Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. The breaking news today, federal Law Enforcement officials arrested a florida man suspected of orchestrating the mail bomb campaign against critics of donald trump. The arrest comes as three additional explosive devices were found. The new targets included senator kamala harris, senator cory booker, and James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence. The suspect, cesar sayoc, 56, is from aventura florida, just north of miami. Hes a registered republican, and a van covered with protrump stickers was also seized this morning. The president responded to news of the arrest at an event earlier today. These terrorizing acts are despicable and have no place in our country. No place. I have instructed authorities to spare no resource or expense in finding those responsible and
bringing them to swift and certain justice. And we will prosecute them, him, her, whoever it may be, to the fullest extent of the law. We must never allow Political Violen
bringing them to swift and certain justice. and we will prosecute them, him, her, whoever it may be, to the fullest extent of the law. we must never allow political violence to take root in america. cannot let it happen. and i m committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it. the scripted on-camera statement came after a series of early-morning tweets in which trump teed off on cnn, one of the recipients of a pipe bomb earlier this week, and bemoaned the impact of the attempted attacks on his political standing, tweeting, quote, funny how lowly rated cnn and others can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current state of bombs and ridiculously comparing this to september 11th and the oklahoma city bombing. yet when i criticize them, they go wild and scream, it s just
suspect was identified by the fbi, the high-tech lab that was put into place, the use of dna evidence, and then the tone and tenor of what we heard from the commander in chief this morning bemoaning his treatment from the media at a time when he had to have been getting briefed, i would assume. every other president in history gets briefed on a situation like this whether it s the d.c. sniper or any other situation like that, bemoaning the fact that the news isn t covering politics, something that i guess he assumes is more beneficial to him. just speak from the law enforcement perspective about how jarring that might be. i think all americans need to be grateful for the fact that we have law enforcement agencies that can maintain professionalism and a sense of mission and urgency even in the face of an administration that has denigrated them, derided them, and even today does not celebrate this victory for justice but, rather, puts it back on himself. that he is a victim.
not presidential. and this. republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this bomb, in quotati quotations, stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows. news not talking politics. very unfortunate. what is going on? republicans go out and vote. also this afternoon, the senior leadership of the justice department and fbi briefed reporters on the arrest and took the rather extraordinary step of asserting that the bombs allegedly sent by sayoc were not hoaxes and made clear that the nation s premiere law enforcement agency is still standing strong today despite a near constant barrage of attacks from the president. we can confirm that 13 ieds were sent to various individuals across the country. each device consisted of roughly six inches of pvc pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring, and what is known as energetic
tweet where the board bombs is in quotes? this has been an evolution for the president. we have seen this before where he can stick to a script. he did the other day, suggesting this was a crisis and that the person needs to be brought to justice. that was wednesday. we saw him go off-script a little bit that night at the rally. he still was measured for him but while doing so kind of winked at the crowd and said look how good i m being. why did we give him credit for what he read off a teleprompter six hours earlier? he basically negated it when he patted himself on the back. it s just ridiculous how low the bar is. thank god all of the bombs were either faulty or didn t go off, but this was an attempt to assassinate almost a dozen political leaders in this country. and we want to pat him on the back for reading a teleprompter? first of all he tweets at 3:00 in the morning suggesting that the coverage was unfair.