turkey was relatively secular. but theme i went to iraq and eastern turkey you are seeing the full niqab. head-to-to full covering. erdogan is taking his country backwards. he's a believer in radical islam. just not as radical as isis. tonight you saw the harvest where the islamic terrorists attacked the tourist industry and you are question itself. lou: and dispensed with the infidel in more than one way. up next the latest on the attacks in turkey. a turkish government official saying the vast majority of those killed were turkish nationals. but some foreigners were also among the dead. we'll have the latest as soon as we learn more. this attack bears remarkable similarities by the suicide bombing at the brussels airport back in march. andrew peak joins me here in just moments. lou report turkish prime minister saying air traffic through ataturk international airport has now resumed following the terrorist attacks. but airports around the globe are on high alert. turkish officials say two suspects blew themselves up at t

turkey. they've been using deadly attacks. thetheastern part of turkey has been considered a war zone by some because it's been dw devastating there. one attack killed about 100 people people. the initial hallmarks of this attack suggest it was more isis than the pkk. the pkk has been much more specific in going after turkish only targets. >> help me understand. as it relates to turkey going after isis, improving their relations with the west in the last year and a half, you have the west over here. what's turkey's relation with russia, georgia, armenia? >> turkey has had cold relations with russia because russia is supporting the assad regime in syria and turkey has been trying to topple the assad regime. there was an incident last year where turkey shot down a russian fighter jet. however, turkey recently apologized to russia for that and there was a thawing of relations that made some believe that turkey and russia were going to work together on issues of counter terrorism in the region. turkey has had strained relations with i

the relationship with turkey, the complicating factor with turkey, we have been at odds with them on with isis and how to deal with syria pretty much the entire time syria's been in chaos. friendly at odds. we have been friendly about it but we have been at odds. this is only going to complicate things. >> it is, and one of the reasons it's going to complicate it is because the changing relationship that's occurred in just the last few months. remember that turkey wouldn't let us fly out of the air base to drop bombs on isis and syria and iraq. that's all changed. changed their mind on that. turkey's also decided it was going to apologize to russia just the other day and there's a new closer relationship of security and economic reasons with israel. for these reasons, it's not surprising that this is probably an isis attack and i think this is going to force the united states' and even russia and certainly turkey into a more collaborative relationship with respect to sharing intelligence information, which is already pretty good. i think it's going to get better. >> kevin, can you res

we're just getting the information. turkey has several terrorist groups that operate in it's borders unfortunately, not just isis, but also al qaeda, also in the past the kurdish separatist groups. in terms of looking at the kind of terrorist attacks this is, two alleged suicide bombers going into the airport, blowing themselves up. and killing at least eight people, if not more. does that sound more like one terrorist group more than any other? >> i have to tell you of course we don't know, but in talking in the last few minutes with u.s. officia officials. it may in fact be the pkk. this is the kurdish group that the turks and the u.s. consider to be terrorists. the number of attacks across turkey very violent. they have attacked several times in the southern part of the country. this is something that the u.s. has been watching very carefully. that southern turkish border with syria is where the turks are so concerned in their view that a number of kurdish groups are trying to establish an independent kurdish state. they ob

including the border areas around turkey. the challenge is that the terrorist groups are participating in international terrorism as an effort to try to get attention. and we don't know the facts of who is taking responsibility but it shows that we're vulnerable to terrorism. not just in syria and iraq but terrorism in turkey, terrorism in the united states, as we saw in orlando. some of this is home grown, some of this is inspired, some of this is planned. we'll need to know more about what happened in turkey. >> so you don't know who may be responsible for this. >> no. we know there were three attackers. we know they were suicide attackers. no one has yet claimed the responsibility as i understand. but clearly, this was a coordinated effort. >> senator, if ask you as well. try to give our audience a sense of why turkey would be a target? for many of us, we think turkey is a muslim country. why would an islamic fundamentalist group choose them as a target? >> turkey has been part of coalition to fight radicalization and extre

