We have taken the color out and frozen the pictures because its simply too graphic to show otherwise. Throughout the hour and the night, we will bring you all of the latest. Want to begin with Cnns Becky Anderson reporting from paris and cnn chief National Security analyst, jim sciutto. Becky, lets talk about exactly what we know at this hour with the caveat as we always do that early reports are often contradictory and information fragmentary. Reporter yeah. Youre absolutely right. What we do know is this event occurred around 10 00 local time. It is now 3 00 in the morning. Sadly, over the past five hours, the number of dead slowly rising. We now have 77 confirmed dead, more than 100 injured, and some very very disturbing witness accounts of a Truck Driving down that beachside promenade, the promenade des anglais. Those of our viewers who spent any time in the southern resort town of nice, driving some two kilometers along the beach promenade at Something Like 20, 25 kilometers an hour. What we understand is this truck simply plowed over those in the crowd. There were tens of thousands in the crowd, gathered to celebrate bastille day. It is july 14th, the equivalent of Independence Day in the u. S. , and tens of thousands there to see the fireworks. This truck plowed over them. We are told by witnesses they saw an assailant shooting from that truck, told by one witness they saw the assailant get out of his truck, open fire at least two times and get back in the truck before authorities shot and killed him. I have just been listening to one report on local tv here and that of a guy who says that he saw this truck plow over a woman on the street and he thought that this guy had simply knocked her over and was trying to reverse to get out of the situation, and he and his friends, he says, were trying to pull this injured woman out from underneath this truck and then he realized something untoward was going on. French tv and media also report that they have rescued Something Like 100 people from the sea off the beach in nice who simply fled from the carnage. This is almost too unbelievable to believe. The context of this, of course, has been a tumultuous 18 months starting in january of 2015 with the Charlie Hebdo killings, then the attacks of some eight months ago, the attacks when 130 people lost their lives. So absolute abject shock and horror. The Prime Minister and the president arriving back in paris tonight for a crisis meeting at the interior ministry. That is what we know as of yet. Jim sciutto, you have been talking to a number of eyewitnesses and others. What are you hearing . Evidence that this was certainly an intention yal atta. I spoke to an american who was 15 feet away as the truck plowed through the crowd. He said the truck accelerated as it hit people. French authorities now investigating this as a terror attack. Thats the leading theory among u. S. Investigators. It is early. They dont know the motivation. At a minimum, an act of mass murder. What it is unpre presprecedentes using a vk ehicle as a with of mass murder. No car bomb, no explosion, simply driving through a crowd, able to leave such terror and death in its wake. Thats unprecedented. Thats going to be a real concern for Counter Terror officials in europe and certainly in the u. S. As well. Jim sciutto, Becky Anderson, appreciate the update. We are continuing to cover this, really this everchanging situation. We are learning more and more pieces of information minute by minute. The death toll now stands at 77. That according to french officials. As many as 100 people, though, have been injured and but again, that death toll very likely expected to rise given the number of injuries and the types of injuries that we have seen on some videos, most of those we are not showing you. They are simply too gruesome or graphic to actually show. But this situation which occurred as Becky Anderson was reporting around 10 00 local time, continued, the driver of the vehicle moving for some two kilometers, although the exact distance is not known. Its not clear, heres what we dont know. There is early reports that this began with gunfire and then the vehicle began plowing through people. Its not clear frankly whether that was actually the case, gunfire coming from the vehicle itself, or whether that was Police Officials or Law Enforcement officials, military officials, trying to stop the vehicle from going through a barricade. Thats one thing we dont exactly know. Clearly this vehicle was able to move for some two kilometers. Becky anderson has a report based on one eyewitness that the person who was driving at one point may have gotten out of the vehicle, shot and then gotten back in the vehicle. But after about two kilometers, the vehicle was finally stopped. There are bullets, bullet holes riddled through the windshield of this vehicle. Exactly what was in the back of the vehicle, unclear. There are some reports really from one french official who said that there was other weaponry found in the back, but again, we have not been able to independently confirm that. Again, a lot of these reports, we need to be very cautious about. Im here with phil mudd, formerly with the fbi and with the cia. Phil, just in terms of the investigation, you were talking earlier about how this is really kind of two tracks. Not only looking at the incident that did occur, but what may occur or what other network may be out there. Actually, before we