and leah libresco is a stat ta stigs who used to write for 538. will tell you about her piece in just a moment. tom, let me ask you what you meant when you said that this event would have been dealt with very differently if the guy had been a muslim? >> well, let's begin by the fact, fareed, that had this been an attack by a muslim related to isis or al qaeda it would have been the second largest terrorist attack in america -- largest terrorist attack since 9/11. and we know how president trump reacts to those kind of events, how society we react. the president immediately tweets when there is a terrorist incident in europe, doesn't wait for the facts and immediately politicizes them. we know he's trying to impose a ban on predominantly muslim countries to prevent people traveling here who he thinks would commit terrorist acts, trying to build a wall on the mexican border. i'm sure we would have had a nonpartisan commission to investigate how this act happened, who let these people through. we know what happens when there's an incident like this f