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that and go live to the ground. but we begin. >> with this breaking story. continuing out of the horrific events in minnesota. currently, a. >> manhunt continues for the gunman in what police call a. >> politically motivated assassination. >> the suspect, still. >> at. >> large, killed the state lawmaker. >> that you see here in her husband and injured another lawmaker and his wife in these attacks today, which have roiled the nation. police have identified their suspect as vance bolter. we do not have official statements about the potential motive from authorities, but information has continued to come in throughout the day. the fbi also offering up to $50,000 in reward for any type of information that could lead to finding the suspect. we also have aerial footage of the individual's home, what's believed to be his home there in green isle, minnesota, bolter is believed to have impersonated law enforcement, which itself is a separate crime, and warned this badge in order to get in and access to these legislators. in just the past hour, new surveillance images have come

forward that show a man matching his description, that of the suspect appearing to, as you see here, gain access to one of those legislators homes through these fraudulent means, impersonating as the police when, according to the authorities, he's actually the perpetrator. the danger here is what officials also told reporters just earlier this evening. >> we are confirming he's a person of interest that we are looking to locate. we would ask the public, if you do locate him, to see him to call 911, do not approach him. you should consider him armed and dangerous, and you should call 911 immediately with the information. a little more information about those targeted individuals. state representative melissa hortman and her husband, mark, shot and killed state senator john hoffman and his wife yvette, injured. both lawmakers were members of the state's democratic party, and authorities are looking into how what they call a politically motivated assassination fits

into the times and the tense moments that we've been living through, including this week. now, the minnesota congressional delegation released a joint statement as a show of unity, saying, quote, there is no place in our democracy for politically motivated violence and, quote, a president trump and other leaders in washington, in both parties have decried this type of violence. the president said, quote, such horrific violence will not be tolerated in america. we want to bring in nbc news correspondent adrienne broaddus in minnesota. what can you tell us about the latest state of affairs? >> hey there. >> ari, as you did mention, the fbi is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of that suspect, vance luther bulter. we cannot show his picture enough. if you take a look, this is who they are searching for. a white male, six one, weighing about 220 pounds. this is the latest photo that we have of him in that

cowboy hat. that's the picture of him gaining access to the lawmaker's home there. but authorities fear he may be leaving the twin cities, not only the twin cities, but the state of minnesota after those horrific crimes were carried out earlier this morning. we also learned from the medical examiner just a short time ago, confirming the former minnesota house speaker melissa hortman, and her husband mark, died from multiple gunshot wounds at their house in brooklyn park that is a suburb of minneapolis. in a separate shooting, another incident state senator john hoffman and his wife were shot. both had surgery. we're told they are out of surgery, telling our affiliates here at our nbc station, kare11 news, that no major arteries were hit. they did say a bullet was lodged near the heart of senator hoffman, but it did not hit his heart. and they are expected to survive. but clearly the road to

recovery could be significant. i did speak with ron harris a short time ago. for those of you who are not familiar, he is the dnc executive committee person, and he was with all of them last night, and he talked to four people on that list. >> understood. and thank you. adrienne, we'll be checking back with you in our breaking coverage. i want to turn now out to los angeles. we've got reporters fanned out across the country giving more than one event these horrific politically motivated shootings. according to authorities in minnesota, the parade in washington, coinciding with the president's birthday and these no protests that we've been covering all day. jacob has some developments. so we're going to turn to jacob soboroff in los angeles. >> ari, last night joined you all here on msnbc. we were up a little bit closer, but we had to fall back a little bit because and i want to see if we can get closer to the marine corps there now retreating. you can come with me. you can see, ari, that

the marine corps, which had advanced on the protesters here and had pushed these protesters off of the steps, excuse me, of the federal building here in los angeles, while agents from the department of homeland security were holding less than lethal weapons. you can see an officer from the department of homeland security hold one of those yellow, less than lethal weapons, as well as right here. another pushing back again. guys, let's fall back one more time, please. move back, move back, move back, move back. this is the marine corps pushing protesters here. and as you can hear, ari, they continue to say peaceful protest. so what they seem to be doing is. pushing people off the steps and then retreating up to the top of the steps and then coming back down. that's the second time that they've pushed people off the steps here, the federal building, of course, ari, this is the building where people were detained after ice raided them on friday. this is one of the federal buildings in la and

