[Max Foster, Host, Cnn:] London terrorist identified after brutal attacks in the heart of the city. A neighbor saying they warned police about one of them. Sadiq Khan hits back at Donald Trump after the U.S. President slam the mayor's response to the attack.
[Rosemary Church, Host, Cnn:] ... leaks and fleeing Mosul. Civilians rushed to leave the city before the final assault on ISIS. I'm Rosemary Church at CNN headquarters in Atlanta.
[Foster:] And I'm Max Foster at Abingdon Green here in London. Hello and welcome to the special edition of CNN Newsroom. British authorities are facing new questions about possible security gap as we learn more about the London attackers. Officials name two of the three men. On the left is Khuram Shazad, a British citizen born in Pakistan, on the right Rachid Redouane, who claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan. Police say they were searching an east London addressing in connection with the attack. No one has been detained. The 12 people who are arrested during earlier raids have been released without charge. Joining us now is CNN's Samuel Burke out Scotland Yard; Isa Soares is at 10 Downing Street. Samuel, first to you, what do we know about what the police knew about the suspects before the attack?
[Samuel Burke, Correspondent, Cnn:] Well, Max, so many times in this investigation you hear people say we had no idea, he was a nice guy. But that really doesn't seem to be the case about Khuram Shazad. But police are saying that he was known to both the police and to MI5, though they say that there was no intelligence to suggest that there was any type of planning that they knew about in this attack that happened this week. But we're hearing from members of the community, both from within the Muslim community here in London and the non-Muslim community. One neighbor telling CNN that she had actually been suspicious of Mr. Butt and that she had flag him up to the authorities after she said she saw him teaching kids to pray in her neighborhood. But then you have other information from other members of the Muslim community. One man Muhammad Shafiq [Ph] say that at one point he was verbally assaulted by Mr. Butt, that he called him a word in Arabic which would be the equivalent of calling somebody a traitor or a stooge for the government and that he reported him to the police. And that the police came but he said he's actually not surprised that these men was one of the people who carried out the attack. On top of that, Max, you see footage from Channel 4 a local news station here in the U.K. which actually did a documentary which included Mr. Butt saying the documentary was the Jihadist the next door. And you see him in the Regent's Park, one of the best known park here in London unrolling a black flag which may looks similar to the ISIS flag for some people but wasn't the actual ISIS flag. So, the question really comes now here is what were the police doing with the information that they had? Do the police here in the U.K. and the intelligence forces have the resources that they need to investigate these people, and what are they doing with the resources that they have? An important question that Theresa May is facing on the campaign trail already.
[Foster:] Any words really about the resourcing issue from a technical point of view, do they failed that they got enough resources?
[Burke:] Well, we actually heard from one of the police commissioner. Commissioner Dick saying that she didn't feel that the police had enough resources that needed to be an increase. Under Home Secretary Theresa May when she was home secretary there are actually 20,000 officers cut. Now a lot of this is being politicized here in the U.K. because we're about to have an election. But again, hearing from the commissioner saying that they do need more resources to actually fair and clear, and somebody who seems to be fairly apolitical in their word. That's a very clear message saying that they do need more.
[Foster:] OK. Samuel at Scotland Yard, thank you. Let's go to Isa now who's looking in that political perspective. The election is on Thursday, so we haven't long to go and this is going to define it. What sort of criticism is the government coming in for?
[Isa Soares, International Correspondent, Cnn:] Well, I can tell you there are already from other party they are making political hay of this of this recent attack. Of course, following on from the Manchester attack, Max where 20 people died. There was an outpouring of grief, there was an outpouring of anger. That has actually escalated somewhat following from the London attack given what we're hearing from Samuel Burke, hearing what we're getting from authorities that perhaps this man was known to police, not just normal police but also MI5. And they were investigating investigating him. And people had actually warned police about him. So, many people of course, especially those undecided voters who were asking themselves which way they will go ahead of the election on Thursday. And Max, I was listening to a really interesting discussion on a London radio station where people were basically calling in saying they had changed their minds regarding the way in which they will vote following on from this attack, given the fact that Theresa May was Home Secretary was Home Secretary and she may cut of as many as 20,000 in police cuts. So, people really changed, some people changing their minds as to which way they will vote. That will be front and center as the campaign has resumed in the last 24 hours. We heard from Jeremy Corby, the leader of the opposition calling on Theresa May to resign but she had pitched herself as strong and stable and we heard from her just day after attacks in which she came out with a full throng of approach on how to target these terrorist groups saying that enough is enough.
