hours ago. austin police confirming that they started the process of tracking down -- they had gotten a lead on this suspect who has only been described right now, no name released, as a 24-year-old white male. at some point here in the last several hours, overnight hours, they were able to track the suspect down to a parking lot just up the road here, just off the edge of enter nate 35. we're in a suburb called round rock which is just north of austin. police say they were waiting for tactical teams to arrive to move in on that suspect. he left the parking lot and started driving away, eventually driving into a ditch. that's where we're told s.w.a.t. team members approached the car and the suspect detonated a bomb inside his car killing himself. >> as members of the austin police department s.w.a.t. team approached the vehicle, the

suspect detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our s.w.a.t. officers back, and one of our s.w.a.t. officers fired at the suspect as well. the suspect is deceased and has significant injuries from a blast that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle. >> police say that s.w.a.t. team member suffered minor injuries but will be okay. they are also warning people across the city to remain vigilant, that they're trying to piece together the timeline of what this suspect has done over the last 24 to 48 hours, and that just because they believe the suspect is dead, it doesn't mean that people don't need to be cautious and vigilant about what still may be out there. chris and erica? >> ed, thank you very much. join us is an investigative reporter for the austin american statesman. tony, tluch. what do you understand at this point about what led them to

this man? >> well, this has been the result and the culmination of investigative efforts round the clock, high level investigative efforts by local, state and federal law enforcement that have really spanned the past few weeks in austin. authorities did get a major break in the case beginning 24 to 36 hours ago after the suspect went to a fedex store in south austin and apparently was captured on video, security video inside that store. officials used that to bolster other evidence that they had in this case linking this person to these crimes. that other evidence i'm told includes witness descriptions of the suspect as well as receipts and store records from stores where this suspect has been going here in austin in recent

weeks and buying material that has been used to make the explosive devices. we have previously confirmed that authorities believe that these e ploe sieves were being manufactured and crafted from what they have described as common household items that were really available to the general public. >> what do we know at this point about motive and continuing threat? >> authorities this morning are still urging the citizens of austin and surrounding areas to be vigilant and to be aware. they say they do have concerns about whether or not there are still undetonated explosive devices in austin. while this is a time for rejo e rejoicing here in the city of austin, they are urging citizens to continue to be aware of their surroundings and to continue to report any suspicious devices. as for the motivation of the

suspect, authorities now are going back. they're turning back the clock to try to further understand who the suspect is, what motivations he may have had, but as it has been described by law enforcement, their primary motive in recent weeks has been to stop this person before anyone else gets injured or killed. >> tony, thank you very much. obviously there are questions and concerns about whether or not this man was the only one involved and if other devices could have been planted and sitting out there waiting for people to trip them. tony plohetski. let's bring in analyst james g gagliano. sam, what's your take on the situation? >> just tremendous work by the investigators within the last 24 to 36 hours. when you have situations like this of a potential serial bomber -- and in this case that's what you had -- you have

information that you can collect from a variety of sources, and the totality of that information, when you catch those lucky breaks, provides you that one investigative lead that can either identify a vehicle, identify or have a description of the suspect or possibly have some video evidence, and it looks like in this case that's what you had, all three of those scenarios playing out, and together combined, able to make an identification of the suspect. >> we note, too, your point of working together and being able to put all these tips together. the sheer volume of officials and authorities working on this. hundred of federal agents working in concert with local authorities as well. one of the numbers that really stood out here, as we're looking at how they were tracking this down, more than 1,200 reports of suspicious packages just since 9:00 a.m. on march 12th.

