time to sphig this out. without any thats would my cell phone. i apologize. without any act of violence having been committed, great deal of punishment life in prison. because nobody has been harmed the death penalty is not applicable. steve: the new york times is talking about how it s a possible hoax device, which, perhaps, was not intended to go off. if it was not intended to go off it couldn t hurt anybody, it s just something in the mail, isn t it? well, this is obviously an effort to send some sort of political message. this is not terrorism, an act of terror requires two acts of violence intended to change the policies of government. that s the federal statute. but it is terroristic in that it tariffs an terrorizes ad frightens and aimed at a
doing extensive outreach. one more thing to that. if you go to the nypd website, you can identify who is a suspicious package. over here. a lot of speculation about were the devices were real or not or intended to go off. how would you describe them? would you describe them as a hoax or should people be taking it seriously? this is something to be taken seriously. the nypd s and fbi, we re treating them as live devices.you can see the way our detectives went into cnn yesterday. this has to be taken with the jut most seriousness. as far as a hoax device, we re not treating it that way. do you definitely feel this is terrorism related? what do you say to the people of new york? it s absolutely terrorism. it s an effort to use violence to make a political impact.
meant to scare and not to harm. here is how the new york police commissioner responded to that. watch. we are treating them as live devices, as you see the way our bomb squad detectives went in to cnn yesterday, this has to be taken with yet most seriousness. as far as a hoax device, we are not treating it that way. police also confirmed that packages sent to new york contained a powder, and all ten of the packages were sent in manila envelopes with six american flag stamps, typed address labels and a return address of florida congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. today, too intended for vice president joe biden were intercepted in maryland and one of the packages may have been in the process of being returned to sender. the package sent to rabbits and euros production company office was delivered yesterday and identified today.
package bomb? you don t know when it s going to be delivered. was it to keep it from going off until a certain point. so that s good question and i don t think we know the answer to that. it feels if we re talking about a timer was this an inexperienced bomb maker or somebody overly sophisticated maybe on technology, but under sfophisticated on explosives. i will tell you that they don t know the answer to that. they don t know who made them. it s hard to know what the et design philosophy was. i will say that they believe that some of these devices after analyzing them initially would not have gone off. because there are flaws in the way they were made. but is that intention al to be scary hoax device or because they simply didn t et know what they were doing. and i hope you pursue that question with jim kavanaugh because we have talked about this and he had some views on that. but they just don t know what
seen. david, your view of all that. i think frank s right. there s a mountain of evidence. and typically devices go off, and you don t have that. what s interested me the most today is some more clarity on the potential that the devices were actually delivered in different locations. if they were mailed from florida, for instance, if that turns out to be true, it would be interesting that possibly some were delivered by hand in new york. a person can t be in two places at once so that would be interesting. we don t know that yet. there was also reporting that perhaps there were anti-personnel type items in these devices. something crow wouldn t normally see in a hoax device. clearly this was meant to cause public attention and spread fear, and it s succeeded on that point. but now the leads are going to be followed, and i have total confidence in the coming days and weeks we re going to catch who did this.