are particularly difficult is because there are innocent individuals in side, they don t want to do anything that would cause individuals to turn on the civilians in that restaurant. we ve also seen this tactic used in other attacks as well and we want to help, we don t know, no information but we want to hope that everybody gets out safe and there is not any explosive devices involved in this and fortunately we haven t heard any reports of that just yet. shepard: there had been a state department warning on barcelona. there have been state department warnings of various threat levels on many european countries, particularly in areas that are popular with tourists. that is not something that is so unusual, those reports tend to arise after we see high-profile attacks. we saw a berlin market vehicle attack, there have been a number of attacks involving vehicles
they had an initial tight cordon around the serena. they ve expanded that cordon and expanded it a third time so the areas blocked off will not alert went out from the state department to america and europe, i happen to be in europe just by happenstance. the security in and around rome was like nothing i ve ever seen. all historical places in paris along the jump to lease a in all other places. he saw people out with authorities and weapons which is highly unusual especially in france and then in london and in the united kingdom, the alert is that its highest level and i heard them say that on sky news just a moment ago. this palpable sense of fear was something that i wasn t experiencing even in the heart of the state department warning. with a lot of people at hotels remind us, your state department has issued this morning. people have been warned not to be in crowded places. this is the largest arena of its kind in all of europe. so this would certainly be one
policy. he said he has this great idea and it is a secret plan. there is one element, of course, that s international. he said he will bomb isis. what else will he do so people are not susceptible to the messages they re getting overseas. the climate could shift very quick will if he s not careful. there was a state department warning that we saw. americans traveling in europe over the holiday season. is this attack, is there any link between that? or is this just in general a threat where something like this is happening in berlin, becomes, unfortunately, expected, although unexpected? there is a link. they knew at the time there is a lot of chatter going on. they were picking up lots of signs from other terrorist groups saying about activities that would step up around november, december. that s why the state department came out and made a pretty
has been released or this individual has been released, the identity of who they may be looking for is important to understand this attack. but if this turns out the to be radicalization and extremism, we have to ask when this happened and how do you prevent this from happening again? that is nearly impossible to answer. which is a substantially more complicated issue than knowing exactly what happened. terry, you are involved in countering violent extremism. we just heard on andrea mitchell s show a little while ago, john kirby said, we issued a warning about this and issued a warning back in maichy. but the warnings are general, be vigilant when traveling across europe or in turkey. how much information do the europeans, the americans, the turks, actually have. and how much of that actually gets shared with each other, let alone law enforcement and intelligence bodies within a country? sure. well, the state department warning that was issued, there
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