when we think about that, and the fact they're saying we still need you to be vigilant, we don't know what's happened in the last 24-plus hours of this guy. those suspicious package reports are important as they track those down. >> absolutely. the ability for law enforcement to communicate with the citizenry and for folks to be able to phone in or use anonymous tip lines to communicate with law enforcement in this rear is a blessing for law enforcement. chris always yells at me to put my professor hat on. to put this in context, during the 1970s, that decade -- that was the golden age of terrorism and bombing attacks in the united states. 184 people killed, 600 injured. we look at this, the fear, the terror, the trepidation this inspires because you just don't know where the next device is going to go off. eerily reminiscent of the p 0s. it's a small block when you compare it to what it was like

in the '70s. >> first of all, i'd never yell at anybody your size and disposition. that's a simple fact. let me ask you something else, a point of confusion for people. people look at this fact pattern and say this is terrorism, why aren't you calling it that? it's time for a refresher. that's a term of art for investigators. if they can't identify a specific motive that forwards a political message or agenda, they will not call it terrorism. true? >> you want to be so careful. law enforcement doesn't want to prejudge something because it might force investigators to go into a different direction. you want to keep all options open. the reason why we always treat things as terrorism at the outset until it's proven otherwise is because that's a very real threat to us right now in the 21st century. there are a number of things you could have chalked this up to. we looked at it first and thought it was racially motivated because of the three original package bombs on the east side of austin. then you had the trip wire victim activated device on the

west side that injured two caucasians. terrorism is violence or intimidation in the pursuit of political or social goals. very distinct and narrow definition. this could have also been a hate crime. somebody could have hated a particularly ethnicity or religion. it could have been somebody who is was an anarchist. creating mayhem by setting these bombs. very distinct differences. helps us get into the mindset so we can try to foresee the next person like this that's going to come on the line. >> in terms of the mayhem that you bring up, sources telling us at cnn, law enforcement officials, that the motivation was mayhem and death which feels broad. if that's what you're trying to sew, mayhem, packages are dropped off, then there's a trip wire, then packages are sent. as we see that progression, what does that tell you? >> what that tells me initially is he's probably been paying attention to the media, also probably did some research on

prior cases because often with these serial bomber cases, there are many similarities, not just in the construction of the devices but how those attacks are carried out. it seems like the construction of some of these devices, especially with the trip wire device, may have been a little bit different than the others as well as the mode of delivery. some were hand delivered, some using fedex. almost trying to cover his tracks probably based on previous research and not wanting to get caught. >> so where does this leave us in terms of our concern, sam, going forward on this? they said, look, there could be other packages. we get that. that's a matter of fact. but in terms of why he did this and who else could have done this with him, where do they look for answers? >> there are a number of areas. this is where the exhaustive investigation, as far as i'm concerned, really starts now. number one, obviously trying to make sure that there are no

other devices out there. they're going to do an exhaustive research of several areas to include -- you have a car, so they're going to do an exhaustive look at license plate reader information that may be out there to track where the car was, cell phone. they're going to be looking at where that cell phone has been, who he was calling? was he communicating with others and obviously search warrants for where he was living or staying and try to get in there and retrieve possibly the computers he may have been using. there will be a lot of information that they're going to have to sift through. the number one priority is to ensure that there are no other devices that are sitting out there somewhere, as well as trying to get into motive. >> and also figuring out, to your point, sam, determining whether there are any other potential actors, helpers, who are out there as well. that's one thing they were very clear. they would not say specifically

in this press conference, they would not say whether he was a lkting alone, would not classify him as a lone wolf. >> exactly. you're going to wait quite a while before you're able to make a final decision on that. the individual is dead, but he's left behind a tremendous amount of electronic evidence, electronic footprint if you will, through the cell phone, his vehicle as well as stuff that they may recover through the computer, because you do want to ensure that, hey, he was not conspiring with others or more than one person or at the behest of a group somewhere out there. >> final point, jim. >> final point is this, two things law enforcement has to do. the most important one is the tactical resolution, making sure they interdict, stop the people from committing these crimes. the second part is the consequence management piece which involves the investigation, gathering the evidence, making sure you put together a lock-solid case. this individual appears to be dead. we have to make sure there are

