this year i've spent more 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

and, look, as ayman pointed out, it is -- of all places that we can't afford, and i say we. i mean the western world cannot afford to have unstable. it is turkey. when you consider the migration crisis, turkey is the chokepoint, preventing it from totally exploding into europe. perhaps you could argue maybe it already has and vice versa with syria. so it is -- this is a four-alarm fire for the white house in that situation room. >> and ayman, what can we assume, the fact that this coup is organized by the turkish military. >> the turkish military is extremely powerful. but also very divided. and this is something that had an heralded by president erdogan himself. over the past several years as he's consolidated his power, he has moved officers that he felt would be loyal to him up the chain of command. it's a professional army. highly trained, highly skilled. very disciplined. this is certainly going to raise questions. i've been trying to get in touch with senior military officers that i know. and members of the akp party. nobody is answering their phone. this is a troublin

he didn't post anything on social 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 d

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 aband

>> 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 is wh

joining 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 symbo

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 as they w

ayman mohyeldin is with us in the studio. i'm giving folks who perhaps don't have a layout of france in their minds a little geography lesson by leaving this graphic up in the lower right. nice, mediterranean, beautiful coastal city, quite a distance from paris and couldn't be more different as cities go. >> absolutely. you talk about tourism. we are in peak tourism season, if you will. the significance of the national holiday today, it's not too far away from cannes. a lot of americans will know about cannes in the southern coast of france for its lifestyle. it's a very popular tourist destination. that particular area full of hotels, a lot of folks and apartment buildings as well, would be on their balconies watching the display of fireworks. so again, in analyzing this, when we look at this, one of the most important things in the initial stages is looking at the location, looking at the symbolism of the location. in so many of the previous incidents and attacks that we have seen, you try to understand about the motivation

. >> 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, t

. >> neither osama bin laden nor his deputy 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. >> narra

e he should be well ayman. >> gabby, just an honest police take. >> i don't think it was done malicio maliciously. i think if there was a trump campaign aid who did this there should be questions about where he got this from. it seems it originated o on neonazi relationships. there was an event in new hampshi hampshire. he came out saying as president he would certainly defend israel. we have, as he mentioned, people who are, you know, prsome of the concern messages. i don't think trump was sitting behind his twitter account saying let me share this over 4 lt of july weekend! but why do they keep happening? here we are again, two weeks from the gop convention. >> he hasn't professionalized that. he needs to be. he needs to top making things and needs to professionalize things to handle social immediate yachmedia. it can't be trump doing everything for his campaign. >> let's talk running mates here. i want to put the pictures ton screen for our viewers at home. i think the folks will notice something here. they are all older why men? >> iech very away but he is such a for someone who m

up next, in "am joy," i'm ayman mohyeldin, i'll you next on "msnbc live." all behind. don't you dare ask what's next. introducing the first-ever cadillac xt5. ♪ ugh. heartburn.g ] sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmmm. incredible. looks tasty. you don't have heartburn. new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. enjoy the relief. >>> welcome to the beginning of the end of the e-mail-gate. the final chapter in the endless saga that is the search for clinton malfeasance regarding benghazi. after the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server, the agency finally had a long-awaiting interview with the presidential candidate. yesterday clinton was questioned for three and a half hours at the fbi washington headquarters as the bureau looks to wrap up its probe into whether or not she broke the law by using a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of state. clinton spoke later about her fbi meeting in an exclusive interview with

. >>> 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 time line fit exactly as the campaign statement. there

a warning today from the 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

joining me here on set now, 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 respon

ayman, you are pointing at something. i don't know what you are seeing. >> we are getting information from our partners at flash point. they monitor social media interactions and more importantly isis affiliated news agency. they are reporting that isis's affiliated news agency has claimed responsibility for this attack saying islamic commandos attacked a restaurant in bangladesh. >> that's isis officially taking responsibility. >> this is according to our partners at flash point that we have relied on for monitoring these sites. nbc news hasn't verified this but this is what we're hearing from our partner organization. also, another intelligence group is reporting the same. there now seems to be a claim of responsibility by isis. this is obviously very significant. it's significant on a few different levels. claim of responsibility within a few hours of this incident, that is very telling. importantly, given the fact that isis over the past year has been systematically trying to increase its presence, establish a foot ho