that s when a devicesensitive. and some of the innocent people along the delivery route could be injured by it. so sometimes a more crude device could be more dangerous. that s what i was told, the less sophisticated, the more volatile. in terms of who would have done it, how much can you draw from the targets? they re all specific, all check a box of being oppositional to the president from time to time at least. the first thing to look at is what do all these intended victims have in common? it s obvious. there s a political ideology here. if that s the case, it makes it that much worse. this is a very dangerous situation for the country. mike, i appreciate it. if you hear anything else, do me a favor. give us a yell and we ll come back to you.
seem to have been detonated. we re dealing with someone who s not a master bombmaker, that doesn t reduce the lethality, but it was something that could go from flash to bang and make these things detonate. we have seen these things in the past few years, people were sending crude device ares to military facilities and the law enforcement intelligence agencies, very crude devices, that didn t disrupt, they found the person in short order, again, very crude, very rude mea rudimentary, i don t think these devices would have detonated. it doesn t reduce the lethality, but i think this person will be caught sooner or later. just the similarities of this, there s been threats against all sorts of politicians. hold on a second, hillary
the potential shrapnel, if there was a pipe bomb or nails or any other type of metal shards that could impale you. and thirdly, the thermal effect. bombs when they explode typically set off fires and people can perish that way. once we establish the device is either inert or this was a crude device that the bomb-maker wasn t really skilled and it s not lethal, now their determination has got to be who did this, who is behind this or was this a false flag operation or was this somebody literally just trying to send these devices out to cause terror and panic? but before we can call it terrorism, that s got to come from law enforcement. so we ve got to be very careful in what we call it until law enforcement says that definitively. james, let me follow up with what you said. you said one of the things of many they ll be looking into, law enforcement, whether or not this is a false flag operation. explain what you mean by that. reporter: certainly. so we know that some of the labels t
spoke today that made a point of saying that new york city is not going to be intimidated, whoever is behind this wants to terrorize people and they are not going to let that happen. there s going to be increased vigilance but there is not going to be fear because of what has transpired over the last few hours. lastly, harris, the device found here at the time warner center, was relatively a crude device, a pipe bomb, but now it is more than three hours since this device was discovered at the mailroom here and you can see how much fear it has resulted in, how it s caused this city to change its way of doing business. 58th street, a major corridor at this hour still remains closed, eighth avenue in front of the time warner center was never
and the car and they have to be careful and they have a special team that goes in with robotics to remove the devices and they found them at the school. are they sophisticated or crude? it is unclear. molotov cocktail is a pretty crude device and there is also some -in tonation there could be vn a pressure cooker. you re a former federal prosecutor. the fact they captured the suspect alive and he s talking, how important is that? and i was a deputy attorney general for the state of texas as well. it is huge. because now they have and in most of the cases, you know, they commit suicide at the scene or death by cop and in this case we have the suspect alive and talking. we ll know more if he has accomplices and that is important and how did he learn how to do this and what were his motivation and what would cause a 17-year-old child to do something like this. do you have any clues at all. we don t. it is a clean slate. there is nothing to indicate what happened to him, why