ten people have died in the attacks in turkey. let's go to richard and he lives there and is in istanbul now. you have a front row seat, what have you been able to gather? >> well, we're on the way there and there's traffic at a night like this. this is not completely unexpected. this country has been bracing for attacks. we reported several weeks ago that isis was sending more than 20 30 attackers to carry out attacks during ramadan. there's no claim to responsibility but isis is the suspects here when you have three suicide bombings and a high profile target and gunfire in volum involved as well. that does not sound like t kurtish. >> richard, what are they saying and hearing on local radio? >> so a witness told nbc news and this was a witness who we know and have worked with at the past. he is a reporter and have a long relationship with him. he was helping another customer and heard the first explosion and thought it was a suicide bomber. started to bauck up and people started the to run. then he saw a police officer wrestling

"all in" -- terror at the istanbul airport. tonight, why turkey is so crucial to the future of europe, the middle east, and counterterrorism. how the candidates are reacting here at home, and what the white house is saying today about progress against isis. >>> plus, congressman keith ellison on the latest explanation of donald trump's muslim ban, and eight congressional committees later, republicans finally face the facts on benghazi. >> there are bumper stickers and t-shirts all over this country that say, hillary clinton lied, people died, is that true? >> you don't see that t-shirt on me, and you've never seen that bumper sticker on any of my vehicles. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. today, just three months after a deadly attack in brussels, belgium, the largest airport in turkey, ataturk, in istanbul was attacked, killing up to 36 people, wounding more than a hundred according to the latest estimates. with a caution, the casualty numbers have been changing by the hour. the cctv video is jarr

within the past year, turkey started sealing its border. the country has taken in millions of refugees from syria, a main isis battle front. and last summer turkey let the u.s. fly air strikes against isis in southern turkey. but the cia chief says he's not surprised isis did not formally claim responsibility for the airport attack. >> in most in danstances if not, isis has not claimed credit for attacks within turkey. i think they carry out the attacks to gain the benefits from it in terms of sending a signal to our turkish partners, at the same time not wanting to potentially maybe alienate some of the individuals inside of turkey that they may still be trying to gain the support of. and the united states as we well now is leading the coalition to try to destroy as much of this poison inside of syria and iraq as possible. so it would be surprise to go me that isil is not trying to hit us in the region and in our homeland. if anybody here believes that the u.s. homeland is her m hermetically sealed and that daesh or isil would not consider

it's just going to get tighter. >> what about the relationship between turkey and the rest of europe?urkey of course sitting right on that borderline between half of it being in europe and half of it in asia, essentially. what about the geopolitics there? >> well, it's been tense for a very long time because turkey was for a long time on a track to potentially in a number of years to potentially become a member of the european union, and then that was stopped until recently, in which europe did a deal with turkey, essentially saying if it became a home for a majority of the syrian and other displaced refugees in the region, there would be about a $3 billion transfer payment to turkey and then those talks about eventual turkish membership in the european union would be restarted again. so there's been -- so turkey agreed. turkey has agreed to do that. but at the same time, the freedom of the press and concerns about the solvency of turkish democracy have been growing. erdogan challenged in german courts a cartoonist that lampooned him and he looks increasingly like a strongman who is v

the previous attacks. you have a situation also in which turkey borders syria and the fact that isis was on turkey's doorstep when it was controlling the town of kobani which was on the border and fleshed out by the pkk, and there have been long standing complaints about the security on that border and the ease with which jihadi fighters pass through turkey into syria and the ease that isis fighters have been able to get into turkey. what do we know about the border situation there right now? >> we know border security has been tightened up by the turks with regard to isis over the last year. however, you have to look at this in reverse. isis has managed to bring in between 30 and 50,000 people to join their caliphate over the last few years. most notably the last two years, the overwhelming majority of those people came in through turkey. they still have networks which are covert, which are underground, and even if the turks place strict security controls, they have the ability to get back and forth with manpower, money, and equipment. you have to remember, there's a turkish isis organization. they have tur

