Conduct this investigation and bring those responsible for these despicable acts to justice. We have to unify. We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of Political Violence of any kind have no place in the United States of america. So far the devices have been what appear to be a pipe bomb. What we saw here today was an effort to terrorize. This clearly is an act of terror, attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence. Through acts of violence. With me now with the latest nbc news investigations reporter tom winter. All right, tom, you and i have been together for the last two hours as we try to interpret what happened earlier today and were getting more news about maxine waters. Set the stage for us exactly
where things stand. I know im putting you in a tough spot because there are still so many unknown. And some things even not quite frankly were not in the position to share bec
it s intimidated the nation at this point. so for the most part we have to wait and see whether the fbi or new york city police actually fires off one of these devices and sees if it s a viable weapon system or whether the bomber just pretended to build a device in order to scare the entire nation and all the victims by seeing this thing. so as time passes we re going to learn that. actually we might learn that relatively quickly. but it doesn t matter. if he used natural components that explode, generally, you know, black powder, battery detonator and a pipe, it s going to intimidate you whether it s designed to explode or not. my goodness, jim, last point? yeah, i think if in fact that s the case, and it could be and malcolm makes a great point, we don t know if it s a live device. but if it is explosive and filler and of the components i would expect what would follow