go to you, phil, we have joining me by phone, the democratic president ial presumptive president ial nominee, secretary Hillary Clinton. Secretary clinton, thanks very much for being with us. First of all, what do you make of the fact this is the third major terror attack in france in the last year and a half with multiple casualties, first Charlie Hebdo, then the attacks in paris in november, now this . Well, first, anderson, let me just say that i am sick at heart about whats happened to the french people. This was a horrific attack. While as you know so well, friends and family were celebrating french history and culture. It reminds us very vividly and tragically that we have to stand with our allies and not abandon them and we need to strengthen our alliances, including with nato, not undermine them. Clearly, what is happening is terrorist groups are seeing that they have opportunities inside france for both homegrown terrorism and importing terrorists, and i have proposed a series of measures to combat these kinds of attacks, including launching an intelligence surge and the french and our european friends through the eu, through nato, individual nations, have to be willing to work with us to try to get better intelligence that will help them and also help us prevent attacks. Assuming this was a group like isis or somebody who is sympathetic to isis, whether they have had any direct contact with the organization, from everything we have learned about whats happening in iraq, there have been a number of victories on the battlefield recently by iraqi forces and Coalition Partners against isis. They are losing territory and yet, that does not seem to have any impact on the number of attacks were seeing in other countries. If anything, it seems like those attacks are escalating. Well, i think, anderson, you put your finger on part of the puzzle that we have to figure out how to undo. It is true that there has been progress on the battlefield in syria and iraq, territory is being taken back. The air strikes have been consistent, relentless. But i think its also clear that as a result, of these advances against isis, and their main headquarters in raqqah, their urgent desire to inflict terrorist attacks elsewhere has led them to accelerate, reaching out not only directly but indirectly through the radicalization online. I have been saying for months we have got to do a better job combatting them and their hateful ideology online. We need to enlist the help of more nations and institutions to do that. Donald trump was on bill oreilly, called in to bill oreillys program about an hour ago, was asked quote, would you go to congress and ask for a declaration of war. Donald trump said quote, i would, i would, this is war, unquote. Do you think thats the right response . Is this war . Well, i think its clear we are at war with these terrorist groups and what they represent. Its a different kind of war. We need to be smart about how we wage it and win it. So i think we have to look at all possible approaches to doing just that. When you say were at war, who are we at war with . Are we at war against radical jihadists . Radical islam . Who are we at war against . We are at war against radical jihadists who use islam to recruit and radicalize others in order to pursue their evil agenda. Its not so important what we call these people as to what we do about them, and i think back to our success in getting bin laden. It was important that we built the case, we got the information and that the president ordered the raid. Well here, we have an ideology, its not a nation state, and when people draw comparisons with world war, you can call this world war iii, its a very different kind of war. We could be easily misled and i would point people to read more about what the hopes and ambitions of isis happen to be. They would love to draw the United States into a ground war in syria. They actually think the end times could be hastened if we had some great confrontation in that region. So weve got to be smart about this, not get pushed or pulled into taking action that doesnt have some positive effects it needs to have. I would be very focused on intelligence surge, i would be very focused on working with our partners and allies and intensify our efforts against the idealogues who peddle radical jihadism online. One of the other things trump mentioned in the call in to fox was basically being very critical of you for wanting, he says, to increase the number of Syrian Refugees coming to this country by 550 . How do you respond to that . Is it, you know, can there be proper vetting . Is that a Real Security concern, a justifiable security concern people in america should have . Trump has said this repeatedly and has been called out for his blatant lies about it. I have said when it comes to refugees, we should only let people into this country after we have thoroughly screened them, no matter how long that takes and no matter what the pressure might be to act more quickly. I would not shortcircuit the vetting process. If were talking about women, children, orphans who are fleeing horrific violence, thats a different category than young men or people who have some record that can be ferreted out that should cause us concern. Secretary clinton, appreciate your time tonight. Great to talk to you as always, anderson. Thank you. Back with our panel. Phil mudd, what do you make of that . Obviously, look, we dont know whos