News coverage here in New York City now. Craig melvin at msnbc headquarters. The nation on high alert, on high alert over a domestic tryst terrorist whos been waging war through the u. S. Mail all week. Pete williams just a few moments ago reporting that a person has been taken into custody at this point, a person were told perhaps in his 50s taken into custody in florida for questioning in connection with the mail bombs that have been sent to prominent americans all over this country over the past few days. Details as to this persons connection right now, those Details Remain unclear. This coming as two more explosive devices were discovered today, a total of 12 devices have now been sent, 12 explosive devices. Today one package found at a new york postal facility on the west side of manhattan. That one was addressed to former director of national
intelligence James Clapper. The other intercepted in florida. That one was addressed to new jersey democrat cory booker. All of these devic
so that is what they worked through all this week to conclude that framework and get dot the i s and most of the t s. and yesterday lindsey graham was positive when he saw the agreement. he was sticking with that group of 11 republicans. after biden s comments, he pulled out. and last night i talked to him and he said you d have to be an idiot, a little more colorful than that is what he said, to support the bipartisan agreement if it s contingent on the reconciliation bill. so that is going to be a big problem, the wall street journal editorial page has come out against this now saying that biden double crossed republicans. and we haven t heard from some of the other republicans that weren t at the white house yesterday like lindsey graham, initially endorsed this deal and what those five other
there, well, the prime minister said dot the i s, cross their t s, just like we did with hillary clinton, look, i say that because the damage is already done, there s already so much corruption in the ukraine, that s why john kerry s son declined his position on the board of barisma holdings, hunter biden did profit off of this, the damage is done but let s in the interest of transparency just investigate. i m glad that you brought that up robin because nobody has mentioned that in terms of john kerry s son actually declining to be on that board, let s listen to what rudy giuliani had to say in reference to a double standard of sorts going on and i want your response to this. the real shame is i put this out 6 months ago and the washington press didn t pay attention to it, where have the fbi been for a year and a half, there s two standards here, there was no russian collusion, the collusion was in ukraine.
sometime yesterday or early this morning, that they were able to track him based upon his cell phone, and again, having made arrests in situations like that, you d like to get the individual separated from his vehicle so he couldn t get ahold of any weapons, any explosive devices or anything else and be it fbi, or hrt, whoever made this arrest, this would have been a whole other plan they developed. once they had their suspect, once they tracked him, they knew what he looked like, all they had to do is get him in a very safe environment, arrest him, and now the wheels of justice, like they always do, will start to turn. and as much as this has been a high profile case for us, for investigators, for prosecutors you ve got to cross the t s, dot the i s, we don t want to do anything that could hurt this case. as pete williams suggests go get a search warrant for the
president s top adviser on trade listen to more from navarro now. we expect sometime next week the office of legal counsel will put form and legality on probable cause cla mag proclamations and the president will sign them. basically we want to be very careful. dot the i s, cross the t s, make sure we go through the final legal hoops. there will be an exemption procedure for particular cases where we need to have exemptions so that business can move forward. but at this point in time, there will be no country exclusions. one final question by jamie