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investigati investigation. his latest tweet is a paraphrasing of an article by alan dershowitz. special counsel is told to find crimes, whether a crime exists or not. i was opposed -- talking about dershowitz, to the selection of mueller to be special counsel. i am still opposed to it. i think president trump was right when he said there should noefr have been a special counsel appointed because there was no probably cause of believing. phil mudd, if we look back and remember why there is a special counsel, rod rosen stein, a nominee of president trump made a determination that after the

firing of jim comey, key fact, this could not be investigated in house. there was too many conflicts. sessions needed to recuse himself, needed to be done independently. dershowitz would say two things that are fair points, one is we have a tendency these days to prosecute our political opponents. true enough. the president has played that card as a threat. he said, if you're going to do that, rosenstein, it should have been delivered to an independent commission. okay. fair argument to have. that's not what rosenstein did. the premise of why he picked this special counsel. do you think it was the right move by rosenstein? >> rosenstein was appointed. mueller was appointed to be fbi director. i have one other dispute with dershowitz. how the heck does he know what the case is based on. for example, if there are

intercepted communications of the russians by american intelligence that suggest the russians have an inappropriate relationship with politicians or members of a political campaign in this country, how the heck would dershowitz know? >> he would say we haven't heard yet and it's been so long. >> excuse me. how much have you heard mueller leak? one of the most remarkable things about the investigation is the lack of leaks from it. we don't know what's happened after michael flynn flip ped. i didn't see anything that indicates any conclusion. i think dershowitz is out there saying things. i would love if i were cherry-picked a lawyer to say i don't know anything about the facts of the case but i don't think you ought to be prosecuted. sounds good to me if i'm the president. but it doesn't make any sense. >> chris, in your question you bring up a good point. why is this still going on?

that's what we're hearing again and again from the president. we're hearing why is this taking so long? the simple answer is there is no timeline because the investigation is on going. but as that narrative is coming back, chris, how is this starting to impact, how is it bleeding into daily life in the white house and what is and isn't done. we can't ignore that fact of it, the distraction. >> i think that's the key piece of it outside the mueller investigation which is sort of a closed borks for us. to phil's point, we don't get a lot there. i think the distraction not just on this stuff but for whatever you think by stormy daniels, the apprentice contestant, those are a distraction, too. what do we know about donald trump? he is notoriously thin-skinned, he gets frustrated, he fumes, he rages. all of that is something that will impact the decisions.

it would have to, think of it in your own life, of the person who is the leader of the united states and one of the most powerful people in the world. add on to that, now, we know from our reporting, trump i think somewhat rightly is annoyed at the leaking of this phone call with putin yesterday. so i think you have a lot of -- you have to think of him as a person. don't just think of him as a head you see on television. as a person, he's got a number of distractions, personal distractions. all that impacts what he does. >> it's all about what he decides to pay attention to. a different time we're living through phil mudd than back in the '90s with bill clinton. bill clinton, his situation was specific to him. it didn't start out that way. it started out with white water and there was a whole bunch of names in play. it wound up once it got into the affairs that it was anti him. it was a distinct set of facts he was talking about. he had people with conservative -- the right wing

conspiracy and hillary clinton was out there doing that, and other people were attacking it as well. but the president talks about this every chance he can. in effect, he's making it relevant in a way it wouldn't be otherwise. >> there's a couple other characteristics. you get covered by the "new york post," you don't get covered by a bunch of people in the white house briefing room every day who will never let anything go and have a lot more access to information. the second is, i think one of the things that's happening with the investigation that frustrates him, the length of time of the investigation, as the mueller team acquires things like financial records, they're finding more and more stuff like the connections with ukraine, the financial connections that took down paul manafort. so even as trump's lawyers tell him, hey, this might be over by the first of the year, by spring. on the other side, the investigators who have no

responsibility to tell the white house when this will shut down, keep finding stuff every time they turn over a rock that means this investigation will continue, and the president is ticked off. >> also, apparently there's at least one person, john kelly, ticked off in the white house this morning because of this call with vladimir putin, which there is reporting that the president was told very clearly by his national security team in all capital letters, do not congratulate. he did congratulate vladimir putin. and the reporting we have out this morning that, yes, john kelly is furious that this information was leaked. another source saying this could be an attempt to embarrass the president or -- and i think this stands out here -- or h.r. mcmaster. >> i think that's the bigger, more important story going forward, is this leak. it's already become an internet meme, much like when donald trump looked up at the eclipse. remember that one? the point is there's not a huge

