this hour, i am chris jansing, stephanie ruhle picks up our coverage from d.c. hey steph. >> hello everyone, it is friday, november 29th, 2019, we are following breaking news out of the city of london. officials there investigating officially being considered a terror incident on london bridge. the suspect was wearing a device shocked to his body. eyewitness captures the moments before police open fire. we heard from prime minister boris johnson who thanked police and civilians who intervened. >> my thoughts with the police, the bravery they showed going towards danger as they do. i want to pay tribute to the

extraordinary bravery of those members ofs the public who physically intervene to protect lives of others. i can assure you and assure anyone that anybody involved in this crime and attack, i will be hunted down and will be brought to justice. our erin mclaughlin who's on the scene and security journalist dunc duncan gardner who's on the ground with the latest. erin, what have we heard from authorities? >> reporter: police are providing the account of the events as it is unfolded today. a third of a mile behind me is london bridge, iconic landmark here, around 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon in broad daylight they were called to a stabbing

attack, a man on the bridge stabbing a number of individuals and some seriously before he was shot and killed by police. take a listen to what the assistant police commissioner had to say earlier today. commission commissioner neil basu. >> i am now in a position to confirm it is a terrorist incident. we are working with the city of london police as we continue to respond. officers from the counter terrorism is now leading that investigation. i must press that we will take an open mind, it would be inappropriate to speculate. >> reporter: a key question being how do police know it is a terror attack and confirm it while simultaneously

establishing and providing clues of the suspect on his body have explosive device. police are not releasing his identity and key questions of this man at this moment. >> duncan, what have you been hearing from eye witnesses? >> reporter: i have been talking to people who were overlooking the bridge and saw what we imagined is the attack from the bridge and saying that he appears today dead as he was dragged and also a woman being carried in an emergency vehicle who appeared to be badly injured with blood in her and another

individual with blood around his torso. i have spoken to a new individual who was in his office underneath where he think the incident may have started and was evacuated along and came out to see a scuffle on the bridge above him and to then hear shots ring out as the suspect was shot. the point about this really is that part is the attack on london bridge by three individuals took place three years ago. it was where they began their attack. >> what additional information do we have on those victims personally? >> reporter: at the moment what authorities are telling us is a number of people were stabbed as part of the attack, they're not saying how many people.

we know the london mayor said some were seriously injured. the mayor also making another point given what we saw play out today, given the fact according to the mayor, some civilians actually participated and stopping this attack. one social media video shows a man walking away from the scuffle unfolding in the bridge, holding the suspect's knife. the mayor said what we saw on that bridge was the worse of humanity of terror attack, also the best of humanity, ordinary people going about their ordinary life on the bridge, helping those attacked. the mayor commending those people for their efforts.

>> duncan, let's talk about the police, what are they doing now? >> reporter: polices are looking into the background of the individuals to work out who his motive could be. he's possibly white. that may rule out the possibility major -- it could be something else all together. >> erin mclaughlin and duncan gardner, thank you both for keeping us up. this is clearly a long day for both of you. i want to bring in retired atf jim kavanaugh and our expert malcolm nans nanscenance. hours have passed and president

trump is monitoring the situation. >> i think you will see that happening in new york, traditionally they do that, nypd. the police force of america are on alert, they may not be doing something you physically see. they are tuned into this. if they have a particular event, they'll be cautious. right now they look like one inspired individual if they have to look at everything that's transpired and malcolm is going to elaborate on that. the hoax and the night attack and targeting. it looks like that. since we were in there earlier today, the officer that killed the assailant from the city of london police that's not metropolitan police. >> why is that significance? >> well, it is just an inside

baseball police, the city of london is a one square mile city inside metropolitan of london. they're about an 800 member force. those are the officers and i think they're heroes and they should get their recognition, just like the citizens that stop this guy. one citizen in particularly that was holding them down likely, once the knife was away and the citizens was walking away with the knife, they're trying to hold his hands probably from pushing a button they can see on this front that they believe it is a detonator for his bomb. once they pull the citizens off, the city of london police shot him and killed him instantly. the protocol for a suicide bomber is a head shot. malcolm talked about it earlier. you have to talk about it instantly so you can't push the button. they killed it immediately once the citizens got off.

