santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote, consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulte
News coverage here in New York City now. Craig melvin at msnbc headquarters. The nation on high alert, on high alert over a domestic tryst terrorist whos been waging war through the u. S. Mail all week. Pete williams just a few moments ago reporting that a person has been taken into custody at this point, a person were told perhaps in his 50s taken into custody in florida for questioning in connection with the mail bombs that have been sent to prominent americans all over this country over the past few days. Details as to this persons connection right now, those Details Remain unclear. This coming as two more explosive devices were discovered today, a total of 12 devices have now been sent, 12 explosive devices. Today one package found at a new york postal facility on the west side of manhattan. That one was addressed to former director of national
intelligence James Clapper. The other intercepted in florida. That one was addressed to new jersey democrat cory booker. All of these devic
Development that folks were hoping for. Thats an arrest in this. Of course, a lot of investigation to move forward. Are there others . Is this certainly the person . Those questions investigators working on right now. But our colleagues are going to continue to follow this throughout the day. We have our colleague kate bolduan coming up right now. Really appreciate it. Thanks so much. As you said, breaking news out this morning. And a new chapter begins. A man arrested in connection with these bomb packages. With these suspicious devices. 11th and 12th suspicious devices intercepted today. A lot to get to. Let me get to Shimon Prokupecz. You and the team have been iworking on this all morning. What do we have . We dont know who he is. We dont know anything about him. Heres the bottom line. Since last night, i would say, early last evening, we had heard there was significant progress made, and that they believed they had identified someone who
was responsible for this, or at least that
And he had been beaten in the head with rocks. Narrator Jays Body was located about 70 miles away from where tanya was found. Hed been strangled. The boy who found my Brothers Body was 24 at the time. Hes now in his 50s, and he remembers it and has carried it with him this whole time. Narrator the Plastic Zip ties found with both victims indicated this was not a haphazard, spurofthemoment attack. This was something that appeared to have been premeditated. This person came equipped to commit this crime. Narrator who would do this . Jay and tanya appear to have been targeted, but they didnt know anyone in the area. Tanya i mean, i couldnt even imagine her coming close to having enemies of this sort. Baanstra we didnt know anybody that we could even dream of doing this kind of damage to someone
why are they still protecting a dead pedophile? i don t know exactly what s going on with the flight records. i know that some of them are hard to obtain. jesse: tell me about it! right. when i was reporting on the case for my podcast, broken seeking justice, we went to the home of the pilot and we asked for the flight records. he was not as forthcoming with that, said he didn t have them. that was at least what he had told her lawyers. we went to the houseman that worked there, and he ended up being a crucial witness in the ghislaine maxwell trial. he testified and said it was an open secret, that the way jeffrey epstein lived his life, he was a man in his 50s, 60s, around girls who were teenagers. pretty out in the open. it was pretty hard not to see what was going on is what he said, which is why in a big way these people enabled him and helped him come back into