to expect a higher level of security. there are these heavily armed, highly trained counterterrorism units that are easily seen around the city, some of them i ve already seen here in times square, and they have a relatively new tool in their tool belt called a vapor wake explosive detection dog. unlike the bomb-sniffing dogs that we have known in the past that can smell a bomb in a bag or something, these dogs can actually smell a bomb down the street. katie. down the street, stephanie, are officers already employing those in times square? what security changes have you seen there? yeah. these dogs are out, around the city, and they have been in other kind of high-profile events. you know, the difficulty thing, the difficulty is, that you ve got soft targets everywhere you go. yeah. and times square is not as soft as some, you know that there s already high levels of security, it is logistically
impossible to protect everything and then you have to rely on intelligence and hopefully tactics by counterterrorism teams like the ones here, to prevent those kinds of casualties, but it s a scary thought. everywhere we go today there is some level of threat. not just the high-profile targets like times square. the attack in the uk was in manchester and not in london. a big city but not the most prominent city in that country. thank you very much. joining me senior law enforcement and national security analyst bill bratton, also the current chairman of teneo risk, and former nypd commissioner and clint watts, former fbi special agent and currently a senior fellow at the center of cyber and homeland security at george washington university. on that point, commissioner, manchester is the second largest city in the uk. it s not the largest. certainly there s a lot of security around london, so a lot
today, we talk a lot about donald trump s rhetoric and talked about it during the campaign, today, when he was with the palestinian leaders mahmoud abbas he refused to call the attacker in manchester a monster. he called him a total loser and said people who do this sort of thing are total losers. what is your reaction to using that term? good, bad, neutral? it s mostly ineffective or bad. i mean you re essentially creating a confrontation against somebody they then want to prove themselves to not be losers? how do you react? the big thing we use is one, what was the purpose of this attack in the grand scheme of isis and their ideology. attacking young people, attacking innocent civilians, women and children, has been a divisive point throughout the muslim world amongst jihadis. that s a point we can emphasize. al qaeda is unlikely to pursue this attack. they ve learned this lesn
they relate now, months later, and it seems worlds away from the campaign trail. katie. and that happened in south carolina in 2016. kelly o donnell, mike, greg, and admiral james, thank you very much, guys. coming up, terror investigation, the latest in the attack in manchester, england, that left 22 people dead and 59 others injured. many of them children. a live look right now at a vigil currently being held. hundreds are gathered there to remember the victims. we ll head to the uk for the latest. security is getting beefed up in cities across this country in the wake of last night s terror attack. why authorities are paying extra attention to so-called soft targets. and what is being done to protect them. david. what s going on? oh hey! that s it? yeah. everybody two seconds! dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations
that he was at the manchester arena and detonated himself, what journey did he take, where exactly did he come from. it s significant, katie, the timing and target. yeah. this wasn t as sophisticated an attack as the bataclan in 2015 which involved four gunmen sorry many gunmen and four separate attacks. it was on a concert hall, when an american singer was had just finished her concert. it s three weeks just before the british general election. all of these things will be part of this police investigation. was he just a lone wolf, how sophisticated and knowledgeable was he really and how credible, indeed, is that isis claim of responsibility. katie? bill neely, in manchester, thank you very much. let s bring in brian dillon, former operational head of new scotland yard and thomas anderson who directs the transnational threats project at the center for strategic and international studies.