Terrorism task force. but the president still only highlighted the terror angle of the attack. president biden: this is an act of terror. the attorney general s focused on making sure that we deal with these kinds of acts and, thank god we have such professional fbi. emily: morgan, as the jerusalem post pointed out, the idea that any attack on a is synagogue is not specifically related to the jewish community is patently absurd and they asked, what more has to happen, what does it take for that to be viewed as specifically related to the jewish community? morgan: the statements that first came out after we all learned about the hostage situation, and thank god that it was cleared up and the people on the ground did their job. but the statements are just incredibly tone-deaf especially at a time when we have rising anti-semitism around of the world, but in our own country as well. in fact, i think many people know that my family and i are jewish and when we go to temple
That s the key. we re going to find out a lot in the next couple days. i m not personally ready to rule out a terror angle. i m just not. i know the federal officials have said no but i think there s a lot more information out there. i am also willing to accept the fact that if it comes out that this guy might just be deranged and he could have a personal issue. could have flipped and gone nuts and his father was a criminal. who knows? could have been as simple as that. either way, we don t know as much as we need to know. juan: but you know in this country if the shooter had been a minority, an immigrant, if it had been juan: jesse: a muslim. everybody plays that game whenever there s a shooting. the first and you want to know is who s the person, what s the profile? race,, where they are from. always happens. can t avoid it. it s not the right thing. you have to think about motivation. that s the key. juan: dana, when you hear people like hillary clinton, like abby giffords
Event that you might relate to what we saw in brussels? or is this something more from somebody that had mental issues like virginia tech shooter, the newtown massacre and movie theater attacks in colorado. i mean, what really is this? and people automatically and you have to look at the terror angle at the very beginning until you can pretty much dismiss it. and then find out what that motivation and why the mental illness if that s the issue and why he got the gun that he got, when did he purchase the gun, was he allowed to, did he have a criminal record? those are all going to be looked at monday morning quarterback as the weeks go by as to what happened here. yeah. certainly with the terrorism issue you still have questions as to whether or not this would have or could have been isis inspired or terrorism inspired or coordinated or even directed from overseas or what have you. all right, peter ahearn, great to talk to you. thank you very much for joining us this hour.
They re not talking about islamic terror here in anyway. why the caution from those officials? i believe it s because chancellor merkel has had a very tough time in the last year and a half due to her immigration policy. she gets criticized quite heavily. she has an internal problem as far as the risk is concerned with the amount of immigration that s led to this type of situation they re currently looking at or currently facing right now. i think she s playing it carefully. she doesn t want to get into any more hot water than she already is. other countries also, like we saw in nice and so and and so forth, they re being as quiet as possible and trying to downplay the terror angle in order to be able to eliminate all the possibilities of it being terror first, and it being terror when