The scene with one of the pipestyle devices sent to the clinton home, and obama home as well, and investigators confirm it has been sent there, and now we are also informed that Debbie Wassermann schultz office is evacuated as well in sunrise, florida. And now we go to andrea mitchell. We continue the breaking coverage of suspicious packages sent to the chappaqua home of bill and Hillary Clinton and the washington, d. C. , home of barack and michelle obama, and the packages to the clintons and the obamas were flagged in routine screenings before they reached oo either home. In new york, the Law Enforcement and the First Responders are responding to the the evacuation of Cnn Headquarters in time warner headquarters in
manhattan. Cnn reports that pipe wires were hanging out of it, and this is one day after investigators found an Explosive Device at the billionaire philanthropist, and long time democratic contributor george soros who has been the victim of right wing conspiracy opponents. And now in sunrise, florida, responding to the t fog ing to congresswoman Debbie Wassermann schultz local office. The Law Enforcement says that the returned a dress for the soros, clintons, obamas and did belong to the congresswoman, and it is a false returned a dress indicating the is similarity between whoever sent all of the packages, and the white house is
quick to condemn the acts. The statement from press secretary Sarah Sanders saying that we condemn the attempted Violent Attacks recently made against president obama, president clinton, secretary clinton, and these other figures. These terrorizing angts are despicable, and anyone responsible will be held accountable for the fullest extent of the law. And ali velshi is outside of new york, and ron allen outside of the clinton home no chappaqua, and garrett headache outside of the obama home in washington, d. C. , and Philippe Raines a long time adviser to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state
and president ial candidate. What do we oknow about the investigation, petet . Well, we are told that the authorities have a pretty good idea what packages they came from. And one of The Big Question Kws yet to be answered is whether in fact these devices are actually functioning. Now, swwe have shown a moment a a picture of what the inside of these devices look like. It is a pipe that is wrapped in, appears to be wrapped in black electriciantype tape and has wires coming from it, and the little yellow there on the lefthand part of the screen is some of the apparently packaging material that some of these came n and all of them in padded envelopes, and not boxes, but envelopes, and inside of the pipe device, and at least the one analyzed is what is called black powder, and what you might commonly call gunpowder. So it is not an unusual type explosive and most of these things are easily available materiels which is the case for most pipe bombs. Most of them in the padded materials, and all of them with Debbie Wassermann schultz phony address on them, and they appear to be working explosives, but whether or not they have worked and we had appeared this graphic, and we were not naming Debbie Wassermann schultz, but now we are because they are searching her offices in florida to see if one of those devices was there, and one of a couple of things to emphasize, the one sent to the clintons and the obamas here never got anywhere near the addresses or the homes in new york or here in washington, and they were all intercepted at off site mail facilities, and the one sent to george soros in new york was placed in the mailbox, and the one to the cnn was according to cnn found in their mail room. So they were not diverted before they were sent, because they are nongovernment facilities. And so we know now of five devices that we know of for sure. Soros, obamas, clintons, cnn and the question now is the one that is the suspicious package received at Debbie Wassermann schultz Florida Office one of these or not. A simple look will determine that. All of them were received through mail, and stamps on the outside and computerprinting type returned a dresses stuck the on with Adhesive Mail Type Labels and awe of them u all of padded envelope. And one more followup, and then we will go to Ali Velshi Outside of c nshnn. And how was that one to cnn inaccurately addressed . Yes, it is addressed to john brenn brennan, the former cia director. And he had appeared on cnn this the past, but he did not work there, and his name is also misspell misspelled on the label for what that is worth. But he was notified of this today. And obviously, you know, all of the people that have been, and these things have been sent to have been notified and asked to be extra vigilant about what may be coming through the mail or sent to them, but he doesnt have any connection to cnn and as a matter of fact, he has an agreement to be a commentator for nbc news. But in any event a that is how the package was addressed to cnn. And in fact, he has been a very strong criticism of some of President Trumps actions regarding the Intelligence Community and his Security Clearances were among those withdrawn by the president at the president s order. So he has been quite a target of
