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just by looking at that truck knowing it was filled with steasteal steel, knowing how deadly it must have been. back with our panel, michael, the claim by isis that the person who carried out this attack is a soldier of isis, which to them means inspired by isis. first how do we know it is authentic? second, is there a downside to them making a claim that might turn out to be true? sure. if he s an agent of al qaeda or some random crazy person although that suspicious is kind of cast aside. given the elaborate nature. a hijacking, a murder. driving an hour two with a dead body. he was turning this into a battering ram. seemed like the intention here was to commit mass murder. soldier of isis would be many ....
Pretty easy to get away from here and go pretty far in a short period of time. and they are saying look, if you see anything suspicious. call the police, don t try to act on your own. because again people you are dealing with potentially extremely dangerous obviously being behind killing 12 people here at this very very important very large christmas market and wounding dozens as well. frederick pleitgen in berlin. thank you. pooul cruickshank joins us now. and isis is claiming this attack is carried out by a soldier of the islamic state. this is the language they use to say someone inspired by isis. not directed by isis but inspired. and dpirs of all do you believe it and second what does it mean for the investigation? well, they are making the claim they inspired it, john. but they are not offering any evidence whatsoever to back up that claim of and so they may ....
Would want this information no matter what. and he s getting this information and the form he s getting it is his choice. and the form he s getting it are in the brightest. and isis is a real problem. this is the person who s funneling this information through for donald trump. we don t know what mike flynn is telling him. with do know the classified briefings would be we around the world from the very u.s. intelligence officials who are on the ground there. we in the media don t know a lot. what we do know though are those who know far more than that assure that donald trump is taking national security very seriously. getting security. sure. donald trump is not doing it every day. we don t know if he did it at all today. again, i m not questioning mike flynn s security credentials. a decorated general. james mattis. ....
Apparatus in raqqah or elsewhere in the middle east. so this could have been very well they needed to make a safe exit and exit the release of the crime. if he s captured and if he is isis cell then suddenly the intelligence is much more valuable. and stick around as developments come in. the new york city police say they have moved teams including the critical response command to high profile locations around new york. the police monitoring events in germany very very closely and around the world. take a look at how the u.s. is increasing security. that s next. oh, how waso good!en house? did you apply? oh, i ll do it later today. your credit score must be amazing. my credit score? credit karma. it s free. that s great! ....
Be just being opportunistic here. they may of course know something. they may have had some contact with the perpetrator. we had a case in germany in july. an axe attack on a train where there is a very similar worded claim by isis. and in this that case the axe attacker had actually been in contact with an isis handler and then eventually uploaded a video playing responsibility. so not clear yet. but what we can say is there s really been no public articulation of any evidence from the german investigatory side of any link between any side and terrorism. they don t have the evidence at this point. they don t have a suspect. they don t even have an image of a suspect that they can take to the public at this point. so they are really back at square one having released this other individual who had nothing ....