along with matt bradley and chris dickey. a long and ceremonial well filmed, well watched, some with lights, some without. but the new president-elect there in france. emmanuel macron, walking towards the microphones in front of what appears to be hundreds, if not thousands of supporters of his campaign. and what a night it is. sunday, 10:30 in the evening. with many performers. the warm-up acts if you will to the celebration as emmanuel macron now takes to the microphone. he did have a victory speech earlier where he was commenting on his opponent, marine le pen, and that he addresses and he sees and he appreciates their anger is the word he used with the system. he also appreciated why the voters supported le pen and also said, i will address your needs. but overall being if you will, when you look at the translation, his message was of uniting. of being that individual that will now get to work and has been noted the next major issue, major benchmark to watch for this president when he starts in the coming weeks will be ho

nbc's matt bradley. we have the daily beast world editor and contributor chris dickey who have been able to give us fantastic context on what we're seeing here in france and what it means for the united states. matt bradley, we were talking with chris a moment ago about youth and he being the youngest president ever at the age of 39. but there's also his business acumen and whether he will be able to translate that to governing. >> hard to know. this is a country that's real really -- it's a traditionalist country and part of that tradition comes in the form of its economic traditions there's the social model here really looms large over everything. if you remember back in the '80s some of the leaders here tried to implement sort of a thatcher model where they wanted to take some of the corporations -- nationalized corporations and privatize them. those were met with massive protests and resistance from the population. and as my colleague chris dickey said a moment ago, you know, a lot of the young peopl

. >> for more, we or joined by nbc's matt bradley in manchester. matt, a truly terrible story. what can you tell us? >> reporter: thanks, frances and gigi. we just heard from prime minister theresa may. she addressed the nation with a solemn, very direct speech. she called this attack last night here in manchester callous and said it ranked among some of the worst terror attacks that hit the british isles. 22 dead, the second most deadly attack in recent memory in britain. but it's also the target. they attacked children. this ariana grande concert, most of the fans were young girls and their parents enjoying a night out. that is what has really dealt a body blow to this city. theresa may offered praise for those who came to the aid of the 59 injured and so many others trying to evacuate. just a little while ago, i went around the corner to a hotel here and saw a whole room filled with girls still wearing their ariana grande pink t-shirts and they looked absolutely shellshocked. >> i'm sure that's the case even now. nbc's matt bradley, thank you very much. >>> the department of

joining us live from manchester, england, is matt bradley. matt, good morning. what do we know about salman abedi and the ties to overseas terror groups? >> reporter: thanks, yasmin. we know he grew up here not far from the arena where he killed 22 people. he grew up within the libyan community here in manchester. this is the heart of britain. there were a lot of connections among the community. especially for young men like him. he was perceived to be by many to be quiet and also devout. unlike many of the quote lone wolf attackers who struck across europe, he did not appear to have history of violent crime or drug use or drug dealing like the attackers before. he actually was a pius muslim. he may have traveled to libya over the years and may have participated in fighting. he may have had connections to al qaeda, but also to islamic state. that claim of responsibility that came out yesterday. we know those two groups are different and fight each other, they are ideologically very similar. yasmin. >> matt, let me ask about abedi's brother. we know authorities i

chris dickey, matt bradley still with me. matt bradley, the numbers here, the 30 percentage points here greater than what the estimates were. what does that say about the liberal base or the centrist base and the turnout altogether? >> reporter: well, it does say that -- i was just speaking with chris just now that it was slightly more than the polls predicted, and the polls have been pretty much on point, especially in the first round about two weeks ago. now, what this says was that marine le pen wasn't able to pull off a very clever gambit that she and others in her camp had hoped to pull off. she thought she might be able to win votes from the far left. if you think about it in terms of the political wings of less is a straight line and more of a circle, marie le pen thought maybe she would go all the way around the right side and gather from the 20% that had voted for jean-luc melenshaw who was almost as opposed to the european union as le pen was. he was just very an anti-establishment, he just had the look and attitude