>> the civilians hero holding them down not knowing the bomb. >> malcolm, you want to weigh in? >> it is amazing that those people did that. knowing that based on the bureau market attack shows that if we don't stop him, he's going to go on a rampage and start killing people. when he started crossing london bridge, he attacked a woman right there and the by stander um j jumped up on him and took injury himself and held him down. we find these hoax device looked just like real devices. you don't know and some often put play dough or can or something. they have that fake detonator,

the methodology that we learn in iraq, you have to hit that person right in the head or you have to pin the hands down. to do that not knowing the incident you are going to blow up is really brave. >> jim, what is the next step of the investigation be? >> running this guy's whole history and look at everything, 90 days prior to his death and who is he? was he radicalized on the web? who's his family contact? just everything about him they're going to run down and share that with the worldwide partners and civilians and military intelligence to see if they could stop the next one. that's the effort now. this guy is dead, juliwhat we a trying to do is stop the next one if there is any clues or

evidence or lead up to someone else who's equally inspired to do mass murders. >> investigators say they would not speculate a motive but they deemed this a terror attack. the profile of the attack itself which occurred in gland. england. it did not end until private security were there and sort of trying to hold them off until the metropolitan police come in and shoot them dead. also the attack in 2013, lesser known attack but two armed assailant beheaded.

they waited to be shot to death and think confronted the police and wanted to be murdered. these individual weapon attacks we call them with knives have a profile themselves. the police could have immediately finger printed and identify this individual and see his id card and realize what we call as a lone wolf. a person who's extremist and have not done anything enough to get him on the radar but is known in that community and supporting other people verbal bli ly verballyverbally or online. for the most part, when they make a determination that they believe it is terrorism, they have good intelligence. >> malcolm nance and jim kavanaugh, thank you both for helping us understand this situation unfolding in london. president trump's surprise

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welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." new development today, president trump revealing talks with the taliban have resumed during his

surprise visit thanksgiving to afghanistan. the president serves to troops at the airfield, the largest base stationed in the country. the negotiations come as the united states continues to push to end the nation's longest war or at least they say they want to. >> the taliban wants to make a deal, we'll see if they make a deal, if they do, they do and if they don't, they don't. that's fine. >> joining us now is kelly o'donell from west palm beach florida where the president is staying at his golf resort. what do we know about these talks with the taliban? >> reporter: we know really little, steph. take taliban out and insert china or any other topic because it is a phrasing that he uses a lot that others want to make a deal, if they do, great, if they don't, okay. it is sort of a place holder for the president. what is notable about it is the

white house indicated before the trip is fully materialized that it was not about peace talk and all to be focus of the president visiting troops and having a chance of commander enchiin chid connecting them. they invited him to come for a meeting that was part of the coverage. the issue of where does the u.s. stand with the long-term future of the president in afghanistan. the taliban conversation comes up. the president floated the idea of having taliban leadership at camp david, to have those responsible for the deaths of u.s. service members coming to the presidential retreat was a step too far even though the u.s. engaging with the taliban and trying to resolve the

longest war. it is something of an important step forward. when you ask about specifics, we don't have any yet. the president says the talks have begun. we don't know the ground work that's involved this. it there. >> let's talk about the president in the coming weeks. the president has been out spok spoken speaking about nato. john bolton joked if the president may once again do something extreme as pulling out of nato entirely. what can we expect? >> we are talking to white house officials and they have describing this visit quite different than the first few times the president has engaged on nato where he came in and was a disrupter and complain to long time u.s. allies they were not doing enough or bringing enough or to the table as far as their share paying for common defense

of nato ally. this time they're saying being the 70th anniversary of nato is going to be held in london. london is in the news for today and other reasons. the queen is hosting nato leaders. all of this will give a backdrop. part of what the president argued what he's able to do is to get other nations to pay more including germany and others. there is been an agreement of the u.s. share contributing of the defense of the common nations will go down in percentage. the president will argue that is a positive that other nations are taking a bigger role. it comes at a time where one of his closest friends emanuel macron has been critical of what nato's position is, things like being more focused on cyber security. nato will get a lot of attention

