vibrant night life. reina has international djs who come across turkey and europe as well to come there to dance so drinkage now you have an attack on the elite, a place where there were paparazzi outside. the turkitious soccer players, basketball players go there. in the summer it would be worse. it s one of the places to go in turkey, you can see the music and lasers projected into the sky from miles around. it s very well known. each attack is different. in the past when you have an attack on a russian ambassador, that doesn t have a chilling effect so much on the population. that s seen as political, or
large-scale attack, and things like that. so from that perspective that s run of the mill we all know the most knowledgeable person in the intelligence community is the law enforcement, the cop on the street of the immediate area in your neighborhood. right. malcolm stand by for a second. i do want to update our viewers and you as well, jim, ayman and matt, the information we re getting from the governor of istanbul, you ve seen some of the pictures of him coming to the microphone potentially. again. 35 dead, 34 of those we re hearing, according to the governor of istanbul, 34 are
lives lost, directed his team to offer proposed assistance to the turkish authorities as necessary, and to keep him updated as warranted, end quote. again, that statement coming from the principal deputy press secretary eric schultz, and president obama was briefed on what is happening there in turkey. also this statement coming from ned price ned price, the spokesperson for the national security council saying the united states condemns in the strongest terms the horrific triismt attack at a nightclub in istanbul, which has left dozens dead, many more wounded, that such an atrocity could be perpetrated upon innocent revelers, many of whom were celebrated new year s eve underscores the savagery of the attackers. we offer our prayers and
gunshots. there were reports of them shouting inacious bick. s.w.a.t. teams have closed off the area in a several-mile radius, and the suspicion is it s an isis attack or isis supporter who carried it out. unfortunately istanbul has seen its fair share of these kind of attacks and there s quite a few that have so you were talking about the united states possible threat. it s very different, unfortunately in is tan butte. right now istanbul has become not a base for isis, but a base where isis has been ability to transit through. that s become even more pronounced as the fighting goes on just across the border into syria. richard, can you give a sense of what that mood is, that cadence that you were just intimating there? we had the russian ambassador not too long ago shot dead by an
when there s a kurdish attack against government or against soldiers, again that has a sense of a military operation. 24s the tack on the people, on the city, on a segment of people who may have felt not immune, but certainly feel in the crosshairs right now. richard, what you were reporting from sources potentially here was isis-unfused. can you give us more detail on that? reporter: well, there s this tendency and there s a tendency among american security experts particularly saying this was isis directed or isis inspired, or this was an isis guided attack. i m not sure that in turkey or anywhere frankly those