[Foster:] Genuine questions are being asked by independent parties as well, about whether or not the security apparatus in the country is fit for purpose anymore because of this new type of threat we're facing, the intensity of the threat. Tell us a bit more about that because that's a genuine concern away from politics.
[Soares:] Yes. And this is this is interesting. And nothing many people will be discussing this in the next few days because, you know, the way these attacks we have seen these attacks now they are so hard to prevent and they are so hard to predict. You know, this just guys getting on vans and just mowing down people. So, what they basically and what we're seeing is that, you know, we've got a 5,000 or so open counterterrorism investigation into these people. But we've also got something like 20,000 of them how people, former people of interest. So there is this question over do we have enough people, is the British police is there enough people surveillance on these people, which is a question of course we were raising when we were covering the Paris attacks very similar. But also, Max, what we heard from neighbors as CNN reporting, the people were reported reporting these people, but perhaps the calls one being made to the right department. So, is something falling for the cracks. This is something that of course many people are asking, many people are questioning and whether having more police will that change anything or is this the problem of the structure within the police force. These are all questions they're not just Londoners but indeed that many Brits will be asking as they head to the polls, a critical election of course given what we've seen in the last two weeks. Of course, not something that Theresa May never expected of course when she called this election on March, Max. She had, she was expecting to have a majority, had a huge lead and that gap has narrowed quite dramatically in the last week or so, Max.
[Foster:] Yes, one poll we can't take any of the polls face value, but one of them this morning putting the lead at less than, well, about 1 percent which is extraordinary considering how far ahead Theresa May is parting was...
[Soares:] Yes.
[Foster:] ...at the beginning of all of this. Joining me now is David Lea, he's a senior Europe analyst for Control Risks. Where from here, don't we, that these people were on the radar before they carry out the attacks but does you know, this guy could not have been more on a radar it seems. There was even a program that him being a Jihadi and there was an investigation. We don't know what happened about that investigation in the end. But what are your thoughts about how this compared with other similar circumstances?
[David Lea, Senior Europe Analyst, Control Risks:] I think at times it's easy to be what's up to the event. But there are serious questions about this as the surveillance of this particular individual and obviously a lot more is going to come out of that in the next days, isn't it. It does seem as if it's going to be something that the police and the security forces have to defend once we [Inaudible] throughout the election so far.
[Foster:] What we often hear is that it takes so much resource to monitor someone.
[Lea:] Yes.
[Foster:] But from what we understand it didn't get to that point and it doesn't seem to be a resourcing issue, it's just a case of they had looked into it and they decided not to continue so that's not a resource issue, is it?
[Lea:] It depends. It could be a resource issue given that they looked into is that enough to continue because there are other higher priorities and they didn't have the resources to get...
[Foster:] They don't have the time to spend on it.
[Lea:] ... to the priority there, so that's entirely possible at all.
[Foster:] What about the security apparatus in the country, one of the main newspaper here saying it's not just fit for purpose. The whole thing needs to be re-thought and that's actually a serious consideration here in Westminster as well, isn't it?
[Lea:] Yes, absolutely. The security apparatus has evolved constantly after the terrorist attack in fact, going roughly to seven slaughtered and 25 are yet luckily be crafted then.
[Foster:] Yes.
[Lea:] A lot more community and intelligence can tell [Inaudible] and that's not really very successful, you know, until now.
