we re expecting a brief from new york city s mayor bill de blasio. cnn s poppy harlow and jim sciuto are on the scene, they were on air when they had to evacuate in the time-warner center because of the bomb scare. we also have cnn crime and justice reporter tisimone with . let s start with jim and poppy, tell us, jim, about the scene, what happened, and when you were told you had to evacuate and what you were told? reporter: well, i tell you, jake, it s remarkable to have been on the air discussing a state of explosive devices sent a around the country, we were discussing the obama residence, the clinton residence, a day or two ago, the soros residence. we heard a fire alarm and my first reaction when i hear a
he said notably, jim, it starts at the top. that was the new york commissioner of police o neal saying very explicitly, don t encourage attacks on the media, that contributes, he said to choices people are making, there s no question about it. that s quite a reprimand you might call it from the commissioner of police in new york to the kind of rhetoric that we hear in public, not just the media, in the targets, but public officials and so on and that s a law enforcement official who they cakes these t very seriously and no police department in the country knows that better than the new york police department. and it is not a partisan comment. he is saving the facts. you look at the facts of who, to what entities and what people these explosive devices were sent to in the last 36 hours, and then you look at from the governor to the mayor of new york city to the police commissioner saying this is the world we live in, this is the tone and the tone and the rhetoric cools from the top.
that was addressed to the former cia director john brennan. there are other developments unfolding right now, i quickly want to go to our correspondents and our anchors who were at the c nrks nrknn bureau in new york harlow and jim sciuto were on air when these situations began to unfold. give us your reactions to what we just heard from law enforcement. there was a lot of news there, wolf. in that press conference. in that, first of all, there was a live explosive device september to september sent to cnn, something that made its way all the way to the mail room. and in addition to that explosive device, aroun envelop that contains white powder. the concern, what could that powder be, could it be biochemical weapons, something like that, so out of an
just the sloppiness, it appears. clarissa ward, thank you so much. for the first time, harder stance, somewhat, from president trump on saudi arabia, telling the washington post that the saudis stories have included, in his words, deception and lice. that is a noticeable shift since just friday when president trump said he believed the explanation, as the saudis had claimed, of a fist fight gone wrong. in the same interview, he praised mohammed bin salman, calling him a strong person with very good control. cnn s abby philip is live at the white house. as you hear those words, those are words that the president has bestowed on other strong men, putin included, admiring the grip that they have, kim jong-un, et cetera, even in the face of the evidence of what we ve seen here. that s right, jim. even in the face of all that you just saw and heard from clarissa a few moments ago.
president trump vowed to pull out of a decades-old nuclear treaty with russia. one official says this could be a very dangerous step. we are on it this morning. chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in istanbul. clarissa, you look at these pictures here and it seems to provide pretty convincing evidence this was no rogue operation but a planned one, a premeditated one. reporter: that s right, jim. and it s ironic that this comes the day after the saudi foreign minister told fox news that this was a rogue operation, that the killing was unintentional, that this was a mistake. turkish officials here are telling us, no, this was premeditated murder. they say the saudis flew in a body double to pose as jamal khashoggi leaving the consulate to cover up the killing. cnn, as you said, has obtained exclusive surveillance footage. this is part of the investigation that the government is carrying out and it appears to support that argument. check it out.