opened an investigation into a possible terrorist incident here. they say that that s sort of par for the course when it comes to an attack athis iconic site becae it happened at notre dame cathedral in front of the cathedral and because it was targeting a police officer, they have opened a counter a terrorism investigation, but the motive behind this still not clear. kelly cobiella for us in london, chris dickey on the ground, outside notre dame there, thank you. let s turn to the white house, where they are, of course, monitoring the incident taking place in paris. kristen welker on duty for us at 1600 pennsylvania. what are you hearing there, kristen? we know that the national security team has been briefed on this and they have reached out to some of their counterparts in paris as well as the u.s. embassy in paris to coordinate a response and a reaction. we re still trying to determine if the president has been briefed, although at this point
what kinds of things the french could do to stop this kind of thing from happening in london. ana? jim, they are investigating this as a potential act of terror, right? reporter: yes, indeed. because of that cry, this is for syria, when he went after the policeman, because of that, the terrorism prosecutor here immediately opened up a terrorism investigation. all right. jim bittermann reporting, thank you. i want to bring back our panel and admiral john kirby, we, of course, were just reporting not long ago, yesterday, over the weekend on this horrific situation that unfolded in london over the weekend and now this. there were also two other attacks that happened in england in the last three months. what s going on, do you think? well, assuming this one is an
investigators have made a great deal of progress. they believe that they know who these three attackers are and they confirmed that they have now formally identified two of them. one is a 30-year-old who claims to be a moroccan libya man. the other is a 27-year-old. he was born in pakistan but who is a british citizen. this information came with an admission from scotland yard investigators, an admission that probably isn t going to go down very well in this city. that in 2015, an investigation was launched, a terrorism investigation was launched into one of these three attackers. subsequently there were phone calls that were made by concerned friends, members of the public who were concerned about this suspect. you can see him there on the left of the screen. they were concerned that he might be planning something. now, there was further investigation from scotland yard
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phil mud. that s a good thing in that there s not it seems like more than the one particular incident or more than one attempt. sure. any time you are going down this road you heard this referred to as a potential terrorism investigation. it s not a suggestion that practitioners believe that s what happened. you don t have time to waste in the event there s a broader network. you talked about one potential device here. you still have a lot of questions. what trained them? who radicalized them? you can have a conspiracy even if you have one attack, especially with a device that looks this significant. i m saying, are we sure this is a single suicide bomber? he had the capability to build a design like this with this level of lethality by himself? how likely is it somebody built their own device? usually is the device built by somebody else? in this case i m going to say, if you have a one off, that