targeting muslims? reporter: no. it doesn t seem as though in the eyes of the authorities there s any doubt. actually, in the past couple minutes, while we were on air, the police have come out with a new statement, saying this 47-year-old man has now or is now being investigated for terrorism-related offenses. this is now officially an investigation for terrorism that is going on here. it s interesting because there s actually an address in wales that s being searched because the van he used for all this was rented in wales. the police are now searching that as well. of course, this is something that has deeply shaken the muslim community but of course, all of london, after we have seen a spate of terror attacks and the large fire over the past couple weeks. the mayor paid tribute to that when he went in front of the press earlier today. let s listen. there will be a zero tolerance towards hate crime. these have been a terrible few weeks for london. unprecedented in recent times.
news. two new attacks in europe that authorities are labeling as terrorism. the most recent, just a few hours ago in paris, where a suspect rammed his car into a mobile police unit before being taken down by the authorities. cnn s melissa bell is there. what do we know right now? reporter: well, that anti-terror investigation is now under way and the suspect you describe has now died. that s been confirmed by french authorities. i would just like to show you the image of the car that just over two hours ago now rammed into that police vehicle. you can see it there. it is the white car that s currently being gone through with a fine tooth comb, as you can imagine we now know according to france s interior ministry that as it was driven down the road and rammed into that police truck, it contained enough explosives to blow up the car, also high levels, large numbers of weapons. we don t we will know more soon about the precise nature of those weapons, but both weapons and large quant
the pattern of behavior that suggests at least looking at obstruction of justice is just too large. so a lot of lawyers in town say they can t understand the legal strategy there. set that aside. members of the legal team can be part of the political strategy. but what might they be trying to achieve? i think the problem is there often isn t a strategy. this is the tension you see between a principal, the president, who is a very unorthodox actor and somebody like jay sekulow who is trying to do the normal thing you would do in this situation, would have preferred to say we don t have evidence of that type at this point, we don t know, we haven t been informed of these things and further, here are the things we do know about this investigation, about no evidence of collusion, whathave you, whatever positives they want to put out and that would be the message if not for the fact trump had tweeted. i do think there s a way he could have said the president often gets things wrong in t
reportedly had conversations with the president, the president urging those senior officials like dan coats, mike rogers, rick ledgett, we know mueller wants to talk to them, presumably about what the president told them pertaining to the ongoing fbi investigation and james comey himself, testifying, saying that i m not going to say whether or not obstruction of justice happened because that s something bob mueller is probably going to look at and turning over the memos as well. it would have made sense for the white house and the president s legal team to push back against the idea that the president is under investigation by saying look, there s no evidence of that or we haven t been informed of that or nobody knows for sure. but for the fact the president himself tweeted and had the president not tweeted that he is under investigation, in fact, it s not just that one tweet. every time he calls it a witch hunt, he confirms essentially that there is something kind of
the fbi director by the man who wanted me to fire the fbi director. here s another of the attorney s suggestions. that response on social media was in response to the washington post piece. it s that simple. the president is not under investigation. is it that simple? the president is not under investigation? one would assume the president s attorneys would know if the special counsel requested documents, requested information or requested what we expect will happen weeks, if not months and months from now, a conversation with the president of the united states. but at this point, robert mueller is under no obligation to tell them anything. by every indication, former director comey s testimony to congress, the deputy attorney general s testimony to congress, both of them have said publicly they believe the special counsel is looking into the circumstances around the firing of james comey. and also there are several interviews scheduled with bob mueller about people who presuma