Conduct this investigation and bring those responsible for these despicable acts to justice. We have to unify. We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of Political Violence of any kind have no place in the United States of america. So far the devices have been what appear to be a pipe bomb. What we saw here today was an effort to terrorize. This clearly is an act of terror, attempting to undermine our free press and leaders of this country through acts of violence. Through acts of violence. With me now with the latest nbc news investigations reporter tom winter. All right, tom, you and i have been together for the last two hours as we try to interpret what happened earlier today and were getting more news about maxine waters. Set the stage for us exactly
where things stand. I know im putting you in a tough spot because there are still so many unknown. And some things even not quite frankly were not in the position to share bec
welcome back. i am stephanie ruhle joined by the normal anchor of this hour, ali velshi, who is on location as we have special coverage of today s attempted domestic terrorism. ali is going to rejoin us in a moment. he is standing in columbus circle right outside cnn s headquarters where they received a suspicious package today along with a number of other political officials who received the same. i want to bring in our chief correspondent hali jackson at the white house. hali, the president spoke i want to say an hur and a half ago at a plan event where he was meant to speak about opioids, when he did, but he had a few brief comments. fill us in. he s tweeteding now, steand s received a briefing from the highest level homeland security intelligence officials in the