but john brennan is speaking right now. let's listen in. >> disturbing day where we've seen threats on your life and on the lives of barack obama, hillary clinton, and others. what are your thoughts as we end today? >> well, i think we're at a very unfortunate stage of our national history when we cannot have the civil discourse that we need about the future direction of our country and policies without having individuals, i think very disturbed individuals, resorting to attempted acts of violence. and so, i recognize that there are a lot of raw emotions and feelings in the country and very strong feelings for individual political parties as well as individual politicians, but this country was founded upon the foundation of freedom and liberty and freedom of speech, and if i and others are being targeted because we're speaking out and we're living up to our responsibilities as citizens, i think that's, again, is a very unfortunate turn of events. so, i have full confidence in my former law enforcement and intelligence colle

john brennan does not work for cnn, john brennan has a commentating contract with nbc and msnbc. not with cnn. what would that fact mean to you as an investigator, that they're sending this to him to a place he does not work. is this somebody who's uninformed? is this somebody who's trying to throw us off the track? >> it does show a level of unsophistication. the package was mailed to ten time-warner center, which is not the actual address, if you google it, that will come up, that's the actual address for cnn but it's not the actual mailing address. this could be an individual going online pulling up addresses, but it does show a level of unsophistication that law enforcement will key into, how were these packages mailed, what was the return address, how was the label printed. was it posted service or u.p.s., and was it hand delivered to george soros' mailbox. it appears that these had different points of delivery used to get them to their specific locations. >> there are some other news in san diego police, the san diego police are currently investigating a suspicious package

he was what the darth vader of droning about john brennan as he admits in his article has walked in saudi arabia for five years with the same regime that destroyed. and he basically says that according to my information it couldn't be done without the prince knowing it and the court well for whom better than bradman to know such in this case. shogi was killed by. saudi intelligence personnel. in a foreign country in a consulate that is nothing less than state terrorism so it's kind of like the pot calling the kettle black here and when we do find the truth behind all of this and like we said we pretty much know what i think most people are hinting at what happened the saudis the family will survive they will they will throw b.s. under the bus in order to survive at the end of the day the world we are survivors so i think m.b.'s his days are numbered i think trump was hurt by what happened i forget that jared cushion or spoke to m.p.'s they said they spoke almost a whole night together and they were discussing policy and stuff so i mean all of trump's media family also got burned cop

he was one of the darth vader of droning about john brennan as he admits in his article has walked in saudi arabia for five years with the same regime that destroyed mr. and he basically says that according to my information it couldn't be done without the prince knowing it and the court well for whom that doesn't brandon to know such things he'd want permission from president obama every night for killing hundreds of people by drone attacks and suddenly i would have these orpen in moment from mr brennan he says as he writes in his article we saw that well publicized detention of more than one hundred princes senior technocrats and businessmen in the ritz carlton hotel well i read in the new york times that it was needed forty four there was so much friedman who came in person to talk to mohamed bin so i was going to sit by. crown prince i want to do what you said he was all over by his reform agent that he has been listening to during that whole night you know these are real probably the most the most expensive p.r. campaigns ever ok in the history of p.r. and then just a moment mr b

>> i just want to point out a representative for the former cia representative john brennan. they're telling cnn, brennan is not commenting on this at least not yet. kate, you're there as well outside the time-warner center in new york. you're getting more information even as we speak? >> reporter: yeah, wolfe, right now they're trying to open up this street on 58th street, they're trying to loosen up traffic, but i can only imagine the backup that's been created since this started a couple of hours ago. i have been able to link up with my colleagues bob and jim. this is a pretty amazing thing to watch. the ebb and flow of the presence this morning. and then that containment device leaving. >> there's a bomb unit, listen, the device is now gone. so we're goi they're taking it to a safer location to glean what they can from that device. since the beginning, the first devices, targeting the clintons, obamas, soros. and debbie wasserman schultz. >> they believe they are linked. but again, it's early, we always caution early in the investigation. so there are no conclusions. >> an

