Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the
and what he s doing there is he s basically asking the white house chief of staff to pry into election administration, and what we know, anderson, now, what we re able to confirm, is this is the sort of thing that federal investigators, not just the house select committee that got these text messages already, but the justice department. this is the sort of thing that they would want to know about as well. and what we are reporting tonight at cnn is that there is an under sealed court proceeding after perry s cell phone was seized in august, a proceeding that went in confidential. we don t know how it was resolved, but it is one of those proceedings where justice department prosecutors continue to want to get data out of him. i was confused in these text messages. he s talking about the cyber forensics team as if it s some sort of renowned group that should be known about. are these just conspiracy theories that he s read online? and he s just passing along to mark meadows, like, you
to want to get data out of perry. i was confused in the text messages. he is talking about the cyber forensics team as if it s some sort of renowned group that should be known about. are these just conspiracy theories he s read online and he is passing along to mark meadows, like you have to save the actual scanning devices? who is the cyber forensics team? it could be a lot of different people. there seemed to be a lot of people around that time that were holding themselves out as people that were experts on cyber security. these are the sort of things that the affidavits in court that falsely accused people of having fraud in the election, that they were using somebody there is all kinds of people out there that held themselves out. but, you know, perry is one of those people that was talking to a lot of important figures, not just mark meadows. he was in touch with jeffrey clark, the justice department that donald trump wanted to install as the attorney general. and he clearly