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
Which was, oddly, congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultzs office in sunrise, florida. Of course she didnt send that package. The exact same return address, we should note, was used for clintons and obamas packages. Devices were also sent to democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters on capitol hill. Theyre still trying to figure out if its tied to these other incidents, as well as one sent to liberal billionaire and philanthropist george soros and to cnns headquarters where it was addressed to john brennan, former cia director. This is the device that was sent to the time warner center. As i said, it was addressed to President Obamas cia director, john brennan, a vocal critic of President Trump. Now the packages are being described as rudimentary but operative explosive devices, leading investigators to fear the intent was to kill and to kill a lot of people. No, thankfully, none of the devices went off and while we dont know the suspect or his or her or their motive, Law Enforcement inves
Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized by the president well, take a look at whos being targeted here and thats why were doing it proactively. Reaching out to people in the city. People that do their security and making sure that the mail rooms follow proper protocol and of concern to us and reaching out to the right people. Yes . Hold on. Mayor or governor, earlier
this week, president assaulting a journalist. All sorts of threats to journalists. Do you have a particular message to President Trump in light of what happened at cnn or
Something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. We should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. All right. Our justice correspondent pete William S Williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. I am going to step aside and Andrea Mitchell reports starts now. Thank you, craig. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. And we are told that florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. Has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. We will have a Press Conference at 2 30 with more details. And to today, we are told that cory booker, and James Clapper, those men joining the growing list of public figures critical of President Trump, and that
list is two former president s, and democratic officials, and democratic Law Officials and a leading democratic donor. And now, joining me is Ke
Correct. You found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email for the first time they did about five hours later, correct . Thats correct. You found august 2 that mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. Kilimnik, gave him internal Campaign Strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. Im not certain of the tie. The fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. Your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around Wikileaks Releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct . Is that from the report . Yes. According to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasing information damaging to the clinton c