calendar days in europe than i have in cairo or ayman or baghdad. i have spent more days in paris, germany, brussels and other cities like that. i think that trend is continuing. it is not a good trend. you have seen the external security of europe breakdown. there's a lot of anger and fear. the idea of a german city lockdown. look all the those pictures. there's not a person on the road. all taxis suspended. the city has become a ghost town. nobody knows where the gunmen are. that suggests a pretty high degree of sophistication. maybe they had a safe house arranged. it's not easy to disappear when you're three people the whole city is looking for you and carrying weapons. it's not an easy thing. helicopters looking to take them down, this is not just a new reality. this is a science fiction reality. >> it really is. it's the slow motion war of our tim times. not so slow motion on days like today. tom costello in washington with more. >> a couple points here. to reiterate the state department is warning and asking anyone who is in munich to shelter if it place. also urging them th

cleveland and security is ramping up. we have more out of cleveland right now. ayman? >> reporter: we're here on lakeside drive in cleveland just outside the security perimeter and you can see some of the heavy police presence here in cleveland. a couple of numbers through the scale of this operation here to secure this republican convention this year. they have booked about 5,500 total officers to secure the rnc this week. they say they have purchased 10,000 extra sets of handcuffs and they have also cleared 1,000 beds in local jails for any protesters that they happen to arrest in the course of the week w. the political tensions seen in the country over the past several months and the shootings over the past week and a half or so, around the country, tensions are very, very high here. let me show you some pictures now that we have taken just a couple of minutes ago. these are pictures of a protest that's happening just a couple of blocks away from where we are outside the q and what we're told about these protest pictures is looking here at anti-trump protesters running into pro

as 6,000 people were detained yesterday over the uprising. the very latest on this let's go to ayman mohyeldin in istanbul. good day to you. what's it like there just a couple days now for this failed military coup. >> right now turkey is as divided as we've ever seen it. in fact if you ask people on one side, those that perhaps oppose president erdogan they'll tell you what is happening here is nothing short of a purge or a crackdown on members of both the security services, the justice ministry, even some free media that oppose the president. but if you ask others and there are thousands who took to the streets to support the president last night what they say is taking place is a cleanse of the state and its institutions of those that tried to topple the regime. life here is beginning to get back to normal. shops are opening up, streets feel safe enough for people to hang out and go out at night as well. funerals are still taking place. we attended one of those funerals yesterday and that is where the president made those comments after crowds chanted they wanted the death penalty

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

media pledging to abu baghdadi or osama bin laden or amman ayman al zawahiri. i've seen reports he was married, three kids. he went into a deep depression. who knows. it's hard for the western imagination to understand this. when you interview people who join isis, you ask them why did you join, a lot of them don't say it's because, you know, i want heaven on earth or i believe in the mission of the caliphate, looking to usher in the end times. often it's, you know, i wasn't getting what i wanted out of my current affiliation. whether with a rebel group or activists. they were giving me a reason for joining. they gave me a banner, you know, could be the same thing with this guy. >> peter newman, what stands out to you about this attack? >> it's really shocking to see that 84 people died in a relatively simple attack. we know that isis has been calling for these attacks at least since september 2014. in fact in december 2014, there were a number of cars that were being driven into christian markets in france. on none of these occasions did one person die. the fact that 84 people die

in the city of nice itself, alex. >> ayman, very quickly, let's talk about what was happening at the cannes film festival back in may. i recall covering the amount of security in preparation for that. and that is because they were aware of percolating, of conditions of a level of unrest. i mean they took tremendous steps, intelligencewise, to secure the cannes film festival which is really just a short hop away from nice. so this area in general, is it an area that they now worry may be a place from which a level of terrorists or terrorism may now grow? >> well, you know, on top of that, alex, and that's a very good point in terms of security preparations of france, particularly there in the south of france, more interestingly, though, is the european soccer championships which had just wrapped up the sunday before this attack, in which france was playing against portugal. aside from that the entire country and in nice itself they had some of the biggest games, some of the biggest matches held there. security was at an all-time high in france. they were bracing themselves. additional

. cal? >> i'm just going to hop on the back of what ayman was talking about and jump in before malcolm nance. i've done some digging here. this is from "inspire" magazine. this is from an issue in 2010, and they talk about the inability to get your hands on certain weapons, and they write, quote, you can still carry out attacks by burning down forests and buildings or by running over them with your cars and trucks. it continues. if you can kill a disbelieving american or european, especially the spiteful and filthy french or an sprawlian or a canadian or any other disbelievers from the disbelievers waging war. what i would submit is most of the middle east is watching horrendous images come in from syria, from libya. barrel bombings every day. and this is a broader war on peaceful nations. this is a war against nations that are not in this state of constant war. i spend the majority of my day looking through isis propaganda videos, looking through horrible images of bombings in syria, in libya. and if you live in the middle east and you turn on al jazeera as your main news source, that

