from the reporting, there is a narrative this was a targeted attack, muslims leaving the mosque on ramadan. proving that right now will take a little bit longer. so, what happens in a situation, having been in the room in government when there is all this information coming out and you just don t know what s true or not, is basically the mayor of the metropolitan police has put down a marker to say they are aware of what has happened. they are saving lives. that is the most important thing right now. and then a motive will come later. presumably they are doing interviews right now of the man who would tell what his motivation was, and what he intended to do, and why he was there at that time, and whether he was known to police or to the mosque itself, to members of the mosque itself. that may take a few hours. so, i m not at all i m not at
hit everybody. the police were pushing all of us back so i didn t get too much closer. everybody was being pushed back. someone saying this was an act of terror let me stop you just a minute, hillary. i m having a little bit of a hard time hearing you. i want to make sure i understand what you just said. did you hear people shouting that they believed this was an act of terror? yes, but an act of white supremacist attack. people were shouting this is an act of terrorism even though he s white, these are the kind of comments people were yelling out. people saying we had people very agitated trying to get saying this is an act of terror.
voices on certain media outlets on the right in america that jetta fear of muslims. you see it on fox news, on breitbart demon idolizizing mus. you have people in the white house like steve bannon, sebastian gorka. michael flynn who was no longer on the administration, people for acts of america. mike pompeo got an award from acts of america. you have a direct line from the white house for anti-muslim bigotry. i hope as a nation we can take a step back and stop over sensationalizing hate. we saw a horrific attack on members of congress. other members of congress could have been hurt. it s part and parcel the same thing. genning up fear, the worst way possible to violence.
just a heavy police presence around the mosque where this incident took place. a lot of emergency ambulances, fire trucks. when i was on my way here, i saw a number of ambulances and fire trucks racing here. when i got to the scene, there were a lot of people gathering here, a lot of local people trying to figure out what happened. i spoke with one eyewitness who described what he saw. he said he was just inches away from this attack. he said people in the mosque were finishing up prayers, which happens during ramadan. this is a prayer at night. people were leaving the mosque. he said that there were a group of people who were gathering around in front of it. he said that s when he saw a van come running in and hitting a number of the people. he said at least five people were hit from what he saw, and he said one person was on the ground and wasn t responsive
narrative. so, yes, if this attack appears to be what it looks like which is a terrorist attack directed at muslims, you know, it certainly suits the militants on both sides of this, that tensions are kind of rising and but, you know, of course that narrative isn t going to produce the results that militants on both sides really want. i mean, there is no cosmic war between islam and the west. the kinds of attacks that we ve seen in london and elsewhere haven t produced some kind of civilization or war between islam and the west, which is what isis wants. and the british have a long history with terrorism and they tend to have a keep calm and carry on kind of philosophy. but i would add a caveat to