behind this particular attack. Many of the attacks we have seen in the United States have been people who grew up in the United States, who are american, who are Second Generation american or third generation. When donald trump talks about concerns over Syrian Refugees and secretary clinton says they have got to be vetted, i was on the beach in lesbos i dont know how long ago, over a year ago, where i watched probably about 300 people come onshore, there were people ripping off their passports leaving them on the shore. Unless you are in contact with intelligence officials in syria where theyre coming from, which theyre not, or Police Officials, you cant really thoroughly vet somebody, can you . You cant get close to vetting somebody. There are some simple steps you can take. For example, biometrics. Do you pick up somebody at the border in turkey whose fingerprints were found on a bomb. Pretty straightforward. But theres a broader question that america has to face as youre suggesting. If someone crosses the border with a 12yearold, and says i was opposing with my wife, with my family, the syrian regime, i dont have identity documents, my family was murdered, i cant prove who i am, theres this debate in this country about how rapidly you can vet someone to ensure in a wave of thousands or potentially tens of thousands of refugees that there arent dirty refugees among them. Let me give you the simple answer. If you want to take a humanitarian gesture and allow refugees here, there is risk. To suggest whether youre republican or democrat that you can minimize risk by vetting, sidesteps the question. The answer is, you cant. You just can. Peter bergen, you have looked very closely in your last book at jihadists inside the United States and again, its often Second Generation people. Yeah. Theres a great deal of sort of nonsense that is being talked about this issue. We have taken t United States has only taken 3,000 refugees from syria. If i was a terrorist compared to about a million going to germany. Right. If i was a terrorist, pretty much the last thing id do would be posing as a syrian refugee if i was trying to get into the states. First of all, you would have to be one of the millions of people that went to jordan to a refugee camp, then you would have to be selected only 22,000 by the United Nations to be put forward to the United States as a potential person who could come to the United States and you would be reduced to a much smaller pool of 3,000 people that we have taken so far. Then you would have to go through two years of background checks. Then you would have to have all your biometrics given up. There are easier ways to attack an american target, i can tell you, which would be to simply go to some place in europe and attack starbucks or American Express office or pick your american target. As a matter of just fact, there have been no attacks by refugees in this country at all since 9 11. In fact, every lethal terrorist attack in the United States has been carried out by an american citizen or american legal permanent resident. Many of whom as you say were born in the United States and are as american as anybody else. We need to bring some facts to the table here. This is really not an important issue from a National Security perspective because it just is not happening in the way that its being portrayed. Given whats happening in nice, in europe, peter, how much of this is an issue of huge numbers of, you know, people coming from wartorn areas coming from the muslim world and either a long time ago and not assimilating, not being assimilated, not being embraced, and how much of it is more of a recent phenomenon . I think it is, you know, it is a major problem in europe. Isis is going to be destroyed, contained, choose your verb, in the next year or so where they are going to be really in a very very bad place. They may lose mosul. But the big drivers of this are regional civil war between the sunni and the shia, the collapse of arab governments around the middle east, the vast waves of immigration that are the result of these two phenomenon and the rise of european fascism, to be frank. Every single country including france where the nationalist front essentially is doing pretty well. The combination of large scale immigration and the rise of european fascism is a very toxic mix. Unfortunately, it will continue to produce events like what we have seen tonight again and again and again. Theres no easy fixes for this. Quick reminder, as you have been seeing at the bottom of the screen, we learned frances president Francois Hollande will address his nation. We will bring that to you when it happens. Right now, another witness to the attack. Jimmy and his family were on the promenade when the chaos erupted. We spoke a short time ago. Explain where you were and what you saw. When we were gathered on des anglais, we were watching the fireworks. I was with my family, my wife, my two kids, my 9yearold and 6yearold, and my brother. And we were seated at the beach watching the fireworks. Then when the whole thing finished, we were just walking on the promenade, listening to the music, live bands were playing, and just people were just having fun. Then all of a sudden, we were hearing screams, loud noises and what seemed like gun shots, fire being shot. Gunfire. And you know, people started screaming and running in different directions. And i saw a big white truck going through the