the administration in particular. Pete, i nknow that yu are standing by, but i want to go to Ali Velshi Outside of the Cnn Headquarters where there are packages discovered in the mailroom. Ali. Yes, goi got here just as people were evacuating here, and in a half hour we are expecting a briefing from the nypd Police Commissioner and others, and we have The Bomb Squad truck, and antiterrorism vehicles and others here. And that is not the Detonation Vehicle here, but it is design ed to block off our view, because until a few moments we had a straight view to east river and new jersey and this is 9tht avenue in front of us. And there are several entrances here to the shopping center, and some of the finest restaurants in the city, and the awning over
it, and it is residential tower and condominiums, and the third entrance which is glassed in, that is cnn and the entrance and the only way into and out of cnn. And to the Shopping Concourse there, and that is shutdown years ago and one entrance to the egress and beyond is a Parking Garage and it is a Public Parking garage and the Service Garage for cnn and cnn vehic vehicles go in, and the deliveries are made, and so it is unclear to how the package got to where it is, and it was misaddressed to john brennan and the address is 10 Columbus Circle and i worked here for seven years, and i did not the the address, but if you put cnn or Time Warner Center or the time warner circle, the mail will get here. So i know that we have had bomb
sniffing dogs in here all over the place including sniffing the u. P. S. Truck here. If you have been on 58th street behind, you cant get in or out. This is the situation. Cnn employees were on the air when a fire alarm went off, and i remember being here with the fire alarms and you take them seriously, a seriously, and they said that they would check what was going on and then they announced to evacuate, and broadcasting moved to d. C. And nothing is going on here. And cnn is evacuate and the retail side is evacuate and everybody is on the street. And my colleagues are reporting from a few feet away from me what is going on. We dont know if the device is out of the building and we would have told you, because we would have seen the Detonation Vehicle leave, but the view has been blocked off by the Police Bomb Squad truck behind us, and we are expecting a briefing in 30 minutes. And jeff zucker, the president of cnn has sent out a email to cnn that all of the facilities
have been checked around the world, and they have installed a magnetomet magnetometer, and so every person in and out will have to be checked. One update. That device has been removed from cnn. It has not gone through the elevator, but it is taken from the vehicle to the bronx to be detonated for Safety Reasons of course. Bill bratton, the former nypd commissioner is with us now from new york. And bill, go through the procedures that the all of these wonderful nypd people on the streets there around Columbus Circle are going through right now as they also try to protect those who try to evacuatet any secondary device outside of the building . Well, a lot going on at the scene, the evacuation of the
building, the creel sealing of the area, and the bombsniffing dogs there check out the vehicles, and concerned is pulling people out of the low case, and the secondary device looking to take the advantage of those crowds outside of the facility, but no indicationf that as an actual threat. Precaution. The bomb device as i understand it looks to be removed. My understanding out to the rodmans neck facility which is out of the city area of the bronx is heavily escorted vehicle on the way out to the location. Out there, they will first attempt to examine the device through robots, et cetera, before detonating to one, determine if it is an active device, and is it capable oof detonating, and if so, what is the mechanism to detonate it. There is a lot of concern at the
moment that they just dont know it, and if these things are a hoax or the real thing. Hopefully they will get clarification fairly quickly to the allay the concern s s if it not the real thing. Additionally the nypd is reaching out to almost 3,000 partners they have in the private security in the new york are region trying to get as much information as possible as to what the envelopes looks like, and the device, itself, looks like, and also, putting the people on notice in the respective mail rooms. If you find something similar, and then effectively notify police immediately and get out of the area. So, a lot is a happening. I would anticipate both the News Conference that is scheduled for shortly, and i think it is 12 45, we will hopefully get more details and information as to whether or not these are actual devices capable of being exploded. And as bill, as you know, better than anyone, since 9 11 new york city has really ramped up through extraordinary
efforts, Counter Terror efforts that were led in great many years by our own late colleague mike sheehan, and new york police really know how the deal with this and new york city buildings have much more security at Office Buildings throughout wall street since 9 9 11, and so it is a community who knows how the deal with this and knows how the quickly identify suspicious packages that are false alarms from Something Like this with identifying details of concern and similarity the. And another great strength, andrea, from new york and i can speak from personal experience, the collegiality and the collaboration of the agencies, the atf and the fbi, and they work seamlessly in the emerge y emergenci emergencies, and that daytoday the relationship comes through, and you will see that there is significant federal representation, state and local and when anything like this would happen, the jurisdictional
