Look theres a big difference between cars comments made in actions taken the president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages the idea that this is at the hands of the president is absolutely the center of fortunately i think all trump too often has helpless sight some of these feelings of. Anger not violence and yesterday the very first thing that the president did was come out and condemn the violence the very first thing your network did was come out and accuse the president of being responsible for it. Also coming up tonight the European Parliament towards its top human rights prize to a man a russian president Vladimir Putin once branded a terrorist. Well if you say so. On terror charges will ask whether this move will help this case or just for evoke further anger from the kremlin. Loping it that issuing a this decision was absolutely politicized you know and then. I dont know on what basis this prize was awarded easiest that. We begin our broadcast with a major u. S. Wide manhunt that softer ten suspicious packages were sent to numerous democrats and critics of the u. S. President Law Enforcement officials are reportedly focusing their investigation on the u. S. State of florida so far though no information about the potential suspects is known three more devices were discovered today one was addressed to american actor Robert De Niro and two others were directed at democrat former Vice President joe biden on wednesday packages were found at the home of two former democrat president s bill clinton and president ial candidate Hillary Clinton and the obama the c. N. N. Headquarters in new york city was also evacuated after it received a package addressed to former cia director john brennan two others were found at the offices of california representative Maxine Waters and one was sent to former obama attorney general eric holder. And the earlier Law Enforcement officials gave this update on the status of the investigation. My p. D. The f. B. I. Were taking me seriously we are treating them as life devices as you see the way our bomb squad detectives went in to c. N. N. Yesterday this has to be taken with the utmost seriousness as far as a hoax device when i treat it that way and i can say with certainty that we will identify an arrest a person or people responsible for these acts and i mean definitely it was just terrorism related what do you say. Its absolutely terrorism because its an effort to use violence to make a political impact and thats the definition of terrorism are i had to be cautious on is in new york city and try baca she joins us from outside after Robert De Niros restaurant and as we heard thats where one of the latest devices was discovered abby do we know any more about who may be behind these devices. We just heard Law EnforcementOfficials Say that this is in fact an issue of terrorism but the first thing that the Police Commissioner when he came out at that press conference what he said what new yorkers are safe they do not believe that theres any credible information at this hour to suggest that there are further packages in the mail system and so where im standing right now is in front of the tri backer grow as you mentioned this is one of the packages with sand and discovered by a security official early this morning it was extracted and delivered to a facility in the bronx where f. B. I. Officials are now looking at how it was built and packaged in hopes of finding more clues as to who is behind these incidents now abbi what more do we know about the actual devices themselves. So the packages appear to be similar but the f. B. I. Officials have confirmed that there are slightly different they are bonds functional ones rudimentary in nature so theyre not very extravagant or sophisticated devices but they were meant to detonate of course as we know the ten packages that have been retrieved so far none of them did detonate luckily causing no further injuries but one of them apparently seem to have shards of glass in the package meant to further injure and cause greater injury or potentially be fatal to whoever opened that package now abbi there is some concern that more devices may be out there what the conscience our authorities taking. So in that press conference earlier they said that they have no credible information that anything else is in play but of course we dont know if the fastback or the suspect are planning to mail out anything new in the future in terms of security precautions the city of new york has stepped up measures across the city at vital locations c. N. N. Which was the target yesterday after taxes delivered and made it all the way to the mailroom has amped up security measures at their other offices in atlanta and washington in terms of what politicians are saying there are republicans and democrats calling for calm calling for a more civil tone and of course considering the intended recipient of all of these packages theyve been critics of the president and there are linkages being drawn suggesting that the president s words have potentially caused the actions of individuals but as we heard the beginning of the show there are standards the press secretary wants no such linkages to be made all right because the sun reporting from new york city thank you for your continued coverage. And for more i am now joined by jimmy oxley she is a professor in chemistry at the university of rhode island in the u. S. And an expert in explosive devices and professor ugly has assisted bomb squads in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in the past including the two thousand and five london bombings a very welcome professor pipe bombs which these are believed to be are notoriously stable why did these bombs fortunately not explode. Well its unclear at this time why these bombs didnt explode theres certainly speculation that they were intended to explode