Polls. her main rival was largely considered not a credible alternative. as prime minister she was expected to sail through and really increase her majority. of course the campaign dna pout way. she stumbled a few times. often looked uncomfortable. policies weren t well received. she even backpedalled on a few of them as well. of course, you probably have to consider the fact that the campaign was interrupted twice by terror events, one in manchester, one in london. that affected the flow of campaign politics here as well. so for all of these reasons, she came out in a much diminished position and the final result was just so much closer than she expected. no doubt she s feeling considerable regret that she began this whole process in the first place. phil black for us outside 10 downing street. phil, thank you. just a short time to go about dealing with the aftermath, i ll play a little
Theresa may, the british prime minister to offer u.s. resources and, of course, support from their american ally, but on this what is really standing out is it is very much the tone of donald trump talking about terror events, talking about the different approaches. what s notable is that usually in political discourse there s divides about how to best approach these things aren t happening in real time while there are events unfolding, whether it be concern about ongoing attacks or the initial investigation, and certainly the mayor of london has been a critic of donald trump, so there s already a rivalry there. and trump has just a different view about this notion of when people should feel safe. at the same time, you know, republican george w. bush also encouraged people to go about their lives and to go shopping and live their lives after 9/11, so it s just different approaches and what is so striking is president trump is doing it sort of right in the moment when londoners are deal
Put out false claims in the very recent past if what philippine authorities have said is accurate. it seems advantageous to take credit for these different terror events. thank you. keep us posted as you learn more information. now police combing london at this hour. they are in the early hours of their investigation. families peering out their windows watching the police. this is witness video. they are praying their families were safe. we re going to speak with the mother who took this video and who was evacuated with her son. that s next in the cnn newsroom. ? uh huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone everything on it oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah, it s nice that every bad decision doesn t have to be permanent!
List. here s what press secretary sean spicer had to say. he said he felt members of the media don t always cover these events to the extent other events might get covered. what is this about and why is the white house saying something different that the president says? the president says unreported and the white house says underreported. this wouldn t be the first time the administration has a had to slightly walk by an exaggeration or falsehood of the president. you see it as a walkback? i absolutely do. some of these were the most heavily covered terror events of the last two years. so that s a false statement on its face, absolutely. but what i see here at work, hallie, is not so much a broader strategy. i think some people like to read into these things too much with the trump administration. i think it s more of an impulse.
Hysteria already got out there. maybe he is talking about the fake news stories. i asked the white house for examples. i ll let you know when they get back to me with examples. i don t know what he is talking about. but this is another way in which i know we re only several weeks into the transition. this is so dramatically different from the obama administration, which would say that journalists over-cover these things and hype up the terrorists. it s kind of a little bit of whiplash. i don t know what he is referring to, i do know that any news organization. when there is any attack we are all over it. sean spicer was on air force one and was asked about the crazy quote he said there are certain terror events which are not covered on a degree to which they should be which is what the president meant, which is not what he said. one thing i want to ask about what president trump said to bill o reilly about putin. o reilly said putin is a killer and he said there are a lot of kill