part of the mission that the president united states, has tasked these marines with is defending federal property and federal personnel. this building would consist of that still peaceful people, still chanting peaceful protests. and that's been the theme of the day. but it certainly is a tense between the members of the united states military, california national guard, here on the steps of federal building in downtown. >> ari. jacob, you could tell us a little bit more about what happened, because as you've described there was before we were able to catch you on live cameras, what you were telling us that there was some push and pull and feel free to work with your camera person there within safety to show sort of what's happening, what else we can see there. because this has been quite, a quite a day. >> sure. >> all right. come with me. let's see if we can get in here again. jb is following me. excuse me guys. pardon me, excuse me. guys, see if we can take you right up to the front. ari. guys. pardon me. sorry. we're live on tv. let me try. if

i show them. pardon me, excuse me, excuse me guys, so are. you. can see. i don't know if you got a better view here. jb, why don't you step in so you can show him? these are members of the marine corps, ari. there were questions about where they were and whether or not they were going to be coming out onto the streets of l.a. well, they're going from the steps of the federal building down here onto the streets of los angeles, side by side with agents from the department of homeland security. you can see batons in the hands of some of the members of the marine corps. here we go. here we go. back up, back up, back up, back up. please. back up. please. let's go. and so this continues to sort of be the drill the protesters get in their faces. they're saying things like peaceful protest. they haven't thrown anything at the members of the marine corps nor members of the national guard. but they're certainly walking up right to them on this no kings day protest and telling them what they think about their

deployments here, including, by the way, ari, some former members of the marine corps, including one i talked to in the last hour right here on msnbc. the chant now is shame. is shame, ari. >> jacob soboroff, thanks to you and your team there. and that does give us a real understanding, close up view of how that's going. we appreciate it. i want to bring in msnbc terror analyst, a retired atf special agent in charge, jim cavanaugh, and retired nypd captain john monahan. welcome to both of you on what is, of course, a difficult day. jim, we've come to rely on you throughout the years when we have these incidents. and so give us your experience and perspective on what we know and don't know about the attacks in minnesota. >> well, we know the guy planned it meticulously that he that he went to a lot of trouble to show up in this vehicle disguised as a police vehicle, dressed as an officer. he went to the house of

a lawmaker, the hoffman's, at 2 a.m. and enticed them, tricked them to come to the door, and he shot them both. and he didn't. he did not kill them. at 2 a.m, he left. so the neighbors, somebody called the police, maybe the survivors or the neighbors. and the police responded from the champlain, the town there, and the neighboring town. brooklyn park police also responded once they got there, the sergeant at brooklyn park, great police work, said, you know, we have lawmakers that live in our town. we better check their, you know, well-being as well. so they went to the residence of the former speaker and current democratic leader, miss hortman. and when they arrived, there's this phony police vehicle in the driveway and a man exiting dressed as a policeman. they engage in a shootout with him and then find the two deceased people inside the lawmaker and her husband. he then escapes into the dark on foot. he's quickly. in the

ensuing hours, ari identified, i think, likely through the vehicle. he either, you know, was his or he borrowed it or he rented it. but and he left some writing in there with a list of lawmakers and other officials in minnesota that he apparently was going to attack. and he had some fliers about no kings day. they identified him. they put his picture out. he's he's out there. and of course, it's a very desperate situation. i don't think this guy planned on being discovered. i think he thought he was be able to commit these two murders and either go home or maybe attack the kings parade in the daylight. so that's where we are now, ari. >> captain monegan really similar. question your views. what you'd like to add for our understanding here. >> i imagine. >> this is being done. >> but you've got 200. >> members of that legislative body. >> in minnesota. each one. >> needs to. >> be accounted for immediately. i mean, it's. >> an hour and a. >> half gap between the. >> shooting at the hoffman.