we get the latest from matt bradley in paris. >> reporter: a campaign full of surprises ends without one. emmanuel macron will be france's next president. he is a former investment banker who wants to reform france's economy and strengthen the european union. with most of the votes counted, he trounced anti-immigrant populist marine le pen by about 65% to 35%. after a last-minute hacking scandal, bitter debates, allegations of fake news and rare interventions from american politicians -- >> i have admired the campaign that emmanuel macron has run. >> reporter: the campaign revealed how deeply split france is. france's political divisions run especially deep here in marseille. marine le pen enjoys a lot of support in france's second city despite a massive immigrant population. a third of the city is muslim. >> i'm muslim, but it is not right in my front muslim. i'm a french citizen. >> reporter: le pen supporters here say they aren't racist, they just want immigrants to assimilate. just weeks ago, two french jihadis were arrested here, accused of planning a terror attack, the latest o

for more we turn to matt bradley who joins us in manchester. good morning. >> reporter: thanks, frances. this is the second morning that they have awoken after that tragedy that left 22 people dead in the manchester arena behind me in 59 injured. most of those were you fans of ariana grande, the american singer who held a concert here two days ago. now, there hasn't been many pictures but overall last night about every hour there was a van that would come and go from this parking garage, carrying the dead bodies one by one, so many of these young fans and their parents who were killed in this concert, now the investigation is ongoing but the police were able to identify yesterday the man who they say is the perpetrator. he is from here in manchester, raised a couple miles away and attended school here. his name is salman abedi, only 22 years old, and police say that he detonated a bomb, improvised explosive device as fans were leaving this concert. there's more that's being done by the police, there have been raids across the country, only in a

nbc's matt bradley is in marseille. we're hearing about a very surprise endorsement. >> reporter: a very rare endorsement of a u.s. president for a foreign election, almost unprecedented according to scholars quoted in the local and american press. it's unlikely to really tip the scales of this already very heated election. that's because marine le pen successfully cast herself as an outsider candidate going up against macron's establishment, a globalist mentality that he projects along with angela merkel. having barack obama weigh in on macron's side is unlikely to help push anyone away from the le pen camp and towards macron. remember that barack obama went to britain last year and actually endorsed the, quote, remain camp before the brexit referendum. that didn't go his way either. we'll see how that all ends up. this campaign is starting to look more and more american. that's what people here are saying, showing the trappings of the boisterousness and bitterness in the debate wednesday night, shocking for so many pe

matt bradley is in paris for us, and how are voters there waking up this morning? >> reporter: thank, frances. as you mentioned this was a massive pe pudsation -- repudiation not just for for ma rin le pen. i was just in marseille last week and folks were saying that a lot of the racism, division, will persist even after they see the back of marine le pen. and indeed, her party, still got about 35 to 36%. that was twice as much or more than twice as much as her father got in 2002 when he shocked france making it into the second round. so it seems as though her party will be persisting and going into these parliamentary elections next. those elections, they're happening next month, they're going to determine whether macron, this very young president, and his very young political party, which was just established a few months ago, will enjoy expansive political power in france or be obliged to share it. but before then, the media here is crowing. the center right paper, this is a play on en marche, the name of macron's political party and la parisian. 39 years and pr

nbc's matt bradley, thank you very much. it's important to note as well that political parties in the united kingdom have suspended kaeming today. they're about three weeks away from a critical important general election. also going to see if this has any impact on the candidates running for that general election. >>> wheer following the latest president trump's visit to the middle east. president trump was joined by palestinian leader mahmoud abbas. in addition to condemning the manchester terror attack, president trump discussed has hope for peace in the middle east. >> i would like to begin by offering my prayers to the people of manchester. and the united kingdom. i extend my deepest condolences to those so terribly injured in this terrorist attack and to the many killed and the families, so many families, of the victims. we stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the united kingdom. so many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life. i won't call them monste

joinin joinings us live matt bradley. what are authorities saying as they begin the hunt for clues and more importantly, do they feel that there are any other potential attacks out there? what are they telling the public to do at this stage? >> reporter: amber rudd has come out and advised the british public to call in if they notice anything suspicious and to remain vigilant but not to particular hysterical. that's one of the things the british are trying to get out to the public. be mindful, but not take matter sb s into your own hands. it's about keeping a stiff upper lip and that's what people in man tes ter a manchester are trying to tell the public. this country has been stung by terrorism in the more recent past. there's still an investigation into the perpetrator. the british police know the identity of the perpetrator or so they say and they haven't released his name yet probably out of an abundance of caution. this is exactly how the investigation played out a couple month ago when a lone world attacker killed s