next week. it will be interesting to see if he's the same persona than he was in the initial meeting where he was considered a contentious force when it comes to nato. >> thanks so much. joining me now, elise lavitt and jessica chambers. >> elise, the president is saying we are getting close to a deal with the taliban. what do you know about this? >> it is a very liberal interpretations of talks. you saw the u.s. released some taliban prisoners and in some exchange of some american prisoners. so that was seen as the first step, now what the u.s. is looking for is a reduction and

formal kind of feeling out the taliban and the u.s. whether to get back to the table. what the u.s. is looking for is a reduction for those talks to get back on tracks hopefully and you would see some kind of deal for the americans to pull out and that would spark the cease-fire intra-afghan negotiations to end the war that everyone is looking for. >> you are not going to find any 2020 candidate or the president who'll say i want to continue it. as far as hard evidence that the president is getting anything done, is there any? >> you have seen in the last couple of weeks where dozens of people were killed on the way to the wedding in kabul. t it is kind of this whole vicious cycle chicken and egg until

there is reduction. the war can't end. as you said everybody wants to reduce u.s. presence overseas, these forever wars. until there is reduction of islands on the ground. >> francesca, the president have said over and over, he want s t get all troops out in afghanistan. he's not alone in that sentiment. he said the same thing in turkey a few weeks ago but i am not aware of any troops he pulled home out of the region. >> you took the words out of my mouth, whether it is china or afghanistan and it is hard to determine when he says talks are taken place and they want to make a deal, what exactly does that mean? his visit to afghanistan was not only a surprise. talks resumed, that was a big surprise, whether or not they

resumed is a big question. the president said he would like to reduce troops in afghanistan. the white house wants to get those down to roughly 8,600. the evidence though for whether or not that's currently happening, i don't know if we have seen it. i want to point something out important to you, last week the president had to receive the bodies of two u.s. soldiers who died in afghanistan at dover. the president has said that deeply affects him. every single time that he has to do that. that's one of the driving reasons for why he wants to reduce the number of troops there is because of how hard it is one dies and he has to go meet with grieving families. >> elise, during the visit, president said the killing of abu bakr al-baghdadi that happens a few weeks ago, that was a great accomplishment than the killing of osama bin laden.

what do you make of that? >> i make it that he's sucking up to president trump. you can't deny the killing of baghdadi is a huge accomplishment. to afghanistan on the ground with the taliban, you can't say the killing of osama bin laden who's directing taliban troops from pakistan into afghanistan is more on the ground accomplishment. i think what we are talking about here is there are no way that this war is going to end without a political solution and they need president trump to get this political solution. he's going to say whatever he's going to say to get whatever he needs. if you look on twitter and you see afghan talking about it in good company, we can't talk about things that they are calling him right now. they are saying he's kissing hup

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welcome back to "velshi & ruhle," we continue to follow breaking news out of london today where officials are investigating a terror incident on the city's iconic london bridge. the suspect injuring several people there before he was shot and killed by police. the suspect was wearing a hoax explosive device attached to his body at the time of the attack. joining me now bill neely, what's the scene looking like at this hour?

>> reporter: good afternoon, you are joining me near london bridge. police still have the blue flashing lights there and a couple of london buses stopping there. this incident happens about 4.5 hours ago. we know one suspect is dead. nbc news are trying to confirm disturbing reports from the hospital close to here that one possibility two members of the public have died with their injuries. we can't confirm that at the moment because there are several reports suggesting that at least one member of the public have died after this attack. within the last hour, the prime minister boris johnson broke off campaigning for the national election that'll be held here in two weeks, he spoke inside downing street. the police are continuing their investigations, he said i can assure you and assure that anybody involved in this crime