it's the gateway of turkey to the west, to the rest of the world., i do think that the statement that is being sent is that we're attacking not just turkey, but the rest of the world as well. whether that means that we should feel more threatened and say, in europe or the united states, i doubt it. but it's definitely a statement beyond the borders of turkey, as well. >> the turkey certainly prior to all of these troubles use to be a very popular summer destination for people traveling from this country and others. what do you think this means for international travel and the way people regard the safety of airports around the world. >> certainly it creates massive anxiety. especially this airport, one of the busiest of the world and not only westerners clearly people throughout the middle east, muslim people traveling through the holy month of ramadan, i think it send an anxiety across travellers. i think it might have an impact on the tourism industry inside turkey itself. whether that's going to be short term or long term, that depend on whether

eileen will have a terrifying attack at the turkey's airport in istanbul. e death toll continues to climb this morning after gunmen detonate suicide bombs inside a packed airport terminal. good morning washington. toss to eileen today: mostly sunny. less humid. highs: 82-86 winds: nw 5-10 mph comfortable. lows: 60-65 winds: nw 5 to calm thursday: partly cloudy. humidity remains low. highs: 82-86 winds: se 5 mph breaking overnight.. a wild crash on i-66. fairfax county police say they were chasing a vehicile, when the suspect bailed out near route 28. a vdot truck was on the side of the road, blocking off the police activity when it was hit from behind by an suv, not involved in the incident. the truck, then hit a police cruiser. two people were taken to the hosptial with non life-threatening injuries, but it's unclear which vehicles they were in. we still don't know what started the pursuit in the first place. turning now to the war on terror. officials are assessing the damage at istanbul's airport following an organized terror attack. right now-- police sa

has become the world's biggest terror hot spot? >> turkey right now is going through a massive challenge. it's dealing with a whole host of problems internally, politically as well as on the border. no doubt the biggest threat to turkey is the ongoing war in syria and iraq. we have the map to give the viewers a sense of where the border runs between turkey, iraq and syria. over the past couple of years as we have been hearing we know turkey had a position to allow fighters, arms to -- they are struggling with the border that runs along the syrian and iraqi frontier. part is because turkey wants to allow refugees to leave battlefields but has a problem with foreign fighters who want to use the gateway in the attacks that they are trying to carry out. turkey has internal problem here in the eastern part of the country. it has a stubborn insurgency led by kurdish workers party which is considered a terrorist organization by the united states and the european union. they have been launching a series of deadly attacks that claimed hundreds of liv

on the other hand, the head of turkey, the president of turkey, said it was isis. if it was the pkk that turkey has a lot of problems with, he probably would have said that immediately. so it looks like isis, but i think they want to wait to have all of the facts. >> you have been talking to top intelligence officials, can you tell us more about the attackers? was it limited to this three? >> it is really hard to say, this is so similar to what happened in brussels. one of the questions is there is sort of a hierarchy, if you will, is it directed by or inspired by. are they foreign fighters, isis fighters, or are they people living in turkey and were inspired on the internet or some other way. it is impossible to tell that now. i know that is up with of the immediate concerns of the turkish officials as it would be for us. is this guy connected with other people? is it a sell and we don't have the facts on the ground in istanbul. >> john brennan raising concern today saying i would be surprised if isis is not trying to carry out that kind of attack in the united sta

isis back at the beginning of last year. so turkey is just at -- not just at a cross roads, it's at a cross roads so complicated it looks more like an asterisk. they're right in the thick of it from multiple angles. just in this past year, since that isis bomber killed all those kids celebrating the kobani victory over isis, just since then, turkey has suffered at least five major fatal terrorist attacks that weren't even committed by isis. attacks that the turkish government attributed to kurdish militants, including a massive double bombing in ankara last november that killed at least 95 people. also a fatal attack on the other airport in istanbul that's not the one that was hit today. and interestingly, in that case, it was not in the departures hall. in that case, kurdish rebels are believed to have smuggled a bomb onto the tarmac somehow. that happened in december. in terms of isis attacks, for a variety of reasons which we'll talk about tonight, isis does not always claim responsibility for its attacks inside turkey, but isis ha