pedestrian area, because the area was blocked so that cars wouldnt go through, you know, the streets. Where was the truck in relation to where you were . Was it coming toward you or passing you by . I was on the sidewalk and the truck was just passing by me on the street. Did you see at all how it got through . Because the street was blocked off, i assume there was some sort of barricade on the street. Actually, there were barricades, just trying to prevent cars from entering this pedestrian area. Then the first noises we heard were like, what seemed like the truck going through the barricades because there were loud noises but without gun shots, then gun shots were happening and then we saw the truck passing by, then also gun shots and people were trying to hide. So there were gun shots and i assume thats Police Shooting at the truck itself to try to stop the truck. That is your understanding . We were not sure. We were just hearing gun shots and trying to lay low. Just a couple of minutes earlier, i dont know, a minute earlier, my wife and kids, my wife took the kids because they were feeling sleepy and she took them towards where the incident started to try and get them into bed, because we were separated and the whole thing happened, and you know, you tend to think of you want to get to your kids but theres gun shots are happening so thank god she ran in the narrow streets with the kids. Theyre okay . Yes. Thank god. Im so happy to hear that. How long did the truck keep going for . Could you tell . Well, it seemed like a good minute because it was driving not at high speed, you know, it was driving at the low speed, it seemed like low speed just going slowly, moving. Do you know what sort of barricade there was to try to prevent vehicles from coming down the street . Was it a physical barrier, were there just some sort of officials there, Police Officials . Yes. There were police cars, you know, you could spot them, you know. You know the metal barriers. Im not sure if there were any other but there were physical barriers. Had you seen that evening a lot of security . Obviously this is bastille day, its an important celebration. Obviously there are ongoing threats. There has been security in the area given we were here during the finals, the euro cup finals. But for the fireworks and the celebratio celebrations, its just an open space, open promenade. How long did you actually see the truck or . Because there are some eyewitness reports who said the driver seemed to actually speed up at certain times as he was hitting people. You know, the truck seemed to be running slowly, not so fast. I dont know, probably my thinking that they were just being slow so that they were shooting at people. Im not sure. Jimmy, im so glad your family is okay. And i appreciate talking to you. Trying to kind of piece this together as best we can. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks a lot. We have to take a short break. Frances president expected to speak momentarily. We will bring that to you live. Those new glasses . They are. Do i look smarter . Yeah, a little. Youre making money now, are you investing . Well, ive been doing some research. Let me introduce you to our broker. How much does he charge . I dont know. Okay. Uh, do you get your fees back if youre not happy . dad laughs wow, youre laughing. Thats not the way the world works. Well, the worlds changing. Are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management, at charles schwab. 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Meantime, the state department is warning americans in nice to monitor local media, to avoid the area and to exercise caution. Were back with the panel. Paul cruickshank, in terms of intelligence sharing, in terms of the capabilities of french Law Enforcement and intelligence, how have they changed since Charlie Hebdo and the bataclan . Well, they have tried to improve intelligence sharing domestically between the Domestic Intelligence service and the external Intelligence Service also sharing with the various Police Services within france. They have also tried to step up cooperation on a european level with a number of European Countries, especially belgium. That has not all gone smoothly. There have been some complaints by some European Countries that not all that intelligence is coming their way. But this attack, just another reminder of how important it is for this intelligence to be shared on an international level. One of the problems, though, is that some countries are reluctant to share war intelligence with others because they want to protect sources and methods, and for instance, the United States may not always share that raw intelligence with a country like france, making it difficult for french Intelligence Services to evaluate some of the information coming in. Once you have, assuming theres no identification documents on the person who drove this vehicle, how quickly can you, can intelligence, the police there, ascertain who the person actually is . And what do you need in order to do that . Well, maybe, maybe not. We dont know. We know during one of the last attacks, somebody had left their passport in a room so they are going to go back and look at where the vehicle was rented but i think the big connection we have to make here is the fbi right now is scrambling to try to unravel exactly what happened here, because here in the u. S. , we have got two National Special security events