a bomb addressed to john brennan was delivered to cnn's headquarters up in new york. cnn was covering the wave of suspicious packages when they were forced to evacuate. here is what happened that moment this morning. >> these are fo lono longer suspicious packages. they were functional. that means they were explosive and to have projectiles -- that sounds like a fire alarm here. we'll keep you posted on that. to have projectiles is a feature you'll see in bombs that terrorists use in afghanistan, elsewhere. >> we're going to jump in there. there's a fire alarm here. >> we'll find out what the latest is. >> we'll be right back. >> reacting to the news today, the president of cnn jeff zucker saying there's a total and complete lack of understanding at the white house about the seriousness of their continued attacks on media. the president, and especially the white house press secretary, should understand their words matter. thus far they have shown no comprehension of that. all all the intended recipients have been on the receiving ends of the president's attack. trump

he received the bomb intended for john brennan.ferring as fake news and with other major news organizations as the enemy of the american people. he also posted videos, by the way, of him body slamming the cnn logo. that was awful as a lot of us remember. here's what former cia director brennan said about being a potential target and the president's responsibility. >> what are he has done heretofore as far as this rhetoric is counterproductive. it is unamerican. it is what a president should not be doing. what he said today is what the president should be doing, but follow-up with actions and his future comments. >>> so far the president has not followed up pleas for unity with similar comments. instead at his rally, he put the blame on the news media. in that tweet, he is again blaming the media. john garr mendy is a democrat and thank you for joining us. what do you think of the president's response to the terror attacks so far? >> i think it's totally inadequate. this is an extremely dangerous situation. frankly a very, very sad

all of our cnn colleagues we know of are outside. >> reporter: one bomb addressed to john brennan here in cnn's manhattan office forces the evacuation of the time warner center. brennan later criticized the president for his political attacks. >> a lot of this rhetoric is counterproductive. it's unamerican. >> reporter: president trump has used many of the intended targets as punching bags during his campaign rallies. >> maxine water is a very low iq individual. >> reporter: last night he prend a more subdued version of his speech in wisconsin. >> and by the way, do you see how nice i'm behaving tonight? this is like -- have you ever seen this? >> reporter: the president promised to hold the perpetrators accountable. >> any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our dros -- democracy medisa more civil tone. despite a civilized tone last night, he had spoked plenty of animosity towards the media regularly calling cnn the enemy of the people. anne-marie. >> thank you so much. >>> ahead on "cbs this morning," the latest on the explosive devices, investigations from homelan

the package is addressed to former cia chief john brennan. his name is misspelled. president trump has called mr. brennan, who's dedicated his life, frankly, to public service, quote, a very bad guy. he actually doesn't work for cnn. the return address is debbie wasserman-schultz. formerly the dnc in sunrise which is also misspelled, florida. the bomb was taken to the new york police department's facility in the bronx. and, again, as pam mentioned from there, it goes to quantico, virginia, where the fbi will study it. i want to talk more about the many roads that could lead investigators to whoever did this. with me right now retired nypd lieutenant darren, he teaches here in the new york area. also joining me is former fbi supervisory special agent, josh campbell. he's cnn law enforcement analyst. and former senior counterterrorism official, phil mudd joins us as well. darren, just from what the fact all of these devices are now in the hand of authorities, there are many potential clues that could be in these devices. >> absolutely. when we look at these investigati

director john brennan. anchors had to move their coadcast to the sidewalk. >> thankfully, all of our cnn colleagues that we know of are outside right now. everyone is safe, as we can see. eagueporter: the device was , ken away in this n.y.p.d. containment vehicle, designed to absorb the blast of a bomb, if it detonates. deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter- terrorism, john miller. >> the bomb squad was able to safely remove a device contained in that package. there's also some kind of powder. >> reporter: an hour before cnn's bomb scare, news broke of hillary and bill clinton's secret service detail intercepting a pipe bomb before it reached their westchester easidence. hillary was on the road in florida campaigning, but former president bill clinton was home at the time. right after 9:00 a.m. this morning, when this news broke, this normally qu lld withaw enforcement officers and media. secret service agents found a cemilar device addressed to former president barack obama in washington, d.c. in

