national security council did feel like they were all on the same page. your thoughts? you know, i know general mcmasters has the respect of the president. a tight team there, a lot of people working and rowing in the right direction. i m not surprised they re all on the same pages, especially with the addition of general kelly who has organized this white house in the way that he hasn t seen in a long time. a lot of people can now have more confidence than they had two weeks ago that the white house is moving in the right direction and the working pieces, whether it s the economic council or the national security council are working at full force. dana: nothing like north korean nuclear threats to focus the minds. thanks for joining us. thank you. dana: still ahead, a horrific attack in paris as a driver rammed his vehicle in a group of soldiers he targeted. details out of france where a terrorism investigation has been launched. a potential battle brewing between senate gop l
what they re now calling a terrorism investigation and the stabbing of a police officer in flint, michigan. let s listen in. as special agent in charge of the detroit division, first we ll hear from mr. lemmish and after that we will have president a ten-minute question and answer session. we ll take questions from folks in the room with us first and then go to the ones that have dialed in on the conference. just need to be patient with us. mr. lemmish? thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i m here to talk to you about the incident that happened at the bishop international airport yesterday and jeffery neville was stabbed in the neck by a man by the name of amor ftouhi. there ftouhi is a 47-year-old citizen of canada who is
terrorism to me. yeah, your garden-variety psychopath not the most comforting words on a day like today or any day, for sure. let me go right now bob, stick with me go to jim bittermann in paris for us. jim s been getting a lot of new information in. jim, what are you picking up? i was just reading your reporting on air of your news coming from the prosecutor s office. what are you hearing? well, that s exactly it, but in fact, the prosecutor has opened a terrorism investigation which indicates that there is at least suspicion that this is some kind of a terrorist act. now, whether it s a garden-variety psychopath who wanted to join in with the kind of terrorist attacks we ve seen around europe or whether this is someone really intent. judging from the weapon, i would say it sounds like someone who was kind of motivated by a sense of hanging on to the kind of things that have already happened in both london and paris and manchester and elsewhere, in the fact that this is such a
he was reportedly on a mission, a fundamentalist and islamic mission with this cry of this is for syria, which immediately led the prosecutors here to open a terrorism investigation, branding this as a terrorist incident. the police officer who was hit was a 22-year-old young police officer, only just starting with the police department. he was with two other police officers on patrol around notre-dame and they were supposed to provide the assurances for all of the tourists on a day like today and they became the target themselves. another police officer pulled out his handgun and shot the attacker twice and hit him once in the thorax. they think he ll survive and they can find out what was behind his actions and if he had any accomplices. ana. jim bittermann, thank you. meantime, in london, police
opened up a terrorism investigation, wolf. he cried, this is for syria as he came at the plea man police patrolman with a hammer. he struck one of the policeman in the back of the neck. he was not badly injured. one of the partners immediately responded with his firearm and shot two shots according to witnesses. the attacker went down and he s not dead. he s been treated in the hospital now as we speak. they ll be wanting to talk with him. they want to confirm his identity. as you mentioned, he was carrying an algerian student i.d. card which might case where he was coming from. it s not clear if he was here just temporarily or if he lived here for some length of time. in any case, hundreds of people were in the cathedral at the time. they went on immediate lockdown and they kept them inside. they ve been slowly releasing them over the last two and a half hours since this took place. questioning each person as they let them go just to make sure there s no one else with the