group of people who have this information who not only are privy to what he said on the call, but also know that the briefing paper said do not congratulate and recommended he bring up the poisoning of the ex-russian spy. you're talking about a small group of people. that was either meant to embarrass him or h.r. mcmaster who we know is embattled or -- and i think this may get to the dysfunction of the white house, that it was meant to communicate something that folks did not think a private conversation with the president would communicate, that they know he consumes what is on television, what is in the media, that he takes that more to heart publicly being embarrassed as opposed to, hey, mr. president, can we have an aside here, i understand why you went in this direction, i want to explain our thinking. that's concerning of a dysfunction that exists in the white house as to how you communicate with the president of the united states. >> all right, fine. there will be pushback on this point, phil mudd. they'll say we're very tough on russia, we passed these sanction, put them into effect.

we're giving the ukraine resistance, fighting for their country. we're giving them weapons that obama wouldn't. we bombed in syria. we know russia is playing there. obama wouldn't. we or very tough on russia. you guys are giving us a bad deal. >> give me a break. we have our closest alliance post world war ii in this case embodied by theresa may, the british prime minister, you've got to call her up and say, we kissed the bottom of the russian president for winning a flawed election and we couldn't mention that he tried to murder somebody on the soil of our closest ally. u.s. intelligence agencies not only talking about interference in the last election but saying it's continuing now as we go into midterms. and somebody is going to sit in front of me and pretend like we're tough on the russians. you got to be kidding. that's ridiculous. >> to add to phil's point, i think it's important context because the trump administration

as sarah sanders said yesterday, we sanctioned russia for the election. which they did. look at the timeline. they were forced into it. this is something every single republican and democratic leader, but republican leader in congress said we need to do this, we need to do this, it was delayed and delayed and delayed. it doesn't mean the sanctions don't get put in place. they do. the idea that they were leading from the front, to borrow a phrase, on this is just not accurate. >> we're going to leave it there. >> cuomo, speechless. >> we'll right down the time, the date. >> not 100%. >> phil, chris, thank you both. three women waging legal challenges against president trump. could one of these cases lead to the president being deposed? we'll discuss that next. ♪

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represents gretchen carlson is theer discuss. as we look at all this, it's fascinating to me because for a lot of people there's this question of why. why is it so important for you to tell your story and why do you want to tell it now? part of that came up last night on our air with stormy daniels' attorney, michael avenatti. i want to take a listen to that and get your take. >> why is it so important to your friend and the president of the united states to keep this woman under wraps, to keep her under the thumb, to shut her up? why is it so important. >> i can tell you why. >> let me finish. why is that so important? why not let her come forward. >> let me answer your question. it's important to every single person that enters into a non-disclosure agreement. people do this, people do this in order to avoid litigation and avoid the embarrassment to family, to business, to reputation.

that's why people enter. you know why people enter into these contracts. they're entered into all the time. >> if you're taking what he's saying at face value, they enter into them for reasons and do it knowingly so why do we want to change things now? you can see both sides. but break it down for me here. why does this really matter? >> well, people who enter into n nda agreements aren't the president of the united states. we happen to live in a democracy. this president has been lacking transparency since he wouldn't give us his tax returns, but his behavior is more important to the public. the public has an interest in how the president of the united states conducts himself. how do we know this? they impeached bill clinton because he lied about a consensual relationship. we know this because donald trump held a press conference with all of his accusers somehow in order to tarnish hillary clinton. the people have a right to know about the conduct of their

president, especially a president who is loved by white evangelicals, they're his base, who want to tell gay people they can't have rights based on their religion, and their religion prevents women from making private medical decisions and policies should be based on those religious principles. here we have a president who wants to hide his own behavior. he's the president. he's not anybody. >> sfs about that behavior or about legally what we're seeing? there's a question of the behavior of an alleged affair. that's one thing. a lot of people aren't all that upset about. maybe it's men behaving badly or is it more the behavior from a legal standpoint. if that's it, we're seeing this constant drip, drip, drip of information from stormy daniels and from her attorney michael avenatti. is that working in terms of -- obviously it's keeping the story out there, but is it changing -- in your view is it changing the narrative and what we know about