matt bradley is live in paris with more on that. matt, good morning to you. >> good morning, craig. that hack was published on fortran just moments before a two-day media blackout. it was timed very strategically so tha actually talk about politics or defend itself. today the presidential race that's rattled france rattled again late last night. news of a last-minute hacking attack. nine gigabytes of data, thousands of e-mails and documents all stolen a few weeks ago from the campaign of emmanuel macron. this as the country enters a preelection two-day media blackout. it's a massive and coordinated piracy meant to cause doubt and misinformation. no one has claimed responsibility but suspicion already focused on russia. a japanese cyber security firm last week said russians had hacked macron's campaign. moscow denied that charge. >> we are 100% sure that this team is only focusing on opponents to the russian government. >> reporter: the hacked e-mails are mostly trivial. restaurant reservations, talk macron's campaign says fake e-mails are mixed in with the real ones. france's presid

matt bradley is live for us in paris. matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. this is a crucial vote and not just for the future of france, but europe as a whole. it's still not exactly close. emanuel macron is expected to beat marine le pen by 20%. we'll know if they called it right in about six hours. today in france, both with radically different visions for the country's future voting this morning. all guys are on marine le pen, the far right populist who wants to quit the european union and nato, limit immigration, and crack down the practice of islam. but polls favor emanuel macron, the former banker who's a pro business liberal who wants to keep france in the eu. he's never held elected office. he announced friday night his campaign was hacked. nine gigabytes of data, thousands of e-mails, now circulating on the web. suspicion has turned to russia and the macron campaign likened the hack to last year's dnc leak, but the comparison to the recent u.s. election doesn't end there. french campaigns have seen bitter debates. violent campaign rallies, and alleg

joining us now from paris is nbc matt bradley. matt, thank for being with us here today. tell us about who might be behind this hack and how severe it was. >> thank, richard. well, we're obviously a lot of the suspicion initially has fallen on russia. that's not just because of the u.s. hacking last year, but because russia was also implicated in some hacks in germany, specifically with angela merkel's leading party. they were thought to be this fancy bear group that has been indicated in the dnc hacks last summer. and a japanese cyber security firm released a report just a couple of weeks ago saying that macron's party had been hacked just several weeks ago. so that's of course where suspicion has initially landed. >> what was stolen? >> it's really following a lot of the same pattern that the dnc hacks followed. mostly e-mails. campaign officials, party officials, and that sort of thing. the kind of thing that reflects mundane banter of groups that was leading the campaign which was the new political party a attached to this candidate emmanuel macron. >> the timing not

people are saying le pen is a racist, and macron is aloof. >> matt bradley life for us in france. we'll be watching that election very closely. >>> let's get a check on the weather with meteorologist bill karins. looks nicer out there? >> the east coast is a mess. all the rain through georgia. weave had a couple active tornadoes north of the wilmington area. we'll watch those. no confirmed tornadoes. we had one in georgia that did damage last night. there's a shield of heavy rain extending from washington, d.c. into the baltimore area through pittsburgh, cleveland, buffalo, a stead y soaking rain that will eventually move into philadelphia today. a lot of travel delays. the dangerous storms are more in north carolina. by 5:00 p.m., notice the heavy rain is out of new york city. you're done pretty early in the day. probably by noon hour in washington, d.c. heaviest rains in philadelphia during the early morning to about early afternoon. same for new york city. the steader rain through northern new england and showery through nashville and cleveland. by saturday morning, all the hea

joining me now from manchester is matt bradley who has been on the story through the day. matt, we know that isis has taken responsibility. but their hand in this attack has not been verified yet. we know we heard from the manchester police recently. what eye t's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, it's very unclear to what september extent islamic state had in the attack. we know that satisfies salman abedi age 22, and he was the one who perpetrated the ghastly attack at the arena behind me that killed 22 people and injured as many as 59. now, we're still waiting for word from the coroner's office to determine exactly the identity of the perpetrator. so we have it from police, but we're waiting on the coroner. but right now, we can report that salman abedi age 22 was the perpetrator of this attack. now, this investigation into whether or not he had accomplices is ongoing and nationwide. this is the most critical thing that investigators will be looking for. whether this was it indeed just a lone wolf attack, just a man inspired by isis who might have had no connection