this attack as long as he could. >> ayman the same security expert, said this was the largest loss of life from an individual terrorist ever, and it will be interesting to see if that bears out. also, called this truck an im o improvized weapon, and it sounds preverse, and too gragrandios, s a 6,000 pound weapon of death and destruction. >> i spent sometime in iraq, and we have seen trucks of this magnitude, and cement trucks used to -- >> yeah. >> absolutely blow up hotels and buildings in baghdad. in war zones we have seen vehicle-borne improvized, vbid, v-borne improvized device. and we've seen the smaller use of vehicles as a weapon. it's not lost on us, the planes were high jacked and used as weapons. tactics have constantly been evolving and changing by terrorist groups. if you add the dynamic aspect of this particular attack, which is a vehicle with an a e-massailan an attacker, this would have been something you can't even been to describe if an individual had been capable, de detonating an explosive device. it is something french officials warned about as recently as within 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

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

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.

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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

. 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

operation as it unfolded. cal. >> we are ready to say that this is now over. it unfolded. cal. >> ayman, we are ready to say this is now over. very dramatic developments in just the past two hours. at about 10:00 p.m. local eastern time, our time, that raid began on the restaurant with commandos entering that restaurant. there was a hail and exchange of gunfire. we're talking about the rapid action battalion that's basically like an s.w.a.t. team equivalent in bangladesh. that raid went on for ten to 20 minutes. there was a series of explosions. i want to go through mamuna. we've been speaking to her. give us an update of what you've witnessed, what you saw and heard over the course of this operation as it unfolded from your vantage point. hello, can you hear us? all right. it seems that we have lost mamuna. >> hello? >> hello, are you with us? okay. we're going to try to re-establish that connection if we can. but with us here in studio, we have with us malcolm nance. malcolm, we've been talking about the significance of this operation. some very important pieces of the muzzle that we'

front in this, the war on terror. ayman? >> cal, thank you for that update. i want to bring in steve clemens. steve, you heard cal perry talk about a new front in the war on terror. it is hard to talk about anything in southeast asia and not talk about its impact on india, in particular case here you have bangladesh, obviously a neighbor, shares a border with india. now that it has what we believe to be a strong presence of extremist groups, whether al qaeda and indian sub continent, whether isis in its new form in bangladesh, what is this mean for india? what impact is this going to have on the geopolitical security structure of the subcontinent? >> i think india, remember, bangladesh declared independence, was made independent from pakistan in 1971. so it's a complicated region. there's some tension between bangladesh and india, but overall good relations. but there are pop ups here. but there's a lot of illegal movement of people and migration from bangladesh into india. and perhaps vice versa. but remember, india is a country that has experienced horrific trirmt. most often you m

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 no

confirm that. >> thank you very much, asif, thank you for your time. >> joining me now, ayman moye heldin and malcolm nance. ayman, the significance of this attack coming so soon after the ataturk airport attack, and coming toward the end of ramadan, what do you think the significance is? >> the significance of the first part of that question, coming on the heels of the ataturk attack, it shows that the frequency of these attacks seems to be accelerating. the reach of isis, whether it's inspiring radical individuals like orlando, whether it's demonstrating its ability to infiltrate countries like turkey, or whether it's capable of organizing and creating an organization within bangladesh to carry out this attack, demonstrates that the organization has multi facets to it, certainly layers of complexity to it. the ability to cascade these attacks one after the other is going to be a major concern for law enforcement officials, because it's not yet clear obviously if the folks in bangladesh who saw this attack were inspired by what they saw in ataturk, but it also fits the profile of what is

, 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

. >> seth old nixon thank you for your perspective. >>> i have ayman mull that dean has returned to us. you ran out to make a phone call, talked to people in bangladesh. >> i spoke to a doctor. i was introduced to him through others on the ground. i called him and he gave mow an update on the situation. this is at united hospital in gulshan, the area where this is taking place. so far they have treated 25 people. 25 people wounded brought into the hospital being currently treated. three others were taken to a nearby hospital baca medical college, two police officers and one civilian. they have been put on a high state of alert. that means the hospital is notified that an assault or high level operation is going to be taking place. he didn't say a name but he did say that the hospital has been told to prepare for more casualties in the coming hours. that's perhaps an indication that some kind of assault operation is going to take place. this is according to the doctor currently at the hospital, united hospital in gulshan. >> to recap, united hospital has treated 25 people with some l

