investigators who concluded that he was not preparing an attack, but he was certainly, as they say, on the radar. and that s about that s why it creates a huge amount of concern here, and political concern, too. this is election week in the u.k., katy. thank you very much. let s turn now to our panel and, of course, the political news of the day and how the president of the united states is both reacting to these attacks using his twitter and also the news that he s not going to exert executive privilege. bill crystal, when you found out, when sarah huckabee sanders said definitively that they are not going to be invoking executive privilege, what do you make of that? is that an admission that they wouldn t be able to get executive privilege through, are they worried about what s going to be happening with his testimony? yeah, i never thought they would invoke it. no one i know who is a lawyer and has studied this thing think it could stand up. he s a private citizen now. if he c
one thing on twitter and someone says you shouldn t pay attention to what he says on twitter. the bottom line is that the fundamental premise that the spokeswoman just pointed out, that this president is hard-cored focused on american national security, that underlying premise is dead wrong. don t take it from me. the department of homeland security issued a report when the original travel ban came out which said the country of origin let me say it again country of origin is really not a good predictor of whether or not somebody is going to undertake an attack. though details are still sketchy, it appears at least one of the individuals in london was a british citizen, and this is consistent with the attacks that we ve seen all over europe. so if the president were, in fact, serious about national security, and if we could keep our eye on the ball, we would know that we should continue by the way, our intelligence community which the president has been brutal on, would continue t
talk. if he wants to speak before congress, he can speak as long as he doesn t reveal classified information. the executive order is a fairly complicated doctrine but this would not be a good one for the president to argue. he s taking good advice from his lawyers. he s not fighting a foolish fight. take the last few days. no tweets from trump except a polite and appropriate expression of solidarity with the citizens of london and shock at tehe terror attack. trump would have announced this morning, the trump administration would have announced this morning, what seems to be some progress on the va. he s a va administrator, he s not a partisan. he says they re doing things better there in terms of the records. reasonable investigation into the air traffic control. it may be that we need to improve air traffic control and modernize it and maybe this is a good way to do it. and the terror attack is probably something that politically helps trump s
in pakistan, the other believed to be 30 years old. i believe my colleague will have more details for you shortly. but this, katy, is still an ongoing investigation. we have seen more raids, more detentions today. authorities basically trying to figure out who else may have known about this attack ahead of time, who may have helped those three attackers, and more importantly, were they, as isis claimed, a detachment of isis fighters or were they simply a local loose group of friends, perhaps neighbors, who had been radicalized here in the u.k. but we heard some very strong words of defiance from the london mayor saying he was sending a clear message to the, quote, evil and sick extremists who carried out this attack. you will not win. katy? lucy, thank you, and let s go to rohit from our sister station in the u.k. rohit, what are we learning about these attackers? reporter: well, katy, we learned in the last few hours, actually, that scotland yard
first give us a picture of what the president said and how he was taking the mayor out of context. reporter: hey there, katy. well, obviously there s been quite an outrageous response here to the president s tweets. he basically misinformed the public with some of his comments. the london mayor saying that he is incredibly busy being focused on the attack that took place here on saturday, in which seven people died. there were dozens of injuries. he said basically, and i will quote you, his focus has been on dealing with as a result s horrific attack. i simply haven t gotten the time to respond to the, quote, ill-informed tweets from the president of the united states. now, where i am standing right now is the scene of the vigil that took place in the last hour for those seven victims. we ve also had some breaking news in the past hour. the london s met counterterrorism authorities releasing the names and photographs of two of the three attackers, one of them 27-year-old british citi