person holding a sign who gets paid by soros or somebody. >> you heard the president talk about john brennan as a very bad person. last night, brennan had this to say about the pipe bomb addressed to him here at cnn. >> donald trump has not helped to encourage the type of civil discourse and public engagement. his rhetoric too frequently fuels the feelings and sentiments that now are bleeding over into potentially acts of violence. >> the white house did not reach out to president obama or clintons or any of the officials who received the pipe bombs. >> in fairness, the president is not the only politician using overheated rhetoric. conservatives quick to point to comments like these. >> if you see anybody in that cabinet, in a restaurant, at a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them. and you tell them they're not welcome. >> michelle says when they go low, we go high. no. no. they go low, we kick them. that's what this new democratic party's about. >> in the wake of the pipe bomb attacks, you might have expected a softer tone fro

but to me, this is a domestic terrorism. >> individuals like john brennan, to whom the package that was mailed to cnn was addressed, oddly, because he does not work for us. but individuals like brennan and you, you don't get secret service protection, even though you're both high-profile. you had it when you worked as director of national intelligence. brennan had it when he was head of the cia. you're both outspoken. do events like this today make you concerned about your safety or the safety of your former colleagues, like brennan or lisa monaco? >> well, yeah. and, you know, it extends to, you know, kind of a small thing. my wife and i were traveling today, and i was, of course, compelled to call our next door neighbor, who regularly picks up our mail. and to be -- to caution our neighbors about picking up mail. that's kind of disconcerting. that's a small aspect of this. so, you know, the threat rings spread out beyond us. >> i know you reached out to john brennan today. your former colleague in the obama administration. you haven't heard back yet. it's my understanding. what did yo

so is this person really mistaken about where john brennan works. >> schultz was miss spelled, brennan was misspelled. everyone involved is political. it could be political motivation killing civiliansor attempting to kill civilians. >> the package addressed to eric holder, they sent it do the wrong address. and it was returned to the return address which was debbie wasserman schultz. >> while it's rudimentary, these are functioning devices, why they haven't gone off, luckily they haven't. >> think about the una bomber, these were people that were killed and maimed because of those objects. >> they are good at this, so they're going to know probably, well, they should know where this was sent from, there are stamps on there, they're going to go through every component on that bomb and try to figure out where was this purchased, who purchased it, where, what area, we do have amount of clues, and even some of the devices that they had detonated, they will be able to gather clues from this. and this will be key for them i bet, in trying to determine who this person is. you can get fingerp

then a bomb addressed to the former cia director john brennan was detected at cnn's time warner center in new york city. similar devices were sent to the former obama attorney general erik holder -- eric holder, debbie wasserman schultz as well as democratic congresswoman maxine waters, addition, democratic megadonor george soros was a target of this bomb. president trump is denouncing as despicable calling for the nation to unify. he never mentioned, though, that he has personally, and very publicly criticized all of those bombing targets. this hour, i'll speak with new york's governor, andrew cuomo and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our national correspondent, miguel marquez, he's in new york for us. a major federal investigation into these pipe bombs is now underway. >> reporter: huge investigation, and the number one question out there for them, are there more pipe bombs out there, are more on the way to different locations? a nationwide hunt for whoever is responsible now underway. this is the pipe bomb sent to cnn's new york offices. >> w

now we have these bombs sent to all these prominent democrats as well as john brennan, care of cnn. are you concerned about any threats against you or your colleagues right now? do you feel safe? >> well, i'm absolutely concerned. most of us received threats of various kinds along the way, but in this case, where you have the president saying that eric holder better be careful, calling maxine waters corrupt and saying she better be careful, saying that cnn has to be taken out of business, those are the sorts of words that may resonate with an individual who takes them in a manner that the

