manuel valls: our thoughts are with the victims. rushworth was at the lsa palace. -- at the elysee palace. here fornment gathered security and defense counsel meeting the day after the attacks in nice on bastille day, and around the table. also intelligence service officials, defense chiefs, and they would be greater security for the maritain region in the south of france. -- thousands of army troops that patrol france will be beefed up to its maximum. also announced, there would bebe three days of national mourning on the 15th, 16th, an 17th of july with flags flying at half mast. the quote from the prime, at the conclusion of the meeting, was very clear, ththat "we will not give into terror," manuel valls remain "we must faithful to the spirit of the 14th of july." stuart: we will havave a little bit more of a look at the state of emergency that is being prolonged or another three months. you may know that that state of it would have come to an end in a week's time. kate moody is with me here on the set. first of all, tell us what

manuel valls, the french prime minister, just finished his briefing on that attack in nice.ys there will be a national period of mourning from july 16-18. paris prosecutors have started an inquiry. he has finished his briefing about the attack. china come heto cut to boost the economy may be paying off, stabilizing and lending and consumer spending perking up in the second quarter. tom, overall these numbers look pretty good. talk us through the key points. think there was a number of positive takeaways from today's data release. the first one, headline gdp growth, 6.7% year on year. on target. andi in line with the first quarter. second, sides of acceleration at the end of the quarter. gdp tracker accelerated to 7.1% in june. so some momentum heading into the second half. thirdly, it was a consumption story. the national bureau of statistics has said around 3/4 of the growth came from the consumer sector. some positive news on rebalancing as well. the negative, and this is a familiar story, is that much of this has been underpinned by acceleration in credit, more bank lendi

people calling on the -- on the french prime minister manuel valls to resign.ttend stilluldn't gathered around the many candles left by mourners. >> i've come to pay my respects. i couldn't go to the ceremony so i came here. reporter: the promenade death on anglais --menade day nglais -- des a the french evidence also attended a security and defense the third since thursday's attack. the government's response has been sharply criticized by political opponents. most notably the former president and leader of the opposition, nicholas sarkozy. hollande -- his long-standing rival said he has not done enough to ensure key -- to ensure security. >> there is no such thing as zero risk. that we cannot fight each other and tear each other apart. everything that needed to be done over the last 18 months has not been done. reporter: they stated in a communique that under the current government there have been three anti-terror laws. and no government has done as much to fight terrorism. >> in the current situation of mourning, all nations should gather together and unite.

you can see prime minister manuel valls there as well as local officials. the investigation into the attack in nice is making progress. a link with a jihadist network has not been established , but there formally have been several arrests over the weekend. a 22-year-old is expected -- is suspected of providing logistical support. our correspondent has more. >> details emerging in the police investigation of the attack on bastille day suggests it was premeditated. four days after the killings, authorities are continuing to piece together the motives of a muhammad large bowl lahauiej bohlel. police sources say he visited the promenade at least twice in the days leading up to the massacre. the islamic state group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but french interior links to the his terrorist group are yet to be established. the modus operandi is the exact message of the islamic state group. when i call for attacks on national landmarks, on symbolic dates. people are being held for questioning, including a couple suspected of supplying the gun used to

luke: it was a closed-door cabinet meeting but that did not fromnt manuel valls operating his economy minister upbraiding his- economy minister. >> by aggravating circumstances you yourself are the most deserving product of the country's elite. symbolizeas come to e'snÇois holland pro-business allegiance. criticismlong before arrived from elsewhere on the left. to found ahave time political movement. i'm busy working. >> i i didn't even hear the beginning of an idea. of a a pure product system, very french system, producing the nation's elites. luke: there may have been last after the wednesday cabinet meeting, but he himself has yet to broach ththsubject. something he is expecteded to do during his traditional bastille day interview on thursday. b businesss get some news now. the delano is in the studio. some of the cabinet names being unveiled by british prime minister theresa may and the new minister at the chancellery. delano: philip hammond has been named finance minister. he was. sleep foreign minister under david cameron. former chancellor of the exchequer george osborne has re

francois hollande, his prime minister manuel valls, and members the opposition including nicholas sarkozy. it is pretty vitriolic on the political front. the socialist government coming under fire not just for this attack but previous ones of what the center-right and hard right say are persistent lapses. to playthey are trying up and emphasize more the idea of the national unity as the only way, really, to prevent divisions appearing in french society, which they say of the intent.sts' hence the meeting of religious leaders. there is potential cancellation of a number of upcoming events in the coming weeks. an outdoor concert, things like that. in the end, the interior minister reminding the french public that this country already has some of the toughest anti-terror measures in place. it remains under a state of emergency. only by remaining within the rule of law and staying true to the republican the principles of democracy ultimately are we able to counter this threat. laura: as you heard there, francois hollande holding another security meeting today. says they will fight terrorism w