it? >> i hope it is. because as they said in the nixon impeachment, it's not the crime, it's the coverup. when you have a president of the united states making a fame name in order to shut up somebody weeks before the election, and now we know his friends are doing catch and kill with other women who have stories about him, if he wasn't holding himself up literally to be the evangelical president, jesus speaks to him, god brought him to us, maybe it would be less relevant. but the public has a right to know about the character of the president. he said that himself repeatedly throughout the election. republicans talk about character more than anybody. >> one of the things that sticks out in two cases. let's put stormy daniels aside. we got this ruling yesterday from summer zervos, a contestant on "the apprentice." she filed a defamation suit because he called her a liar. he said, number one, i'm the president so this really can't happen right now, when they were going back.

also his speech was protected because it was political speech. he's protected under the first amendment. the judge said this doesn't stand. what's fascinating to me is that happened, right, and at the same time we're hearing from this other woman, a former playmate who says she sold her story for $150,000. it was never published. now he's also claiming that her story falls under first amendment protections because it's also political speech. it's fascinating we have two different sides in two different cases, but they're both using a similar argument. >> right. i don't think it's political speech to call somebody a liar. i don't think that can be called political speech. but it might be political speech to say i have information about the president which shows his character and that he's a hypocrite. >> which one of these three cases has the most teeth legally? >> i think the summer zervos case does because she can now subpoena all the other ndas. that's going to be relevant to her case, what he said about

other women, whether he lies about his behavior with other women. we saw on cosby the judge ruled five other women can testify about this pattern of behavior. she can subpoena all the other ndas and take his deposition as we know from clinton versus paula jones -- paula jones versus clinton. >> that could take months, could take years. >> hopefully months. >> do you think it will happen? >> absolutely. >> nancy, always good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. >> tomorrow night former playmate karen mcdougal shares her story with anderson cooper. austin police say the suspected serial bomber is dead. but they say there is still perhaps a threat of more explosions. why next.

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however, to remain vigilant in case he left more bombs behind. stormy daniels' attorney releasing a 2011 polygraph report showing she was truthful. president trump at the center of two other lawsuits involving other women. one by former playboy model karen mcdougal who says the owners of the "national enquirer" paid her to bury her story. the other, a manhattan judge, rejecting the claim by apprentice contestant summer zervos who says he groped her. president trump under fire for congratulating vladimir putin on his election win despite wins from top advisers not to do. "the washington post" reporting he even ignored note cards saying do not congratulate in all caps. incumbents on both sides of the aisle prevailing.

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granholm and steve cortez, a former trump campaign adviser. good to have you both here. >> thank you. >> of course he's angry. nobody likes leaks. you ran the governor's shop in washington. nobody likes leaks. let's talk about the substance of the matter. he has the call, congratulates the president. the national security add vieders didn't want him doing that. they believe this man is actively ini'm cal to the united states as a call. they wanted him to point that out. the president didn't. are you okay with that? >> i'm not okay with leaking. this isn't just bad behavior, chris. this is a crime. this has been happening throughout the trump presidency, highly classified, highly secure documents are being leaked to the media. someone needs to be put in handcuffs. >> he has to inspire more loyalty with his people.

>> he's the president. that's the problem there. that's my other issue. the president doesn't take his orders from anyone, including important advisers. >> do yu like the call he made in terms of what he said and didn't say. are you okay with that? >> we don't know what he said. he was asked about this yesterday in the oval office during the pool spray with the crown prince of saudi arabia. was he supposed to also turn to the crown prince of saudi arabia and start criticizing their human rights record in saudi arabia? there's a lot of leaders around the world who don't operate by american standards. it doesn't mean we can pick and choose the leaders of the world. it does mean we have to negotiate and work with them for our interests, including some really bad guys and putin is one of them. >> clearly he's been doing that with saudi arabia all along, privately and publicly. what do you think? >> first of all, i think that -- i understand the concern about leaks. i think the bigger issue is the fact that he would not stand up

