the box, runs over the tripwire. i suspected this would end with this guy did in the house after he. himself up. this was a skilled bombmaker. help tough is it to make these devices? it will be interesting to find out more about this person because everything you said is right. one thing we have to keep in mind is these people teach themselves, and where he might have bombs right now, we will look for places where he might ve gone out in the mountains and experiment with these bombs. foothills around san antonio and places in texas where that could happen. if you look at serial bombers, eric robert rudolph experimenting with bombs, theodore kaczynski had detailed notes of experiments of the
got to be hyperfocused on right now. the first is they got to attempt to discern what the bombmaker s signature is. now, every bomb has four components. a power supply, and initiator, a particular type of explosive, and it has a switch. in this instance that switch appears to have been a trip wire as explained by the atf special agent in charge. the second piece of this, which is equally important, is link analysis. and early on in this investigation there was some concern that this might have been a hate crime, predicated at targeting packages delivered to the porches of african-americans or latinos. in this instance, what happened last night appears to have been what we call a target of opportunity, meaning the device was set up, a trip wire was employed and whatever victim came out and activated it would thus be hurt. those are two important things we need to find out. a, is it the same bombmaker which it appears to be, and, b, what is the linkage here, how can we get in front of th
the intelligence community to defer and to not impede upon american nationals that prevented them from picking up key intercepts involving that american citizen who was, of course, the key bomber the bombmaker in yemen. and phil rucker, bring us inside this west wing today. a very hostile sarah huckabee sanders really took a nasty tone with our white house correspondent hallie jackson who simply tried to get her to acknowledge the two tweets could have the consequence, could have the effect of confusing readers without trying to get sarah to acknowledge the president was confused, which he obviously was. i want to ask you to respond to something i heard from a former top intelligence official in democratic and republican administrations who remarked that this morning, this morning s activity from the president on twitter shows that he s learned next to nothing in a year in office. couple that with what the white
it was stuffed with match heads. the igniter was a christmas tree light, powered by nine-volt battery. had this device been put together by a middle eastern signature bombmaker it could have potentially collapsed ear drums, squashed organs, the carnage would have been much worse. the fact that three people were injured and the worst was headaches and ringing in the ear, we dodged a bullet. we hear from the white house, philip, this is chain migration. this has to stop. is that what your analysis suggests, how this man came to this country and what kind of threat it posed? the white house comments don t suggest anything to me. look at a couple of facts here, chris. he has been here since 2011. you want to stop chain migration from countries that might be the origin for people with terrorist sympathies, let s go across the globe from philippines to bangladesh, to india, pakistan, sawed a arabia. i could go on and on. then you have to go into belgium, france, uk, where we
good. and so it looks like, from the video, putting the facts together, it looks like a low order detonation. an incomplete detonation of the explosive material. now, chief o neal said, maybe he set it off himself. that s kind of hard to tell unless they know something we don t. he could have jostled it, he could have tried to hit the trigger, whether it is electrically fused or not electricity fused. he could have lit a fuse and it went off. he s not a very good bombmaker. they did say it was strapped to his body. likely a suicide-type belt around his body. and they did say it was a pipe bomb. and, you know, if you have a bin go off next to your skin, stephanie, even with not a lot of explosives, if it detonates high order, you re going to be eating most of that pipe through your stomach and abdomen. and you re going to have a lot of blood. so it doesn t look like that. when he falls on the ground, you know, it doesn t look like a high-order detonation to me. but we don t know the tot