Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. Now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shut down the subway systems. Based on my experience, covering this area for more than a decade, they shut down Commuter Systems when they believe they have an ongoing operation. So they are trying to prevent followon attacks and they are trying to limit
movement in their effort to identify suspects on the rental vehicles. Renting a van tells you that they wanted to maximize casualties, whatever thei
four years ago when the mediterranean crisis broke i said in the european parliament we must not let our passion imperil our civilization because isis will use the mediterranean route to get their operatives into europe. sure enough last year we were warned by interpol up to 50 jihaddists had come into italy already and today this gang, as you have announced has been found, it s been busted and they have been bringing jihadis in. what clearer lesson can there be of the great self-harm you can do to your face civilization. safety of your citizens if you don t send out a message that people cannot just illegally come into your country. i see what s going on today down in texas. i would sty americans just look at this news story. look at isis preying on the weakness of government over borders and that tells me that trump is absolutely right with everything that
isis, al qaeda and other jihaddists that threaten our security and yours. president trump has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria. we always do and now is the time. but this isn t a change of mission remain committed to the complete isis threat and radical islam in all its form. we are looking to our partners to do more. in this effort we will do so going forward, together. for our part airstrikes in the region will continue as targets arise. we will keep working with our partners in the coalition to defeat isis. we will continue to hunt down terrorists who seek safe havens in libya and in yemen. we strongly support egypt s efforts to destroy isis in the sinai. we strongly support israel s efforts to stop tehran from turning syria into the next lebanon. and, as the fighting
a come within on orange alert. yeah, definite live. i was on the smuggling cell in 2015 and we tracked of human smug glir coming up from south america. you do have them traveling through brazil and up those same routes that migrants and narco-traffickers are using. anyone can come and go through that border. mark: you mean when you say special interest aliens, you mean that potential jihaddists have figured out they look at what is on their tv screens on the rio imrand and figure trying to fly to jfk you might as well go into and walk. you can the border is open. i detailed back in the early 2,000 and it was literally one strand of barbed wire. so, yes, nibble could walk across that brtdz when november fairous intend are
steve: too bad. ainsley: we are all parents and can relate to that the legacy we want to live for our kids. the individualsio you are see something walker point in kennebunkport, maine their vacation spot. you can go there and take pictures with the house in the background. we have done that as a family. he was very involved with the episcopal church there saint ann s. they have church outside. the water is on the other side of the minister while is he preaching. they were very involved in that church and their church in houston as well. brian: meanwhile, carley shimkus was talking about that moments ago. you were co-anchoring. carley: thank you so much. a senior member of isis involved in murdering a former u.s. army ranger is now dead. u.s. officials say he was killed in a drone strike in syria over the weekend. along with several other jihaddists. the terror leader was linked to the beheading of peter kassig in 2014.