music) ♪ (colonial penn jingle) >>> welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. you're with us watching extended coverage of the siege in dhaka, bangladesh. it has been unfolding now for the past several hours overnight. with me throughout all of it has been my colleague cal perry. he's been updating us throughout the course of the evening. cal, give us a quick rundown of what we have learned. >> ayman, it has been truly an astonishing last 12 hours for the small south asian country of bangladesh. this country finding itself at the center of terrorism, something that the world is now coming to grips with. in just the past two hours, the commandos involved have laid siege to the very restaurant that terrorists had laid siege to some ten hours earlier. we now are ready to say that this is over. at least 34 people wounded. we're still working on the details of the nationalities. but we understand that all of the hostage-takers, all of the attackers, all of the gunmen were killed in that raid. it is still unclear right now at this hour what

so. geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >>> welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. you're with us watching extended coverage of the siege in dhaka, bangladesh. it has been unfolding now for the past several hours overnight. with me throughout all of it has been my colleague cal perry. he's been updating us throughout the course of the evening. cal, give us a quick rundown of what we have learned. >> ayman, it has been truly an astonishing last 12 hours for the small south asian country of bangladesh. this country finding itself at the center of terrorism, something that the world is now coming to grips with. in just the past two hours, the commandos involved have laid siege to the very restaurant that terrorists had laid siege to some ten hours earlier. we now are ready to say that this is over. at least 34 people wounded. we're still working on the details of the nationalities. but we understand that all of the hostage-takers, all of the attackers, all of the gunmen were killed in that raid. it is still unclear right now at

part of or behind this failed coup attempt. >> okay, nbc's ayman mohyeldin. the man erdogan is blaming for the failed coup says it was president erdogan who staged it. fethullah gulen is a cleric in exile in pennsylvania. he made that accusation yesterday. he rejected claims of being involved. his self-imposed exile in this country has long been a point of contention between the u.s. and turkey. officials there have said they are putting to the an extradition request for gulen. secretary of state john kerry said saturday the u.s. would consider any formal request, and gulen says he's willing to be extradited. >>> still ahead on "way too early," we're going to tell you where police and activists with black lives matter actually came together yesterday. and another american discovered dead in nice as we learn some new revelations about how the suspect practiced for his deadly attack. those stories and a check on weather when "way too early" comes right back. hey, honey? yes, dear? you're washing that baked-on alfredo by hand,right? yes, dear. dish issues? cascade platinum... powers... th

ayman mohyeldin at msnbc headquarters in new york. you're watching live extended coverage of the dhaka siege that has been unfolding in bangladesh over the past several hours. i want to go back to steve clemens. steve, you and i were talking about something that i think is very fascinating, which is some of these attacks, whether they be orlando or istanbul or now as we're seeing bangladesh, not necessarily directed by isis but maybe even inspired. talk to us a little bit about the cascading terrorism effect, the butterfly effect if you will what we're seeing unfolding on the global stage. how are these attacks related or not related to one another? >> well, as jim cavanaugh and others on the program have said, that there are different kinds of terrorism enacted by different players. some are inspired couples. we've seen married couples in san bernardino or omar mateen in orlando or hasan in fort hood. others i worry about terrorism we've heard it all over tv today, because this was a complex attack with numerous people that was engaged with a plan and was suicidal, that that capacity

those grim numbers. ayman mohyeldin is with us in the studio. you have been gathering as well. >> yeah. one of the things obviously in this digital age is how quickly images have come out. the french police have actually put on their verified twitter account asking people to stop distributing, stop recirculating, disseminating videos. the social media videos we are seeing. we are not putting them on the air but it's giving you a sense of given the fact this was such a tourist destination and so many people were out there, and that it was such a day of celebration, you can imagine how much social media now has been inundated with images of what has happened there. so much so, to the point that the national police in france are asking people to stop circulating those videos out of respect for the families and their victims and it's an indication that this is a very dire situation, not just for the country but for the family members who are still learning about this and people still trying to get ahold as we heard cal report earlier, officials asking people to stay off the phones

. ayman mohyeldin is following the story. >> what we learned since the siege was over, when the be bangladesh police stormed in and rescued them. we learned about the nationality of those inside. certainly, as you mentioned, there have been confirmed at least one american killed. we learned from the italian, japanese, and indian government that they, too, had citizens killed. people asking why there were so many foreigners in the area. it was a upscale neighborhood. a posh restaurant on a friday night at the end of a week. you can imagine there were a lot of people hanging out. what we learned from officials who briefered the media gruesome details of how the people were killed. some killed by machetes and some beheaded. that was according to the officials that went in after the siege and managed to rescue some. we know there were about 14 foreigners rescued in the operation. but for now it seems the siege is over with a higher death toll than expected. earlier on when we started reporting the story, there was no clear indication there were any fatalities. the hospitals were not re

grisly business of terrorism. here in new york in this studio, ayman mohyeldin is watching this coverage with us. what comes to mind as you do? >> i'm thinking how much france had just as a matter of a couple days ago breathed a sigh of relief that they had gotten through an entire month of the biggest security challenge they faced since the bataclan attack. they were obviously very prepared for that but if you would have asked french officials and certainly in the runup to it to our reporting, the concern really was about a lot of the venues, a lot of the fact you had tourists coming in for the soccer tournament that unfolded there including in the city of nice that had some of the final games in which hundreds of thousands of spectators were on the streets watching the french play. so there was that moment right after it just this past sunday when the french had played and authorities may have felt that they had made it through what was going to be a challenge. obviously not when you are seeing it today on bastille day, the national celebration, you had folks out in the crowd.

