everyone s attention was the detonator linked to a cell phone. and that to you says what? this is somebody that can build a bomb and it can sit there from anywhere in the world and set it off. we have breaking news. a bomb squad investigates a suspicious object in rolando. taking no chances they sent in a robot to disarm the bomb. fire in the hole! a firefighter was then put in one of those famous suits to make a final safety check and found the cell phone detonator had 18 missed calls. only a broken wire had prevented the bomb from going off. we re like, wow, this is for real. police ran the phone numbers, of course, but they belonged to untraceable throwaway phones, available almost anywhere. the bomber or bombers had left no
there from anywhere in the world and set it off. we have breaking news. a bomb squad investigates a suspicious object in rolando. taking no chances they sent in a robot to disarm the bomb. fire in the hole! a firefighter was then put in one of those famous suits to make a final safety check and found the cell phone detonator had 18 missed calls. only a broken wire had prevented the bomb from going off. we re like, wow, this is for real. police ran the phone numbers, of course, but they belonged to untraceable throwaway phones, available almost anywhere. the bomber or bombers had left no trace of themselves. no fingerprints, no dna. the only real clues were found on the fed-ex envelope, duct tape and soot, suggesting the bomb might have fallen off of the underside of a car. and so, two weeks later, when connie s truck blew up at the
build a bomb and it can sit there from anywhere in the word and set it off. we have breaking news. a bomb squad investigates a suspicious object. taking no chances they sent in a robot to disarm the bomb. fire in the hole! a firefighter was then put in one of those famous suits to make a final safety check and found the cell phone detonator had 18 missed calls. only a broken wire had prevented the bomb from going off. we re like, wow, this is for real. police ran the phone numbers, of course, but they belonged to untraceable throwaway phones available almost anywhere. the bomber or bombers had left no trace of themselves. no fingerprints, no dna. the only real clues were found on the fed-ex envelope, duct tape and soot, suggesting the bomb might have fallen off of the underside of a car. and
2017. government said smith was trained in combat and tactical operations and stationed at ft. riley kansas and he s been there since july of this year. also spent time at ft. bening and ft. bliss. smith is say ledged to have said in a face book group chat oh yeah i got knowledge of ied s for day. we can make cell phone ied s in the style of the afghan. i can teach you that. government said smith went on to provide accurate instructions on how to build a cell phone detonator for the bomb. if convicted, smith could face 20 years in federal prison. dana: mark meredith with that report, thank you. new concern for the democrats that the progressive wing may be hurting the matter and beto o rourke s stand on gun control is a prime example. a number of republican senators are open to this who were not in the past. i do think that beto o rourke does not help things when he advertises that his real plan is
suspect s original targets included president obama and the new york stock exchange. we don t yet know why he allegedly changed his plan. what we do know is that we were not in any danger because investigators say this was all a sting and the suspect s coconspirators actually were working with the fbi from the very beginning. the process that the fbi goes through of finding people who have expressed a hatred for the united states or of american institutions and willingness to attack them. then the fbi engages them via one of its own agents, typically, pretending to be a confederate and walks them through the crime. the crime, of course, is something that would have been impossible to accomplish because there was never any bomb material there. essentially, he is being punished or will be prosecuted and probably incarcerated for the rest of his life because of his thoughts. jon: still, investigators say the suspect believed that he had a van filled with a thousand pounds of explosive