and attacks will be hunted down and brought to justice. the message that we sent to them and anyone associated with this type of attack is one that'll be familiar. this country will never be divided or intimidated by this sort of attack and our british values will prevail. that kind of statement is very familiar to people in this city and country, it is being repeated by prime ministers across the decadedecades. we heard today from the current mayor of london sadiq khan. let's listen to what he had to say. i think we are able to bring you that clip a little later on. basically he said the attack by

this individual today showed the very worst of humanity. he also spoke best of humanity, the members of the public who tackled this man who was wearing a large knife, the video we are seeing on social media shows a terrifying moment that was, this man described as tall and beered and opened the coat he was wearing and revealed what looked like an explosive vest, a suicide vest. people scattered away from him and police subsequently said it was in fact a fake suicide vest. at that moment caused the great deal of panic and a few seconds layer, an armed london police officer fired one or possibly two shots and killed the man. the man died at the scene. we are getting disturbing reports from the hospital that at least one of the people that

man stabbed has died in the hospital. we are trying to confirm that. >> bill, thank you very much for keeping us up on the london attack. we'll check in with you in just a bit. we'll turn now back to news here in d.c. the impeachment inquiry will come front and center again next week on capitol hill. president trump and lawmakers gearing up for another round of witness hearings this time held by the house judiciary committee, chairman nadler extending the invitation to the president to attend the meeting himself. "the washington post" has new reporting of the very complicated web of ukraine focused relationships connected not to the president but to rudy giuliani himself. following other reports this week rudy giuliani may have pursued business dealings in ukraine while at the same time teaming up with the country's top government officials to

uncover dirt on president trump's rivals, the bidens. rudy giuliani denied these. our barbara mcquaid is joining me now. >> nile, to you first, the impeachment inquiry, five questions looming over the impeachment. what's the biggest question you want to answer this week. the single biggest question is what are the charges or the k-9s kinds of impeachment going to be? will it be more looking at patterpat a pattern of behavior and involving charges of obstruction of justice. now you also point out how the

impeachment can affect the polls specifically if it carries into 2020. both parties argued the impeachment helps them. what do you say? i think it motivates the bases on both sides. i don't think it helped any president to be impeached broadly speaking. this idea that donald trump sees some political - i think that's nonsense, he does not want that black mark against him in the history books. republicans will push the line of democrats over stepping. there has been some movement in favor of impeachment. polls last week 61% of women want the president impeached and removed from office. i don't see that's a good thing politically for president trump. >> barbara, based on what niall just said, what do you think democratic lawmakers are going to focus on when they consider what article of impeachment to pursue? >> i think ultimately they'll

conclude it is better to be more narrow in impeachment articles. prosecutors face temptations all the time. just because you can charge someone with a particular offense does not mean you should charge them and if you model articles of impeachment with too much, it gives the other side the opportunity to cherry pick and point out the weakness of the weakest article. i think for that reason if i were participating and giving them advice, i would tell them to keep it narrowly focused on the conduct of ukraine. you can include in there abuse of power, to turn it over without delay and i think you can also conclude an article either contempt or obstruction of congress for stone wall or refusing to allowing witnesses

or do you wants turniturning ov. >> barbara, let's talk rudy giuliani. everything we have learned, he was running what was known shadow foreign policy for the president of the united states, rudy giuliani saying he was never actually paid by trump or the u.s. government. at the same time as washington post is reporting he was pursuing working with ukrainians. ukrainian business people and potentially getting himself paid half a million bucks for it. he never got that business, the argument has always been hire rudy giuliani, he can help you with the president. give that entire scenario, what if anything is illegal? >> i think number one he could find himself charged criminally for his role in president trump miscondu misconduct. he could be charged as a coke conspirator to bribery and interfering with the administration of the elections. to the extent he's holding

himself out as someone who has influence of the department of justice that he can get meetings with william barr and be a fixer for people who's facing criminal charges, he could be charged as that instance as well with bribery or extortion. i think it is a dangerous game when he's playing both sides here. it is one of the reasons that having someone who's a private person acting behalf of the government who's such a bad idea. when he's out there seeking legal fees to represent the other side and the government of ukraine or ukrainian officials, there is a direct conflict of interests there with his representation of the united states. he has ethical problems or legal problems with that kind of k conduct. >> coming up next, we'll look at the latest 2020 polling. who's in the lead just two months before the crucial iowa caucuses. you are watching "velshi &

