Josh Earnest at 8:45AM: Wait for Investigation To Call This ‘Terrorism’

CUOMO: "When you talk about countering the message, you keep using the word violence. I mean, this is an act of terrorism, that's what the president of France called it: an act of terrorism. You are referring to ISIS and other bad actors. It doesn't really matter who it is at the end of the day you know you are fighting a very large group of people of somewhat similar concern. Do you see this as an act of terrorism and is this something that has to be condemned on that level?"

EARNEST: "Well, I--you know, I--I think based on what we know right now it does seem like that's what we're confronting here and this is an act of violence that we'd--that we certainly do condemn. And, you know, if, based on this investigation, it turns out to be an act of terrorism that we'd condemn that in the strongest possible terms too."