brian: no reaction directly to john brennan who seems to be breaking with tradition as a former head of the cia, becoming what seems to be a pundit? >> i think we've made our opinions on former director brennan pretty clear over the past several months. certainly don't support the type of activity that he is enpaged in and don't think it is becoming someone a former director of the intelligence agency that he was. steve: side note, of course the midterm elections are a little less than two weeks away. i know the president and his team have announced that apparently he will make some other stops. given what is going on with these packages, will he continue on this very aggressive campaigning with the rallies and what not? or will they pare things back or what is going on? >> certainly as of right now the president continues to lay out the case and political differences of democrats and republicans, as he certainly should. future and history of our country is at stake. americans have a decision to make in the next couple of weeks and president will lay out the case for why republicans h

ind.c., and to former attorney general eric holder, acand age addressed to former cia director john brennan was sent to cnn headquarters in manhattan. >>> we have a photo of one of the intercepted devices. we have all the angles covered. we begin with chris gordon near the obama's home with the latest on then. investigat chris? >> reporter: well, i'mg stand at the secret service roadblock on belmont road in northwest washington. the obamas live just down the way on the right. the suspicious package sent here was interceptedt aail screening facility. today, president trump decred that the safety of the american people is the higst priority. he announced that a major federal investigaon is underway. >> we have to come a together send one very clear, stro, unmistakable message that acts itical violencp of any kind have no place in the united states of america. [ applause ] >> reporter: a dark suv backs into the obama home guarded by a u.s. secret service detail. a cruiser ffrestricts traic here to localresidents. uniformed secret service officer working with a dog trained to detect explosives

of you, including former president obama, the clintons home, member of congress maxine waters, john brennan, cnn and the actor robert de niro. and now we believe something sent to former vice president joe biden in delaware was trying to be confirmed about whether or

it was addressed to john brennan, former interim cia director who appears occasionally on cnn. he also appears fairly regularly on this network as well. so we've got the device that was mailed to brennan. we've got the device that was mailed to former president obama, former president clinton, george soros as well. that device from two days ago. i turn now again to clint watts, msnbc's national security analyst, former fbi special agent, joint terrorism task force. all of these people seem to have something in common. we know that cia director brennan has also been a critic here, a vocal critic of the trump administration. what more can we glean from what we know so far, clint? >> yeah, i mean, the targets are fairly obvious. they've all been either brought up by the president or were opponents of him in different contexts. i think what we can look at, though, is sophistication of the devices is always what you're looking for. has there been significant reconnaissance done of the targets. in this case when we were talking about the secret service, they're the best in the world i

it is the one that was intercepted there at cnn, addressed to john brennan.her a bomb that wait a minute really a bomb, joey? >> when you talk about terror, one of the things you have to realize, even when we talk about the threat of dirty bombs or radioactive bombs, it is not the effect they physically have. it is the effect they psychologically have. the threat, the idea of having multiple dirty bombs go off in cities all around the countries has been planned out by our enemies and discovered by our intelligence agencies last 20 years. the mys found out mass chaos imposing on us than physical harm. we don't know what their motives are. there is established motive among our enemies to inflict terror, even aside from the fact of physical harm. brian: how much training, do you need, joey, to put together the device of what we know so far? what do you think of it? >> if this were a viable, functional device, what we've seen a picture of, that timer would essentially complete a circuit after predetermined amount of time was up. so usually that would be like from

sent to more top democrats on the heels of those pipe bombs sent to the obamas, the clintons and john brennan at cnn. all targets of president trump on the campaign trail. his new message in the wake of the bomb scare. >> in these times we have to unify. we have to come together. >> the urgent hunt for the suspect and the new clues inside those devices with wires and shards of glass built to maim and kill. the investigation right now. >>> bracing for a nor'easter. the first major storm of the season about to hit the northeast with dangerous winds and heavy rain. ginger with the timing and track. >>> school plot foiled. police arresting two young girls they say brought these knives and this pizza cutter to middle school and were moments away from launching an attack. were they inspired by horror films? >>> new trouble for megyn kelly. is her future in jeopardy as she faces backlash for her comments defending blackface? how she apologized and what her boss is saying now. >>> flu medicine breakthrough the brand new drug just approved by the fda that could help you get better faster after the dea

addressed to former cia director john brennan. the devices were mailed in similar padded envelopes and with the same address labels suggesting a coordinated attack. in a speech at the white house on wednesday trump condemned the apparent crime and i just want to tell you that in these times we have to unify we have to come together . and send one very clear strong and mistake of all message that acts were threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america for singing of a good many prominent democrats have accused trump of having brazenly encouraged tax especially on the press. trump has labeled media outlets such as c.n.n. the enemy of the people and recently praised a republican politician for physically harming a journalist in response to the speech top democrats chuck schumer and nancy pelosi released a statement saying trump's words ring hollow unless he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence. john brennan one of the intended targets of an explosive also criticize the presid

