schoolchildren run, hide, fight, shelter in place, how do you secure the door of your classroom. and i ve seen that ham in tppene workplace and then in the congregations where we ve seen these types of violence attacks against innocent civilians that people unfortunately police officers aren t able to respond as quickly as they can. and so people have to take care of themselves. so they are training in advance to prepare themselves. whether it be with firearms or in the event that they have to extricate themselves to prepare and to get themselves to safety. and malcolm, let s look at the tenor of what has happened in this country where the eyes of pretty much everybody have been on these package bombs that have gone to 14 different places, 12 different individuals across this country. the result of the man in 234floa
a small clock, a battery, some wiring, and what is known as energetic material. these are not hoax devices. that is fbi director christopher wray talking more about those components that were inside those package bombs, thankfully none of which detonated. now, those packages are giving investigators crucial clues as they work to really figure out more about the suspect and about his motives. joining me now is nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, let s just start right there. were those devices actually created to explode in were they intended to go off? that seems to be what the fbi is saying when the fbi director says they were not hoax devices. they clearly didn t, thankfully, work, but at this point the supposition of investigators is that s not intentional. the bombmaker fortunately didn t do it right. but they believe based on the
twice. that s exactly what i thought of when i he heard rush limbaugh. it s like if there s one eyewitness to the document, if there s one eyewitness, they re going to say you know what? not enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. if there is a videotape, it was doctored. the if there s no dna, we demand dna. if there is dna, the police planted it. people are believing this nonsense. i don t blame defense attorneys for saying it in court, but when it so saturates our public psyche and we begin to believe, notwithstanding all of the evidence, fingerprints, dna, he s announcing his beliefs on his van. this is really, really troubling. let s leave it there. up next on up, late night finds the dark humor embedded in the headlines for the package
way for him to, you know, basically comfort the american people during this time of an attack, and we had two attacks this week with the bomber in florida, and he was criticized for his response to that where he was thinking more in terms of, you know, the political implications for him and the republican party, which he thought he was going to lose politically because this bomber was attacking democrats and not actually about the country s best interests, and i think, you know, if those people that the bomber attacked were republicans, like, you know, top republicans he would be on the phone within minutes making sure that they were okay, you know, giving his thoughts to them. instead, he did not call any of those people that were attacked earlier this week. yeah. the president does not take responsibility for the tenor under which these attacks have happened, not the 14 package
certain threat. and whatever that narrative is, it is somehow putting them in a position where they feel that violence is somehow justified in defense of some ideal. and there is no question that heated political rhetoric contributes to that. and this comes at the end of a hell of a week. you alluded to the package bombs and now we have this. there is a moment in that media availability where the public safety director nodded to you will at law enforceme will to you will all the law enforcement agencies that participated. and it brought to mind what we saw yesterday. you had jeff sessions flanked by the head of many federal agencies. talk a bit about integration as we have seen it on display over the course of this week. well, i think one of a genuinely positive thing about our law enforcement and intel against community is the degree