>> residence and the shooting at. the hoffman residence. >> where was he? there were only five miles apart. and. >> you know, he. >> ran out. >> the cops on the. >> scene apparently are confident. that he. >> exited that house. >> the hortman residence. well, he didn't disappear into thin air. all the. >> neighbors houses would. >> have to be checked. >> god forbid he's got somebody hostage. >> who's got a dead. >> family 2 or 3 houses away. >> it's not a dense area. and they haven't. caught him yet. maybe he did flee the great distance, but he could be right nearby. he could be hiding nearby. and we say, you know, i agree. he may have planned his. it looked initially like he did. he got that radio. >> car, he got. >> the police outfit and the guns, but he may not have. he's a director of security somewhere. that's probably. >> a. >> work vehicle. they may even be his work. >> clothes. >> so it doesn't mean he necessarily planned it at any great length. he may have. >> just had the clothes, had the car. >> no great planning, but if he did plan it, what's part of a plan? an escape route, you know, and they have that manifesto with all the names on it nearby. other other names. again, i want

to know what he was doing for an hour and a half. hoffman residence was at 2 a.m, hoffman was at 330. we need to check on everybody within an hour's drive of the hoffman residence. make sure that they're safe to. >> yeah, and then? and then, jim, when the authorities say they do believe it's politically motivated, you referred to the practices here to try to get other potential targets as lawmakers to safety. that speaks to the authorities. looking at his motive. what else do you see as important there in a time where no one wants to jump too far ahead? but we are living through a very tense political time, and we've had shows of force from the federal government. i coming to you just after watching marines on the ground in la, doing what they've been ordered to do, but fairly unusual images for americans to see. so where does that fit all into this first, captain. >> it's tough to. >> try and prevent something like this, but i can tell you as

far as police work, this is about as good as it gets. as our other guests just said, they responded to the hoffman shooting at 2 a.m. and had the wherewithal to think. once they found the manifesto. >> in the car. >> they realized it was politically motivated and thought to go check the hoffman residence. i mean, that's just fantastic police work. they got there right away. i mean, talk about the timing. they walked. there were a matter of seconds away from saving their lives. i mean, they really that's as good as it gets for police work. how much more can you do? intelligence information. we need to backtrack on this guy once he's caught. actually, they can start doing it right now. his coworkers, his cohorts, his family. did anybody have an idea? where did he make those photocopies? did anybody have a question about that? there's a lot we need to know. and did he have assistance from anybody? we need to know that, too. and if he did, those people need to be prosecuted as well. so going forward, if someone gets an idea like this in their head, maybe we can prevent it. maybe someone sees it, hears it, you know, the old, see something, say something. it's very tough to

defend against something like this, though, jim. >> well, i think the captain's right. and i think what's important now is what's in the killer's mind. i think he did have a plan to kill these lawmakers, but i do think he was expecting to escape. either go home and lay low and nobody would know his identity, and he could flush out his list later. or he was maybe going to attack the king's parade because he had a lot of those fliers in his car. but either way, he wasn't planning on getting into a shootout with the brooklyn park police at 330 in the morning. that wasn't the plan. so now he's had a busted plan and he's out there. and you know what goes through someone's mind when they just murdered two people, shot two other people and got in a shootout with the police. this guy's been in three shootouts. in a matter of just a few hours. i can guarantee you he's not thinking very clearly. he's trying to escape. now. they pick

him up on some cameras around the city with a cowboy hat. they pick him up in some other garb, so they think he might have changed. so he's he's trying. he's trying to live for now and maybe get away, maybe escape somewhere. but he'll need to carjack someone because he'll need money, he'll need food, he'll need transportation. we know he has a gun now, as a captain said, maybe there's confederates. certainly possible. he could have called someone for help. they could have helped him knowing he did the murder or helped him when they didn't know he did the murder. but he's a very desperate and dangerous man. and i'd say if he wants to live, he's probably going to kill to escape. and a killing to escape is a is a motive for violent crime. he could kill a trooper, a citizen somewhere to try to get away. so he's a very desperate hours. and. yes, ari, just to close, it's absolutely a political. he had a list of politicians. he shot two politicians and their spouses. it's political in his mind. there's some political reason