but there was also a fair amount of effort gone to keep them from being detected right away and they were very small devices that can go in the regular post here in the u. S. If. A pipe if a package weighs over a pound it has to be taken into the post office and someone would get a look at you and you would be on camera so from that point if you theres been an attempt to hide. Who did it and what they were doing on the other hand theyre very strangely constructed not just are they small but theyre small and were what weve heard so far theyre pyrotechnic which means theyre not going to do a lot of damage more than to the person that opened them we havent heard anything about the initiation system we see a clock which is extremely odd because you cant really count on when the package would be open if you said of for a long time to make it sure it got to its destination and you opened it and saw a clock you would immediately back away it also has wires coming out of both then so these are both strange in terms of a functioning device well that leads me to think that you know is there a possibility that they were never intended to explode that these were just send some sort of warning. That thats very well a possibility weve got ten ten pipe bombs and no explosions. The i believe one has been disrupted by new york and im sure the Law Enforcement has a pretty good idea of whether they were capable of exploding now as you describe i mean they arent very sophisticated bombs but nonetheless how much damage can these types of bombs cause of the size of this are small theyre likely to damage the whoevers within a three foot radius unless of course youre very unlucky. This is our plastic we use plastic or some of us when were trying to avoid damage when were making devices well use plastic to avoid damaging our equipment because its not nearly as bad as throwing metal fragments you remember that any time we see a terrorist device we usually see added nails or bolts or something to cause damage we have heard there is glass particles in the. But the damage is rather short ranged in terms of how far out melee to the person who opened it usually all right professor jimmy oxley thank you so much for weighing in thank you. So how has the Trump Administration responded to these packages in a press conference on wednesday the president called for unity but today a very different message he had out at news organizations accusing them of a flaming anger in the u. S. He says that here a very big part of the anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that i refer to as fake news trump tweeted while it has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description Mainstream Media must clean up its act fast now that to eat prompted this fierce response from former cia director john brennan stop blaming others he tweeted look in the mirror your inflammatory rhetoric insults lies and encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful clean up your act try to act president ial the American People deserve much better by the way your critics will not be intimidated into silence not mincing his words there but there are those who think trump was right in blaming the media for instance a conservative radio host mark levin tweeted the president is right the tone of the media has been atrocious c. N. N. M. S. N. B. C. And even the Late Night Network shows among others have been poisonous so the temperature is still very high lets turn now to our w. Correspondent stefan in washington d. C. Stephan how is trumps response going down or where you are. I think temperatures actually are still at boiling point so beyond very high if you disregard the right wing or or right extremist as well as conservative media and media on the fringe they are actually now saying that we should look into conspiracy theories that the democrats actually set up this whole. Pipe bomb package sending it around the country to democrats thing. To get away of the narrative of the care and who is according to the Trump Administration just weeks away from knocking at the u. S. Border in texas the sides that the. Political establishment here pundits observers and of course the socalled Mainstream Media are pretty much only saw in all of one of opinion and that is that the president squandered an opportunity to actually do what he asked for to be done yesterday to unify this country and to stop decisiveness in how people speak to each other here and how our political discourse here is happening in this town and in this country but i think the verdict is out there he failed to do so by blaming the media as being the major culprit and responsible party in this situation is we have it right now stephanie what kind of impact if any could all of this have on the upcoming midterm elections. All of this has to be seen of course and with the backdrop and in context of the midterm elections and here is what some analysts say this is fairly complex so. Make this fairly quick they say this incident here and this Ongoing Investigation lets not forget this is a terrorism investigation and a nationwide manhunt going on because police and. Investigators think there is more bombs of this sort out there anyway they say that the democrats can use and will use this to further stoke their base and also important independents in this country to go to the polls and to vote republican majority out of the house and possibly even on the senate well they also say this can also work equally fine for the republicans one way one one word and one topic is what is actually behind all this analysts is and a lot of analysis and this is trump its all about trump against or for trump and the midterms the midterm elections november six stefan simones there reporting from washington thank you for your continued coverage. Now with the u. S. Midterm elections looming and were just twelve days