been able to get me bargains from one of the terrorists in guantanamo bay. it has no impact on terrorists continuing to plot attacks against us. we clearly have to be on the offense and realize we are at war. megyn: that s clearly the case. aas today proves, your dad and george bush said they wake up every day finding new ways they plan to kill us. gregg palkot has new information from the yemeni government. reporter: we have spent a great deal of time in yemen the past year focusing on that country because of the al qaeda links and the al qaeda in the peninsula chapter. i was just on the phone with a top yemeni government official. he tells me, quote, we are
package is coming from yemen, you re just saying that they don t have to identify themselves. reporter: absolutely. he cannot disguise the fact this it s coming from yemen. but he doesn t have to identify himself. megyn: yemen has been a problem for a longtime, a growing problem as we see today, but we ve seen even before today, in if i can al-qaida in the arabian pennsylvania has become a growing threat to the united states. to what extent did they influence the yemeni government or the authorities. to what extent are we to believe that the governments at the yemeni airports are not influenced or in it with them. reporter: we have no proof of that. it is perhaps in the future some of the people in airports are being trained by western forces, that the vetting procedures are following procedures. western countries are tough with these procedures. they say if you don t follow the
months to come. on the particular on the security question, if i can just add, i think it is very important that we are focusing on the cargo bit right now because that seems to be the loophole that has been exploited this time, and it s an obvious loophole to exploit because you can post something with ups, fedex, dhl carrier without essentially being associated with the item. you remain anonymous. so you can try as many times as you want, if you want until you re lucky. megyn: can you do it without identifying yourself. reporter: oh, absolutely. you can go you can go to any fedex shop, to any dhl shop. you fill in the address but there is no proof required. so that s the loophole they have been exploiting this time, and i think they can try as many times as they want unless something is being done to improve that. megyn: let me just clarify. you re not saying that somebody who is based in yemen can go to a fedex drop box in yemen and disguise the fact that the
that we have reported onyx tensive lee since september of last year. we are working with the british, the french and also the yemenis. there are a relatively small number of packages. i was also told that so far none of the packages have tested positive for radiological material. earlier today there was reporting that possibly one had but i ve been told that is not the case. right now investigators, i m told are considering three scenarios, one, whether there was in fact explosive material or other suspicious material that was being sent into the united states, the second, which is perhaps the one that seems to be the frontrunner right now that said it was a dry run or an attempt to probe our systems to see what is possible. and then the third was that materials would have been sent into the united states with a destination for a third party to launch some other type of plot. these are all the scenarios that are being investigated and they haven t reached any firm conclusions. in addit
of the goals of a group like al-qaida in the arabian pennsylvania and these other al-qaida affiliates that have really taken hold from yemen to somalia, aqim in north africa, one of the goals when they launch attacks is to create panic and hysteria and to essentially create wall to wall media coverage of these events even if the packages turn out to be benign in the end. i think we want to, if you will not play into that sort of hysterical model in our reporting of this, and we want to just consider the facts as we know them, which is that there was a tip that led to the increased scrutiny of packages, cargo packages coming from yemen to the united states, and what l step in thosew is sort of the investigations, megyn. megyn: let me ask you, i don t know whether your contacts have confirmed any of this. have they mentioned the jewish angle at all. the associate vice president of