[Foster:] Where is the problem with the relevance? Why is it not working as well now?
[Lea:] I think after a number of, after a matter of times certainly.
[Foster:] Yes.
[Lea:] Sooner or later some folks are going to get through. But the community work very well here in the regions [Ph] we've heard both of Manchester and the ones that people from mosques and friends within the community are informed.
[Foster:] And one of the concerns there is local level policing, basically police walking around the streets having relationship with local communities that's been one of the biggest areas of cops, right? So that when we talk about intelligence we're not necessarily talking about MI5 and MI6.
[Lea:] No.
[Foster:] We're talking about bodies on the beat.
[Lea:] No, not exactly that's the kind of thing. I'm going in the constant of people in those communities and then you can then make decisions for yourselves. And that the calls to local and community policing are going to be a factor in what remains the election campaign on that basis.
[Foster:] We heard for these latest suspects there were calls have been made to the anti-terror hotline which is meant to be a way that you could report problems but those messages didn't seem to get through but presumably they've got huge amount of calls coming into that line.
[Lea:] Again, it's going to be a priority issue that you know, is this guy [Inaudible].
[Foster:] So when it comes to trying and being partial that we got an election coming up, we got Theresa may saying one of the issues is, you know, partly talking to what you're talking about a cultural issue. Then you got the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn saying it's a resource issue there's been too many cuts in the police and security services. What are your thoughts on that if it's if anyone is right or wrong?
[Lea:] It's going to be a fascinating issue because obviously the conservatives should initially portray themselves as party of little older [Ph] and coming into this campaign would have been extra image and comfortably [Inaudible] winning debates on that, and particularly portray Labour Party weaken that area. Now Labour Party has got something, you know, with which to attack Theresa May because she has been [Inaudible].
[Foster:] Because this day left the campaigning so it's going to be the defining issue for many of them, isn't it?
[Lea:] Absolutely.
[Foster:] David, thank you very much indeed. More on the terror attack here in London shortly. But I'll hand back now to Rosemary for more news from around the world. Rosemary?
[Church:] Thanks so much, Max. We'll talk to you in just a bit. A federal contractor is under arrest accused of leaking top secret information about Russia's efforts to hack the U.S. presidential election. Twenty-five-year-old Reality Winner, you see her here admits she intentionally leaked the classified document. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Her mother says Winner wasn't especially political and that she never praise past leakers like Edward Snowden. CNN's chief U.S. correspondent Jim Sciutto joins me now to talk more about this. So Jim, what more are you learning about these leaks NSA memo containing information on Russian attempts to hack voting software just days before the 2016 presidential election.
[Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, Cnn:] That's right. So it's a classified NSA document prepared dated just in May of this year is some of the latest intelligence about these attempts. During the election we knew that there been some probing attacks of voter registration systems in Arizona, in Illinois, in Florida we've done some reporting on some probing attacks were on a contractor in Florida that handled some of those voting systems. It remain then and it remains today the judgment of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia did not successfully get into vote tallying, did not affect with cyber-attacks any of the counting of the votes. But this NSA report shows that they are still looking into what those probing attacks did where they went, possibly some, you know, assessment of what the intention was, et cetera, has not changed the overall assessment that there was no messing with the vote tallies. But they are still gathering intelligence assessment can change, that assessment has not change. But Rosemary, they're still gathering intelligence that shows that the Russians were at least looking to see how far they can go instead some of these systems.
[Church:] So what actually motivated this young contractor to leak this information to an online media outlet, do we know what was she hoping to achieve with it?