reporter: following the spate of attacks that have racked france and germany in recent weeks, manuel vallsd that he wants to root out mosques that promote extremism. >> i want to have imams trained in france, not abroad, and ban foreign financing of mosques for a determined time. we must be against those who under the cover of sermons prepare people for violence. reporter: radical islamism in france surged again to the top of the agenda this week after a priest was murdered in a church in normandy on tuesday. wednesday night, hundreds of people attended mass in paris, interview to the victim. so-called islamic state described the killers as the group's "soldiers." the french government is under increasing pressure to eradicate the kind of indoctrination that turns men into violent extremists, something this imam has been combating for some time. >> we have let young people become completely brainwashed and contaminated by false ideals. dozens of mosques today are managed by people who have extremist ideals that are completely incompatible with republican values. reporter: it is unclear how

itself, theof nice mayor has out more pressure on france's prime minister, declaring manuel valls had validated the security arrangements there last thursday when a local man drove a 19-ton truck into a crowd that had gathered for bastille day fireworks. investigators are looking to pin down the attacker's motive, as julia sieger reports. julia: according to cctv footage, the scene -- the truck was seen touring the area in the promenade for different times in the days leading up to the tragic killing good how could a 19-ton refrigerator lori past security and get so close to a pedestrian area without being stopped by police? semitrailers are indeed prohibited from circulating on the promenade at any time. -- what's more, on all national holidays they are vivid and from entering cities altogether. another lead is .2 security gaps. in the security strategy set up officersolice, police and 20 soldiers were deployed to help secure the promenade itself as well as the 2 previous kilometers on the seafront. there, traffic was diverted to a tunnel. meanwhile, at the entrance of the promenade,

let's look at the legality of the extension that prime minister manuel valls is asking for and how effective the state of emergency is in combating the attacks. let's bring in a legal expert, lawyer at the paris bar. thanks for being with us. first question, really, how long can the government keep extending the state of emergency for? >> well, it seems they can keep on extending the state of emergency forever. but that doesn't make any sense anymore, does it? after a while the emergency is gone. catherine: so at this point what do you think the government should be doing rather than asking for an extension to the state of emergency? the state of emergency hasn't proven to be efficient, has? there has been recently a parliamentary inquiry on this issue in on the issue of the way our intelligence services are structured. and the home secretary of the ministry of the interior, french minister of interior, just denied any relevance to the conclusions of that inquiry. i should think that we should be little more serious about this matter rather than going into what i consider pr operations, real

hecklers called on manuel valls to resign amid accusations that the french government has not done enoughto keep citizens safe. lucy williamson has more. lucy: he came to show respect, not to get it. just as well. france's prime minister stood on a nice's promenade, excluded from the brotherhood of grief, alone in a crowd of thousands. but just listen to the response the emergency services get. when his turn came, valls met with jeers, laying his wreath to the chants of "resign." these two lost their sister on thursday night. despite the rhetoric of right-wing parties, or death, they say, had nothing to do with islam. >> it is political. i'm angry with the media. my sister was not killed by a muslim. we are muslims. that man was not. lucy: with 13 victims still unidentified, investigators say the killer's computer reveals a fascination with violence and radical islam, but no direct command. >> investigation does not show that the attacker had pledged allegiance to isis or was in touch with members of the organization. on his computer it shows a clear interest in the jihadist movement. att

president hollande has convened a security council meeting this morning, and france's prime minister manuel vallst made a statement following that meeting. >> translator: once again france has been hit by terrorist attack. cowardly and inhuman terrorist attack. and our thoughts in this very difficult moment go to the victims and their families affected by this unbearable act. we're facing the war which terrorism has declared on us and is waging on us, and the goal of terrorism is to create fear and manic. france, and the french president has reminded us, that yesterday is a great country and a great democracy that will not allow itself to be destabilized by this. >> the french prime minister valls there, speaking after that security meeting. let's bring in msnbc's cal perry. cal, as we look at this scene right there, you've got the ambulances, and that is the aftermath of the kind of carnage that we saw there along the promenade des anglais. 84 people mowed down by this box truck. but it was a street that was closed off to traffic because of all the revellers for bastille day. >> yeah. and what y