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navage. it's time to breathe better. >> my good friend and colleague melissa and her husband, mark, were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. our state lost a great leader and i lost a dearest of friends. >> minnesota governor walz, speaking earlier today on that breaking news. we can tell you this manhunt continues at this hour for the gunman that authorities believe is responsible for killing minnesota lawmaker, state representative melissa hortman

and her husband, mark. the suspect also shot state senator john hoffman and his wife, yvette. police have identified the suspect had been warning the public he is considered armed and dangerous. the fbi also offering a reward for any information. we are joined now by al franken, native son of minnesota, represented the state and this one hits home. personally, i know. so first i'd just like to give you the floor. what do you what would you like to say and share right now? >> well, i of the. >> four victims. >> today, i. >> only knew. >> melissa, but. >> she was. >> a speaker. when during a period. >> that i. >> was a senator. and she was an incredible leader and just a great person. >> you her. >> her word. >> was her word. and she was. just incredibly. impressive and

a great leader. >> and. >> you know. >> they they accomplished so much in their legislative session. in 23. that and her leadership and governor walz's leadership as well were so key in that. and can i read some. >> of the. >> stuff that they accomplished? sure. >> okay. >> this is. >> with a. >> dfl democratic. >> farmer. >> labor party, the legislature majority in both the house and senate. they passed the pro act, which gave reproductive freedom, is now guaranteed as a right in in minnesota, they signed a bill that will lead minnesota to 100% clean electricity by 2040. they improved and expanded access to. paid family leave and medical leave. they ban conversion therapy and made minnesota a

trans refuge state. because our lgbtq friends should be should feel welcome here. guaranteed free breakfast and. >> lunch for. >> all kids. passed historic funding for education and linked future increases to inflation. made public college free for low income minnesotans, and this was due to her leadership. and she was someone who had great sense of humor and was a calming, calming force and really led her her caucus. great in a great way. >> i appreciate you sharing that and taking a moment here to reflect on the work in a life cut short. and it also speaks to the issues today. i'm curious, senator franken, what you think is as a country and a society, we do today, we know what day

we're living through here, this unspeakable tragedy. the manhunt continues, protests around the country that have been planned for some time, not only of trump policies, and we have elections to debate policies, but of the alleged abuses of power and the use of force this week and marines on the ground in la. and then the backdrop of what is currently not the top story, but is on the screens of people watching in the corner, which is this unusual show of force and military parade on the president's birthday. your thoughts on on all of this in the context of the specter of political violence? >> well. >> the snow king's day as a response to the president's military parade, i think is fitting and i it looks like there's going to be a couple million people turning out today, right? >> is that what. >> i'm saying? >> numbers. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we don't. >> have an official national

estimate, but 100 cities go ahead sir. >> yeah, over 100 cities, i think. and yeah. and i think that the. president has, you know, in so many ways overstepped his bounds. and i think that the way he is going after immigrants who have not violated the law other than being here, i guess, illegally, but going after people who are working have worked for 20 years who are. making a living for their family, putting food on the table, peaceful and doing that peacefully. it really just has been kind of disgusting and. today's protests, i think, are very fitting. >> is there a way to get more unity on drawing a line, at least against the most extreme

measures? for example, in the response to the unusual treatment of senator padilla? you know, a body you've served in, there was some sort of political heat and debate about that earlier in the week. today, now that we are reporting these killings for a few hours, there was a rhetorical unity in washington because leaders of both parties have condemned what the authorities call politically motivated assassination and murder. but you and i know and many viewers know, that the president has spoken openly about a level of attack and vitriol and sometimes alluding to violence. on other days i will play for context what he just said. this is most recently on the way out to the parade. take a listen. >> absolutely terrible. absolutely terrible. and they're looking. for that particular man right now. >> thank you.

