systems, not like beefing up airport security. people take about 10 billion mass transit trips each year. backed up in a 2020 report by the government accountability office. the tsa says in an analysis of mass transit security, they are difficult to protect due to high concentration of travelers and multiple access. all of this begs the question, what will change after this attack? it s a tough balance. cities rely on public transit and don t want to make getting on a train or bus more difficult. we know that mayor eric adams said there will be a beefed up security presence at stations as well. pete reporting for us. thank you. we are getting this from investigators in new york city.
quite some time. it is, however, hallie, a preview of what we could expect to see on the campaign trail because if portions of this report are made public, if there are, for example, some problematic revelations for any of the president s allies, the president himself, this is the type of strategy i think you will see him deploying. he s going to continue this bare knuckle attack mode against the special counsel, hallie. kristen welker, pete williams, thanks to both of you for joining us. i want to bring in msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutors, singcynthia, glen betsy woodruff and aaron blake, senior political reporter for the washington post. cynthia, from everything that you have seen and heard and have listened to with pete reporting, kristen reporting, are treportir organization, what s your expectation for the timeline? nobody has any idea. it s just tea leaves. somebody does. robert mueller knows. bob mueller knows, and what s all who knows and he s not
anyone in unless they happen to, very clearly, be police. at all began when suspects shot and killed an mit police officer earlier in the night and then tried to rob a 7-eleven. pete williams reports they later car-jacked a mercedes suv near the mit campus and keeping the car s owner at gunpoint and then later relieving the person unharmed. police followed the car to watertown and when the suspects apparently threw explosive devices from the car at some point during the standoff they had at least one pressure cooker bomb similar to the one used in the boston marathon bombing. in terms of what we know, pete williams just told us about the suspects they are legal, permanent residents of the united states who have been here at least a year. pete reporting it doesn t look like they were students at mit, despite the fact this is where most of this began in that area. may have military experience. we are not sure yet of their country of origin so we won t report on that.