yeah. right now white house officials are not giving a lot more detail about what it is these negotiations that the president said have started back are going to look like. now, yesterday wasn t the first day that the president hinted at this. he said as much last week in an interview with fox and friends, and what s notable about this, it s less than three months after the president declared these talks with the taliban dead and that they collapsed in stunning fashion after inviting taliban leaders to camp david, a trip he announced he was later scrapping because of that attack that left an american soldier dead. the president got out of here in secret fashion. he left about 7:00 wednesday night. took a military plane that was bare bones to d.c. where he then inside an airport hangar got on the other plane, the same model as air force one, the one he took down here. that s when they made that trip in the middle of the night to afghanistan, with all the lights
we ve been following breaking news this hour on the terror attack in london. the british prime minister boris johnson spoke about it a few minutes ago. clearly the metropolitan police are continuing their investigations. and i can assure you and assure everyone that anybody involved in this crime and these attacks will be hunted down and will be brought to justice. i think the message we send to them and anyone associated with this type of attack is one that will be familiar. and that is that country will never be divided or intimidated by this sort of attack and our valu values, our british values will
people he attacked, where did this attack begin? we know police were called to a premises at 2:00, afterwards we see this graphic video on the london bridge. many questions, not least the motivation behind the attacker. back to you. thanks so much for that report, nick. we ll be right back. have you ever worked with dr. francis? oh yeah, he s ok. just ok? guess who just got reinstated! well, not officially. nervous? yeah. yeah me too. don t worry about it, we ll figure it out. i ll see ya in there! just ok is not ok. at&t has america s best network, now with our best plans, at our best prices, starting at $35 a line for 4 lines.
incident in terms of why it s been called a terrorist incident at this point? the police must have made that determination. interestingly, they re saying something slightly contradictory because they re saying it s not clear what the motivation is. by definition, terrorism has a motive. it s not motiveless. perhaps they know something more than they re saying publicly. if it s terrorism, by definition, it s an act of political violence, trying to spread a message. so there s always a motivation. the fact they re saying we won t talk about motivation is puzzling. maybe they ll look at this guy s social media. see who else is in his network. the fact it happened at the same place of a jihadist terrorist attack two years ago, adds to the likelihood that it s related to jihadist terrorism. but there is a big caveat. there was an attack at a mosque
armed officers who shot the terrorist dead. pauline, thank you very much for joining us. we want to bring you inside the room here. paul, we do know that the terror level was downgraded over the last few weeks. seems to be a mistake at this point. what do you make of why it was downgraded and the fact now that we have this terror incident. it was downgraded earlier this month from severe, which is an attack that s likely to substantial, which is an attack likely. that process is done independently of the government. it s done by the joint terrorism analysis center, which is within mi5. at the time they made that announcement it was uncontroversial amongst people viewing terrorism, because overall the terrorism threat in europe has gone down. certainly has gone down since it peaked in 2015.