have changed the structures around official monuments and most notable places and congress and the like. the entire landscape of washington and other major capitals are changed. there in barcelona and some beautiful tourist spots you wouldn t have those kinds of cement blockades. no, nor would you necessarily want one because in a way that the terrorists win in that connection. if they prevent people from being able to get to and to enjoy iconic places. and so from a pure prevention standpoint, very difficult, unless we re going to turn all of our major cities into sort of armed camps. and, keir simmons, in new york, and someone who traveled there so often, and has seen the way the uk in particular has responded to vehicular attacks,
about their daily lives. people will say this to you all across europe, in a sense, isn t that the best answer if this does turn out to be a terrorist attack, isn t us all going about our lives and not allowing it to change our lives and prevent us from going and experiencing the world, interacting with others around the world, isn t that the best answer to the people who would who carry out these kinds of attacks if that s what this is, and would like to see us cowering and terrified and hiding in other kun kown countr and like to see americans not going beyond the shores of this country and seeing the world around them. that s the intent. and in a sense, american tourists are simply by going and enjoying the world and seeing these incredible european cities like barcelona, they are answering the those people
exercise with kim jong-un indicated could be the trigger for some kind of north korean response, this is described as a defensive annual military exercise. mostly a computer game in fact by the u.s. and south korea. a lot on their plate. joining me on the phone, msnbc national security analyst and former fbi special agent clint watts. clint, the fbi clearly spread out as jim cavanaugh was telling us and shawn enry earlier, there are 70 locations around the world that have fbi agents, barcelona most likely not one of them. but the fbi working very closely at this point, presumably with barcelona, with police on trying to figure out what the motive is for this attack, which clearly is a terror attack. i think the key thing we got to remember is these attacks tend to lead to what is known as contagion or tipper. what you want to look for in the
streets. we stayed up there for about 45 minutes until we were given the clear by the market security people. we came out. helicopters are flying around. police on every corner. there is a lot of armed police around. and information is very slow. as far as we re aware there was a white van driven on to las ramblas and hit some people. it is what we re told. a picture of three people lying on the ground. i saw that from somebody else. and apparently somebody left the van. that s the information we have where we were. steve, are you with family, with friends? do you have any children in your group? i m with my girlfriend. we re in barcelona for a
violent clashes in charlottesville over the weekend. white supremacists at the root of that one person was killed at the hand of a white supremacist. it is being called a terror attack here as well on the u.s. soil. so this is something that the president has been grappling with. he s increasingly isolated members of the business community, fellow republicans. really denounce the way he s handled that crisis. we ll have to see what if anything he has to say if he speaks out today about what is happening in barcelona. thanks so much, kristen welker, on watch there in new jersey. and over the at state department, by wait, right now, meetings with the secretary of state, secretary of defense, and the japanese foreign minister, they are meeting separately, but, of course, we ll be discussing north korea with key decisions to be made, and deadline this weekend if they proceed with a joint u.s./south korean military exercise, annual