were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland and germany. it s only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. i think that last sentence is a very powerful one. the civilized world changing its thinking. how does the west, america need to change our viewpoint and thinking and policies to adjust to this new reality where a guy doesn t need money or expertise, just a truck and a christmas market? yeah. isis put out the call to action saying you don t have to build a bomb and flag yourself by doing something that complicated as long as you drive over and kill infidels, you are one of the blessed. that s something we need to acknowledge. the enemy is here. we have people in our country. i mean, when i came in this morning, i searched to see if any new news was on this. my google came up with nice attack and osu attack which were both truck attacks. they don t have to do complicated things to kill us.
wrong, that is going to damage the credibility of the united states internationally. now, when it comes to the berlin attack, they are pointing towards an act of terrorism. but there are certainly a number of pointers in that direction. the sort of country of origin is perhaps a pointer. also, the fact that isis have been calling for exactly these kind of truck attacks. but it is very early on in this investigation. u.s. officials do need to be very careful, just like their counterparts in europe, about making these official determinations when they don t have the full facts. right. and nick, obviously i get the distinctions being made, but i m telling you, the political state of play in the united states deserves some consideration right now. you have a president-elect that just did very well in the election by simply saying, look, what s our problem with terrorism? president obama won t call it what it is.
was a deliberate attack and much less if it was terrorism. but isis and al qaeda have called for truck attacks and isis claimed responsibility for one such attack in nice, france, where a truck barrelled through a crowd celebrating bastille day killing 18 people. trump responded, our hearts and prayers are with the loved ones of the victims of today s horrifying terror attack in berlin. isis continues to slaughter christ fens in their communities as part of their global jihad. the deadly incident hasn t been declared an incident of terrorism by the authorities. and the russian ambassador to turkey was assassinated by a lone gunman while delivering a speech at a museum in ankara. the gunman was turkish, a 22-year-old officer in the
was it the normal course of morning activities. was there a fire alarm pulled. we have reports that at least two fire alarms were pulled during the morning. did people rush out of the building as a result? that s not clear. we hope some of it will be clarified when university officials hold a news conference in a short while from now. jim, let s talk about the use of the vehicle here. the car as weapon. is this something you have seen more of, that law enforcement officials have seen more of? do we expect to see more of that? in the terrorist theater and we are not saying this is terrorism. we don t have that information. we have seen it in this with the truck attacks and other places across the world. we have seen isis calling for vehicle attacks at the macy s day parade. what we could be looking at here and we have to keep an open mind
square, times square day. isis has one message for its followers and one message only. kill as many people as you can. it sees truck attacks as was carried out in nice as a practical way of doing it. they have laid out a how-to for conducting a truck attack like the one in nice. under a picture of macy s day parade, a caption. experts warn about an ever present lone wolf. you re hoping when they radicalize 1,000 people, 5,000, who never even to have travel to syria. if you miss those guys, you have a problem. it is whether you miss any of them over the years. americans being warned that terrorism abroad during holidays. the state department warning americans to be careful at holiday festivals in europe. recent arrests in france, according to french media,