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
general under president clinton, michael, and matt miller 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.
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 in 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 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. we re talking about 14 failed attempts. we ll learn more about that in the coming days. but donald trump was asked today by a reporter whether he would tone down his rhetoric. let s listen to that exchange.