has shown resilience in the face of hate and violence in the past, and we will do so again. reporter: police are expected to brief this afternoon where we hope to learn more about the victims but also more about the shooter. when his name was released, we found that there was another arrest that took place a year ago, someone with the same name and the same birth date, but were unable to get additional information angt that case. but we know that it was a bomb threat that occurred a year ago, willie. and so working to learn more about what happened there. officials here have not been able to say whether that is the same suspect who called in that bomb threat a year ago as who committed this shooting here this weekend. but we heard from the mayor earlier saying that we may see court filings today that would allow them to unseal some of that information so that officials here are able to speak a little more freely about any potential criminal history this
but jack smith s mandate expressly says that s not what he s to focus on. he s only to focus on the higher-ups. so it does seem like investigation there is going to have to be done, probably staff hired an the like. so they are factually very different. i would say, you know, i know that there are a lot of people including a lot of our viewers who are really upset with how the mueller investigation turned out in the end. there were certainly a lot of successful indictments that were brought but not against, you know, some of the higher-up, including donald trump. the fact that that didn t happen in mueller doesn t to me say anything about what would happen here. these are very separate animals, and mar-a-lago is in my mind an open and shut investigation. you know, there s no doubt in my mind that if i did this or you did this we d be in jail right now. we certainly wouldn t get a special master or prosecutor or the like. it would be a very easy case. it s not that different. it s just
return, a lot of people concerned about how elon musk has tweeted about trump s return, the poll, whether the poll is based on bots, he himself has complained about bots. i think there s lots of questions here and i think we all sort of look around going what s going to happen next, but to some degree i think that s exactly what musk wants. sure looks like it. andrew ross sorkin. andrew, thanes so much. thanks. author and msnbc political analyst our friend anand giridharadas. his latest piece for the new york times is titled this week billionaires made a strong case for abolishing themselves. you write in part, elon musk is running twitter into the ground with much of the company s staff fired or quitting, outages spiking and everyone on my time line hurrying to. tell the app the things they have been meaning to say before
suspect may have had. willie? we spoke earlier on morning joe to the district attorney where you are. he was not willing to go so far as to say this was a hate crime but looking into that strong possibility. priscilla thompson, thanks so much. it has been more than a week since four idaho students were found murdered and so far police have not made an arrest in the case. we re learning new details this morning from authorities. gadi schwartz has the latest. reporter: as the investigation enters its second week, police say it s possible some of the victims were asleep during the attack. some of the victims had defensive wounds, and each victim was stabbed multiple times. reporter: authorities also revealing the 911 call that alerted them to the slayings was made from the cell phone of one of the surviving roommate who is police say are not suspects. investigators saying the roommates called friends over because they thought one of the victims had passed out, and