tensions fade away, and we work very hard in new york to eliminate those, and they have been by and large eliminated. I wanted to share with you. Vice president mike pence has issued a statement saying that the we condemn the attempted attacks against former president obama, the clintons, cnn and others and these Cow Canwardly acti actions are despicable and no place in this country, and grateful for the Swift Response of local and state and federal gro groups. And started out i agree wholeheartedly. And chappaqua is the home of the clintons, and they are well acquainted with the procedures and the device whether it was
active or not, it never got to the home and through secret and federal protections. Ron . Yes, the clintons have been here for 18 years or so, and the home is behind that fence, and way back in the woods. You cant even see it from this road. As a matter of fact, it is very unusual for the media to even be allowed to get this close to the house over the years, and that is how well protected they are, and how far everyone is kept back from them. Out of the abundance of caution for any number of reasons, of course. We do believe that bill clinton, and former president clinton was here at the time that the device was intercepted. We know that Hillary Clinton is down in florida, and we have heard from Chelsea Clinton who has sent out a tweet thanking the Secret Service to intercept this device and protect her family. And we have not seen any of the clintons, and again, we dont know if president clinton is still here or not. And down the road from here about interestingly 10 miles or
so at the home of george soros, it is a different situation. We were out there yesterday, because the mailbox where that device was delivered is right on the road. It is right on the main road that runs right by his home. The buildings that are a part of the massive estate there are not far from that location. In that case, we understand that an employee and perhaps a Security Guard or someone else did actually take the device out of the mailbox presumably and looked at it and became suspicious, and called the police and The Bomb Squad came to detonate it. It is a much more potentially dangerous situation if in fact these devices are functional and might have exploded. Again, of course, you are aware of the response from george soros blaming the politics of hate for this. And clear ly saying it is the Political Climate and clearly saying that he was targeted and say saying that words do matter. And that is what you are hearing from the people around here, and they are very concerned about
this, and more conce concerne it is ignited by the politics of the country at the time. Andrea. Ron allen, i know that you will be on duty there, and garrett haik is there off of near where the former president and mrs. Obama live and staked out there. And they are always under the secret Service Protection and that is no longer a throughstreet because of the se Secret Service, and what is the situation here . Well, andrea, this is the second most protected block in all of d. C. You have the obamas home four houses down the road, and up the street around the corner is Jared Kushner and ivanka trumps home. The secret Service Presence here is permanent, and we have seen the barricade, and increased presence of the uniformed secret
s service, and the local police department, and definitely increase in the Police Presence here, and as with ron, we dont know if any of the obamas were home when this device was delivered, and we have to point out that the obamas do not receive their mail here. And so with all of the other the locations, there is a increase in the neighborhood, and some possibility of the secondary action and that sort of thing, but this is probably one of the most well watched and well guarded blocks in washington, d. C. , and that is going to continue i suspect for quite a while until they get to the bottom of who is sending these devices. And indeed. I know that there are statements made, garrett, about political can speech. We heard what ron allen reported george soros who is a prominent contributor but somebody who has been targeted by the conspiracy theorists. I want to bring in a longtime
clinton adviser, staff aide, and have you spoken to the clintons . I spoke to the Traveling Team E earlier today, and obviously, the first thing they thought of is the gratitude that they have to the Secret Service, and watching the coverage so far, and echoing what many have said including you and the former commissioner bill bratton, and these are very lucky people in that the former first families have secret Service Protection with such robust protocols, but if you are looking at who they have targeted so far, it is almost like they are following Donald Trumps twitter feed, and starting with Debbie Wassermann schultz, not everyone has that kind of security. And you have to be really concern cann e concerned that while so far nothing has hurt anybody so far, but when you are looking at the white house,
until donald trump tweeted so far, he has been mum. And the other part of sarah s d sanders statement is that they will be held accountable, and you have to ask how much donald trump is in the climate where this happened. I nknow that many people are suggesting that the anger on certainly the anger coming at rallies, but the anger on all side sides, the protests and the misstatements, and