coming up. After each one of these events that occur here, like in dallas or here in nice, Law Enforcement takes a look at that and then tries to counteract that with security. So we have the Republican National convention coming up this monday and a week later, we have the democratic National Convention so youve got cleveland and philly p. D. Along with secret service and the fbi and all the myriad federal and state and local agencies looking at this incident, figuring out okay, how can we stop this from occurring at these two National Special security events. And phil mudd, when donald trump talks about going to congress for declaration of war, somebody working at the fbi or cia, what do you think . I step back and say theres a reality on the campaign trail but theres also a reality in syria. If you talk about declaration of war, i have to assume you mean we are going after the heart of the people, the organization, that supports these attacks. Thats syria. Thats also typically the use of American Military force on the ground. Two options i can see. I like a question for either candidate, which do you pick. Number one, if you are going to use military force, do you support and we have not done this so far, a dictator who used chemicals against his own people to reassert control over syria so you can destroy isis. Really bad option. Bad option number two, do you support ousting that dictator with American Military force as we did with Saddam Hussein and using American Military power to try to control that country. Nice words about declaration of war. I dont know how we put that in practice. Bob baer, in terms of what you would be looking for in the investigation at this point, what are the top things . I should point out, you see on the bottom of the screen the room where frances president hollande is about to speak. We will bring you those comments live. Bob . Well, when you get the meta data after an attack has occurred it makes a lot more sense than before. If he had a cell phone, if they can identify him, home phone, associates. We will find out there is probably some radicalization with other groups, maybe in a mosque. If indeed this was the Islamic State or even al qaeda. They will be able to put this together and figure out if it was an organized attack. But what we cannot forget is the Visa Waiver Program that french of north african origin, who are the main suspects in attacks like this, can come to the United States, they just apply for a visa online and they can come here. Right now, the french do not share with us all of their intelligence. We do not have access to their data bases. So the fbi and customs dont really know about these people coming in from europe. You know, again, im making an assumption here it had something to do with north africans but so did Charlie Hebdo attack and as well as the bataclan attack and the attacks in belgium. By the way, this group of people have been radicalized since the late 80s. Theres been algerian attacks in france. Its been a problem for the french. If weapons were used, they can get weapons. At the batacla, they did which is a new element. Whether they are inspired or directed by raqqah, syria, still poses a danger for france as well as the United States. Phil, i asked about Donald Trumps thinking of declaring war. Let me ask about secretary clinton talking about intelligence surge. Had i had more time i would have liked to pursue that more. What does that mean to you . Well, you and me both, i dont know what that means. You are talking to a circumstance where we have been at war in some sense with isis for years in terms of Global Intelligence assets, people on the ground cooperating with the iraqis, working with Opposition Forces in syria. If you think the cia, the Defense Intelligence agency, isnt focusing everything they have on isis, i dont know what theyre doing. I think the fundamental question is, if you dont control the territory on the ground, that is, where isis controls territory in places like raqqah, i dont care what kind of intelligence assets you put on the ground, they are periodically going to be able to defeat defenses. You have got to control territory to beat terror groups. And we dont control the territory in syria. Peter, we keep coming back to this. There are sophisticated attacks which can have a huge impact obviously as we have seen on 9 11 and others, mumbai attacks and elsewhere. Then there are what appears to be a relatively unsophisticated attack which is what we have seen tonight, a person getting to a tractor truck, tractor trailer and mowing people down. Yeah. We used to worry about truck bombs. Now we have to worry about trucks being used as weapons. Certainly we have seen some of these types of attacks in the west. We have seen them in the United States, by the way, in 2006, an iranian american crashed an suv into a group of students attending the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. He injured nine of them. Luckily he didnt kill anyone. We saw this again at Glasgow Airport a year later where two british terrorists crashed a jeep into the arrivals area of the airport. Luckily they didnt kill anyone. But, so this idea has been around for awhile but its never achieved the lethality we have just seen tonight. That is going to be a big worry going forward. Juliette, in terms of how worried should people in the United States, i dont want to do anything to provoke fear, but just in terms of