you're hearing the same thing from turkey this morning. , we're going to show what happened in istanbul in immediate foshg custom focus. we're going to show you there was so much footage with this attack. you're going to see what the m.o. was with the terrorists. and the numbers are changing. you know that's just status quo in situations like that. you can't tell how many people are going to lose their lives so quickly. there are over 140 people injured. so week going to take you through that immediate effect. but then we're going to look at what's going on in response. what was known about the threat level there. what do we know about here at home about similar threat levels at airports. airports are unique targets of opportunity. so we're going to look at all of those terror aspects and put it in the context of this election. the candidates are going to weigh in. whose plan is going to meet with the voters' demands in a situation like this. and the word "plan" agency you g as you guys were just pointing out is a defined term. people want

this is the "cbs morning news." >>> terror in turkey. s that terrorized hundreds of travelers. >>> tarmac talks? this morning a new controversy is brewing for the clinton. the former president boards the plane of the attorney general who is conducting the federal investigation into hillary clinton's e-mail server. so what did they discuss? loretta lynch explains. >>> a selfie sendoff. the president and the prime minister snap one for the road after mr.

of course we are following the breaking news out of turkey. rror raids are under way in that country right now in connection to the deadly attack at the istanbul airport. so we will get the latest from the u.s. state department as the fight against isis intensifies. plus donald trump talking trade of course and taking on his former republican primary rivals. why he says some of them should never run for office again. we have those stories coming up for you in just a few moments. >> all right. thank you so much for that. >>> college graduates listen up, i have one stat that will make you feel a whole lot better about your job prospects. you, too. >> thank god. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. ♪ americans are buying more and more of everything online. and so many businesses rely on the us postal service to get it there. because when you ship with us, your business becomes our business. that's why we make m

this is not turkey's airport. it's the world's airport, and so for those of us who have traveled east of paris, turkey is actually tends to be the central point of destination. s and for u.s. homeland security purposes it is the last point of departure airport. that means that tsa is there and it's checking cargo, people and the plane itself, but it can't sort of go in and protect every airport, right? that's the responsibility of the nation itself and that's the challenge with the last point of departure flights is if they're coming into the united states at airports that are always going to have soft aspects to them and vulnerabilities to them. >> as i indicated at the top of the show the story is changing quickly. the death toll has gone up. we now can confirm 32 people are dead and 88 are wounded. bob baer, this was something that was coordinated. we know there were at least three attackers and they had clear plans. they had the guns and they had the suicide vests and what does that tell you about the amount of plannin

officials here in the u.s. and turkey that reporting. let's bring in the former u.s. bams door to turkey, james jeffrey. mr. ambassador, thank you for being here. as you just heard in clarissa's reporting, this isn't the first terror attack. in fact, it is the eighth. why has turkey become a main target? >> alisyn, first of all, our condolences to those killed and wounded. turkey is a target because it is first of all in a very bad neighborhood in the middle east, essentially melting down in a free fall into crisis right now. secondly, it has both a domestic terrorist group, the pkk, revolutionary kurdish group, and it has, of course, isis operating just south of the border, and moving back north into turkey. it faces two threats. they've struck in turkey four times in the past year. >> our military experts tell us that isis is actually losing ground in iraq, and in syria, and yet, it sure feels as though their operational capabilities have not been diminished. where are you on this? >> i'm on, we need to act more quickly

ordered a stoppage on all flights between the united states and turkey. that stoppage has now been lifted. but there were ten flights in the air flying from turkey to the united states when the attack occurred. all of them landed safely on american soil without incident. many airports across u.s. beefed up their security immediately. terrorism experts say airports remain targets especially where entrance to buildings are not secured. >> we have clearly entered a period of new normal, just as we have to be concerned about soft targets in cities, we also have to be concerned about the softer areas of the airport. >> reporter: after the attack, officials with tactical weapons were deployed at the busiest hubs in the country. president obama was briefed on the attack by homeland security and officials within the justice department and the fbi are offering their assistance in turkey's investigation. the united states has updated its travel warning to any americans hoping to go to turkey, about 180,000 americans travel there usually every year. kendis, diane. >>