for america's interested when people here are being impacted by the russian intervention in our election, in our electric grid. one of the impacts our allies are feeling, does he support nato, is he going to stand up for his strongest ally, great britain? what's the impact on staff? there's a reason why this leaked? that staff is horrified that he's not following their suggestions. how does this impact sarah huckabee sanders who has to stand up there and defend it. how does it affect mike pence who today is giving a speech at the oas criticizing venezuela about having fair and free elections? so the impact on them. then you look at the impact with republicans who were asked about this and they were stunned because they have to go out and defend it, not just the ones elected today, but the runs running for office. it has a trickle effect. >> what i can defend, the

policies of donald trump regarding russia. we're constantly told by his critics he's a puppet of putin. he's not a good puppet if he is. he's armed the ukraine, slapped sanctions on russia. went to warsaw and gave probably the most anti russia speech since the cold war. both in words and deeds he's making life difficult for vladimir putin. >> you believe that? you think he's been too tough on russia? >> no. come on, steve. why do you think he's getting this criticism? it's because objectively he has been in a bromance with putin. he never confronts him face-to-face, he never talks about it. if you look at the readout of the two, you say you don't know what happened on the calls. because the u.s. in its readout had four sentences. the reason we know what happened, the russian readout was much more transparent. it had 11 topics that were discussed, a full six paragraphs. the bottom line is he, for

whatever weird reason -- or maybe there's something to it, he cannot bring himself to criticize putin in the same way he brings himself to criticize people like kim jong-un. >> it's unfair to single out russia. he's had a lot of interactions with the premier of china. >> he has criticized china. >> not criticized them for their human rights record which is demonstrably worse than russia. >> and maybe he should. maybe he should. the point is, the leader of the united states has to set an example and set a tone for what we will accept around the world. we pushed democracy from around the world. the fact he attacked us. it was russia declaring war on us by attacking our election, he can't say anything about that? >> there's almost a neurosis on the left. people still can't accept he won in 2016 and they need to come up with an excuse, a scapegoat.

russia sadly for whatever reason has become that convenient -- >> you can't undo the win. >> all i hear is resist and impeach. >> depends on who the they is. if you're talking about big mouths on twitter, who cares what they say? we have a president whose name is donald trump. it's unusual that this man will come after me for something i say on the tv show when i'm relatively inconsequential to him. vladimir putin plays a video with missiles crashing down on florida, directed right where he spends his time at mar-a-lago, not a word. >> i ask you the question. why? >> i don't know. i don't believe i have any proof that vladimir putin has any kind of specific control over donald trump, but that's what makes his behavior so odd because this is a man who is always spoiling for a fight. it's what you like about him, but not with putin. mueller is not going anywhere if he's in his right mind, but why don't you tell us? >> maybe he hasn't gotten in a

verbal fight. i don't know if he should or shouldn't. that's up to him. >> he could have slapped sanctions on day one when congress passed -- >> from day one. >> a literal fight by arming the ukraine. something he hates. he got into a literal fight by raining american cruise missiles in syria where there are russian jets. this is not a man afraid to confront russia. >> he's going to have a chance upcoming. we'll see what he does, if not only for his own personal interest. he has to take care of his allies. the u.k. has a serious beef. it's hump day. how about a little "good stuff" action. we'll get to that next. ♪ the fastest samsung ever demands t-mobile, the fastest network ever. because fast should be fast.

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jacked that car completely up off me. >> malachi says he's no hero. he did what anyone would do. >> mr. alan, i hope you feel better. >> nine. >> i love this kid. he's wrong. he didn't do something anybody else could do. that was hard. is everybody thinking about helping? to get a jack and jack up a car at that age, that was incredible. he is a hero. >> that he is. >> alan is grateful. how about a little cnn "newsroom." >> let's do that. john berman, here he is. >> good morning everyone. john berman here, the breaking news out of austin this morning. after a dramatic series of events overnight, the suspect in a string of bombing attacks is dead, but as of this moment, police warn the threat is not over. >> we don't know