matt bradley reporting from paris. thank you. >>> we head back to washington for details on the senate and its operation to try to tackle the president's health care plan. now the house passed that version of the bill, there will be a lot of questions that need to be answered. what counts as a pre-existing condition? we have tom price who tried to explain that yesterday on cnbc. take a look. >> rape and domestic violence could be considered pre-existing conditions under the bill. >> if it is the case, it is the case right now. the protections in the legislation make it believe people with pre-existing conditions will be able to gain better coverage than able to gain. >> i want to bring in the doctors. dr. torre and dr. natalie azar. i know you have been studying up on the changes and what they could mean for access and what it means to be insured. first the health secretary statement that rape and domestic violence are considered pre-existing conditions under the aca. is that true? >> look, thomas, the list of things t

joining us from london, foreign correspondent matt bradley. what more can you tell us about the deadly attack. >> thanks, ayman. the target was obvious, hasn't been a claim of responsibility. the message devastating in clarity. enormous suicide bomb targeting foreign presence in afghanistan. suicide truck bomb hit the highly secure embassy district at the peek of rush hour, at the beginning of ramadan. it shattered windows as far as a mile away. as you mentioned, killed as many as 80 people, wounded hundreds more. those numbers are likely to rise. according to media reports, the suicide bomber used a tanker truck loaded with septic tanks filled with explosives. and the bomber or bombers detonated this pay load close to german embassy which officials said was lightly damaged in the attack. the latest tragedy where american troops are fighting the taliban more than 15 years. now the u.s. led coalition is fighting an islamic state insurgency. there are relatively new ingredient in afghanistan's volatile mix. both militant groups claimed brutal at

matt bradley joins us from paris with more. matt, let's start with this. first of all, is this ban realistic? and how can officials really keep the hack from influencing voters, particularly with the prevalence of social media? >> reporter: thanks, sheinelle. it's not necessarily a realistic ban in the way that it's actually written. of course you could actually be charged with a crime here in france for speaking about the elections during this more than 24-hour period when you're not -- the media isn't supposed to cover it, so the ban doesn't just cover media, but obviously that's a little outside the abilities of the police. so this ban really is enforced on major news organizations and most of them, like the paper of record here in france, do follow the ban. for most other people, for social media, they will violate it and it will be violated. >> with that said, what was macron able to say about the hack before the ban went into effect? >> reporter: well, it was put -- this hack was announced, it was released really just hours before the ban went into e

nbc's matt bradley is live in manchester. matt, isis is now claiming responsibility. has that been verified? >> it has been, stephanie. experts told nbc news this is a verified account and that this is a legitimate claim of responsibility by islamic state. of course, stephanie, it's always very hard to read the tea leaves when it comes to these isis claims of responsibility and we've seen so many of them over just the past couple of years. one thing we can say this statement did say in arabic this was one of isis' soldiers that attacked what they described as crusaders. now keep in mind, of course, these are mostly 13 to 15-year-old girls who isis is describing as crusaders. now there also were other discrepancies. they described multiple bombs that were used and seems as though there was only one. but still, this investigation is ongoing. they just arrested, the police here a 23-year-old in southwest of this city, and this just goes to know there is a massive dragnet going all over the country but at the same time, remember, the westminster attack in march that was w

we're joined by matt bradley who is live in paris. matt, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this was a massive repudiation for marie le pen and far-right anti-immigrant policies she and anxieties that run so deep here in france will persist even without le pen. a campaign full of surprises ends without one. macron will be france's next president. a former investment banker who wants to reform france's economy and strengthened the european union. with most of the votes counted he trounced anti-immigrant populist marie le pen. after a last minute hacking scandal, bitter debates, allegations of fake news, and rare interventions from american politicians -- >> i have admired the campaign that macron has run. >> reporter: the campaign revealed how deeply split france is. france's political divisions run especially deep here in marseille. marie support despite a massive immigrant population. a third of the city is muslim. >> i'm muslim. but it's not right. i'm a french citizen. >> reporter: le pen supporters say they aren't racist they want immigrants to assimilate. weeks ago two