ten flights in the air flying from turkey to the united states when the attack occurred. all of them landed safely on american soil without incident. many of airports across u.s. increased security. >> we have clearly entered a period of new normal just as we have to be concerned about soft targets we have to be concerned about the softer areas of the airport. >> reporter: after the attack, officials with tactical weapons were deployed. president obama was briefed on the attack by homeland security and officials within the justice department and the fbi are offering their assistance in turkey's investigation. united states has updated its travel warnings to any americans hoping to go to turkey, about 180,000 americans travel there usually every year. >> lana, lot of people will be on guard throughout the holiday weekend. with a record 3 million americans traveling. >>> lana mentioned ten flights were on their way from turkey to the u.s. when the attack happened and one of them was on its way to boston logan airport. >> some emotional reunions in the airport. look at this,

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fighting the islamic state. turkey'sled coalition that's launching air strikes at the islamic state in iraq and syria. i think isis is trying to send a message here and they have. >> isn't that fairly recent? the airbase that opened has frustrated isis in the last year. and more of the sealing off of the border. the question to me is what does turkey do about it as far as the war in syria and iraq? >> it is a tough one. turkey's sort of in a corner right now. >> literally. geographically. >> right -- well, and also sort of metaphorically speaking they are. before the arab spring, they sort of called the shots in the region. but everything that turkey sort of banked on, especially in the syrian civil war, has sort of gone awry. syrian president bashar al assad is not going anywhere. isis is basically turned on turkey. they've sort of had the modus operandi. in turkey, they're still at odds, russia's calling the shots in syria so turkey doesn't really have that many options right now except to strike back hard at these sor

>> peter, isis has never acclaimed any of the attacks that it has carried out against turkey in the pastn talk about why isis does not claim responsibility for its attacks in turkey. now it's all out war between isis and the turkish government. this is the most ambitious and daring attacks by, allegedly by isis against turkey. what we need for your own view what we need to understand is that what's happening on the turkish, syrian border is existential for isis. the coalition with the support of turkey in the past year or so are trying to expel isis from the turkish/syrian border. why it's important, it's the lifeline of isis for foreign fighters, ammunition, money, and what the u.s. with the support of its allies and turkey are trying to cut the am bill call cord. so what you have is an existential fight frl isis, and that's why isis is really throwing everything that it has against the turkish government by attacking one of the most important commercial and symbolic targets in turkey and sending a message to the turkish government. remember, it attacks and international section of the

foreignpolicy, that the president of turkey , erdogan has been more authoritarian over the past several years. he's stifled democracy in that country and in the process he's also reached out to a wide range of islamic groups which has caused a lot of concern among the west here in the united states as well so there was i think an assessment made by the turkish ruling elite that they needed to pivot back toward the united states, pivot back to the west and saw some of these problems and really isolate turkey over the last couple of years . heather: perhaps a little too late. jonathan, thank you for joining us. >> thankyou . jon: it's been over 24 hours that the select committee on the ben ghazi investigation report has been released. while republicans are saying there is plenty of new information in it, democrats are blasting it. ambassador john bolton is here with his take on the report and its ultimate value. >> jon: new information into new reports issued on the ben ghazi attacks. neither finds fresh evidence of wrongdoing on