to go until polling one positive in the otherwise fierce Divisive Political fight the record breaking number of women running for governor or for congress lets take a look now at congressional races since one nine hundred eighty with each consecutive election there are more and more women running there was a strong spike between twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen some are even calling twenty eighteen the year of the woman w. s is looking at some of the high profile women candidates and we have an indepth profiles on four females grabbing the headlines this year the latest in the series is Democrat Stacey Abrams from georgia she is hoping to become the first female africanamerican governor in any state in u. S. History on a phenomena caught up with their. Stacy abrams politician attorney romance novelist running for governor of georgia and the race that is one of the most closely watched. It. Play from State University in atlanta a large and an adjusted crowd waits here for stacy a price she has to hope for change when new leadership that they believe will really represent that. Im not running for governor so i can help how im running for governor so we can have. Funding because i know there are people in this room and told you were not enough to control because of who you love the language you speak or the faith you worship that you are less than and im running for all of us because were going to run so hard in the fact that. Liberals have hailed her as a progressive champion possessing super powers and black girl magic while republicans have issued warnings about what they called her extreme agenda fact is Stacey Abrams is on track to write history here in georgia and nationwide she becomes the first ever black female governor in the u. S. A star among the democrats Stacey Abrams wants to boost spending for Public EducationAffordable Housing and health car but shes also trying to persuade voters that she is a pragmatic politician with a record of finding Common Ground with conservatives Stacy Jenkins is one of her supporters she says that abramson victory would be a defining moment for the former confederate saws it would be historical because georgia was one of the largest slave home states for a very long time before slavery was emancipated and i think that it would be a legacy. That was set precedence and pay homage to those who paid the price for her you know for her to be able to run in this capacity and stacy abrams mural on the prominent corner in atlanta painted by a local artist when bar owner grant henry first hit on this idea he was afraid of negative reactions but then decided to do it and it way i feel like Spacey Abrams represents what the people really repartee represent and its openness and its freedom in its acceptance of all people a start up in atlanta here Stacey Abrams meets with the women who deeply admire her but not everyone agrees for manny rural voters she represents a major departure from their ideal candidate for statewide office own guns. No ones taken away and her republican opponents bryant camp called her an out of touch radical liberal unfit to run georgia but stacy abrams remains focused on her mission i am part of a group of people women and people color around this country who are transforming what the face of leadership looks like were expanding the narrative of america and thats a good thing and im excited to be able to be in a position to do so. Stacy abrams once called herself a proud daughter all of the cells the election will show georgia its ready for her. And i and. The European Union has awarded its top human rights fries to ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned in russia since twenty fifteen all expense off was jailed for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism charges which she denies russia has described the ins decision to give him the award as quote absolutely politicized. Alexa and self is one of the most vocal critics of russias involvement in ukraine and its an extension of his native crimea the forty two year old filmmaker was on Hunger Strike until just recently refusing food for one hundred forty five days a protest to demand the release of all ukrainian prisoners held by russia. Announcing sense of as the Award Recipient the head of the European Parliament praised his courage and determination. By awarding him this prize the European Parliament is expressing its solidarity with him and his cause we demand that all the exit solve he was arrested in twenty fourteen and sentenced to twenty years in prison be immediately released. Russias annexation of the ukrainian territory of crimea in twenty fourteen triggered sanctions from the e. U. Moscow dismissed the decision to give the prize to sense of as russophobe it or putting it that is saying if you see more the decision was absolutely politicized and i dont know what it was based on are motivated by. Needles. But you dont even need to understand the mechanism of how this decision was made to see that it was based on a political approach. Option being in others like me kind of hoping at it or dishing despite this reaction from the russian government human Rights Groups they are still feeling optimistic. Because its going to look so the hes believes so. Does not belong in jail and so has not perpetrated a cry its one of the key cases of political manipulation of justice in russia to t. V. He does nor do more behind the bar. Of the. Sense of family and supporters hope the prize will lift his spirits and raise awareness of all Political Prisoners in russia and around the worlds. And with me in the studio is our very own nic connelly you are very well versed in all things ukraine so were very happy to have you here with us. This scribe to us put into context for us how significant is it that the e. U. Picked him specifically and tell us little bit more abou