manuel valls says he will invoke article 49.3 to push the law through to the senate. for more on today's is thence, we go to luke brown, who is following demonstrations on the streets of paris. luke, what is the situation like there? thethe mood changed since last protest on june 28, or are things about the same? luke: it is an hour ahead of the start of the protests. we are already seeing the trade union protesters gathering here for the 12 protest against the labor law. it is said to be the last of the summer before the vacation season gets under way here in france. pretty -- there is some pretty tight police security. they have searched everybody's bag as they reach the area. this is where some violent incidents have disrupt many of the protests that have disrupted many of the protests. disrupted many of the protests. there has been a definite decrease in the violence and the tension. due to, of course, a combination of those police security measures, but also to a certain degree a growing weariness. this will be the 12th protest, and as we enter the summer season,

prime minister manuel valls is not particularly happy with his littleeting, rebels.sters have criticized him. just before the rally, when he was asked about the rally, they said it had to stick. were ministers before him pushed out quite quickly after criticizing the government. emmanuel macron is staying on board. he is probably thinking it is too early for him to resign from president hall on -- president hollande. it is safer for president hole to keep them on rather than firing him. guy: thank you very much indeed. let's talk about this with david lea. presidency isnch littered with people who have up that break left-right duopoly over history the last time we had someone who was a teacher of french politics, and who remembers him? it is one thing to carry this forward, but with the pf and hollande still quite down in the ditch, he has probably got less to lose. caroline: give us a sense of how the political land is lying in france post brexit amid concerns of the rise of the national front and calls for their own referendum. is this more a less stable or a less-

fareed, we heard from the french prime minister manuel valls who said times have changed and france isto have to live with terrorism. france essentially he's saying is going to have to live with this. that's a hard message. >> it's a hard message. there's a certain reality he's talking about in the world which is that the british for example in the 1980s had to live with i.r.a. terrorism for years, decades. there is something particular about france though. i'm a huge fan of france. i love the country. i love the culture. but it's interesting, there's a brookens study that shows four of the five most radicalized muslim populations in the world are in franc countries, countries are french culture. why does it have this pool of radicalized people? france has this very aggressive form of secularism. you're not allowed to wear a veil. you're not allowed to have any show of religion or rbleligious expression. there's something going on between that dynamic of french culture and the alienation it produces in some disaffected quarters and, remember, as always, we're dealing with handfuls of p

french president francois hollande, as well as prime minister manuel valls, have arrived in nice.em arriving after the attack that left at least 84 dead. france has declared three days of national mourning area we will continue to -- france has declared three days of national mourning. tom: without question, it is a great week for sterling, from to 1.33.level up for those traveling from london to paris this weekend, .8332 is the number you will need to know. with us this morning, and on u.s. politics, is robert hormats, serving the president and secretary clinton within the state department, with kissinger associates. i have to rip up the script and ask you about a candidate being vetted for vice president by secretary clinton. , thenow admiral stavridis dean of the fletcher school. give us this idea of military men as vice president. why would secretary clinton look for another supreme commander of nato? bob: it is an interesting question. my wife and i were at the reunion of the 50th -- the 50th reunion of fletcher weeks ago. admiral stavridis is a man of great integrity and cap

manuel valls has described it as a barbaric attack. the vatican agrees, saying it is all the more heinous because it happened in a sacred place p rejoining mao -- in a sacred place. kate moody, what do we know at this stage? kate: detailed -- the details of what were happening in the church in saint-etienne-dudu-rouvray -- ts was morning mass. there were not a lot of people there. and twore two priests other members of the congregation -- these two armed men entered the church from a backdoor, and we understand they were armed with knives, possibly other weapons, though we do not have confirmation of that. they took the congregation hostage. police arrived on the scene quickly and the situation was neutralized within just a few hours. the two hostage takers were killed by police. the the police entered church, they saw that the priest, in his 80's or 90's, had been killed. reportedly had his throat slit, although we have not confirmed that yet. also reports that a second hostage had been gravely injured, fighting for his or r r life. r

stuart: prime minister of france, manuel valls, he issued a statement telling country, part of what hehave changed and we should learn to live with terrorism. we have to show solidarity and collective calm. deirdre, the expression, we must learn to live with terrorism really stands out. >> i was surprised. he has been more aggressive. he has called for that to be stopped. he face ad lot of criticism. stuart: hold on a second. hold on a second. three million people have two passports. >> out of about 60 million. stuart: one french and maybe tune niche shaun, moroccan, algerian. >> exactly. stuart: he is saying you don't have the french passport any longer, he is saying that. >> he says if you are involved in anything that looks near to what we're looking for, your french papers get canceled. other people have said, you're so silly, because if i want to blow you up, i'm not worried about my paperwork. stuart: the whole point is that is beginning of getting them out of the country. >> exactly. exactly. stuart: take the passport away you're out. what do they say. >> quickly this comes, we