lashed out at perceived enemies for fomenting the environment he encouraged. steve schmidt said to find the parallel between what we are witnessing right now this week, you d have to go all the way back to 1865. we haven t seen anything like it since the night abraham lincoln was assassinated. this was a mass assassination attempt, including two former presidents, a former vice-president of the united states, a former attorney general of the united states, a former chairwoman of the democratic national committee. the person who is responsible for sending bombs to all of
live devices. this is a protocol that our bomb squad people use and it keeps everybody safe. tonight the secretary of homeland security, kirstjen nielsen, interviewed at the southern border for a fox news broadcast, weighed in on the investigation with this. any threat of violence cannot be tolerated by this country. the way we look at this at dhs, we have expanded our efforts. hate is hate, violence is violence. this is a clear attempt to undermine our democracy and our democratic processes. so we can t stand for it. there has been considerable discussion about whether the president s incendiary rhetoric and his attacks may be linked to the series of mailings. so farther all critics of the president and targets of the president. today the white house press secretary was asked if trump planned to make any changes. is he going to stop insulting the people who received these bombs? look, the president is going to continue to layout the contrast between democrats and republicans
person. it was seward and the vice-president, the entire leadership structure. they thought if they could lop off the whole of it may be the confederacy would have a chance again. that s in john wilkes booth s head. even if the bombs weren t lethal enough, nobody knew that at the time. you have to remember what we were we knew that could have been the end of the lives of these people or they could have been hurt. that s when you need a leader to step up. he comes out of the picture frame and that s what the bully pulpit is. you educate people. you give them consolation, and you make them feel empathetic with what s happening. on the day a bomb arrives at cnn here in new york, the president blames the media for our troubles. i m asked this all the time, but i m not a historian, you are. has there been this anti-media a president obviously nixon is the nearest, i guess, modern era example. i don t think so.
the person who is responsible for sending bombs to all of those people is the person who mailed the bombs. donald trump did not mail the bombs, but he created the atmosphere where a sick person would look at those individuals and see an enemy. boy, that s saying a lot. anita kumar is with us, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers and the aforementioned jeremy peters back with us, political reporter for the new york times. anita, steve schmidt has this way of focusing the mind. and when you hear it in those words, when you hear the list of recipients of these packages, it really focuses the mind. the question for you is, is the white house political operation just continuing to go forward unabated? we had wisconsin last night. president s got north carolina tomorrow night. are these parallel universes? i don t think you re going to see the president stop campaigning. he s going to be, as you
and it s yours just for calling. so call now. and oftentimes false attacks. they want a socialist take over. now i say what s a socialist take over? i m trying to be nice, right? that was last night in wisconsin. last thing before we go tonight, the president there noting how he has been forced to change his delivery, what he says and how he says it, after we learned that bombs were delivered to two former presidents and a number of other prominent recipients.