director for criminal investigative division. and paul cruickshank, our terror analyst. i have a picture of the truck i m going to show. first, paul, you ve been talking to your sources. what have you learned about this attack? erin, they re investigating this as a terrorist attack but have not yet made that determination that it, indeed, was, a terrorist attack. as officials look at what s played out in the last few hours in per lyberlin, they see the similarities with the nice attack in the summer in which 86 people were killed biy an is-is-inspired driver. they see the parallels a few weeks ago, the attacker, ohio state university in the united states. a smaller car was involved in that attack. fortunately, there were no fatalities in that example. but they re looking at this as a potential terrorist attack. we have not had any claim of responsibility yet from any terrorist group. isis has been silent on this so
over the truck or they, or he, had carjacked or truckjacked the truck and it s a legitimate load. poland is not a terrorism hotbed. i think it s highly likely that this was a hijacking situation. and i think it shows how adaptable these terrorist organizations and their followers are. can t get into a venue on foot, you kill them with a truck. can t get inside the airport perimeter, you set off your bombs outside the perimeter. they re constantly adapting. this is becoming a trend. and phil, you know, donald trump coming out and not only, you know, talking about isis and other islamist terrorists right away, is it fair at this point, for you, to go that far to say certainly isis? i mean, it certainly fits the profile. it doesn t matter if it fits profile. it s not a fact. so you re saying i m sorry yes, and furthermore, the comments about turkey are way too early. you got a humanitarian disaster in syria, the russian ambassador
and al qaeda in his thoughts. so on that, on that point, the state department was asked if this was an act of terrorism and the spokesperson, john kirby, said we need to let the investigation run its course. donald trump, of course, put out a statement saying the ambassador was assassinated by a radical islamic terrorist. did trump go too far on this? we don t know the motive and, of course, he said remember aleppo which could mean that he is angry at russia for killing civilians which would be very different than being motivated in support of isis. it s hard to know. that s why you need to do an investigation but he did make he did invoke allah in his comments. he said that they will never take me alive. this does have the hallmarks of somebody that has been radicalized in some form. but, you know, it s really too soon to say. but you certainly cannot rule it out. and that is what the investigation needs to show.
is assassinated. that individual, in my view, might as well have been protesting the humanitarian disaster in aleppo as aligning with isis. i think it s way too early to figure out what we got here. we don t have facts yet. all right. thanks very much to all three of you. we re going to be talking more about this because this story is unbelievable, brazen. in the middle of an art gallery, an assassination on camera. a russian diplomat assassinated in cold blood. all of this on video. we re going to explain to you exactly what we do know about this horrific attack. the electoral college confirming donald trump will be president of the united states, as bill clinton speaks out on who he feels is to blame for his wife s repeat. michelle obama, her reaction to being called an angry black woman. that was one of those things that you just sort of think, dang, you don t even know me. yeah. you know?
far. that may change in the hours ahead. what isis have been calling on their recruits to do as well as launch these kind of truck attacks is actually leave some kind of note, some kind of claim of responsibility behind so that they attach this to some kind of a terrorist group. if german officials have found something like that, they have certainly not revealed that yet to the public. phil, there s a lot of questions here because you heard fred pleitgen s reporting, they found a man, a body in the passenger seat of this truck but not in the driver s seat. they re questioning a man they found a few blocks away that may have been the driver but don t at this point which leaves open the possibility this person could be on the run. there s a lot we don t know at this moment. that s right. the first question is not what happened in this case, if you re an investigator, erin. finding that person is critical, not to talk to him about the attack. you got three questions for him. number on