nbc's matt bradley in paris with what comes next. celebrations tonight at the louvre museum among the camp emanuel macron. at 39 years old, he'll be the youngest president to enter the palace in the coming weeks. after tonight, he trounced far right candidate maureen le pen to the tune of 65% to 35%. >> translator: i wish this evening to thank madam le pen. i know the division in our country that led to some extreme votes. ry respect them. i know the anger, the anguish, the doubts that many of you have expressed. >> now this is a massive repudiation of the style of politics that maureen le pen was peddling. she was anti-eu, antimm >> he is very pro eu. he is pro trade. and his style of politics is carrying forward probably into the upcoming. it is about politics going forward. it's brand new party. they will determine whether or not you have to determine. >> six people were rushed to the hospital, one of them with critical injuries. the highway to 495 having shut down the investigation. but everything is back open now. no word as yet

let's go to nbc's matt bradley who joins us from paris with more. matt, has the government been able to keep news of the hack from being reported and discussed today? >> reporter: thanks, sheinelle. well, the newspaper of record here came out and said that it wouldn't be reportingny of the details or really anything at all about these hacks. thateen seen by some in the united states as a virtuous decision by an upstanding newspaper, but in reality they're really just complying with the law here. we're in the midst of a blackout period right now. it started last night around midnight and will last until sunday night around 8:00 p.m. french time when the polls close. that's when newspapers and individuals can start talking about politics once again. it's important to remember, this law doesn't just cover the media, it also means that individuals and just about anybody can actually be technically prosecuted under french law for broaching the topic of the campaign. sheinelle. >> so, do we have a sense of what's in the leaked documents? >> reporter: well

matt bradley reporting for us. thank you. >>> a bit of uncertainty in the white house after the healthcare bill heads to the senate and here is kellyanne conway last night. >> leader mcconnell and the president have a great relationship and they speak regularly and the senate started working on their bill before the house even passed their version. so everyone knows that this will take some time and we'll see what comes of it. >>> meanwhile, republican congressman raul labrador is facing backlash at comments he made at a town hall and here's the clip and it's since gone viral. >> people on medicaid accept dying. >> no one wants anybody to die. that line is so indefensible. nobody dies if -- >> president trump is wrapping up his weekend and is standing by his decision to stay at one of his personally branded golf resorts. >> the reason i'm stayinging i bedminister, new jersey, is that it is much more expensive and disruptive. meetings. kelly, let's talk about what's on the president this week and any type of preview

. >> nbc's matt bradley is in berlin, germany. mat, it would seem as if the former president got quite the rock star welcome today, sir? >> that's right. what's really remarkable is just the sheer affection that this crowd had for the former u.s. president. if you remember it was a little less than a decade ago that just behind me, right past brandenburg gate, obama as a presidential candidate, addressed t addressed 200,000 adoring germans in the tear garden behind me and angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, must have appreciated the optics of sitting next to a popular president, popular politician only four months before she herself faces re-election. this was as you mentioned, this was about the 500th anniversary of the protestant reformation. it was about the past and for obama it was about the pasts too looking backward and evaluating his presidency and he made several references to his time in office. he basically at one point he expressed some regret, some acknowledgement, that he probably had killed innocent people in

matt bradley in france awaiting the presidential election. matt, thank you for that. >>> from global politics we turn back to domestic politics, united states front and center in washington right now, of course the pehealth care debate. president trump on twitter this morning celebrating his victory in the house said, he said "when phase two is implemented we will have truly great health kracare" opponents of the obamacare replacement bill, though, lament lamented the problems of pre-existing conditions. we ahave jared bernstein, forme chief economist for vice president biden. thanks to both of you for joining us. let me start with you. politically this is moving to the senate now. republicans going to try to pass it with just republican votes. very, very small margin for error. there was an interesting comment from bill cassidy, republican senator from louisiana earlier today. he cited that tearful monologue that jimmy kimmel gave on his late night show earlier this week talking about his son who was born with a heart condition, saying he do