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i . welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." the latest quinnipiac poll of joe biden holding the lead.

senator harris is now facing some tough headlines of her campaign struggling to stay afloat. ali val ali vitali is joining me now. walk us through the challenges of what kamala harris' team is facing. >> if you read t"the new york times" today. it is not a typical that articles like this will come out. you see they have 50 people who they talked to for this. clearly the frustration inside the kamala harris campaign and around her and her orbit are spilling out. we know she's struggling from being one of those top tier candidates. she's in the single digit. she's living in iowa and trying

to ask voters on a small level one to one bases, will you caucus for me. i know iowa is one of those places that can sometimes surprise people. there are three tickets out, you need to be one of those three to show that you are electable down the line. i am not sure if this strategy will do it for kamala harris. they have not been balloon to her candidacy and she has not establish any kind of momentum out there on the campaign trail. >> is it all about the money? most 2020 candidates have said we got to get big money out of politics. they're not getting it out in politics today or tomorrow or the 2020 election. with that being the case, if you are a kamala harris or a cory booker or amy klobachar, you get over the hurdle of needing big dollars in these important

states? >> some candidates arguing they are trying to get money out of politics. for a lot of the kacandidates y mentioned, they are donor reliant. clearly someone like kamala harris, there is a lot of confusion about are they going to get someone who could prosecute the case as harris regularly say? and in conversations that donors have throughout the cycle the main goal is to beat donald trump. primary voters are not general election voters. making those duo cases are difficult. for those three candidates that you laid out for booker and klobach cloklobachar and harris, i thin amy klobachar is successfully able to do that. if you look at booker and harris and klobachar, you can argue winning debate performances but

klobachar has been the only one who's able to come out of the debate with a few million dollars more than she would have had and putting it into her ground game in states like nevada. other campaigns are able to go beyond that. they have the money to start branching out. for candidates who are not polling well and relying on donors, they need to stay alive and looking pass that when you look down the calendar. >> jonathan, across the board candidates keep on trying to prove they are the ones who can beat donald trump. why do they spend so much time and money on these highly produced long foreign television ad rather than creating realtime response fact checker realtime

day in and day out. stop the spreading of misinformation? > >> they should be doing that. the dnc is not fact-checking him everyday and responding to him everyday. you can make an argument that t candidates need to look higher and explain what they would do for the american people and not prosecute the case against trump. the money question, the only reason any candidates ever drop out in presidential politics is when they run out of money. that's the history of this going back many, many elections. what's different this time and the reason that we may see and i think it is possible and not likely, we may see a broker convention, you have several candidates that we'll have the financial resources to keep going deep into the process

because they either have small donor bases like warren and sanders or they have pretty faithful donors like buttigieg or mike bloomberg. when you lost the primaries, big donors will head to the hills with small donors that does not happen in the same way. you will see four or five candidates well into march and april and maybe beyond that. >> and quickly before we go. why is elizabeth warren losing steam, she seems unstoppable. is it her plan to pay for medicare for all? >> it is not the plan of how she's going to pay for it. it is medicare for all is not popular even within the democratic party. it is popular aspirationally, when people are faced with the thought that they may get thrown off their insurance and millions of people who like it and the

insurance company screws a lot of people, that makes them nervous, she does have a new transitional plan that takes them away from medicare for all. i think she will be back in it. >> all right, jonathan alter and ali vitali. you know what today is, today is black friday. we'll look at the big retail numbers forecasted for this year's holiday season. it could be a record breaker. you are watching "velshi & ruhle." breaker you are watching "velshi & ruhle. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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welcome back. today, of course, is black friday and shoppers are flooding stores, businesses are luring people in with deals and also a day with major economic significance. the national retale federation estimated between thanksgiving and cyber monday, 165 million people are expected to shop including 115 million today alone. and analysts are warning for signs after a new report on high wage workers spending less. "usa today" explaining high income households make up nearly

