accidentally stuck on the accelerator, and so then that drove into this or were they intentionally aiming for it. were there any other vehicles we re trying to transit statement, that are suspicious. are those vehicles being checked out? those are some of the questions and some of the things they would be investigating, certainly if they can get a license plate or vin number off this vehicle, they may identify who owned it, whether it was stolen or not, the background of it. there s all sorts of questions in things they could start to investigate to determine of course if there s any identification they could find of the occupants that would be helpful as well. so those are the types of things they ll look at and run it against anybody s prior, you know, do they have any sort of prior interactions with law enforcement or is it somebody that may have a known medical condition, such as a heart issue or other issue that could have led to them becoming unconscious before this inc
of connection to terrorism right now? so, i think the investigators are looking at any motive for this attack. it s very logical for the joint terrorism task force to be involved when you look at what we know right now. 12 canisters, he used the vehicle as a weapon to conduct an attack on a mass gathering. we have unfortunately seen attacks like that across the world. here in the united states, multiple times over the last several years. we see the fbi saying it is still investigating this as possible domestic terrorism. do you see this is as similar to other acts of domestic terrorism? do you see this similar to other mass casualty events like mass shootings? initially, my gut tells me this would be looked at as a terrorism event. i want to be careful as to whether it was domestic or international. they are looking at the ideology and what drove this individual to target this
just been acting solely out of rage. uncertain. so until you can toe that motivation, it is not classified as a terrorism event, which then would be led by the fbi. it is now just an active shooter who terrorized the people, but its lead would be the nypd at this point. all right. certainly, we will keep everyone updated throughout the day on developments in this case. a person of interest, to recap, identified. no arrests made yet. former nypd chief of the department, terry monahan, we appreciate you walking us through the steps in the investigation. appreciate you being here. up next, the pushback against president biden s latest efforts to fight high prices at the pump. coming up on morning joe, the person who fired in a train car. two former commissioners will join the conversation. plus, we ll hear from the
oh, yeah, definitely. i think, you know, if he hadn t have said anything, i mean there wouldn t even have been an event up in d.c. on january 6th. so she wouldn t have been there and she wouldn t have died. now, the older sister lonna cave and her brother-in-law justin believe january 6th was, in fact, a terrorist attack, but they believe that people like boyland were lured to the capitol and those who promoted the rally need to be held accountable for her death as well. i don t want her to go down as some crazed trump fanatic terrorist person because that s not the person that she was. and when my daughters grow up and learn about this in history class, i don t want them to automatically tie rosanne with this terrorism event. you know, for me, in regards to january 6th and all of the people that died and injured up there, both trump supporters and
i think, you know, if he hadn t have said anything, i mean there wouldn t even have been an event up in d.c. on january 6th. so she wouldn t have been there and she wouldn t have died. now, the older sister alana and her brother-in-law justin believe january 6th was, in fact, a terrorist attack, but they believe that people like boylin were lured to the capitol and those who promoted the rally need to be held accountable for her death as well. i don t want her to go down as some crazed trump fanatic terrorist person because that s not the person that she was. and when my daughters grow up and learn about this in history class, i don t want them to automatically tie rosanne with this terrorism event. you know, for me, in regards to january 6th and all of the people that died and injured up there, both trump supporters and the metro and capitol police, we