. >>> for the latest on the investigation and an update on victims we turn to msnbc's matt bradley and kelly o'donnell who's in jerusalem. the president was in the middle east when he learned of the attack and has now landed in italy. matt, start with you. there was a police raid just last hour. we saw video of it from our sister network, itn. what can you tell us about what officers were doing there? we can see them right now in s.w.a.t. gear. >> katy, i'm trying to gather as much as you are as nbc news is looking into it. our understanding is that this raid was in fact connected to this attack that happened at the arena behind me last night. this was part of an effort to actually execute 1 of 2 warrants that manchester police have issued today. the first one resulted in the arrest of a 23-year-old male who was arrested in southwest birmingham earlier this morning. he actually is now in custody. again, this raid, this one where there was actually some detonation was fired to clear the area, this was done to execute yet another arrest warrant. it is not quite clear if anyone was arrest

matt bradley has more from paris. >> thanks, yasmin. the release of those hacked e-mails last night have dealt a surprising blow to the campaign that many french people had already thought was deeply divisive and acrimonious. we don't know exactly what is in all of the e-mails because we're not sure if all of them have been released yet. it seems as though most of them are genuine. and now there hasn't been much of a whiff of scandal in any of them. it's a little like the e-mails that were released after the dnc hacking last summer. if you're determined to find a scandal or conspiracy, you'll be able to find them in those e-mails. if norkts they'll look like the mundane discussions of campaign and party officials trying to go about the business of running a presidential campaign. and that's exactly what most of those e-mails say. some discussion of money. some discussion of buying dinner. some comments about the weather. it's all pretty mundane for a campaign that's been anything but mundane so far. now, of course, suspicion has focused

polls remain open, nbc's matt bradley is in paris. let's talk about the turnout and the influence of friday's election hack, as well as the bad weather today, especially in paris. >> reporter: well, the weather isn't all that bad, thomas, as you can see, it's not raining. it's been raining all weekend, but now it's not so bad and i've got some nice views here. but the fact is that the turnout here, this entire race has been dogged by a lot of suspicions that the turnout would be very low because of voter dissatisfaction with all of the candidates. it was the same thing two weeks ago during the initial runoff election that featured 11 candidates. a lot of people said even with this massive menu of 11 candidates the voters were still so discouraged they wouldn't turn out, but they did. and the numbers that we did so far today have shown voters have been turning out really only slightly less than they have in the past. so what you used to be able to see would be a blank vote, voters would go to the polling station and submit basically a

matt bradley, thank you. >>> areas of the south and midwest remain under water this morning as torrential rain that led to massive flooding in the region affecting millions of people. at least nine flooding-related deaths reported and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged. blake mccoy has the latest from hard hit missouri. >> reporter: parts of flood ravaged, rain prolonging the agony for homeowners like john with a mote around his home he is keeping faith the water will stay back. >> the river is a half mile away. >> yes about a half mile. >> now? >> now i got lakefront property. >> basement after basement flooded, 90 state highways shut down in missouri alone. in arkansas, breached levees have sent higher ground. severe storms have also toppled trees across the south. satellite images show the incredible ground saturation these storms have caused. flood records are still being broken. in eureka, missouri this is what it looked like as volunteers scrambled earlier in the week to protect homes and businesses. this stretch of the merrimac river has finally begun to recede. >> on this side

>> nbc news's matt bradley live in manchester, thank you very much. katty kay, your reaction and also tell us about this part of the country. >> manchester is about three hours northeast of britain. it's britain's second biggest city. it has, of course, as do most british cities, a large immigrant and large muslim population. it is the kind of place where ariana grande would go and play up in the north of the country. and now the investigation will try to be on whether this person acted alone or whether there is some kind of cell behind it. it's particularly awful, this one, because it was girls. my daughter is 11. her greatest wish in life is to go to a ariana grande concert. she's coming to play in washington, d.c. in september. she really wants tickets for it. those are the kinds of kids that were at this concert. it was family. the heartbreaking news we're getting from the manchester police this morning, the statements they're putting out of mothers they found still looking for their daughters and daughters they found still looking for their mouth