half of consumption and the spending fell in the second quarter. matthew, explain to me why this is so important. because people are saying it's a great shopping season but if high earners spend less what does that tell you? >> the forecast we put out is that sales grow between 3.8% and 4.2% over a year ago. >> that's a positive. >> it looks very, very good. consumer confidence is high. the unemployment rate remains very low so we have gotten off to a great start from everything we have heard. the ceos i have talked to saying we got off to a good start, an early start because there's fewer days between thanksgiving and christmas. lots of people talking about that but overall we feel very positive and feel like there's momentum as we get into the next few weeks. >> but is it about people having more money to spend and making more money? or, is it that people just have a lot of cheap credit, ie able

to get credit cards and not afraid to put themselves in debt? >> looking at actual sort of what credit looks like for americans and how it's changed consumer credit grown with car loans and should talk about subprime car loans. that's a subject for a different day but looking at whether they spend on the credit cards, that's not changed and we are seeing right now is we're running an experiment in how good things can get for low wage workers in the united states. the last few points won in unemployment are the best for the lowest paid workers and highest for people who make the least money. these are the people also more likely to spend money in f they get extra wages, put it back in the economy rather than save it. if you told economists five years ago of 3.6% unemployment and 1.7% infralation they wouldt won't work out that way. you have the fed, congress

mostly the fed trying to figure out how much better can it get? because it looks like we may have a long run without inflation and can see how good we can make things for the american worker. >> consumer confidence is a feeling but it's not necessarily a fact. do people have that much more money or do they just feel like they do? because just because they're spending doesn't moon they should be. >> the issue is the difference between consumer attitudes and action. right? what's the real behavior versus the beliefs? at the moment they seem to believe things are good. most americans probably aren't invested in the stock market so, for example, last year the market was very volatile at the end of the year. we had the government shutdown at the end of the year and hurt consumer confidence and psyche and caused people to pull back. this year people feel confident about the economy, about their prospects and to the point brendan was making, they're still apparently slacking in the

employment market and the wage rate continues to grow incrementally. not as much as we would like to see but people feel confident about where they are. >> are those businesses making more? you can go into any of the inboxes and in the last 20 minutes i'm sure we have gotten seven e-mails of door guster sales. >> one of the things to see right now is what they call an earnings recession which is that you have businesses are paying slightly higher wages and particularly retailers paying much higher than before. however, they can't pass that on to their own customers because inflation is anchored so low and getting squeezed in the middle. that's really good for people making more money an not paying higher prices. not as good for investors who own shares in the companies so we notice that we talk about the stock market isn't the economy. it's possible to have a stock market moving sideways and things getting better for most of us? >> what about business? i don't know anybody willing to

pay retail. >> it's promotional environment. you noted that. it's been promotional since the recession and these are promotions built in. not as the expense of margin but planned for. i hope we open all seven of those and click on yes. >> shopping is emotional. we are scammed into those sales and we are falling into it. hook, line and sinker. you reminded me of a truth i don't like to remind. great to see you both. >> thank you. >> thank you for watching this very busy day, hour. right now my dear friend katy tur picks up the coverage. i hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving with teddy on his first big holiday. >> we had a great thanksgiving. we timed turkey to his bedtime and just screamed throughout the entire meal. >> nice! >> stephanie, thank you so much. happy holidays to you, as well. good afternoon. i'm katy tur.

in london, we are following breaking news. multiple people stabbed and injured in a terrorist incident on the london bridge. that suspect was shot and killed by police at the scene. a witness described how the whole thing unfolded. >> what did you see? >> we heard from our office some shots fired and what it sounded like shots and looking out the window the entire bridge was sealed. the police was there and carried what looked like injured people off the bus. >> how many shots were fired? >> we hear it was eight but we don't know. >> assume eight? >> whether theirs or the police we don't know. >> police say they're treating the incident as a terror related attack. emergen earlier london mayor called the attacker the worst of humanity and said it would not divide london. >> i'm mayor of the greatest city of the world and our stres