>> he also did mention cnn as being the target or john brennan per se. r brennan before in terms of taking his security clearance away. i don't think we're going to see that big of a shift. he's prepping for 2020. he is trying to save the house. so he views his rallies as a core element of that strategy. i had a story a couple days ago about how he doesn't even view the midterms as a real election. he's just doing his part to try to say the house. he used 2020 as a real thing and if he loses the house in two weeks he's going to just blame paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. so he's not going to look at himself when he is president after all he can make a difference both on trying to save the house and also making the rhetoric a little less coarse. >> he's the campaigner in chief, so he does have that responsibility. thanks, daniel. >> thank you. >>> for some time members of the gop along with the trump administration have aggressively tried to repeal obamacare. however, with 12 days until the midterms, republican candidates are making claims they are the ones

this is the misspelled john brennan name, the one sent to cnn today. but you can see how they all have forever stamps from the postal service on them. so now the effort, of course, is on full-court press to try to find out where these are coming from. the fbi and the atf and other agencies, secret service, have a lot to go on here, because they have recovered these devices. fortunately, lester, none of them have gone off. >> and pete, just to be clear, obviously, i see the stamps there. do we know all of them came through the u.s. mail? >> well, we know that most of them were sent through the u.s. mail. we've heard conflicting accounts on whether the one to cnn was actually put in mail or delivered by courier or whether the one that was addressed to george soros was -- even though it had stamps on it, placed in the box or put in there by the postal service. at least some of them we know did go through the u.s. postal service, because that's how they were intercepted and never got to their intended destinations. >> pete williams keeping us up to date. w

john brennan one of the intended targets of an explosive also criticize the president's rhetoric. he needs to rethink what he is doing and saying he should not be beating the tom toms of anger and animosity toward trump appeared to respond to these reproaches at a rally in wisconsin later that day. did media move so has the responsibility to share not a single time i do still have the hostility a constant negative oftentimes full syntax and. in less than two weeks polls open in the first general election since trump took office and as authorities search for suspects the country remains politically charged. let's go straight to our washington correspondent miles fader who is standing by with the latest my what more do we know about these packages and the investigation that has been launched. well the packages themselves were very crude as we saw they were just your standard sort of patted of the f.b.i. upon x. raying them found that each of the devices inside of these were about six was just long about fifteen centimeters long and packed with powder and broken glass and their estim

headquarters was directed to john brennan the former cia director it said john brennan care of c.n.n. john brennan actually does not work at c.n.n. he works at m s n b c but regardless the time warner building in manhattan has been evacuated so we're hearing different reports are reports that debbie wasserman schultz former chair of the democratic national committee that her office has been evacuated as well now there were rumors circulating that the white house had faced a similar attack that there had been a similar bomb scare sent to the white house however we now have the secret service coming forward and confirming that is not the case there has been no suspicious package sent to the u.s. white house now on monday there was a suspicious package sent to george soros the wealthy billionaire who donates to democratic party linked activism he was targeted with an explosive device that was preemptively exploded by a bomb squad when he was far from his residence but we now have sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary coming forward and condemning these attacks and saying

the one i saw addressed here to john brennan with an incorrect address did have u.s. mail stamps on it. so, just to be clear, this congressional mail facility, where is that? is that at congress? >> no. none of these facilities are near the places where the mail is delivered. the white house facility is at a military base some distance from the white house. the facility for looking at congressional mail is several miles away. in washington, d.c. so no. they're not nearby at all. and the postal authorities and the law enforcement authorities are well on the lookout for these devices now. so i don't think anymore of them are going to be delivered. >> at cnn, it got ooitsz right in into the mail room and they're deliberate of taking in mail and packages. in addition, john miller saying that this package, this what appears to be a pipe bomb, also had -- i'm not clear in a package or a different package, white powder associated with it and why the building is not reopened yet because investigators are still trying to figure out what that white powder is and make sure it's