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joining us now, nbc's matt bradley, who is outside the arena in manchester with the latest on this investigation. what are you learning, matt? >> reporter: thanks, jim and doreen. we just in the past couple of hours, saw theresa may, the british prime minister, address the nation and tell them that she's actually raising the threat level from severe to critical. those words sound very similar, but what that means is that an attack is going from likely to imminent in the eyes of british security officials. now, why would they raise the threat level? because the sophistication of the weapon that was used. and this is what security experts believe, because it was a bomb that was used, and not just a lone wolf attack, a knife or a gun, it implies there must have been help for this man who was killed, who perpetrated this heinous crime at the arena behind me last night. if there was someone who helped him make the bomb, that means there's probably additional su large. this is what security experts believe is the thinking behind theresa may's decision to raise that threat level. that also means the ma

. >> thanks to matt bradley who is in manchester covering the story. and we will continue to follow the latest developments for you this monk. stay with us on air and keep up with us on the nbc washington app. ♪ ♪ >>> tributes will continue today in the bowie state university community after a student was killed days before he was supposed to graduate. the vigil you see here was held on the bowie state campus last iii will be honored on the university of maryland campus where he was killed. >> that's where his classmates are gathering to receive their degrees in just a few hours. news 4's molette green is live there with more on today. molette? >> reporter: good morning. behind me you can see some of the early setup outside here for the graduates and their families. they should start arriving around 8:00 a.m. this morning. yes, it will be an emotional graduation day for bowie state with the murder weighing heavily on their hearts here. the bus shelter where richard collins iii was murdered is not far from the xfinity center. bowie state, they held

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nbc's matt bradley has more for us. matt. >> thanks, richard. the release last night of those hacked e-mails have dealt a body blow to a presidential campaign here in france that many had already seen as deeply acrimonious. it's actually starting to follow an uncanny pattern that looks a lot like what we saw in the united states last summer. that's when the dnc was hacked by what intelligence agencies in america suspect were russian hackers tied with the gru, the russian intelligence agency. and just a couple of weeks ago there was a japanese security firm that published a report that named macron's campaign as among so of those entities throughout europe and the united states who had been hacked by fancy bear, also known as apt28. that's a hacking group that u.s. intelligence agencies and some in europe believe is connected to the russian gru. but it's not just the hacking that's making a lot of people here in france think that this campaign is beginning to resemble the deeply divisive campaign that happened in america last summer. remember, we

. >> for more now, i'm joined by matt bradley. give us a sense from what we know from a point of view who this guy was, what was his possible motive, i assume it was political, and how they found out who he was. >> reporter: we're starting to learn more about salman abedi, this 22-year-old who has been implicated in this attack, this heinous attack that killed 22 people at the arena behind me last night. now, we're starting to learn from british media mainly who have been going around and talking to people in the community here. he grew up only about 3 1/2 miles away from here, and he attended local schools, local universities. and there's a thriving libyan community here in manchester. really, chris, this is the heart of multicultural britain. that is what he was striking against. he grew up in this tight knit libyan community here, where a lot of people knew each other. the guardian in one of their articles said he was actually quite devoiudevout. we've seep a lot of these young men that don't have a history of piety, but a hist

bradley from paris. what is the reaction there today? >> well, stephanie, here in paris the reaction is jubilant. this actual -- this city went more than 90% in favor of macron. now the whole country, of course, dealt a resounding victory for emmanuel macron, but no place more than here. a lot of the media is based here in paris and they were just -- they were barely hiding their glee. i want to show you some of the headlines. the fresh faced president, 39 years, and president. this from la parisian, and the left wing, they had a somber picture of macron, well played on the front and on the back, marine le pen showing the back of her head, well done. and this, sort of paper of record here if france, the triumph of macron, the challenges of the president. and, indeed, there will be a lot of challenges going forward. not just in terms of policy but in terms of the elections that are coming up next. the legislative vote. that's going to see macron, this very young president, and his very young party that's

matt bradley for us in paris. thank you. we'll turn the fight over to health care after the break. house republicans celebrating the passage of an obamacare passage and how premature was that? can that cost the party control of the house in 2018? listen to what house democrats think. on centurylink to keep their global campus connected. and why a pro football team chose us to deliver fiber-enabled broadband to more than 65,000 fans. and why a leading car brand counts on us to keep their dealer network streamlined and nimble. businesses count on communication, and communication counts on centurylink. termites, we're on the move.24/7. roger. sco hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. pcountries thatk mewe traveled,t what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm everything. i'm from all nations. i would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark? because i'm everything. and i marked other. d

