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This. and that is the target set. the people that were targeted, where devices were actually sent. i know some people will look at this through a political lens. law enforcement officers wont care about the politics of it. but we cant lose sight of the fact that all of the targets here have these commonalities. theyre all democrats or in progressive circles or have been the subject of wrath from the president, from his allies and such. so thats going to be key, because, again, investigators are ...

I want to start with malcolm on this. this is your line and nbc has determined this had the makings of the a bomb. it could have killed people. >> youre right. what we had happen today was what we would call a bombing campaign. this is a terrorist bombing campaign. these were attempted murders of high ranking figures and the target set was one particular political party. the most important thing that can happen right now is this bomber needs to be tracked down. he has not just the devices that h...

Thinking about and should be planning for. >> last question to you. we have dealt with the legal side of things. let me ask about the policy side of things. mpr reporting on an investigation by maryland lawmakers announced friday. they were informed by the fbi about links between a russian oligarch and the software company that services parts of the states voter registration systems. for me, this was a huge take-away from that 29-page indictment on friday. what we learned about the vulnerability...

Hey spoke bi in buzz news that agents who said that cohen was in frequent contact with people trying to work the moscow deal that had knowledge of or were playing a role in the russian interference in the election. he entire investn is center of about, thats important. and also this other back channel plan with ukraine has russias fingerprints on it. cohen speaks to "the washington post" today and says today that russia endorsed it, which is a -incriminating move on his part. but here we have it...

Very large numbers of people. youre dealing with horrific weapons. you dont want to somehow erode the prohibitions against their use. thats the real reason. that would be the main point i would make about why you single out chemical weapons or biological weapons or nuclear weapons. >> mm-hmm. your thoughts on any of the abo above? >> i agree chemical weapons are particularly heinous, particularly horrendous in terms of affecting innocent human life. but they are an aggravating factor. the underl...

Unlawful, horrendous activity, assad waged war on his own people. i was struck, ari, i love dennis perspective on this, why the administration selected such a narrow approach to the fission. there was a phrase in the pentagon, dont waste a crisis. they could have expanded the target set to degrade assads war making may sheen against his own people to try to change the balance of power and send a stronger signal to russia that hey, we need a different dynamic that erodes assads power. >> ambassad...

General, did any russian defenses engage u.s. or british or french ships or missiles and were any of the strikes intended to kill bashar al assad. >> the only reaction that im aware of at this time was syrian surface to air missiles. i happen to be down in military command center and was aware but im not aware of any russian activity or the full scope of the syrian regime response at this time. those will be detailed and pulled together in the morning. >> the targets tonight, again, were specifi...

Intelligence have the torn ado jets and also submarines that are out in the mediterranean that have the capability to also watch tomahawk missiles. >> so let me ask you, colonel, with elements of russian military on the ground in syria, how much more difficult does this make -- do they bring some technology or equipment maybe to the table that syria wouldnt have access to? >> they bring tremendous >> if you look at the equipment the syrians are using, most of it -- much it it goes back to the so...

This s 400. so i dont think the syrians would be very effective at knocking these things down. i did want to say after the excellent run-down of where things were, i just want to talk to the target set in damascus. you remember general mattis and general dunford said one of the things they took into consideration was the minimization of civilian casualties, and then they talked about striking these syrian scientific studies and research center. i lived in damascus and not too far from that area....

Message to the russians. the french even said they had provided warning to the russians. we did this a year ago and let the russians know very short period of time. the last thing we want to do is kill a bunch of russian troops in one of these syrian military installations and force the russians into some sort of response that theyll feel duty bound to make. >> that was the rieal risk, right? this could tip a domino and wed have a real military situation on our hands with the russians and the ir...