Good morning to you. Craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in New York City. We continue to follow this breaking news. Potential Explosive Devices mailed to President Obama and Hillary Clinton. As you see there, cnn reporters and others have been evacuated from their headquarters here in New York City. This is a live look outside the Time Warner Center here in New York City. The Secret Service confirming a criminal investigation into the Explosive Devices mailed to the two democrats a short time ago, they follow a similar discovery of a device found, a very similar device that was found monday in the mailbox of billionaire philanthropist george soros. Lets start with our nbc reporter tom winter, nbc Investigative Reporter ron allen has made his way to chappaqua. This is a suburb of New York City. This is where president clinton and Hillary Clinton live. Hans nichols is at the white house. Tom, let me start with you here in the studio. I understand that you have some new reporting on the
against these threat. mr. scalise, he himself was a victim of violence at that baseball game last spring. he s saying that the violence has no place in our society. you saw earlier this morning the white house quickly condemning it. now you re seeing congressional republicans quickly condemning these explosive devices that are being sent through the mail. i suspect we ll hear more of that throughout the day. just a quick note on john brennan being the target or the recipient that package was addressed to. it bears noting that his security clearance was stripped by president donald trump, and he has become almost an important symbol in a lot of the back and forth on just how intense some of these political conversations are becoming. hans, stand by for me. i want to bring in former new york city police commissioner bill bratton. he ran police departments in boston and los angeles as well. commissioner, first of all, just your general reaction to what we are seeing unfold here in the s
basis of the devices, he will probably put more postage than is required and he gave a return address, which is interesting. the postal service bomb detection guidelines always say look for a device, a package with no return address. so this person seems to have known that. so for the most part, right now we are in what could possibly be phase one of an intimidation campaign, and that would leave more devices out there. all right, malcolm stand by for me if you can. i want to go back to our justice correspondent, pete williams. i understand you ve got some news? reporter: we re told that the package that was sent to cnn the one that you re looking at that has caused the evacuation of their midtown manhattan headquarters, which is the pictures you re seeing now, was actually addressed not to someone who works at cnn but to john brennan, the former cia director who sometimes appears on cnn or has appeared on cnn. that s what the package was