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multisite attack. but it looks like, given what they found at the site of the explosion, it could have been an even bigger and more complex attack than it was. so all of that has just happened within the past day. yemen, jordan, ankara, berlin, there was also a shooting at a mosque in zurich, switzerland, today. three people were shot and injured. we absolutely we know nothing at this point about the assailant in that case about whether or not the assailant is alive or dead or in custody or at large. i m sorry to say it, but it s been a hell of a day. here at home at 5:30 eastern time, we officially got a winner in our presidential election, the president-elect won the election today officially when he got the necessary 270 electoral votes. that was the big domestic news here today. we ll talk later on this hour about the electoral college vote
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the political appointees have to submit resignations and leave in a normal transition. the rest of the 400 national security staff are career civil servants and they are now looking to depart. i have seen and met with a lot of these people and there does seem to be an unusual level of worry and concern and fear. another official telling the guardian, there s concern there will be a half empty national security council by the time the new administration arrives. when this terrible assassination happened today in front of all of those people in turkey, and when that truck went smashing into the christmas market today, just hours later in berlin, the statements of condemnation and condolence were issued by the spokesman for the national security council, for the current iteration of the national security council.
and part of what this part of the consequence of this is that it will be seen as a massive security failure on the part of turkey, that this happened on turkish soil but it happened on a day that was just a remarkable string of events. this news about this assassination, it broke midday here on the east coast of the united states. the shooting happened at 7:00 local time in ankara, about 11:00 a.m. so we got that news midday here but right after that news of that assassination started to break here, we also got this incredibly, incredibly news out of berlin. over the past year or so, if you ve been watching this show, you ve seen us a few times on and off, we ve covered the fact that the terrorist group isis, they have a magazine they call dabiq. it s a place. it s a geographic place, a town in syria.