we have a great panel lined up to talk about all of this, eugene daniels, white house reporter and victoria francesca soto, dean at the university of arc a dr. celine gounder from the new york university school of medicine and belle view hospital and senior fell owe and ed for at-large from kaiser health and elaine cooper, pentagon reporter. good morning to all of you. they re all msnbc contributors. helene, vice president harris tried to kind of clear up the president s comments during an interview on the today show this morning. here s some of what she had to say. if putin takes aggressive action, we are prepared to levy serious and severe costs, period, and i will tell you that part of the posture that we have taken is grounded in the respect
white house quick to point out the immigration plan would have kept him out of the country. the five people in yesterday s explosion have all been treated and released. the suspect still at belle view hospital with an injury described by fire officials as serious. more from cnn s reporter. reporter: we re learning a little bit more about that bomb detonated by the 27-year-old. the source tells cnn that that bomb was 12 inches long, it was a pipe, inside that pipe was a black powder battery, wiring and some nuts and boat bolts and views, and also we re learning that ullah had at least two devices on him at the time that he was taken down here at port authority. many sources have said that had this bomb gone off the way he had planned, it would have done some major, major damage, especially happening during the morning rush hour.