>> yeah, it's a busy part of the airport. turkeythis time of night would have several flights arriving from the region and the world. it's a major international hub, so if you assume that many of these people are coming out of the airport or go in and catching domestic flights and you imagine that's a busy time of the day. as we can see from the images, you can see some of the debris in the scene of the destruction and it's the area where there's a lot of traffic and there are a lot of taxi cabs parked outside and a lot of people picking up the friends and relatives outside of the airport. i suspect that we have been able to determine that this was outside of the arrivals per the producers and that certainly this is going to be, you know, the scale of it is going to be bigger since it's a busy sixth of the airport. >> you think of what we have been through over the year and six months and we have been sitting here doing the exact same thing. i have been sitting here and hearing the explosions. what do you -- it's early to know what

turkey. doesn't this enhance the argument that pressure that turkey is feeling internationally? >> early on in the syria civil war turkish government wanted to topple the assad regime. that is their official position. they felt they needed to facilitate the rebels that were pouring into the battlefield, if you will, to facilitate the shipment of arms going to the rebels so that they can go into syria and fight the assad government. that was one of the main reasons that isis was able to grow strong. they appealed to thousands of foreign fighter. turkey let the border continue to remain open used to smuggle weapons. in the last couple of years they have been put under tremendous effort by nato saying you are to do something about this. these fighters are going to turn their sights to turkey one day and that is what we have seen unfold in the past year and a half. turkey are now directly going after isis allowing u.s. to do so but it may be a little too late on the border front. >> this is one of more than half a dozen terror attacks in turkey this year. so is it just the proximity

how might the united states help turkey do that? d states has intelligence and technological assets that turkey misses. i think these will be useful electronic surveillance as well as intelligence assets that will help security that border better. i think this is one area we're going to see stronger cooperation. turkey, which had thus far focused its efforts to oust the assad regime and to prevent advances by the kurds will now have to prioritize the threat by the so-called islamic state in, indeed, islamic state is behind the attack. i think we're going to see much stronger turkish cooperation including along the border and inside syria against the islamic state. >> clark, turkey has already retaliated. it conducted air strikes over syria. we presume with u.s. help. but we're not sure about that. they conducted air strikes on isis targets. but we don't know exactly what those targets were. what do you suppose they were? >> well, i suppose they were attacks on isis itself as opposed to the kurdish rebels who are their principal focus

with the leverage that turkey has they're not getting what they want easily from the eu, they have tooth and nail. and turkey leaving the eu, i don't want to use the term red herring, but it's part of it. >> the immigration is not going away outside of the eu? >> i'm guessing you're talking turkey, but you could be talking britain. merkel had gone saying we want you to join. in the french election, sarkozy made it very clear that turkey will never join. unfortunately, at the time of political stress, it's like trump with the mexicans, for political gain. it's like being told by your boss that you are never, ever going to get promoted but i want you to behave this way and i want you to work hard. that's why this candidacy has become so important because it's a nice status quo. as long as you make it clear that turkey is never, ever going to join, turkey should be able to get there eventually if they're prosperous enough. 15 year from now, turkey could be the economic powerhouse of europe if they get that right. all that said, i think it's unfortunate that turkey keeps hearing that mess

the east coast. terrorism in turkey. t least 36 people a day. 147 injured after three suicide bombers attacked the countries busiest airport. >> people were shooting one side. we all ran the other way and the bombs went off and people started running the other way with were shooting. i think there was another bomb, but i'm not really sure. maria: one of the bombs went off near a check point inside the terminal why the others were detonated near the airport's interest in parking not. turkish officials blaming isis for the attack, but the group has yet to claim responsibility. security has been ramped up in the u.s., especially in new york

damien: turkey's political leaders now worn the issue will heighten tension between germany and turkeyt a particularly sensitive time when the eu needs turkish help to solve the migrant crisis. i have just had a telephone call with our prime minister. as a result of this, our decision is to recall the ambassador. this is to hold consultations regarding recalling the ambassador. the resolution made by the german parliament will seriously effect relations between our countries. after i go back to turkey, we will evaluate this issue and take necessary steps. damien: for german chancellor angela merkel, the timing could not be worse. her allies in berlin hope that because turkey also wants to make the migrant deal work, this explosive issue will not get in the way. >> i want to make clear, in the presence of the secretary general of nato, that there is a lot that binds germany to turkey. even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, and our strategic ties is great. with defense issues and many other issues, and last but not least

