i want to bring in juliette kayyem, national security analyst. we got a great deal of information from scotland yard. six innocent people dead, three assailants dead. they drove the van across london bridge straight to borough market, started stabbing people. a number of people were stabbed there and within eight minutes the british police were on the scene shooting the assailants dead and as nic robertson pointed out and juliette you pointed out, they now know who these people are. they are hunting down any leads. we heard explosions or loud bangs at least and it's not impossible that that was law enforcement going there and tracing them to their homes and inspecting them. >> that's exactly right. remember after all of these terrorist attacks there was a broad sweep, as there should be, to neighborhoods, family, friends, roommates, colleagues and there will be more arrests as we saw after manchester than maybe there are guilty. after plant there wemanchester arrests which is expected in the next it 4 to 36 hours after a terror attack. this is wh

paul callan, cnn legal analyst, juliet juliette kayyem, and errol lewis, and lynn sweet, bureau chief for chicago sun times. after all that, let me give you one more name. bring in cnn washington correspondent ryan nobles at the white house. president trump is essentially accusing comey of perjury. what's next in this investigation? >> reporter: essentially, the investigation continues, martin, regardless of spin from both sides, james comey's testimony neither convicts nor vindicates president trump. instead, it's just really another step in a very lengthy process of a very complicated investigation. the main is conducted by robert mueller, former fbi director and special counsel, and the president accusing james comey of not telling the truth. the president saying he, too, would be willing to give his version of their conversation and what he told comey about michael flynn under oath as well. take a listen. >> so he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of events? >> 100%. i didn't say under oath. i hardly know the man. i wouldn'

. >> so juliette kayyem, crude weapons here. the british authorities on the scene in killing the terrorists within eight minutes of the first call for help, and there may be two lessons here, one reassuring, one not so. the first lesson british authorities are on this. they have a response system in place that can move rapidly and try to keep casualties at a minimum. the less reassurance part of it is, is that there were still seven people who died, more than 40 people injured, even though this attack may not have been as "successful" as the terrorists had wanted. >> that's exactly right. it's the challenge of how could you measure success for the terrorists and for cities and cities in this age of the kind of terrorism that we're seeing. but part of how we need to measure it is can law enforcement public safety, fire officials, the public be able to react in a way that minimizes the harm after the attack. we call this right of boom planning, right, in terms of saving lives, minimizing those who have to go to the hospital. in th

national security analyst juliette kayyem and steve hall, agood evening.general sessions gave an emotional denial of any collusion with the russian in an opening statement. let's listen, then we'll talk. >> the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian government to hurt this country, which i have served with honor for 35 years, or to under mine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie. >> but when it came to answering specific questions about russia, he said he never received a detailed briefing despite all the stories of russian hacking and michael flynn's contacts with russia even before he recused himself. does that answer make sense to you? >> not at all. i mean, sort of cry me a river about jeff sessions feeling sorry for himself, that sort of seems like a side issue. the bigger issue is that the attorney general of the united states never asked about the sort of biggest challenge to our democracy that we saw in 2016, that we will continue to see in these ele

juliette kayyem. we have seen what the president has said with the tweets. from the policy perspective, we heard from the police chief, this seems to be home center. not thought from abroad. similarly, the president of the united states was using the london attack to justify his travel ban. as we saw recently in san bernardino and in orlando, we are dealing with the same situation here. it's not about who is coming from abroad, but who is inspired here at home. >> the tweet by president trump was not based in facts. it was cruel in some ways. in the immediate response of an issue like this generally a country like ours would show sympathy and support which president trump ultimately did. the narrative president trump is trying to create is somehow the terror threat is them. it is over there. it is the other. if we only put up more walls or bans, that will make us safe. we will no longer fear terrorism. anyone knows that is not reality based. for one, the travel ban will not impact all of the people that could come to the country. more importantly, in the uni

we have cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd, juliette kayyem and. james, authorities have yet to classify this as a terror attack. also considering it a hate crime. so i guess the difference is one is politically motivated and one is personal? >> yes, in a certain sense, alisyn. the terrorism piece is an event where you have violence or intimidation or the threat of the same in pursuit of political or social ends or aims. the hate crime piece, i looked it up this morning. i don't know if the uk have a hate crime statute. they have crimes against hate speech. what we know now -- authorities have been very guarded with what they're releasing, it appears to be a case of morrellivism. it appears someone decided if he was going to get back at someone because of what happened on london bridge. >> what makes you think that? >> number one, the eyewitness accounts and what was said. do i think he was targeting that mosque because of its past -- it had some ex-trialist past but had become a model mosque as far as keeping extremists away. or was he looking for

we go to juliette kayyem.sten to go the developments and what the officials are say, both the elected officials and security and police officials here. when you look at this, how do you slot it into a new reality? we have three attacks here in great britain in the last three months. they are not all the same. two of these vehicle bridge and knife attacks. one suicide bombing attack just two weeks ago in manchester. has the prime minister saying they are not all connected but they are connected, she had, by an ideology. >> that's exactly right. she was pretty strong about that. my big takeaway from her announcement in tone was different even from the manchester statement that she had were the word enough is enough. those were political words. she has campaign coming up but they were also, i think, a sign that the challenges britain has had regarding sort of integration, some of their counterterrorism laws that she issued wins again in the election will be pushing those much further. so i think you would expect

. >> juliette kayyem is live with us. a lot of information was packed in there.e killed with an attack that included a van and some knives. some attackers went to the restaurant where they stabbed people inside the restaurant. we don't know if people died in both the bridge and restaurant, the breakdown there. and we know that these two attacks now definitively connected. it was the same three people in the van that then went to the restaurant and it seems that scotland mark believes it was just those three people. >> yeah. i think that -- my big takeaway is a statement by scotland yard to the public, which is that this is not one event, two events and we should anticipate three and four. it was the same three guys, at least he was cautious in saying that we don't know if there is more. this night is over, so to speak. in other words, they feel as if they have contained whatever ongoing threat that could be. that's important because the british obviously have paris in the back of their minds and a series of three, four attacks that occurred overnight. i think the

you know, it is strange, as juliette kayyem was saying earlier.you were trying to get massive media attention on a sunday night in, you know, in this area past midnight, it is kind of a strange selection of target if, indeed, this is terrorism. on the other hand, you know, places like westminster bridge or london bridge offer these events and other kind of iconic targets in london are closely guarded. we just had for instance i believe in the last 48 hours a man with a knife was arrested outside the houses of parliament in london, precisely because there's a concern that somebody with a weapon might do something in an iconic location. so this is certainly not an iconic location. this is sort of a -- i would say a working middle class area of london, very, you know, average kind of area, north london. nothing particular that would sort of leap out at you about this as a place where you would conduct some kind of operation. but as juliette was saying, you know, with every passing minute, you know, and if indeed somebody was a drunk driver this is in