>> senator franken. >> well, at least he acknowledged how terrible it was. i mean, and that's i suppose, the least you could expect. but he did say that. and we and so that's that's maybe the best we could expect from him. but sure, he embraced how awful it was and how awful it is. >> so that's a yep. so final question. what are the leaders need to do to both hold accountability. you mentioned no kings, but also try to make thah political violence is acceptable or tolerated. >> i think that's exactly it. there is no no political violence. now, we've had some violence in these very, very minimal violence. the violence i see that has been committed is

the committed against legal. those immigrants who are here, maybe not legally, but who are are contributing to our society. and they supposedly were going to be going after lawbreakers and violent criminals and people who the president has said came from prisons and mental hospitals and insane asylums, which isn't true, and which he just said once. and then he i guess he he just keeps saying it over and over again to make it true. we i'm gratified by what i'm seeing in the show up of the know kings and i came i, i'm here to talk about melissa and what happened in minnesota today. >> yeah. understood. and i appreciate you taking the time. it's a big loss obviously for

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do you see something that seems to be a show of force, of a piece with the controversial deployment of the national guard and california, over the objections of the sitting governor and the overall debates over federal power? thousands of protesters, of course, are making their voices heard. we just spoke with senator al franken about just how widespread these have been. we don't have total numbers yet, but in some of the big cities like chicago, it was wall to wall people spread out across plazas and showing their opposition to the parades show of force and what they call a king like president in donald trump. let's bring in nbc anchor and host of velshi. ali velshi, who's been covering this live on the ground in washington. and from a military perspective, paul rieckhoff is a veterans affairs political analyst. ali, i just want to hand it to you. you're on the ground. and for viewers right now, this is the first time since the top of the hour we've checked in on what's happening. so please give us your reporting. yeah. >> well, first of all, i've waited 30 years to talk about raining on a parade. the rain

has just started here. the. they pushed this parade a little bit earlier. gave it about a half an hour earlier start so that they could try and get through some of it. they have canceled a number of the flyovers, although there was there were some planes that just flew over a few minutes ago and about 10 or 15 minutes ago you saw parachute jumpers, one of whom will deliver a flag to president trump. so the stage is back there, the bandstand. the grandstand is back there. president trump is there. vice president vance, defense secretary pete hegseth, a number of cabinet secretaries and other government officials are there. crowds? not that big, but they're out here. a lot of people are here, and they've made it clear that it's about celebrating the 250th birthday of the army. we now see sort of mechanized divisions. there's been a bit of a stoppage here, maybe because of the rain, but it has started raining. people are starting to sort of wander away, but people are here sort of indicating that they're here to celebrate the army. there are a lot of trump shirts, there are a lot of swag for sale, but i'm seeing more army stuff here than

i am seeing donald trump stuff, if you will. that said, when they announced the president, the vice president, pete hegseth, a big round of applause across the several blocks that are going on here. but again, the rain has just started. so we'll see what happens. >> all right. ali velshi, thank you. i think we'll be coming back to you as well. but i want to bring in paul rieckhoff for your views, sir. >> i think everybody. >> can see that this. >> is an unusually inappropriately, and i think, dangerously political event. the army birthday is one thing, but the fact that it coincides with his birthday is what's made it so divisive. and i think the real celebration of the army is actually happening all across america today, because there's a group of people i want to call out and thank and give respect to. that's all of our law enforcement, all of our national guard, even the active duty marines and the patriotic protesters nationwide who have been respectful, who have been disciplined, who have been patriotic. and i think that is

an incredible display we've seen so far, no signs of violence. there's been tremendous restraint and respect and hundreds of protests around the country. and in my view, that's maybe the best birthday gift we could offer to the army. and i say that as an army vet myself. >> yeah. and, paul, when you look at sort of this parade, which again, as we've taken pains to emphasize, is something a lot of people can get behind. you mentioned the national guard. you mentioned the events of this week. how do you think this stacks up against? what are also the concerns of some americans that it feels at times like a show of force or an effort to push militarization? the marines are following orders in la. we just had reporting on jacob soboroff out there, showing them trying to responsibly do crowd control. we didn't see anything going, you know, into a military. but there are a lot of experts we've heard from who said, that's not really the first, second or third thing the marines are usually supposed to do patrolling crowds in la. >> i understand those concerns.

