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So theres no training behind this. Theres no standard attack in any of this. So, actually, we can see it going any way. But i think the i think the longer it goes on without violence the more likely there wont be any. Welcome back, everybody. Im john vause at the cnn center. Im natalie allen. Thank you for joining us. Weve been here several hours with this breaking news out of australia. And we will continue to bring you the latest now. And wed like to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Wed like to give you the update now. A gunman is Still Holding an unknown nu...

United states, working with partners to continue to suppress the threat. from al qaeda or isis or anyone else, just as we work to suppress the threats in yemen, syria, in the atlantic, many other countries. let me just finish by saying the president has been clear that from his perspective, they have evolved to the point where we can suppress that terrorism side without keeping thousands or tens of thousands of troops on the ground. we have proven that in other countries, and that is exactly what we intend to do. he has spoken about the terrorism threat repeatedly on multiple occasions. >> mov...

>> and a lot of these shootings, we saw the shootings that were actually carried out, there were often warns in advance that were not heeded. you look at the parkland shooter and i know the fbi looked into that, i wonder having been a former fbi agent yourself, is the fbi learning from these? are they learning how to discern what's real, what they have to act on? >> they are absolutely studying this and i think director wray has made this a principle focus for two programs. obviously on the terrorism side, we have joint terrorism task forces across 56 divisions in the country as well as folks ...

>> said i saw a package that looks like this. lumpy package or looks like this, you think about it. >> picked up the phone and called bomb squad directly here in new york so i think one of the things that is probably a discussion that is the law enforcement reporter i'm not going to go into is when does it get to a point of when does the rhetoric hit and we have to look at this type of person as somebody who's not only going to be charged by what they're seeing politically and politics fires up everybody's emotions. >> right. >> when does it go over the line into the area of -- on the terroris...

Significance of a knife being the weapon of choice? >> that takes me a little bit inside potentially inside the mind of whoever committed this attack. obviously, there's a question jim raised about whether the individual simply couldn't get access to a weapon because of how tight french weapons laws are. but there's a couple more questions i have, as someone who used to look at the terrorism side of the business. that is, there's no second or third person involved. that tills me this individual worked alone. when i was in the business, individuals acting alone were far more difficult to unders...