NYC bomb suspects admit ISIS inspiration in Gracie Mansion attack

The defendants are charged with attempting  to provide material support to ISIS, using a  

weapon of mass destruction, transporting explosive  materials, interstate transportation, and receipt  

of explosive materials, and unlawful possession  of destructive devices. CNN's Gloria Pasmino is  

outside police headquarters for us. Gloria, what  more are you learning? We are learning more about  

the charges that Amir Balot, 18 years old, and  Ibrahim Cayumi, 19 years old, the two men who  

traveled to New York City from Pennsylvania  to participate in those counterprotests. They  

will be facing federal terrorism charges. They  are accused of providing material support to a  

terrorist organization and of using weapons of  mass destruction. And we also are expecting to  

learn about additional charges in just a short  while. Now, these two men were arrested on  

Saturday following those protests. Uh it was  a protest that was organized by a right-wing  

influencer dubbed as a anti-Muslim protest  outside the gates of Gracie Mansion, the mayoral  

residence here in New York City. And that protest  attracted a counterprotest. And once you had those  

two groups uh in there, there were uh you know a  lot of back and forth between the two groups at  

one point uh the protesters pepper scrape pepper-  sprayed the other group and it was then that the  

counterprotesters launched these homemade devices  into the crowd. Now we've learned more about what  

was inside these devices. uh Commissioner Jessica  Tish saying earlier that they were made of glass,