nbc's matt bradley. >>> i want to take you to the pentagon. just releasing dramatic, extraordinary, new video of a test of its missile defense system, which came shortly after north korea launched its ninth missile test this year. i want you to take a look. it's amazing. >> three, two, one, ignition. that, of course, is a video after a rocket fired from an air base in california. moments later, it collides with an intercontinental range missile tired from a test site in the pacific. u.s. officials are calling it a big success. nbc's hans nichols joins me from the pentagon. hans, this test is being called historic. i want you to walk through for us, you and i discussed it yesterday but it is important, the timing. people could look at this on the surface and say, wow, is this in response to north korea? i know that's not the case. >> it's not the case that this was direct response from north korea, but when you look at the president's budget, he is clear that it is north korea and iran this threat is imnating from. when you think of how long ah

matt bradley, lucky guy in marseille, france today. >>> big news about the health care bill is president trump's upcoming overseas trip. it is his first one since taking office. he will travel on israel, saudi arabia and the vatican as part of a nine-day trip which will wend a meeting this brusselses and then world leaders at the g-7 summit in sicily. the white house says the visits to the middle east and the vatican an effort to unite religions. er each meeting checks off some major political boxes and brings to mind president trump's very open feud with pope francis during presidential campaign. you'll remember the pope without mentioning president trump by name said if the u.s./mexico plans, a person who builds walls and not about building bridges is not a christian. this happened while donald trump was in south carolina last year and he fired back on his facebook page and then in person saying, for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. joining me now, author of the book one nation after trump, e.j., you're a busy guy. so happy to have you. donald trump going

we want to bring in nbc's matt bradley, who is in manchester. it is the start of a new day there in manchester. i'm sure the commune is very, very shaken about this happening, also very much on alert as well, matt. >> reporter: that's right. we are seeing a massive deployment of police. all of the roads around the stadium have been cut off. i'm actually standing just past the police line within the area that's been cut off. and it's just a ghost town here. this is obviously a major british city, and it's been very much shut down. i also want to tell you just this morning i walked around the corner from our live position here and went into a hotel. and actually saw there are quite a number of very young women who are here with their parents recovering from last night. some of them still wearing their ariana grande t-shirts and watching the bbc. and the looks on some of these young women's face is just devastating here. really, this was -- amber rudd, the home secretary here in the uk said this was an apauling attack. and it really was targeting t

. >> nbc's matt bradley is in marseilles, france for us. how is this race shaping up in the final days? >> reporter: thanks, chris. well it's all coming down to just tonight, just the next couple of hours. all of the candidates are legally obligated to stop campaigning at midnight tonight. so that leaves all of tomorrow and then of course on sunday for the campaign to really just sort of simmer at a low boil. but it has been really tul muhae chus. the specifically one that we just had. marine le pen is widely known as the sort of france's donald trump. she's a far-right populist. very anti-islam and very anti-european. remember what barack obama just said, emanuel macron, the radical centrist here, he stands up for liberal values. but what he means are the liberal values of france'slace in the world. france's place in europe. those sorts of things that obama stands for. but macron is no far-left candidate. not a liberal. just a centrist. these two candidates are coming from opposite positions and this is really dividing france in half and w

i want to bring in our foreign affairs correspondent, matt bradley, who is outside the arena. what's the latest? >> reporter: thanks. what we're hearing now is that this investigation is expanding throughout the country. you just mentioned the 23-year-old was arrested here in southwestern manchester. now it is not exactly clear whether that arrest is going to be led directly into the incident that happened here, this horrifying attack last night at the arena behind me. what we do know is that in the westminster attack several months ago, the police arrested maybe as many as a dozen suspects and released them all in very short order, and still came to the conclusion at the end he of the day that that attacker had acted alone in that case. just because the police are arresting other people doesn't mean that the dragnet is over andoesn't mn that the people who have been arrested are necessarily connected to last night's horrific attack now, again, this was an attack that very explicitly targeted children. theresa may mentioned that, but there are so many political implications th

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