being aware for Law Enforcement in particular, i think art pointed out how Law Enforcement in the wake of every kind of attack like this learns from the enemy, tries to adapt their tactics and we have certainly seen that in new york and washington, d. C. And elsewhere. Is this new to Law Enforcement or something they have really gamed out, role played out . Well, fortunately, there has already been a lot of gaming for this kind of attack. A lot of people dont know that those big planters you see in front of sporting events, courthouses, are actually ways to stop trucks. We cant stop them on every street. Im looking at this now as we have a short term issue which is of course the two conventions coming up. You will see a lot of those planters, mobile barriers, ways to just stop a copycat. Theres no reason to believe that theres something in the works. But you do worry about copycats. The longer strategic problem is obviously for france and for europe is going to be can we get enough intelligence to begin to stop these and so i want to add into the mix the sort of headaches that we have right now vis a vis europe is of course brexit. What people are not talking about is that no one knows the implications for intelligence sharing that are often done through eu and Bilateral Agreements that brexit will also have on what we have been trying to do with europe which is have sort of a unified european intelligence network. It could be it has no impact but thats definitely something that people in the field are starting to try to get their head around. We have the short term which is just focus on these conventions, then the longer term which is of course try to minimize the risk. That is a concern for you . Sure it is. I think we have to pick up on the angle she raised which is this issue of rising nationalism in europe and the brexit vote of britain. You think theres no linkage to what happened here . Let me give you a direct linkage. Countries in europe are starting to say we are worried about borders, worried about raising borders to prevent these peoplem oming in. Let me give you a scenario. A Neighbor Calls in paris, says i think my neighbor might be sympathetic to isis. We find out in investigation that person has been looking at isis videos for a month. Do you want to pass that to the germans, to the british . The operational difficulty of this idea of lets share information about people under suspicion reaches a deadlock when reality intercedes. Somebodys done a few things, looks at videos, maybe the neighbor says he smells kind of funny, is that the kind of information you want to share to prevent one of your scitizens from traveling . Nice idea, difficult to do. We are waiting to hear Francois Hollande. You see the room on the side of your screen. We will bring it to you as soon as he begins to speak. Obviously with translation. Why not share, why not air, somebody raised a concern, why not share that information with germany . Couple things. First, you are sharing information about a sovereign citizen who has done nothing wrong. What is your bar for sharing that . Is it looking at isis videos . Is it having an isis flag on your facebook account . The second thing having served in government is a year later theres going to be an Inspector General and congressional investigation that says excuse me, for our citizens who havent violated american law, you prevented them from traveling to europe based on the suspicion of a neighbor calling in saying i think theyre isis. The realities of trying to implement this kind of stuff are very difficult. Paul cruickshank, how often, the Intelligence Services in places like turkey, morocco, elsewhere, how much is there sharing where their Intelligence Services with european intelligence . Theres some sharing, but i have got to tell you, having spoken to officials across europe, there is enormous frustration with the amount of information thats coming out of turkey. It seems to have got better recently. But over the course of the last several years a lot of frustration about information coming back from the turks and some frustration about information generally coming from the region. Western intelligence does not have good eyes and ears into places like syria and iraq in order to get intelligence about potential plots. That is slowly, slowly starting to change. Special forces are going in and arresting people, interrogating people from the socalled caliphate, getting more understanding about how they run their operations and crucially, this external Operations Unit which they have set up. But it was a very slow start for western intelligence in terms of understanding the threat from syria and iraq. We should point out it is 3 41 a. M. In nice, where the wounded are in hospitals being cared for. The dead, still being accounted for. The death toll has continued to rise just over the last two hours. At least 80 people dead according to officials in nice after a truck plowed into a crowd earlier tonight around 10 00 p. M. Local time. Some late news on the domestic security front here in the United States as we wait to hear from frances president Francois Hollande. