we're talking to mustafa almansur.tay with h us. ♪ [music break] amy: recorded with more than 50 artists to raise money for the victims of the grenfell tower fire. 79 people at discount have died. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. early monday morning, a driver plowed into a crowd of muslims near a north lonondon mosque, leaving one person dead and injuring 11 others in what british officials are calling a terrorist attack will stop during all sport accelerated and swerved into a crowd of worshipers who had left nighttime prayers, marking the muslim holy month of ramadan. witnesses say all sport shouted "i'm going to kill all muslims. i did my bit" a survivors of the attack and him to the ground until police arrived. president trump has f failed to pepersonally acknowledge the attack as was the begin murder of muslim teenager in virginia, prompting critics to attack his silence. the white house has commented on the finsbury park a taxing the have reached out and offere

mustafa, are we still in a very active if not expanding incident at the moment? >> yes, we are at the very early stages. but it's very characteristic of what happened on westminster bridge. we saw a vehicle that rammed people, then you saw a stabbing attack. these incidents are very similar. the reason why we don't jump to conclusions is we don't have to put misinformation out there. all of us hesitate to make connections that might not exist and put out information that later on we all regret. >> and if we stay in that area of being careful about what we're about to say and what we surmise from what's happened so far, when you're watching the pictures, when you've heard the information coming from the metropolitan police, and they just tweeting this out in the last five or ten minutes, in terms of a tick-tock here, mustafa, they're saying specifically in terms of information available to them, they're being careful about this too of course, they're saying about 10:08 p.m., that officers responded to reports of a vehicle that was in collision with pedestrians on

time frame to drive at legal speeds to get from that location number two to location number three, mustafa. >> yeah. and that's a strong possibility. and the fact that we don't have coming out making a statement tells us this is an active situation, that they have not tamped it down completely yet. and they're still not just investigati investigating, but they may be in active pursuit of putting this thing down. >> mustafa, if you were with us an hour ago when we started showing these lives pictures onscreen right now, there were probably half the number of vehicles, at least very roughly speaking here, based on what we see now in the live pictures on screen. and we're taking in as much as we can for our viewers, to get an understanding of why we're watching this. what stage do you believe we're in based on that sort of arc of this story so far? what stage are we at in terms of when we might know more? might it be tomorrow or might we know soon? >> we're likely to have more information later tonight. what we're seeing right now is manpower arriving at the scene from different sites of the

. >> reporter: mustafa al hassoon came to maryland two years ago as a refugee to escape the brutal civil war in syria. he had no relatives in the u.s., so if he tried to come here now he'd be blocked by the travel ban going into effect today. >> it does not make sense to me, how i cannot come to the united states if i don't have a family member. i need a new places, a new life, like anyone in the world. >> reporter: for people in the six countries covered by president trump's executive order, the supreme court said they can still get a visa to come here if they have a, quote, close familial relationship with someone in the u.s. today the administration defined that narrowly as a parent or child including in-laws, a sibling or a spouse. but it does not include fiance, grandparent, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, cousin or brother or sister-in-law. advocates for immigrants say those distinctions don't make sense. >> how you get from a mother-in-law and a spouse affirmatively clearly being okay to saying that a fiance or grandparent is not, without any guidance in that direction, is a myste

training is now on the phone is mustafa a former consultant of the department of homeland security during george w. bush administration. thank you for joining us. >> two of those three attacks were in london. what you make of the mayor's comment? >> global city with nearly 9 million residents. these are horrific attacks, terrorists want you to be afraid and we just can't allow that. can't be afraid of them. the london police acted quickly, within ten minutes of the reporting of the incidence that terrorists were killed. it was picked response by london police. patti ann: what one of our earlier guest said that he thanks it might be a bit too soon to be holding this concert with ariana conde and other celebrity performers given how strapped the police and investigators are due to this attack in the previous ones, what you say? >> we don't know if the attacks are connected, we talked earlier about the threat level was reduced but some of these things are inspired by isis, not necessarily controlled or by isis. we'll learn more in the coming hours and probably in the next several hours will

built based on prioritizing -- built up based on prioritizing impact -- >> i think that's the point, mustafa this will have a disproportionate negative impact, there goes reverend al and naacp, there they go again. the fact is you can't divorce the economic conditions of people, like the ability to be mobile, like the afact where they live may not have the ventilation. you can't divorce or sever the conditions that people live based on the economic standing and based on housing from the environment and then you have the environmental concerns. you worked at epa on this. you've been a champion of this. connect the dots. i think people don't understand, this is not just another slogan. this is real life on the ground. >> ts just shows another example that the president doe not care about the lives of folks who live in these communities, african-american communities, latino communities asian pacific and island communities and indigenous communities. i ran a seven-agency task force on environmental justice, we understand housing, economics and environment are all interconnected. if you look at w

