Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday, Meet the Press' Chuck Todd called the terror threat against the city-wide Los Angeles Unified School District (which has now been labeled a "hoax") "a successful terrorist attack," but one with "fear" not "blood."

“This was a successful terrorist attack today. It wasn’t blood, it was fear. Okay, and fear shut down the second-largest school system," Todd said.

The NBC News host defended the decision to close the schools because "everybody's on a heightened state of alert" since the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks. He went on to say that it is always better to be second-guessed for being cautious than for being wrong.

Todd concluded:

This, to me, is the challenge for the next president of the United States. We are living in a state of fear.

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