london. ayman mohyeldin is here in our new york studios. for folks tuning in, this is a long way away. this is geopolitics. what does this mean? >> this is a seismic earthquake in the region. in a region where the united states is heavily invested. this is a nato country. it is on the doorsteps of europe. it's a conduit into europe from the middle east and from europe into the middle east. it is a major player inside of the middle east. its relationships with israel. its relationships with various countries across the arab world. the persian gulf or arab gulf. this country sits in the geopolitical center of one of the most important regions of the world. so what is happening now is a very dangerous situation, to put it mildly. this is a situation, as we know, we don't know which way it's going to unfold. but to put it in context for our viewers. the person being removed from power or the attempt to remove this person from power has systematically won democratic elections for the better part of the last ten years, including in november of 2015. his party controls the democratic majorit

result of the investigation. ayman mohyeldin, thank you so much for that. here in the united states, the presidential candidates spoke out in interviews last night beginning with donald trump. >> would you go to congress and ask for a declaration of war? >> i would. i would. this is war. if you look at it, this is war. coming from all different parts, and frankly, it's war, and we're dealing with people without uniforms. these people, we're allowing people into our country who we have no idea where they are, where they're from, who they are. they have no paperwork. they have no documentation. in many cases. and hillary clinton wants to allow 550% more in than even obama. >> there will be by the end of the summer 10,000 syrian refugees. 20% women, 60% children, 20% men. do you consider those people threats? >> yes. >> do you security them security threats? >> of course i do. >> it's terrible but france has faced too much tragedy and violence and we need to stand strongly with them because events like this remind us how vital it is, in every way, not to abandon them. we need to streng

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take a break at the top of this hour. when we come back from that, our friend and colleague ayman mohyeldin is going to take the next anchor leg of our coverage as we continue to cover this breaking story as day has broken along the mediterranean coast in nice, in france, after the saddest night there in the modern era. a death toll we are estimating at 80. 18 critical. up to 50 others wounded. a terrible night. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm alex witt with msnbc's continuing coverage of the apparent terrorist attack, this in the french riviera city of nice. a large truck plowed into a crowd celebrating bastille day, killing at least 84 people, many of them children. over a dozen people right now are critically wounded in hospitals. french president francois hollande spoke to his country last night, calling for vigilance. >> translator: after paris in january 2015 and then again in november of last

, nbc's foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. you had been speaking with a doctor on the ground who treated many of the patients. what's the latest? >> the latest is what we have been reporting throughout the night. there hasn't been any substantial changes on the ground. for the past several hours, the scene at the hospital has been somewhat calm. i mean there isn't a sudden influx of patients, a lot of casualties, so that number of people remains the same. the last i checked with them it was at 26 wounded, many of them security personnel and at least two dead. two police officers dead. that was at that one hospital. there may be other hospitals and clinics. >> our producer had said four police officers dead. >> exactly. i believe that to still be the case in the last couple hours i checked in with hospital officials. >> as i said to jim, we are in the seventh hour. we are nearing daylight here. any indications that we are near an ending to this? >> this is somewhat uncharted territory because if we take the isis claim of responsibility at face value that it is isis related, this w

seconds to conquer heartburn fast. tum tum tum tum. chewy delights. only from tums. >>> i'm ayman mohyeldin here in new york. it 3:00 p.m. in the east. we're continuing to follow the breaking news out of washington. hillary clinton's campaign confirming today the former secretary of state gave a voluntary interview to the fbi this morning about her e-mail practices while she was at the state department. nbc's kelly o'donnell is in our washington news room with the latest on the meeting. kelly? >> reporter: this is a very important milestone in what has been a long and winding road for hillary clinton and for the justice department. she, of course, has been the subject of the popular conversation about the meeting. how it's talked about in politics. how it's talked about in the water cooler. people having dinner with family and debating the issue. today hillary clinton gave an interview with the fbi. she travelled to the fbi headquarters in washington, d.c. i spent most of this day outside her home in washington. we saw her leave early this morning. we saw her come back. and that t

nee now, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mow mohyeldin, let's put this in the context of the last month. just in the last month, orlando, 50 dead, 49 killed, including the shooter who pledged allegiance to isis. the attack on the istanbul airport, which appears to have been also the work of isis, although no formal credit, though we believe it was them. dozens dead there. the dhaka attack, just in the same week as that, and now this in nice. >> and don't forget about iraq. >> 250 -- >> bigger than all of these. and it's not to say that one is bigger than the other in terms of the magnitude of the loss, but what it demonstrates is the capability of whoever is behind all of these attacks. i don't mean behind it from an operational point of view, but operationally in the sense that there's an ability to inspire these types of attacks. and you know, we're not -- we're still in the very early stages, not sure who is behind this in terms of an organization, but the deliberate attack, and when you start putting it on a -- analyzing it through a matrix of possibilities, the symbolism of t