[Sciutto:] It's not 100 percent clear yet. We've done some reporting where apparently where she had heard a podcast where some journalist including Glenn Greenwald who is tied to the intercept talked about their doubts about Russian interference in the U.S. election. There been some reports about that so we looked at some of her communications tried to time that to when that podcast aired. It looks that there's possibly a connection there that gets to a possible motivation, we don't know that. But what we do know is how she was caught. And that involved some detective work some interesting sort of old school detective work on the part of U.S. intelligence agencies. And how this happened is she apparently download this document, printed it out, took a picture of it, share that picture, apparently anonymously with the intercept. The reporter there then show that to another contact of the reporter, another contractor say, hey, is this document real. That person went to some of their colleagues to report that this document was out there. They looked at the document saw that there had a crease in the corner on the image which was an indication that it had been printed out. It looked like there was a fold there that when you take a picture sometimes that fold shows is a crease. So they looked at the people who had printed out this document. It was a small handful of people and then from there were able to find their way to this leaker, this 25-year-old contractor. So, some old school police work there that led to the original leaker of the information.
[Church:] Extraordinary. So what damage has potentially been done with this leak and what will likely happen to the young woman behind it?
[Sciutto:] Well, on the second question first, leaking of classified information carries potentially heavy legal price possibly up to 10 years in prison rarely do people serve the maximum sentences. We do know we don't know if she'll be convicted. We do know that she's appeared in court already. CNN spoke to her mother today that she has a court appointed lawyer. Her mother is hoping that she will be released on bond. But facing a difficult legal future it seems as to what damage it did, you know, it's interesting here as they called illegal but the information is already out there, right? So there's classified NSA report is out there adding to the picture of Russian interference in the election, but it shows again the vulnerabilities in the system, right? Because remember, it was also a contractor named Edward Snowden who led to an enormously leak of information about domestic surveillance and other surveillance programs. There been a lot of effort made by U.S. intelligence used to plug leaks like that going forward but when you look at what happened here it's clearly not all those holes have been plugged.
[Church:] Yes, certainly, that is the case. Jim Sciutto, many thanks...
[Sciutto:] Thank you.
[Church:] ... for filling in all of the holes there and we understand a little bit more about this now. Many thanks.
[Sciutto:] Thank you.
[Church:] Well, there's new evidence of Russian hacking in the U.S. election could come up Thursday when former FBI Director James Comey appears before the Senate intelligence committee. CNN's Tom Foreman has a preview.
[Tom Foreman, Correspondent, Cnn:] For Congress it's the hottest question in town. Did President Trump tried to pressure FBI Director James Comey to drop the Russia probe and was it obstruction of justice.
[Joe Manchin,  United States Senator:] We want to find out what Comey was thinking at that time if he thought it was, has risen to that level of obstruction. And if it had why hadn't something been done, why didn't act on it he was still FBI director.
[Foreman:] As FBI Director Comey met or spoke with President Trump at least three different times. The president just talked about some of it.
[Donald Trump, President Of The United States:] If it's possible would you let me know am I under investigation? He said, "you are not under investigation."
[Foreman:] But sources say Comey in his own notes after one such meeting in February said the president also inquired about the probe into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. "I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting Flynn go." Trump allegedly said, "he's a good guy."
[Mark Warner,  United States Senator:] I want to know what kind of pressure appropriate, inappropriate, how many conversations he had with the president about this topic. Did some of this conversations takes place even before the president was sworn in?
[Foreman:] The president rejects the whole idea.
[Unidentified Male:] Did you at any time urged former FBI Director James Comey in any way, shape or form to close or to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn, and also as you look back...
[Trump:] No, no. Next question.
[Foreman:] Complicating the matter, Trump's firing of Comey and this cryptic tweet when news of Comey's notes appeared. "James Comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press." The White House has not said of any tapes exist.
[Sean Spicer, United States White House Press Secretary:] The president has nothing further to add on that.
[Foreman:] Comey has previously made it clear he would take seriously any political meddling in the FBI.
[James Comey, Former United States Fbi Director:] I'm talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason. That would be a very big deal. It's not happened in my experience.
[Church:] Still to come, the worse diplomatic crises in years hits Gulf Arab states. Why multiple nations are severing ties with Qatar. That is next. And then later, London's mayor in the spotlight after Saturday's terror attack. His choice of words for Donald Trump. We're back in a moment.