember aleppo, don't forget aleppo, a lot of people fearing for the residents of aleppo tonight. the white house is saying this is a terrorist attack, the president-elect is also speaking out about this, correct? >> that's right, the russians obviously called it a terror attack, just earlier this evening. president-elect donald trump issued a statement, i'll read a little bit to you. he said, today we offer our condolences to the family and loved ones ambassador to turkey, andre car love who was assassinated by a terrorist. it's the violation of all rules...