respond. press secretary sarah sanders called the story absurd. the attorney rudy giuliani says the fact that it goes back a year and a half and nothing came of it, it showed a breach of national security, they found nothing, according to the president s attorney. joining me now is steve moor, a retired special agent at the fbi. he has the tie on for the interview and steve hall, a retired cia chief. welcome to both of you. thank you for talking with us. i want to start with you steve hall. is this a potential bombshell. they are looking at whether the president of the united states perhaps was or is a russian intelligence asset. sure x by the way you phrase the question, it s a very big deal. from a counterterrorism
yes. but keep in mind that what they re doing right now is they have reason to believe, for reasons they re not sharing with us, that another attack could be imminent. so this is potentially before the second attack. and people in these situations are frequently risk averse. and what you re going to do is not necessarily prevent the attack, but you re going to channel it away from areas where the police are and if the police are in areas where there are high concentrations of people, at least what you re doing is limiting the number of casualties potentially. steve moor, we always appreciate you joining us. thank you. thank you. u.s. president donald trump called british prime minister theresa may after the attack. he offered condolences, but he s also drawn rebuks from british officials for his response on twitter. for more here is our athena jones. i want to say that our hearts and prayers go out to the people
right now at this particular time. they re looking for other devices. reporter: this mark the fifth significant attack in britain after the attacks at westminster bridge, london bridge, the mosque at finsbury park and manchester arena. experts say these attacks in britain along with the recent attack in barcelona means terrorists are going to keep coming after these cities. second only possibly to cities here in the united states. brian todd, cnn, washington. joining me now is cnn lauchlt contributor steve moor who is a former fbi special agent. thanks for talking with us. thanks for having me. what does it mean that the threat level in london has gone from severe to critical? natalie, what that means is that they know a lot more than they re letting on. you don t do that if you just see a bomb that went off low order or an ied that went off low order unless you know the source of that. and what that tells me is they
does this look like the mark of isis or is there any way to know that? ta pt is certainly the go-to explosive for isis right now because you can make it at home with peroxide and as he tone which you can get in stores. but they re going to claim it no matter what. and i don t believe it was anything more than an isis inspired attack, if that. it was somebody who was not in contact with them, who took this upon themselves to do it for whatever reason he felt he needed to contribute to jihad. and as far as trying to thwart these type attacks, steve, london has been hit over and over again and now it s the subway, the tube, the oldest subway in the world. it s very, very difficult to thwart something like this just as somebody behind the wheel of a car that runs people over.
advertise it and make sure it s paid for and not go into debt. thank you very much for joining us on your world. thank you. if you thought the president s healthcare law would reduce emergency room visits and crowding, think again. a report finds it may mean longer waits and more crowding. the reason? more medicaid recipients. but that s not all. steve moor is not surprised. steve, that report pretty much putting to rest or suggesting that everything that we ve been told about this healthcare law reducing crowding in emergency rooms is false. what do you make of it? it s the first sign this plan is having the opposite effect that we hoped for. when you see longer lines and emergency rooms. when you see signs that there are emergency clinics and then you have doctors that are basically saying they re not going to treat as many patients because of the reductions in the prices paid by medicare and