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordering tightened security at a variety of high profile locations throughout the state. Juliette, in terms of Law Enforcement in the United States, we have certainly seen in big cities, Big City Police forces being very adaptive to International Terror events, particularly the new york police, washington, d. C. Police, lapd. We have seen what they call hercules teams in new york show up at key points, a heavy show of force, the idea they would be able to respond much more quickly than previously with very serious fire power in the event of a mumbai style attack or some other sort of terror attack. How much has that filtered down to other Law Enforcement in cities that arent quite as large . So i always, from the Homeland Security perspective, new york is an island as a state and a state unto itself. No state or city has the resources or for that matter, is as significantly at risk as new york. So new york in some ways has this down pat. Something like this happens in the United States, they have nypd stationed abroad, they know how to rachet up or surge resources in a very sort of orchestrated manner. Its part of why andrew cuomo, the governor came out with also essentially saying to new yorkers look, we are now activating this Response Plan because we get that you all are nervous. Other communities, its harder because this is really a resource issue at this stage. I think you will see major city mayors, d. C. , chicago, los angeles, as we saw them after istanbul come out and put more presence at major sites. Some of that is security. I dont mind it so much. Look, if it makes people feel comfortable, taking their kids out, going to concerts in the summer, im okay with that. But a lot of this is also part of what the 9 11 planning has been starting at dhs and going down to the most local level. In an investigation like this, art, how long does, i mean, sort of does it take to start of piece together the details, the web, the larger web around the perpetrator, if there is a larger web . The one big benefit here is that truck didnt explode. Obviously if the truck exploded we would they would have had a lot tougher time piecing everything together. They have got a lot of evidence in that vehicle. Was the vehicle rented, who owned it, you know, is there any i. D. On this individual whatsoever, any i. D. In the vehicle, what was in the back, were the explosives military grade explosives which can be traced, what kind of explosives were there in the back. Did he have a phone on him. Theres a lot of things that can be tracked at this point since we have the body and the vehicle is intact. Just want to bring all of our viewers up to date, if you are recently joining us, because again, we are learning things kind of as the minutes go by. We certainly know more now than we did at the beginning of this broadcast, some almost two hours ago. Still a lot yet to learn. We are waiting for frances president to speak any moment now. We will bring that to you live. We are told theres translation. Im told theres some new video actually just coming in. Have not seen it myself. This is sort of more of the aftermath i believe. Lets listen. [ screaming ] give you a sense of the panic, as we talked to one person earlier who said that the crowd he was in just began running. He and his partner just began running as well. He wasnt even sure what they were running from. But it is in a situation like this, phil, you know, just as the situation was in dallas, you dont know if youre running into something or running away from something. You can say how you would react in any given situation, but until youre in a situation like that, its pretty hard to figure out exactly what to do. You cant. Remember, these people have no idea what just happened. If you start thinking rationally, let me run away from the fire power, theres a couple other things we have seen in instances like this that you might want to think about. Number one, we have seen cases where somebody has a multiple event attack. That is, bring the truck in, bring another truck in behind to go against the people who are trying to escape the event. I would be doing the same thing these individuals are doing, but if you look at the panic here, theres nothing you can do to plan for that. Somebody is simply going to say i have to run away from whats happening on the ground even if theres a problem going on. Lets listen in to frances president. Translator the horror, horror again has struck france and nice during this night. A lorry truck struck against a crowd of people celebrating the 14th of july, the bastille day, to crush and massacre. We deplore this time speaking of 77 victims, some of them children, and around 20 wounded who are in intensive care. This is of an act of which a terrorist attack cannot be ignored and this is of absolute horror, and it is clear that we have to do everything to ensure that we can fight against the scourge of terrorism. The driver was shot dead. We need to see if there are accomplices but we are assuring that his identification which is going to be checked can be looked at and the different leads. France has been struck on the day of her national holiday, the 14th of july, bastille day, the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics and france is quite clearly their target. I express on behalf of the nation that we show our solidarity towards the victims and their families. All means are being deployed to help the wounded. The plan which is ensuring helping all the wounded. After paris in january 2015, then in november last year with st. Denis. Nice is in turn touched. France as a whole is under the threat of islamist terrorism and so in these circumstances, we