that kind of non-answer is worrying in its own right, chris. thank you very much, claudia lavanya, over in europe. thank you so much. well, isis now stesz going to hit washington, d.c. and what is the nation s capital doing to prepare for such an attack? joining me now is washington, d.c. police chief, kathy linear. welcome to hardball, chief linear. how did it strike you the last several days that isis put out word that it s headed to washington, d.c.? obviously, we are already under very heightened security posture anyway, because of what happened on friday. i don t think it changes too much the level of security that we re at here in washington. well, you know, the capitol was targeted, we all believe in flight 93 that was knocked down over pennsylvania. do you think it s going to be a hard target, one of the nation s iconic places like the white house or the capitol, or a movie theater somewhere? how do you prepare for all those targets? the way you prepare is not getti
afternoon. we will be back here at 4:00. we ll be back for another press briefing at 4:00. but now, let me ask chief linear. she ll come up and provide more details on some of these issues. just want to first start off by saying, as far as the initial response here this morning, you ve heard we have at least one officer with gunshot wounds that is currently being treated, but the response by uniformed police officers from both the metropolitan police department and united states park police was absolutely nothing short of heroic. with at least 12 confirmed dead at this point, i think the actions by the police officers without question helped to reduce the number of lives lost. so our hearts go out to the families of certainly all the victims here, but our gratitude to the front line officers of the metropolitan police