after judge robert vance was killed in alabama in 1989, his eldest son, bob vance, jr., went on himself to become a judge in the great state of alabama. his daughter-in-law, married to judge vance's eldest son, went on to become a federal prosecutor in alabama. and there's not that many alabama cases that rise to the level of national news, but the killing of judge robert vance in alabama was one of those cases. killed him with that pipe bomb stuffed with shrapnel that went off in his kitchen in 1989. another alabama bombing case that made national news was part of the string of bombings carried out by the atlanta olympics bomber eric rudolph, who bombed the olympics, an abortion clinic and a lesbian bar between 1996 and 1998. the bomb prosecutor who handled the bombing of the abortion clinic in birmingham was the daughter-in-law of judge robert vance, who himself was killed in that terroristic bombing nine years earlier. we actually contacted that former prosecutor today when these bombs started turning up in democratic party and media mailboxes up and down the eastern seaboard. she to

been cancelled for birmingham fbi agents as they work to solve the mystery of who killed judge robert vanced instantly when he opened a package delivered to his home in the u.s. mail. his wife was seriously injured in the blast. >> welcome back. that was how nbc news described, at the time, the murder of judge robert s.vance by a mail bomb on december 16th, 1989. a federal appeals court judge became the third federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. just two days later on december 18th, a similar mail bomb killed georgia zifcivil rights lawyer. two other bombs were intercepted before they could hurt anyone. it was tied to one built in 1972 built by a waterer leroy moody. when he was apprehended and found guilty of several accounts that led to his execution april of this year. i'm join by judge vance son. judge, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> it's a rarity in our life these pipe bombs. this one had all the elements necessary to blow up. for whatever reason it didn't. p maybe people could tell and took the preparations to avoid any disaster. your thoughts when you heard abou

robert de niro's tribeca restaurant. msnbc contributor former u.s. attorney joyce vance is with me as well. pete, bring us up to speed on where we are in terms of the investigation? >> ten devices as you say. they were looking for one package that they believed was sent to vice president biden because someone in the postal service thought they saw it go by yesterday, and so it was sent -- it was thought that it was in the system. the postal service determined that it wasn't delivered to biden's house but probably had insufficient postage, and they assumed it was back in florida, but it was found this morning at a post office in new castle, delaware. this is the package you're looking for, and you can see postage due on it. i guess $0.75. that's why it wasn't delivered, and then a second device was found at another post office in delaware in wilmingtowilmington delaware. two sent to biden, and we found out last night, craig, that two were sent to congresswoman maxine water, one was found in los angeles at a main screening facility, another in a facility outside of washington that screens mai

robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot.m working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of

robert de niro's tribeca restaurant. msnbc contributor former u.s. attorney joyce vance is with me as well.ring us up to speed on where we are in terms of the investigation? >> ten devices as you say. they were looking for one pa

aware that robert mueller has developed other information, other witness testimony or documents that would prove that he's lying about it and that seems to be the big question. >> joyce vancemy league with these hard-core investigative reporters but we're talking about stone and corsi, two people who may not be household names who had a minimum have told lies about their involvement and eng tanglement with the russians but at a maximum they may be the intersection between the russians and americans to influence on behalf of trump in the presidential election. do i have that right? >> i think you do. it may be their lies that are the central connection between the campaign and any cooperation, any conspiracy with russians. so what we're probably looking at here, mueller has already indicted russians for a conspiracy, what prosecutors call a conspiracy to defraud the united states by influencing the outcome of the election. the question has always been, as you and ken have pointed out whether or not there were any americans involved in that. one thing that prosecutors know is the same thing that your common sense tells you. people who have to keep changing their story, keep

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