for the last two nights people have chanted lock her up and cnn sucks, they have made comments about george soros. the president has in no way intervened. matt, thank you for being with us. harry and michael, thanks to both of you. as investigators were frantically searching for the bomb maker, some on the right were stoking this conspiracy theory this assassination attempt was simply a false flag. that s next. and later, former president obama who was the intended target of one of the bombs had a few things to say about president trump today. out president trump today. if only harry used some. .bounce, to dry. he would be a less wrinkly, winning guy.
joining us now harry litman, deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton, michael tomaski, and matt miller, former spokesman for attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. thank you to all of you for joining us on a friday night. harry, let me start with you. what do you make of what they ve got on this guy? it took them three days to find him. most people who know about these things were fairly confident they would because bomb making leaves quite a trail. what s your sense of this? well, they ve got a fingerprint, that s big. and there s some suggestion that they already have dna. that s big. but they re going to be getting so much more. they mainly wanted to get him off the street immediately ali. now we have the van, all kinds of social media, friends, search warrants of homes, other people in the rallies. they will be assembling a wealth of evidence over the next several weeks. so i think it s impressive that they so quickly got enough to
hold him. but i think it pales next to what they will be assembling over the next couple of weeks. charges will probably increase, and we ll see a fairly rich picture of exactly who this guy is and how he came to come from a trump supporter to an actual terrorist. michael, 14 bombs with real explosive powder in them, with shrapnel, we ve heard. this could be a very different conversation we could be having tonight. fortunately, we re not having that. we re talking about 14 failed attempts. donald trump was asked today by a reporter whether he would tone down his rhetoric. let s listen to that exchange. would you yourself pledge to tone down the rhetoric over the next few days? well, i think i ve been toned down, you want to know the truth. i could tone it up because as you know the media has been extremely unfair to me. i could really tone it up. it seems the president has learned nothing from this week.
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seen in fox segments where cruz or trump are on, and they re not exactly given the third degree on this network. this network serves an audience. that network serves an audience. come on. that interview is what i would have to consider the cheerleading interview bret baier and chris wallace. tough interviewers at fox. to your point, i didn t expect an inquisition from chris matthews. he makes no secret of having liberal sympathies. it just seemed like a softball conversation and an opportunity to press her and make some news. she s a tough interview. i ve interviewed her. and by design. she doesn t do this very much. she doesn t need to. it s not like there s somebody out there who doesn t know who she is. asking how great is it being a champion for women is a little bit how great is it? on that note, betsy, mercedes, michael, thanks. up next, we compare the