have to demonstrate absolute vigilance and show determination that is unfailing. Numerous measures are being taken, legislative measures which are considering reinforced and strengthened but we have to, because this is a holiday time, we have to increase further our level of protection. I have also decided that the proposal, turned proposal of the Prime Minister and with the minister of defense and the interior, first of all that we are going to maintain the operation at the high level operation which ensures further soldiers, gendarmes and police have also decided to appeal on the operational reserves. That is to say, all those who at some time have been serving under the flag of being in the gendarmes staff to come and relieve the police staff. We can deploy them in all places where we need them, in particular, for the control of borders. Finally, i have decided that the state of emergency which was supposed to have ended on the 26th of july will be extended by three months. A bill will be put forward in parliament next week. Nothing will interfere with our will to fight against terrorism. You are attacking us on our very soil. I announced yesterday morning that a Defense Council would take place tomorrow. It will study all the measures ive just announced. All towns and cities will be needing protection and vigilance. Together with the Prime Minister, i will go to nice following the Defense Council to support the city, its elected members in this hardship at this time. France is afflictected by this tragedy. She is horrified by what has just taken place. This atrocity of using a lorry to kill, deliberately kill dozens of people who just come to celebrate the 14th of july. France is afflicted but she is strong and she will always be stronger, i assure you, will always be stronger than the fanatics who want to strike her today. Frances president Francois Hollande. He began by saying horror, horror has again struck france, france is under islamist terrorism. He said theyre going to maintain current operations, he said theyre going to call in reserves of police, particularly for controlled borders, the state of emergency, which was to have ended the 26th of july is going to be extended for three months. Im going to try to strengthen and reinforce their actions in syria and iraq. Those were his words. Hes going to be traveling to nice. Paul, lets begin with you. Based on what you just heard, what do you make of what hollande just said . Well, clearly the president also many times have to make this kind of speech in france. This is the third major attack now that theyve faced extending this state of emergency all the way now into october, beyond the 26th of july when it was meant to lapse. He said they were looking into whether there were accomplices. Many said there were firebomb explosives and grenades in the back of that truck, raising the question whether there were more people meant to be part of this attack, given what we are learning about the potential number of weapons in the back of that truck. Ive just learned that authorities now are attempting to determine whether the Identity Card of a 31yearold french tunisian man, which was found in the truck cab, actually matches the body of the driver. Theres a local paper reporting that actually was a resident of nice. We havent been able to confirm that ourselves yet. But they have apparently found an Identity Card of a 31yearold french tunisian. Theyre trying to find out whether that does match the body of the driver. That would certainly be a huge first step. s a huge first step in two areas. One is practical, one is political. Can you immediately go to simple questions like what apartments did he rent . What vehicles did he rent . What cell phone and email coverage did he have . You go and map the web of contacts. Even if its not the driver itself, its somebody. Thats correct. The political question is interesting. Im going to guess if hes a french tunisian, hes a citizen. These debates about Syrian Refugees. As peter bergen mentioned earlier in the hour, were finding most of the people conducting these attack arent immigrants. Theyre the enemy within. Its a maybe who said i had enough, im going to do something against my own country. Peter bergen, anything stand out . Well, i mean, im focused on the ish, we obviously dont know if hes part of a network or not. I think we can factually say this is probably going to be the most deadly attack carried out by a lone terrorist ever. Theres no evidence of anyone evidence involved in this attack. He may have connections to a terrorist organization. Well find out. But just as a factual matter, this is almost certainly going to be the most deadly attack carried out by a lone terrorist in history. In terms of what frances president had to say, extending the state of emergency allows what . Allows police to stop people without the same kind of evidence that they might previously need . Thats exactly right. Look, france already has i would say right now under their emergency powers, a nice way to put it, sort of less hurdles to jump for surveillance, for intelligence gathering internally, as well as arrests and what we might call just preventive detention. Those are all authorities given to france under a state of emergency. The one way that france controls these extreme powers it gives itself is that they tend to be on one, two, threemonth blocks. 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