you're watching the breaking news coverage at the airport in istanbul. >> turkey's government says 36 people are dead. 147 people wounded. the video of the attack is graphic and some viewers will find it disturbing. a surveillance camera at the airport captured the moment one of the three bombs exploded and you can see there are people just running for their lives before the blast, then debris falls from the ceiling as the area starts to fill with smoke. now, another camera captured what appears to be one of the attackers falling to the ground after he was apparently shot by police. you can see his gun slide away from him along the floor, the man then fumbled around for a bit before eventually detonating his suicide vest. no one has claimed responsibility but the prime minister says the signs point to isis. he says the three attackers arrived at the airport by taxi and started shooting before they blew themselves up. >> cnn photo adjournijournalists live. what is the scene right now? >> john, the scene, much changed from last night, when i arrived last night as you saw in those pictur

it's unrelated to this issue, but the problem is in turkey, the broader problem is that turkey has becomea very polarized nation politically between the supporters and the opponents of president erdogan. and we need national reconciliation. we need to unite against terrorism and reopening the park, which would provoke a lot of the protesters, which are out in the streets three years ago, is not a great idea. so people like me have been saying this to the president and the government, whether they listen or not is a different thing. but yes, i would like to reiterate that turkey needs less polarization, turkey needs national reconciliation and understanding. and at least we should troy to do that in the face of horrors like this. and yes, trying to reopen the park, the controversial issues that are in turkey will not help. >> mustafa, thank you for being with us. appreciate your insight. >>> witnesses are sharing videos from inside the airport showing the terrifying moments as the attack unfolded. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> just stunning to watch and to

turkey and washington have not always been speaking from the same page in terms of turkey's role. ua: they still don't see eye to i on a lot of things. the turks see the kurds at the largest threat. washington sees isis. they have been working closely for the past year. perhaps one of the reason turkey is a target is because it is a lying self with washington. being a u.s.st to ally. how can we support them in that? laura: having lived amongst the people, how have you seen the mood shift? what do think this latest attack will do to people's state of mind? joshua: it is sad to say, but proud to say if you know turkish people, how resilient they are. a lot of my friends said it is just another attack. it is a devastating thought that this has become the new normal. but it has. it's temple has had the largest attacks in the last couple of has hadnd w -- istanbul the largest attacks in the last couple of months and weeks. for the ordinary turk, this has become a way of life. laura: people say that president erdogan is becoming increasingly authoritarian. joshua: in a moment of crisis,

>> the attacking turkey at a fairly low place. probably could have pulled off more of this in the past. in the past, turkey has been in some ways kind of valuable. a pipeline for fighters. >> obviously, a lot for people that haven't really been following this for a while. a long-running dispute between the united states, the west and turkey about that pipeline and insistence that they do more to stop the flow of isis fighters into syria. >> that's right. turkey has been a conduit for fighters that are fighting against assad. >> did something happen that would have triggered this attack? a crackdown in turkey. >> that crackdown going on for roughly the last year and made the islamic state mad and turkey less valuable for them. so, they really stepped up and said, yeah, we're going to attack you and hit you hard in your most cause pallten center. >> mike? >> is it possible between turkey and israel may have played a part in this? >> that happened very recently. from what i can tell about this attack, three coordinated suicide bombers

on in the middle east. you know, turkey right now is a candidate to join the european union. so many college students have taken a semester in turkey, to see that part of the world. it's seen as the divide between east and west. so many of its beaches are beautiful places. so a lot of tourism. they heavily rely on tourism. not good news for them at the start of the summer season. >> no, it's not. >> in terms of the terror threat dana was talking about, it doesn't bring it home to the united states. yes, we have to harden targets. at the same time we are a free people. we have to live with certain risks. i don't think turkey would -- >> several bombings in recent months, linked to kurdish fighters and others linked to islamic state group militants. they've been hit already hard recently. you have this coming on the heels of it. >> yeah. and think about it. it could have been worse. they actually do harden their soft targets because they're used to t so it could have been worse than what you're seeing. the other thing, too, i

