kamala harris close brush with the dnc pipe bomb. walk us through the new details you ve learned and give us a sense for why it s taken more than a year for this to become public. let me bring you back to january 5th, 2021. it was between 7:30 p.m. and around 8:00 p.m. that night that someone who remains at large put a pipe bomb right here. back then there were bushes here. there were benches here. all of this was caught on video here at the democratic national committee headquarters. fast forward to january 6th, around 11:30 a.m. and kamala harris detail, her motorcade pulled right around here, pulling right into this garage which is just yards from where the pipe bomb was found. further, we know she entered at 11:30 a.m. it was discovered at 1:06 p.m. she was evacuated through an alternate route at 1:14 p.m. we re learning all this because the reality is while we know a lot, there are still so many
the 2020 results. the committee is looking at ways president trump and his advisers pressured pence. it s been almost 13 months since that attack on the capitol and it s still not known who placed pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both major political parties. exclusive reporting by cnn reveals one of those bombs came dangerously close to the vice president as cnn s tom foreman now reports. reporter: who is this person caught on security cameras just blocks from the capitol on the evening of january 5th, 2021? federal investigators believe this individual left a pair of pipe bombs outside democratic and republican party headquarters. bombs that were not discovered until early the next afternoon as the capitol erupted. in this area where the bombs were placed, if they did go off,
new this morning, cnn is learning new details about just how close then vice president-elect kamala harris was to the pipe bomb planted outside the dnc headquarters on january 6th, 2021. multiple law enforcement officers familiar with the situation say harris drove within several yards of the explosive device. cnn s law enforcement correspondent whitney wild outside of dnc headquarters in washington. you ve also been learning harris was inside the headquarters for longer than we previously knew. i suppose the question is, how close do investigators believe she came to danger here? reporter: well, that s the question. what fbi made very clear is these pipe bombs, though they did not detonate, were viable. january 5th, 2021. right here, back then, benches
it s been almost 13 months since the attack on the capitol. and one of the biggest unsolved mystery of the person who placed pipe bombs. one of them came dangerously close to the vice president. tom foreman has the latest. reporter: who is this person caught on security cameras blocks from the capitol on the evening of january 5th, 2021? federal investigators believe they left a pair of pipe bombs outside democratic and republican party headquarters, not discovered until early the next afternoon as the capitol erupted. if these went off, they could have caused serious arm or death. reporter: even crude pipe bombs can be enormously powerful. on that day, i was not only
breaking news this morning. cnn has brand-new details how close vice president-elect kamala harris was to a pipe bomb planted outside the democratic national committee headquarters, the same day as the january 6th capitol insurrection last year. now, cnn previously had reported that harris was evacuated minutes after the pipe bomb was discovered. but multiple sources now reveal she was inside the dnc for nearly two hours before this pipe bomb was found. right to cnn s whitney wild with the breaking new details. that s not the only new thing we have learned, whitney. it is how close the vice president-elect came to this. reporter: absolutely. so let me take you back to january 5th, 2021. sometime between 7:30 and 9:00 p.m., january 5th, a suspect, still at large, planted a pipe bomb right here outside the dnc. just a few feet from where i m standing. that is just a few yards from where kamala harris entered the