roughly eight to nine gun men. ayman model dean joins me now. this is something we are trying to drill down on the number here of the people that could be hostage. the u.s. embassy in dhaka reported reports of shooting and a hostage situation. have you heard more about this fluid number between 20 to 60? >> no, not yet. i have been trying to get ahold of folks in bangladesh, specifically in dhaka, journalists and owes to try to connect with them to get what they are hearing directly from their sources and also to get updates on the ground. that is proving difficult. you can imagine in a fluid situation like this connectivity is going to be a problem for bangladesh. as we've been talking about this the past hour or so it's important to keep in mind the context of what bangladesh has been going through. security has become an increasing problem there. we are talking about what happened in istanbul and obviously on the heels of things in recent months a attacks by isis and al qaeda, that you can't rule that out given the nature of what we are seeing right now in bangladesh. this would be

leader of al-qaeda, ayman al-zawahri. in an online video message, he threatens "the gravest consequences" if the surviving boston marathon bomber is executed. dzhokhar tsarnaev was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection. the 2013 bombing killed three people. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch voiced regret today about a meeting earlier this week with former president bill clinton. they spoke monday, for about 30 minutes, after his private plane landed near her government aircraft at the phoenix airport. it stoked criticism because the f.b.i. is investigating hillary clinton's e-mail practices as secretary of state. today, in aspen, colorado, lynch repeated that she and the former president never discussed the investigation, but she understands the criticism. >> i may have viewed it in a certain light, but the issue is, how does it impact the work that i do and the work that the department of justice does? and i certainly wouldn't do it again, because i think it has cast a shadow over what it should not, what it will not touch. >> woodruff: lynch also said she plans to accept w

been. >> is the worry that bin laden's kid may take over for ayman al zhou herry? >> they're grooming him for that. the papers said -- they mentioned hamza a few times, how osama bin laden was saying he was concerned about what to do with him. he wanted to send him to study in places like the united arab emirates to get the ideology right and they started to groom him in 2012 to be part of it. he knows the explosives and things like that. he will be the head if he stays alive. >> you just touched on something that reminded me of the thousands of documents and all that stuff you guys carted out, computers and things like that, hard drives and thumb drives, how much has been declassified? >> a lot has been declassified, people are analyzing. like the long war journal does a great job with it. they analyze it and you can see how osama bin laden was actually running the show from there, very good operational security. just he was running it well. >> so now hamza who put out this statement, this is not the brother, obviously, who was there the night you were -- >> no, the brother who was t

the background of heaven, designer sunglasses, the clouds behind him. ayman al-zawahiri which was deputy and ahead of al-qaeda also released the video in which he praised the boston bombings and rallied lone wolves in america to carry out similar operations. these dispersing strikes he said can be carried out by one brother or small number of brothers. a brother in a big hear he means muslim brothers. such tactics will bleed america economically by provoking it to ending its massive expenditures on security. i should also point out that the inspire magazine uses the word -- as a clearinghouse for jihad. i looked up at the second case in nice, and lone wolf terrorist by the name of mohammed, a french tunisian, rent a truck into a large crowd celebrating bastille day and the city of nice. the islamic state also referred to as isis, sometimes isil and daesh and arabic publishers and electronic mixing in arabic called -- depth. in an article titled -- addressed to isis fighters, and i quote the english translation, now, my brother come let us be honest with one another. let me tell yo

heaven, designer sunglasses, the clouds behind him. ayman al-zawahiri also released a video in which he praised the boston bombings and rallied lone wolves in america to carry out similar operations. these dispersing strikes he said can be carried out by one brother or small number of brothers. a brother here means muslim brothers. such tactics will bleed america economically by provoking it to ending its massive expenditures on security. i should also point out that the inspire magazine uses the word -- as a clearinghouse for jihad. i looked up at the second case now at the second case in nice, and lone wolf terrorist by the name of mohammed, a french runs a truck into a large crowd celebrating bastille day and the city of nice. the islamic state also referred to as isis, sometimes isil and daesh and arabic publishers and an electronic magazine called depth. in an article addressed to isis fighters, and i quote the "now mytranslation, , brother come let us be honest with one another. let me tell you the truth. there are not many of us here , but there are enough of us for the

ayman al-zawahiri were terribly impressed with him. he seemed and acted like a thug. he was not very sophisticated. in fact, they considered him a rather poor recruit to al-qaeda. >> narrator: zarqawi would leave kandahar determined to continue jihad, and to prove bin laden wrong. in 2002, he saw his chance. as president bush signaled saddam hussein had to go, zarqawi moved to a terrorist camp in northern iraq. it set off alarm bells at the cia. cia operations officer sam faddis, who ran a kill/capture team, was assigned the case. >> headquarters is extremely, extremely interested. i mean, the number one time-sensitive priority, as of june '02, when i left headquarters, was go collect on this islamic extremist enclave along the iran/iraq border. >> narrator: it didn't take long for faddis to find zarqawi and learn what was going on in the camp. >> we literally had guys that were working for us that were inside the camp. they're working on chemical and biological weapons. they were doing a lot of work with cyanide-based things. >> narrator: at cia headquarters, it was a threat they co