the airport. six days. in turkeyast night, only six hours after the bombing, despite the unacceptable security breach in the gate of the airport, the government decided to open the airport. it cost 41 lives. not even a single elected official resigned or forced to resign. nothing really works in this country. the economy is going bad. democracy -- we lost it -- technically, turkey is a regimetive authoritarian ruled by authoritarian islamists . in terms of security, you see what is going on. no one really feel secure in this country anymore, and because of the increasing terrorist activities of pkk, the government does not know what to do other than bombing people, shutting down train -- twitter, what authoritarian regimes do from north korea to syria, from russia to turkey. amy: what about the warnings that had come in a few weeks ago of something like, 30, or so, isis fighters coming over the border from syria -- the turkish government very much understood the possibility of an attack during ramadan, especially in

the border with turkey is porous. e come out and many fighters have come over and thousands of foreign fighters have gone the other way, and they've come out of that airport. this is a fascinating target. turkey deals with multiple security threats with the pkk as well as isis. now, again, we don't know, there has not been a claim of attack. but the pkk separatists have typically targeted military targets which obviously this was not. the president has said this can happen anywhere. if this can happen at ataturk, it can happen anywhere. you talked about security. that's exactly right. like many airports in the middle east, this layer of security prevented the attackers here from getting further to the actual security lines or to where passengers are checking in. in so certainly they'll chalk that up as a success for the airport. and certainly save more lives. >> scary to think how much worse this could have been given how much death that already happened here. molly, we're also nearing the end of the muslim holy month

flights between the u.s. and turkey have resumed after being airports in the u.s. in response. the presidential candidates didn't take long to weigh in. donald trump starting by sending out prayers to the victim's families. >> he then tweeted about keeping terrorism away from our borders. he told supporters in ohio we have to do everything in our power to improve security to keep america safe. >> there's something going on that's really, really bad. all right? it's bad. and we better get smart and we better get tough or we're not going to have much of a country left. okay? >> trump reiterated his call for the return of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques in the battle against isis saying you have to fight fire with fire. >> hillary clinton expressed condolences saying the attack is a reminder that the united states cannot retreat. a statement released by clinton read terrorists have struck again in the heart of one of our stand united with the people of turkey against this campaign of hatred and violence. >>> new fallout from the response to the 2012 response in be

the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. funerals have begun in turkeyor some of the 42 people killed in a triple suicide bombing tuesday targeting turkey's main airport in istanbul. the attack also left 239 other -- the attack injured more than 230 people. authorities said three attackers arrived at the airport's international terminal by taxi and blew themselves up after opening fire. the airport is the 11th busiest in the world. no group claimed responsibility for the attack but turkey's prime minister said the initial probe pointed to the self-proclaimed islamic state or daesh. earlier today turkish police raided 16 locations in istanbul and detained 13 people on suspicion of involvement in the attack. turkey has seen an uptick in bombings since last year when the united states began using turkey's incirlik air base to carry out bombing raids in syria and iraq targeting isis strongholds. tuesday's attack came just one day after turkey restored diplomatic ties with israel after a six-year rupture. on wednesday, i got in touch with -- chalishkan, assoc

the u.s.-led coalition against isis. turkeyas and is one of the most important weigh stations to bring isis materials to syria. so there's an all-out war between isis and the turkish government. and in the past year, isis has carried out some major attacks against the tourist industry and economy. the idea is to paralyze the turkish economy and it has succeeded to a great extent. >> if question go with the flaeps we believe this is most likely isis which is behind this. that then get us to the next question was this inspired by isis, or a lone wolf, or directed by isis, jihadists who actually went into turkey and carried this out. as you say, it was very well coordinated. the airport in istanbul has aincredibly tight security. >> first all, we don't have the inclination, and for viewers we have to be very careful. this is a highly sophisticated attack. these are the special operation forces of whatever particular militant group, isis or militant. basically, they had a particular mission to destroy the layers. there are multiple