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To. but i certainly support the decision. >> you know, theres going to be a lot of people -- we know a lot of people are going to evaluate how this decision was made, especially in context of the fact that there was a similar threat made to new york city schools and we are still waiting to find out exactly whether or not these came from the same source or not but what do you think and what are you going to tell other parents that come to you for questions about how do you get on with your regula...

Where the mayor and police commissioner said we have seen the similar e-mail. its believed they may have gotten portions of text that were the same, that overlapped. they have been saying they dismissed it. they have hinted at an overreaction in los angeles. but to a person, the public officials in southern california early today have said, we did what we needed to do. and we cannot second guess a decision like this that was made. lets not forget in the wake of a terrible domestic terrorist atta...

Not a coincidence but, you know, again, until the threats have been vetted, it is premature to say l.a. acted. >> i think the police chief said its easy to krit sichl without the responsibility of the decision. >> the other thing thats said is the superintendents decision to close the schools so i also dont feel like the police chief or the mayor was backing away from that decision. i think they were just being factual. >> yes. they were very factual in pointing out that they support this decisi...

Really shocked to its core. the former mayor of the city of los angeles, antonio villaraigosa, thank you for joining us. our justice correspondent, pete williams, with us from our washington bureau with more. pete? >> some additional information about why new york city officials reached the decision they did and a little more insight here into the wording of the e-mails that were sent we now know to both new york and l.a. public schools. this information comes from jonathan dienst of wnbc in new...

Different results. its also not entirely clear at this point how much of that was known to the l.a. officials when they had to make this decision in the early hours of the morning about whether there had been a similar message elsewhere and one of the things they may have had to consider is whether that was part of the effort to disguise the true source here. >> pete williams in our washington bureau, our long-time justice correspondent. to those joining us on the nbc television network, there w...

>> nice to be here. >> not under the best of circumstances but you spoke to local leaders in los angeles. >> yes. i spoke to local leaders in los angeles, in new york because it was a different reaction in new york. and look. both i think both were exactly justified for all the reasons that you have been covering so well today. you know, if you are in l.a. and youre 20 miles north of san bernardino, 3 years to the anniversary of what just happened in fnewtown and you se and an experienced superi...

Another part that doesnt seem credible is that he claims that he has 32 accomplices and that he has nerve agent. there other parts of this e-mail that turn out to be accurate and thats why an abundance of caution is called for but i would be very surprised this attack involved 33 people and nerve agents. so parts of this e-mail may be true, parts of it i dont think are. >> but again, the more we hear about the content of this e-mail, the more you read to us, the more it makes you think you try r...

The top of the hour, when well toss our coverage to thomas roberts, we are talking about a decision this morning by the superintendent of l.a.u.s.d. the los angeles unified school district, ramone cortenas, we heard from him in the past hour, to shut down the schools because of what sure looked like a serious threat to public safety. an e-mail, if it didnt originate, it was routed through europe, an e-mail mentioning explosive devices, mentioning automatic weapons, machine pistols and the like. ...

Just like any time i give decision makers advice when its not my decision, my advice to them is my advice to them, not to you. >> reporter: there has been a spill-over effect to parochial schools, private schools, other citizens who might feel their children are not safe. what do you say to them? >> the threat was very specific to l.a. unified school district. we have made that well known. now, if other learning institutions out of an abundance of caution want to make the same decision, then tha...

Of children, their safety, and i think we have to hold, when you are in the public trust, a public servant, you have to hold that responsibility in the highest regard. just as simple as that. >> we are talking to the former l.a. mayor villairagosa. mr. mayor, some of these comments we heard at the press conference were frankly a little defensive and they are allowed to be because we had this news conference here in new york where the mayor de blasio and police commissioner bratton, former l.a. p...