of questioning by the senate judiciary committee. during his nearly 12 hours of questioning yesterday, now at least they know how someone else feels, the judge continued to prove himself and enormously qualified jurists that americans will all be proud to see on the supreme court. it is not surprising that senate democrats are failing to gain traction for any of their pot shots and opposition to judge gorsuch spray there s not enough politicizing in the senate that democrats can do to hide the fact that judge gorsuch is an immensely qualified and thoughtful jurists with a lifelong dedication to our constitution. a few initiative notes before i take your questions. last night, we formally announce the present will travel to brussels for the may 25th meeting of nato, heads of state and government. during this meeting had the president looks forward to reaffirming our commitment to nato and discussing critical issues to the alliance especially allied responsibility sharing in nato s role
coalition including the british foreign secretary boris johnson over at the state department right now, defense secretary james mattis has just joined that meeting after testifying on the hill this morning. we are told that president trump is being kept informed about the latest developments in this terror attack or the assumed terror attack in london. the white house obviously paying close attention to the developments they are. shepard: indeed. we are waiting for the white house press briefing which we are led to believe is just seconds away. in the early going, it was sort of unclear exactly what had happened and what the scope of this was. any reports from london and from surrounding london and newspapers there were in the 8 indicating there may have been with more than one assailant. we don t know what the assailant s motive was, but we are told at least in the early reporting that the assailant is alive it has been taken to the hospital and is under very, very deep security the
coalition ramped up its fight to take the isis capital. the london parliament attack, of course, coincided with the anti-isis coalition meeting at the state department today, 68 foreign ministers and top coalition officials all meeting at the state department with the secretary of state rex tillerson and defense secretary james mattis to discuss the fight against isis and the way forward in syria and elsewhere. british foreign secretary boris johnson we are told missed the group photo at the state department after the london attack occurred. there is a u.s. military briefing taking place right now here at the pentagon from baghdad with a coronal derek talking about bruce today to get coalitions forces closer to merkel 8 raqqa as u.n. talks continue in geneva. they were airlifted syrian forces including kurdish fighters within 28 miles east of raqqa today and while the u.k.
vehicle is the same person who committed the stabbing, stabbed the police officer and others, but we do not have that confirmed. what we do not have is any word of more than one assailant, and because of that, we presume that this assailant was driving this vehicle, got out of the vehicle and that is when the stabbing happened. we will have to wait for authorities in london to confirm that. you can tell all of this is still in lockdown, heavy police presence through here at the entrance to these gates. the british prime minister is now at number 10 downing street and according to authorities in london, theresa may will hold a meeting of intelligence officials to try to figure out how to proceed from here. this is probably the most surveilled area and a major city and all of the world. closed-circuit television cameras were installed in london long before they were in new york and large numbers, and it is almost impossible, according to local authorities, to walk any of this area, espec
associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, read widely disseminated in the intelligence community reporting. third, i ve confirmed that additional names of the trump transition team members were unmasked. fourth and finally, i want to be clear. none of this surveillance was related to russia or the investigation of russian activities over the trump team. my understanding is chairman nunes is coming to the white house later to brief the president on this development. we will have a read out of that meeting once it occurs. with that, i would be glad to take your questions. reporter: two questions, one on nunes then healthcare. is this your understanding that these unmasked names were leaked? press secretary spicer: i don t know. i literally heard this statement, came out wrapping up as we were beginning. reporter: today in the pool spread, the president said that