i share those concerns. i think this military parade is wrong for any number, a number of reasons, but especially because it continues to insert our military in the politics of this country. trump continues to make it seem like they're his military. the speech at fort bragg this week was disgusting and shameful and unprecedented. and even the deployment of the national guard is an escalation that's unnecessary and an abuse of power. and the marines in la is the next step. and i think what we'll see tonight, you know, so far so good in d.c, but you'll probably see trump give an overtly political speech at the end of it, which will contaminate the whole thing and continue to pull our troops into a place where america trusts them less because he's manipulating them, because he's he's politicizing them, because he's abusing them. he's reducing their popularity. and that's really dangerous because americans don't respect them as much. americans don't trust them as much. americans fear them in some places. and that's understandable, as they see this increased militarization that culminates with this. but it's also important, i think, to

note, ari, this is not the end. this is the playbook going forward. so this parade is probably the first of many. and this is part of trump's larger plan to expand his grip on power and to leverage the military as an instrument of that power. >> yeah. and ali velshi, i want to give you the final word out there on the ground. anything else that you're seeing or that we should understand about what we're witnessing there in washington tonight? >> well, you know, i think paul makes an interesting point. there are a lot of people here who are not getting involved in the political discussion on the ground, but they're showing their politics on their t shirts, on their hats. but people have sort of gone out of their way to tell me that they feel that they're here because of the army. you got a lot of people with army paraphernalia with, you know, who are veterans or moms of veterans or wives of veterans or daughters of veterans, whatever the case is, husbands of veterans or army wives and army sons, that's what it feels like on the ground. this doesn't feel like a political rally. interestingly enough, i did. i did mention that when they announced pete hegseth and jd vance and donald trump. massive round of applause

throughout the entire place. but to the extent that on the ground, it feels a little less political. i will say, by the way, there are people walking through with no signs, with signs that are critical of donald trump. not a lot, a handful, but but there's no tension between those sides. in fact, i saw somebody being escorted out, and i think it was just because they had a sign that was bigger than you're allowed to have on the ground here, but there's no pushing, there's no shoving, there's no name calling. it's got a slightly subdued vibe here on the on the, on the ground there. they're cheering as various parts of the army marched by. so that's the distinction between what may be happening at 10,000ft with the president and what's happening on the ground here. >> a really important distinction, which is why we benefit from your reporting on the ground, ali velshi, and given us sort of how that feels and what you've been seeing all day and talking to the real people who showed up. so really appreciate that. good for us to understand a little more. and paul rakoff, with your views and thank you. i think it's fitting today to say thank you for your service as well. thanks to both service as well. thanks to both of you. we'll

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choreographed as a response by protesters to donald trump's celebration of military force. here. jacob soboroff has been reporting for us out of los angeles and has more on that spot near the federal building where so much has happened over the course of the week. jacob. >> army tactical officers from the los angeles county sheriff's department have moved in, both in on the back of these pickup trucks, and they've got tactical vehicles and on horseback, as well as the horses start to make their way in here. actually, let's go this way so we can show them. it looks as though they're establishing perhaps a line here, because people are in the street in front of the federal building. and i don't know if the plan is to declare an unlawful assembly or to move people out, but i'm going to see if we can just get into a position that gives us an idea of what's going on here. if you look, if you look, come on down, jb. if you look down the road here, you can see many vehicles from the los angeles county sheriff's department and the

california highway patrol. that's a tactical officer from the highway patrol. these are officers obviously dressed in tactical gear for the l.a. county sheriff's department. the los angeles police department has formed a line on the other side of the street. and what they've done is where we were before, where the marines are stationed in front of the federal building. they have essentially formed a line blocking the people who are on the inside from coming out. and these sheriff's department tactical officers are blocking anyone from coming in. you can see that they have their less than lethal rounds ready to go. and when we've seen this in past days, generally as part of an effort either to corral the people who are in the street and arrest them, or to try to push them out or in some form or fashion. i want to reiterate this looks very intimidating. this has remained 100% peaceful as far as i have seen. people are out here with their signs here may show your sign, ma'am, can i? you said. your sign says. >> we are not criminals. let's