john brennan is firing back. he's tweeti intweeting, stop bl others. look in the mirror.flammatory rhetoric, insults, lies and encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. clean up your act. try to act presidential. the american people deserve much better. by the way, your critics will not be intimidated into silence. >> smiling, laughing. i would like to punch him in the face. get him out. try not to hurt him. if you do, i'll defend you in court. don't worry about it. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. i said please don't be too nice. >> any guy that could do a body slam, he's my candidate. >> i'm joined now by chairman of the american conservative union, matt schlapp. thank you for coming on this morning to have this conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> sure i want to start with a little bit of my conversation earlier in the show with governor andrew cuomo. he referenced some of that rhetoric from president trump. i want to play you what he said. >> i do believe that the president's r

hillary clinton, barack obama, maxine waters, john brennan and cnn. no one was hurt. it henry is tracking the investigation. politicians score political points over an act of terror. we begin the search for a suspect. we have team coverage tonight.he the latest reaction from the president tonight, jackie heinrich with more on how the scene looks but first ed henry is digging into the evidence. >> reporter: the fbi confirming a second suspicious package was sent to maxine waters forcing evacuation of the mail sorting facility in la as donald trump will be coming down hard on the suspect or suspects behind what he called despicable actss. multiple law enforcement agencies involved in a manhunt leaving the probe is the fbi and secret service screening process blocked a suspicious package from being delivered to the residents of former president clinton and hillary clinton after the fbi was notified about that. they got word a nearly identical package was addressed to the dc home of former president barack obama and michelle obama.. officials say they appeared to be live

it won't get dropped accidentally, or x-rayed. >> another thing we saw to the bomb addressed to john brennan, one, it misspelled and disdirected. if the goal was to deliver it to where he worked, it wouldn't be here at cnn. >> we understood that mr. brennan at the time was engaged in a twitter battle back and forth with the president and didn't know where to send it. these are all clues. police are working on human intelligence and signal intelligence. in manhattan alone there are some 13,000 cameras between private businesses and the ones the nypd put up on bridges and houses and subways. somebody would have seen something. and they are going to put together a pattern and we will learn more about this sooner than later. >> the nypd is responding to a suspicious package received at a nonresidential building in the tribeca area, and it's unclear to us if the package is quite similar in nature to the one received here yesterday at cnn, and you can see the containment vehicle that was parked in front of our headquarters yesterday in order to receive the suspicious package in the safest way poss

suspicious package was delivered and it discovered in its mailroom, addressed to former cia director, john brennan. president trump called the instance today abhorrent to everything americans hold dear and sacred. we have john roberts at the white house with more reaction from the president and the administration, a careful framing of the message. we start off though with catherine herridge here at the bureau with specifics on what was sent and intercepted. good evening, catherine. >> reporter: christopher wray issued a statement today asking for the public's help saying no piece of information is too small and wondering if there may be more packages out there. in a matter of hours, multiple suspicious packages identified across four jurisdictions, targeting high-profile democrats. a former cia director, and the new york offices of a national cable network. >> if there is a fire alarm here. >> we will find out what the latest is here and we will be right back. >> reporter: it was discovered in the cnn mailroom with extensive postage and packaging, all red flags, along with a potentially dangerous

former cia director, john brennan. his package was delivered care of cnn in new york at the time warner center. former attorney general, eric holder. debbie wasserman schultz, congresswoman from florida, her name was on the return address, and the package that was supposed to go to eric holder actually was delivered to her, because it was her name on the return. >> right. it was meant for eric holder and then that went back to her. the thing is, since the first pipe bomb was discovered, george soros' home in new york, the fbi knew that they were dealing with a pretty serious situation. they certainly expected -- they took every precaution. and if you listen to the nypd talk today, they were expecting other similar devices. the fbi's joint terrorism tank for task force started sharing information with their partners, with the nypd, other people, and also they stepped up security. and they started sharing information about this device. and that's why the nypd, as soon as they got the call about what they found this morni

