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Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. Now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shut down the subway systems. Based on my experience, covering this area for more than a decade, they shut down Commuter Systems when they believe they have an ongoing operation. So they are trying to prevent followon attacks and they are trying to limit movement in their effort to identif ....
Papadopoulos went to jail for. brian: how rare is it to cut a plea deal and go out publicly to say i m lying during my plea deal, i m not living up to it? why is it public? they easily could have said no there is going to be a delay in sentencing. judge: two questions. how frequent is it that a person would lie in this context? very infrequent. he is really at their mercy. steve: his attorney says he didn t lie. judge: well, that s the issue. is there going to be a trial over what he lied about? and if so what are we going to learn in that trial? here s what he told us. here is what we have to contradict him. here is why what we have to contradict him is the truth and here is what he said a lie. that could take days. probably about the president. jedediah: these the key. most of the country is wondering does it involve the president. what s the prediction here. judge: my prediction is sentence to the max. i doubt he will seat light ....
Now i want to emphasize this is not considered a claim of responsibility and these are not what are described as leadership accounts for the terror group. they are called fan boy accounts. they kind of jump in when there is violence around the world. but they are very much engaged. one of my contacts who does social media collection for government agencies has told me that there was an isis affiliated telegram posting in early july, specifically about bars lopena. and i mention this because social media postings from isis accounts about spain are very rare. very infrequent. and for that reason that was passed along to law enforcement in this country. if we learn that has a greater significance than a most on social media, we will certainly bring this to you. what we are seeing unfold right now is something that seems to have many parts, a degree of coordination, and it speaks to the likelihood that this was a small cell that coordinated this mission, shep. ....