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Counterterrorism police are handling the investigation into the incident. do we still have malcolm nance on the phone? >> yes. >> malcolm, is this -- does that -- the idea that french police, terrorism police, have taken control of this investigation, does that necessarily mean it is terrorism, or does that just mean this is in their lane? this is what they do? >> i think through an overabundance of caution, that those forces, the bri, are definitely going to at least do the initial analysis. they and their detective division, just to make sure. they don't know about this individual. somebody ...

The gunfire. that could have been five, ten minutes after the critical incident, we just don't know. >> with westminster being an unfortunate parallel, is this in the, if you will, isis guide book? is this in the terrorism attack guide book? >> oh, yes. this has been -- you know, this has been in the pantheon of terrorist tactics for decades. what we're seeing now, certainly with isis, and to a lesser extent with al qaeda, al qaeda was the first one to actually publish this in a manual to use a vehicle what we call vehicle as weapon system. and that's where you just take your car and run over ...

Relatively small unit incident where you have individuals, one, two, a maximum of three, who may have done this on their own. thought it up, conceptualized it, took the weapons or took the vehicle, and just did it. and we saw that in -- you see that in israel with what we call vehicle as weapons systems attacks. or suicide individual weapons attacks. where you take a kitchen knife, you get in your own car, you drive it into a group of soldiers, and you take your knife out and you start killing people or hurting people, until you are killed. and you cannot predict that unless you have already h...

Where senior members of the administration seem to be not just reading off a different script but having a entirely different geopolitical world view than the president himself. ambassador nikki haley condemning russia's complisancy with the weapons attacks in syria and contrast that with some of the tweets and your ror struggling to come to an explanation. i think this is invite more of the insidious conspiracy minded theorist about the ties to russia. and for instance there's this theory he has an affinity for strong men and there's just no clear reasoning for why he talks this way especiall...

Those air strikes many president obama knew at the time and said at the time and you saw trump administration officials say last night that military action alone cannot remove the capability of syria to launch kept weapons attacks. the only way you can be absolutely sure they won't be able tdo these attacks is if those weapons are removed from the country. if we had taken strikes back in 2013, there's to guarantee first of all that those weapons would have been totally removed. in fact pretty close to a guarantee that military strikes alone would not have been able to do that. it required dipl...