religious but mainly attitude. it could be misfits, it could be all kinds of reasons people do what they do, brain soup we call it, how do you know they re going to go running with a knife and kill people. they didn t buy bomb equipment. they one day made a decision to let themselves die in a cause that they found themselves taken by, how do you stop that if you re a cop? it was low tech and soft targets but in this case it was done by a team of three people. now, that s a lead for investigators because they had to coordinate. they had to communicate, they had to rent a vehicle. they didn t have to. they used social media but they could have talked on the phone. they could have met at a park. but all of those things give investigators ways to listen to were they agitated by online moolahs? it s almost a certainty that they were radicalized and recruited online. though it s a low tech attack, it s ahigh tech recruitment
more updates tonight. the driver of the person who stole the vehicle, the driver of it ran away from the scene, got away? yeah, there s lots of evidence like that. the police aren t confirming anything like that. they re investigating something at this point, we don t quite know what it is. this does follow a pattern of vehicles being used as deadly weapons, whether it s in nice, berlin and now this? yeah, i reported all those places anderson, what s frightening about this, it fits into this pattern a very low tech attack. and again, the same sort of eyewitness testimony, you have people describing how a truck is out of control. no one knew what was going on, they didn t realize it was terror, until it was too late. a low tech attack, it works, effectively time after time. this time, it feels routine, the
voices. andrew wallinstein is back with us and in miami alan dershowitz who has called this the pearl har bon harbor on first amendment and gary michael williams. tell me about what you said earlier on cnn, pearl harbor on the first amendment. this is a frontal attack on our freedoms. it s a diversified attack. it s a high-tech attack through the hacking but it s also a low tech attack through the threats and it s not the first one. remember that theo van gogh was murdered for producing a film called submission and his co-producer was threatened with death and had to come to america. my feeling is unless this film is seen now more widely than it ever would have been seen before, which is the message that has to be sent to north korea, this is the beginning, and it s going to continue with iran. remember, iran may develop nuclear weapons soon.
cold-blooded candor of terrorist suspect sayfullo saipov saying he is proud of the tech attack, telling investigators he feels good about what he s done. saipov also give authorities a timeline of what led up to the attack saying he was inspired by isis videos that he watched on his cell phone, some 90 videos found, along with nearly 4,000 ices pictures and pages of propaganda. the suspect went on to tell investigators he began planning the attack a year ago and two months ago decided to use a truck to inflict the most damage. then eight days before the attack, saipov told authorities he rented a home depot truck to conduct a dry run, so to speak, so he could repeatedly drive by the attack area and practice making turns. he said he chose halloween for the attack because he thought there would be more civilians on the street. yesterday afternoon he rented the home depot truck for two hours, although he had no intention of returning it, and after plowing down people on the bike path, his