here is john brennan. you got it?unfortunately, i think donald too often has failed to incite some of these feelings of anger, if not violence. when he points to acts of violence or also talks about swinging at somebody from the press. the media. i am hoping that this is going to make it clear to him that what he has done here before, a lot of this rhetoric is really counterproductive. it is un-american. >> sandra: jessica. >> john brennan has his own beef with the present, and they go at each other all the time. he is also speaking as someone who one of these pipe bombs was addressed to, but not as his place of work. what he is highlighting that is important is the kind of rhetoric that the president has been espousing. he recently commanded the congressman who said -- about body slamming the reporter. he has called cyprus the enemy of the people. he used to say that he would pay the legal fees for anyone -- >> what about this language? >> get in in their face. >> that is mild compared to -- >> they had a choice yest

it was addressed to former cia director john brennan.chors had to move their broadcast to the sidewalk. >> all of our cnn colleagues we know of are outside right now. everyone is safe, as we can see. >> reporter: the device was taken away in this n.y.p.d. containment vehicle designed to absorb the blast of a bomb if it detonates. deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism john miller. >> the bomb squad was able to safely remove a device contained in that package. it is also some kind of powder. >> reporter: an hour before cnn's bomb scare, news broke of bill and hillary clinton's pipe bomb before it reached their residence. hillary was on the road campaigning, but former president bill clinton was at home at the time. right after 9:00 a.m. this morning when the news broke, this normally quiet neighborhood was inundated with law enforcement officers and media. secret service agents found a similar device addressed to former president barack obama in washington, d.c. in sunrise, florida, bomb squad members had to use a robot

expectations about what an american president should be doing, especially in times like this. >> john brennan, who was of course called a lowlife by the president. jill, the question is can brennan speaking like this cause other brennans to speak out? or if there were any potential profiles in courage, especially on the republican side, would we know about it by now? >> i think at this point everyone pretty much knows what the president's m.o. is. you know, there have been endless opportunities at this point for members of the republican party to stand up when the president goes after people like brennan or eric holder or any of the litany, the hundreds of people that the president has gone after now in his three or four years in the political spotlight. and that's something that we really have not seen happen. i also want to say the president's message today was one of calling for unity. he really kind of advocated this idea that we should have this new moment of civility in politics. and the idea that president trump is going out there with this message just reeks of hypocrisy. this is a pr

a former cia director john brennan in care of the new york offices of cnn.rmer attorney general eric holder and democratic congressman maxine waters. at less than two weeks to the midterm and summer reactions appears calibrated for maximum political effect. trace gallagher is looking into all of the latest reaction today. hi, trace. >> for some politicians today's attempted attacks brought a certain amount of clarity. new york mayor bill de blasio immediately called it an effort to terrorize. notable because after the new york new jersey bombings of 2016 he avoided the terrorism label and this time around he also indicated that what we witnessed today was a byproduct of ideological adversaries apparently propagated by the president. watch. >> the way to stop that is to turn back the other way, bring down the temperature. to end any messages about the use of violence against people we disagree with that has to start at the top. >> democratic leaders also pointed fingers toward the guy at the top one president trump condemned the acts of violence chuck schumer

and of the package was sent to see in an attack -- addressed to john brennan and another was sent to congresswoman maxine waters and to former attorney general eric holder. that package was forwarded to debbie wasserman schultz because her name was given as the return address. laura blanchard is in washington with the lateness. >> reporter:package was addressed to former president obama who lives just down the street. the fbi sent a number of packages to a laboratory at quantico as they look for clues as to who could be sending these. >> it never made it to its intended location. >> reporter: a package with an apparent explosive device was intercepted before it can make it to the obama household, as well as another central former president bill and hillary clinton new york home. >> it is a troubling time.>> reporter: eric holder had one addressed to him. one bearing the name of john brennan, former cia director whose has publicly sparred with president trump. >> it is very important for the individual in the oval office to say exactly that. that we need to come together as a country

