who is this guy? well, he is 40 years old. his name is matt muffley. he was flying, anderson, from the airport in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando, according to the f.b.i. he checked the bag, and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the f.b.i., this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial-grade fireworks, and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday. by the f.b.i. now, the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that. this is something obviously the f.b.i. was focused on over the last couple of days. nothing like that appears t
explosives aboard and a legion flight from lehigh valley from pennsylvania to florida. evan perez joins us now from stanford, florida. evan, who is this guy? he s 40 years old. his name is matt mott free. and he was flying, anderson, from lehigh valley airport, which is in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando. according to the fbi, he checked a bag and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found they found powder. that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so, the question is, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him. while he was still at the airport he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia, don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups
were close to him, everyone who thought they knew he was who he was, he fooled them all. don t let him fool you too. wow. everyone is fascinated. it is on the cover of people magazine. i really need to bone up on this. i m not following. it goes to the jury maybe today. so verdict could be very soon. we re glad you re with us. we re talking about really dramatic closing arguments in the alex murdaugh double murder trial. the defense gets a chance to close fist. but first, this. terrifying moments in the sky on two different flights. a cabin filling with smoke after fire breaks out. a retired firefighter jumping in help a crew put it out and also several passengers hospitalized this morning after severe turbulence on a flight from texas to germany. reports of blood even splattered on the seats. and at the airport. an alarming discovery. a plane loaded with an explosive before loaded on to the flight. what we heard about the device hid non the luggage. and
good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as
streaming on peacock. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my friend, mehdi hassan, in four. alex good evening, and thank you, chris. and thanks to you at home for being with us. alex has the night off. here is a question for you, do you recognize this man. do you know who this guy is? the president bears responsibility from wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters, he should have immediately denounced the mob, when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action, on president trump. now, i know that visibly it s very clearly republican speaker of the house kevin mccarthy. but can you imagine which world which kevin mccarthy we need today, speaker mccarthy would openly blame donald trump for january the 6th? as hard as it is to believe, kevin mccarthy really did say those things about donald trump. exactly two years ago today. and he said on the occasion of donald trump s impeachment, his second impeachment for trying to overturn the election in