go. peaceful protest. we're not doing anything wrong. whoa whoa whoa. we have the freedom of speech. >> go go go go! you want to be careful, okay? you take care of yourself so you can see. whoa, whoa! they're messing with the horses, guys. let's go, let's go, let's go. let's back up here. obviously, people are unhappy, ari. people don't want to see horses trampling. let's go, guys, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. hey, ari. we're okay. we're going to keep going. stay with us if you can. jb one move a little faster back there pushing people with horses, which obviously gets people freaked. jacob you're you're. and again i haven't seen what you need to do. >> you're on camera. >> but but take. >> your. >> time and. whoa whoa whoa whoa. let's go, let's go. oh. let's go. go. we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good. keep going, we're good, we're good. whoa! those are the flashbangs. let's go,

let's go. ari, obviously, they're trying to disperse the crowd here. we're doing fine. and this is crowd control tactics by the sheriff's department, the highway patrol, lapd. it's an effort to move people out of that area by the federal building. and obviously, it's been pretty effective to get people off of that bridge there on los angeles. let's give you the vantage point from over here. while we catch our breath. you can see, ari, this is the 101 freeway. that's the federal building where we were talking to from earlier. we're good buddy. and the people that were in front of the federal building have now moved further up to that line with the highway patrol and lapd and the sheriffs, who just with those flash bangs and officers on horseback, cleared people, including us, obviously off of

the freeway as they attempt to get people away from the national guard and from the marines who are who are stationed there in front of the federal building. ari. >> yeah. jacob, we're keeping our cameras on you. and i'm glad you and the team and the people there safe. give us your context on what we just saw and how that relates to the day. was that more or less sort of interaction than you've seen over the course of much of today? >> that's the first that we have seen of any sort of aggressive, forward making moves in a crowd control tactic other than the national guard and the marines pushing people off the steps of the federal building there. you know, obviously they deployed the flashbangs. i don't think that they actually shot the pepper balls, but what they were trying to do was get people off of this bridge, this overpass over the 101 freeway. the question is, what's going to happen to the protesters in the area where we were earlier in front of the federal building?

are they going to declare an unlawful assembly up there and arrest them? you can see there's the chp officers, california highway patrol starting to move in towards those folks. what we can do actually is, jb, let's go across this bridge and see if we can give you a look from the other side. but ari, again, as you can see here, this is a peaceful protest. we the people serve no king. how are you guys feeling? >> horrible. >> horrible. what was it like to hear those flash bangs just now? >> unnecessary. it was peaceful. we were in front of the federal building. we were peaceful. it's not right. >> why are. what brings you out here. >> my privilege? i've been here for a long time. my family's been here for a long time. and what they're doing isn't right. >> when you see what's happening on the streets of la, not just this law enforcement presence, but ice. what neighborhood you live in, what community we live in. >> we live in el monte, california. >> so in el monte, i mean, just east of where we are right now, there have been reports not exactly in a month unless correct me if i'm wrong, but there have been reports in and around a lot of different parts of la county of ice rolling

around and through the streets. have you guys heard anything? people you know, people you care about? >> yes. we have it's they're actually all around the san gabriel valley. we were protesting there last night, too. it's from 8 a.m. in the morning until night time. >> all right, you guys, you want to tell me your names or. no, no. >> it's okay. >> okay. respect. all right. take care, you guys. so, ari, you heard it from them. peaceful. you know, they want to remain peaceful. people. go ahead. >> yeah. jacob. thank you. and it's very striking to sort of see as you move around, you're giving us even more of a reality check on what it looks like. and also, as you've observed, where most of the protesters are with signs with insignias, but largely assembling peacefully, we're going to keep coming back to you. we've got the turn of the hour here. so our thanks to jacob soboroff and his team. i'm ari melber here signing off on this hour. but our special coverage on this big day continues right now with chris hayes. >> all right. thank you ari. really appreciate that. it is 7:00 here. >> in new york. i'm chris hayes. i'm joined by colleagues. ari melber is going to be coming ba