On Friday’s Today, NBC terror analyst Michael Leiter partly blamed France for Thursday’s terrorist attack in the resort town of Nice: “The French really do have a disenfranchised Muslim population...which has become extremely isolated. And even France’s efforts to allow for the free expression of religion has, I think arguably in some cases, produced more isolation and more radicalization.”

In the 2 p.m. ET hour of CNN Newsroom, anchor Brooke Baldwin teed up senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir to make an identical argument: “Make your point again for people who are just joining us. The notion is, we covered the terror attacks in Paris last November and we've talked about the disenfranchised Muslim community in that part of the country.”

Elbagir declared: “...even as we stand here [in Nice], we're not very far from the disenfranchisement and marginalization....As extraordinary as it is to imagine standing here in the middle of all this opulence and all this represents. That is why ISIS has been able to find a foothold here.”

Here are transcripts of the two July 15 exchanges: