petulence and taking names is certainly very frustrating to other countries in the world. i don t think they are going to shape the policy on that but if there are more man festations of that, it will make countries turn elsewhere and feel like the u.s. is not the global leader that it has been in the past and that could only hurt our interests. michael, i ll ask you about the attack in san francisco that was foiled. you are formerly head the department of justice unsealing that, that a young man planningplanning to attack san francisco and because the fbi of the center of the president s tweets over last few weeks. what do you make of what we know of this attack, how it was planned and so much as it was, the fact that it was modelled after this attack in new york city involving a car plowing into pedestrians on the west side of manhattan. i think it is really the proo
was a deliberate act. can i repeat that. at this stage, we believe it is a deliberate act. however, we do not know the motivation and still early stages of the investigation. joining us now, live from london, chief global correspondent bill neely. good to talk to you this morning. what more are we learning about this incident and also the motivation possible. good morning. it is a rapidly developing story. in fact the australian police are holding a news conference as a speak. happened at the very start of the evening, rush hour. right in the center of the second biggest city. probably the biggest and busiest intersection in the melbourne, a deliberate act, police say. terrif terrifying, but they still can t say it was terrorism. as you see the scene, pedestrians mowed down by a man who say intentions were to injure or kill. they say it was no accident. high speed collision. white car plowing into pedestrians. witnesses say the driver simply
averaging around ten times a day, sometimes it s nine or eight or 14 or 15 and they continue on pace. so not ten times? so not ten times. so it s hard to know exactly how to translate that ten times. i suppose one air strike is ten times stronger than car plowing into innocent civilians. maybe that s the math he was using. but the fact of the matter is the military strikes that are being conducted here for several years with extraordinary precision are continuing along at pace. and what you are looking at at your screen, this is what we got from the pentagon explaining strikes and different dates on the calendar so you at home can understand what we are talking about here, what the official numbers are from dod. colonel, with the president saying this does this jump start any big inquiry over at the pentagon? i don t think it will,
dimitri was an eyewitness to today s attack in new york city and he joins us tonight. are you there? yes, hi. tucker: where were you and what did you see? i was driving on the west side highway, and then i looked down and suddenly my driver started yelling look, there was a car running down the bicyclists and pedestrians. and when i looked up i saw like three or four people lying on the side of the stuyvesant high school covered in blood. at first i thought it was some sort of halloween prank. it s right across the school and it out today many people in sort of blood make up, so i assumed as a prank i m tellingo the driver, look, it s just kids doing a stupid joke. he tells me no, i have seen the car plowing into people.
disturbing. in this footage, you can see a car plowing into a police officer that is directing traffic at the time and the police officer goes flying through the air. moments later the same driver got out and actually stabbed the officer. amazingly the officer survived and is recovering. cnn s paula newton is in ottawa. what more do you know about this? incredibly terrifying and the video you viewed happened at one location and it was several hours later that a u-haul went speeding through the downtown. the person who is driving that vehicle deliberately trying to hit pedestrians and hit four of them. their condition is not clear. really the city was on a manhunt around 8:00 at a football game that police officer you saw there in the stunning video was doing traffic duty as you would