the package addressed to john brennan also contained suspicious powder. we have team coverage with the latest details. money, politics, we have the debate behind tomorrow's headlines. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. bomb squads and police officials amassed around the country. suspicious packages mailed to prominent democrats. edward? reporter: you are talking about six packages of what appears to be devices sent to multiple states. investigators are focusing in on the unusual type of pipe that was sent. the fbi released this picture swheeght packages looked like. the last one stopped in a congressional mail facility. it was addressed to maxine waters. one device was sent to the chappaqua home of president bill clinton and his wife hillary clinton. and another was addressed to barack obama. it never reached their home and was stopped in the sorting sender. the one that's reached debbie wasserman-schultz never reached its destination baits was returned to sender. president trump: the full waste our government is being deployed

john brennan is weighing accusing brett kavanaugh of blatant partisanship. pretty rich from brennan who accused donald trump of treason. the new york times's new op-ed on how the fbi should run the risk of an investigation written by james comey. the trump and clinton fbi probes, our panel will debate whether they have a point or should sit this one out. and talk about irony, the president who battled the fbi leadership for a year, now the president but the fate of his nominee in the hands of that same fbi declaring free reign to dig around, what he thinks, if the fbi clears brett kavanaugh, guaranty of swing votes like jeff flake. >> i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to but not more than one week in order to let the fbi to do an investigation limited in time and scope. >> reporter: the president and his aides are pushing on limiting the new investigation of the allegations with brett cavanagh. allison barber joining us in washington. >> reporter: two reports this weekend raised a lot of questions about the scope of the fbi investigat

for john brennan to say that yesterday after we first saw the president there was this hope. but here we are 24 hours later and we saw the wink and the nod last night. do you think the president can pivot here? honestly? not idealistically, honestly, knowing the man he is. >> i don't think that the attacks on the media are going to end. i do -- i would hope that the depersonalization of some of this were to occur. but it's so speculative that i wouldn't want to get myself into trouble by suggesting -- >> and i don't want you to. >> eli, before we go, ted cruz, he weighed in on this. and while he calls for civility, you know, it was just a couple days ago he's saying that beto o'rourke and hillary clinton should share a jail cell, but he immediately turned it back on the democrats. take a look. >> it's worth pointing out, and listen, i think the media always focuses on the president. there are too many democratic politicians that are actively encouraging this. when maxine waters tell people go, harris, scream, yell, come after people, that's wrong. >> all right. is this the ar

it's addressed to the former cia director john brennan. he is an endless contributor for nbc, not cnn. but the package was recovered. as we learned earlier today, it was not just containing explosives, but also a white powder. they're trying to determine whether that is something serious like anthrax. let's listen. >> responding officers identified a device that appeared to be a live explosive device. the bomb squad responded, secured the device and removed it for investigation. additionally there was an envelope containing white powder that was discovered as part of that original packaging. we're in the middle of investigating that right now. >> reporter: it made headlines, officials confirming that there were similarities between the device that was recovered in chappaqua, new york, as well as the device sent to former president barack obama at his residence here in washington, d.c. as you've emphasized, these devices were intercepted by the secret service screening of mail. that's routine. so it never reached the residence in question.

and then the other people targeted were hillary clinton, barack obama, john brennan, through cnn. the package sent to cnn was directed to the former cia director john brennan, and the other individual was a package sent to eric holder. apparently that package was returned and ended up at debbie wasserman schultz's office. all the packages sent that are confirmed to be part of this group had debbie wasserman schultz's name and return address as the return address on those manila padded envelopes the devices were sent in. that's what we know for sure. we also know the components that were included in all of these mailings were very similar, if not exactly the same. so that was one of the big clues. the evidence that led investigators, and you're looking at one of them now, that led investigators to conclude that a certain group of these mailings were in fact all connected. the outlier, as we mentioned at the top of the show, is the package sent to congresswoman maxine waters. and at this point we're still waiting to hear whether or not that package is connected to the other ones we'