court ruling allowed parts of the ban to come into force pete williams has the latest >> reporter: mustafa al hassoon came to maryland two years ago as a refugee to escape the brutal civil war in syria. he had no relatives in the u.s., so if he tried to come here now he'd be blocked by the travel ban going into effect today. >> it does not make sense to me, how i cannot come to the united states if i don't have a family member i need a new places, a new life, like anyone in the world. >> reporter: for people in the six countries covered by president trump's executive order, the supreme court said they can still get a visa to come here if they have a, quote, close familial relationship with someone in the u.s today the administration defined that narrowly as a parent or child including in-laws, a sibling or a spouse. but it does not include fiance, grandparent, aunt or uncle, niece or nephew, cousin or brother or sister-in-law advocates for immigrants say those distinctions don't make sense. >> how you get from a mother-in-law and a spouse affirmatively clearly being okay to saying that a f

now, she is in the care of general mustafa. >> heather: thank you so much, god bless you and the grouptarted. people can find out more information online, thank you very much for your time. >> jon: true american hero. massive wildfires across the southwest, thousands are fleeing their homes to escape fast-moving flames. >> i was watching it build, was just able to get a couple of important things out. glucerna. everyday progress. trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief. >> hi everyone, i'm julie banderas. at the top of the hour we will bring you a white house briefing which will be on camera today. after president trump's tweets with another network's anchors, i don't think you're going to want to miss this one. plus the house at the debate on a couple of immigration bills. and will defense secretary james mattis commit more troops to afghanistan? we will bring you some of the highlights on "america's news he

. >> reporter: and moderate muslim spokesman mustafa field also believes in community based deradicalizationgrams. >> it's these low level cowardly attacks that are now seeping through. there is nothing sophisticated about what they are doing. we need to make sure that our polities bring community together and that we work together to confront this evil ideology. >> reporter: this evening the city of london held a vigil to honor the people killed in the attack. this vigil which has been designed to send a message of solidarity and love from londoners is breaking up right there've been about 5,000 people here. there's been a minute of silence. and the atmosphere right now appears to be calm and relaxed. but nevertheless the police are on high alert and right behind me there's a man being frisked. for now, the threat level in britain remains at "severe." that means an attack is still highly likely. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in london. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, saudi arabia and other arab states cut all ties with qatar, sending the persian gulf region into a new cris

. >> tucker: mustafa tameez is a democratic strategist and former consultant for the department of homeland security. thanks a lot for coming on. all the focus has been on the president's motives in this. what does he really mean, what does he desire personally?ir i guess i would say, that is unknowable, as it always is, with people's motives. the question is, does the country deserve a higher level of protection in light of what we are watching happened in europe? i don't see how we don't deserve that. >> no, i agree with you that wei need a higher level of protection, especially nowadays. but we have to identify where the threat is. as charles was saying, many ofhe these radicals are homegrown, meaning that they are not coming from somewhere else, they are grown within this countrieses. -- these countries. we have to counter violentnt extremism, make sure that the isis narrative of a class of civilization is not the one that we adopt, you are right, nobody knows president trump's motives. we are concerned that sometimes his rhetoric inflames that.re that is the concern of the -- the intel

that would have blocked mustafa al hassoun who came to the u.s.s a refugee from syria's violent civil war. with no family in the u.s., he says he would have had no place to go. >> syrian people who want to come to the united states, those people need a new life. an opportunity. they cannot stay in syria anymore. >> reporter: the challengers who got the executive order blocked this year are now asking a judge to rule that the government is being too restrictive about the kind of family relationships that count for getting a visa. a ruling could come next week. matt? sheinelle? >> pete williams in washington. pete, thank you. >>> for more on how things are looking at the airports and the roads, let's bring in nbc's gabe gutierrez. he is keeping an eye on it all at hartsfield-jackson airport. >> reporter: a good morning. tsa lines are running smoothly here, hartsfield said 93,000 people are expected to go through tsa today. many thousands more are expected to connect. we look at flightaware.com's misery map around the country, we see a lot of green a

that rule would have blocked mustafa al hasoon who came here from syria's civil war. with no family in the u.s., he says he would have had no place to go. >> syrian people who want to people need a new life. you know, they cannot enter anymore. >> reporter: the challengers who got the executive order blocked earlier this year are now asking a judge to rule that the government is being far too restrictive about the kind of family relationships that count. a ruling can come next week. >> all right, pete williams, thank you. >>> for more on how things are looking at the airports and the roads to begin the holiday rush let's bring in nbc's gabe gutierrez. he is keeping watch on it all from hartsfield jackson international airport. >> reporter: good morning. a little crowded but the check-in lines are running smoothly. hartsfield said 9 -- 92,000 are expected to go through here today. look at the misery map around the country you see a lot of green and that's very good news. that means no major delays or cancellations and as you mentioned a record number of holiday travele