Scary morning, at least five suspicious packages picked up, addressed to different politicians and to cnn. Obviously, the intent was to scare. None went off. No one hurt. But a message was certainly sent as the investigation continues, so does our consideration of how to make this better. Jake tapper picks up our coverage now. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in our national lead. The fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies are trying to figure out who sent at least six suspicious packages to a number of highprofile targets, including former President Bill and Hillary Clinton in chappaqua, new york. Former president barack and Michelle Obama in washington, d. C. , former obama Attorney General, eric holder, though it was sent to the wrong address, so it was sent back to the Return Address, which was oddly democratic congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman schultz in sunrise,
florida. Billionaire financier, george soros. Democratic congr
thank you very much. james gallano is a retired fbi special agent, analyst and areva martin is a still rights attorney and cnn legal analyst. areva, i want to dive into the last point shimon was making about so epstein s current attorney argued today that this is, his words, a do-over of a florida investigation more than ten years ago, right? that investigation ended with what the miami herald referred to as the deal of a lifetime, nonprosecution deal for epstein brokered by then u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida and now current labor secretary alex acosta. as a result, and even though nearly three dozen victims were identified by police as possible victims, epstein avoided federal charges and served 13 months in county jail. among some other things. so my question to you is this. sdny says new york is not bound by that agreement. do you think there is any risk of double jeopardy?
little girls who felt like they needed to put themselves in that situation maybe to better their lives or better the lives of their families. yes. yes. thank you for that. areva martin and james gallano, thank you very much. thanks, brooke. we are following breaking news in the 2020 race. senator elizabeth warren turning in an impressive $19 million in fund-raising in the past quarter, despite turning away big corporate donors. plus, former vice president joe biden changing course again and apologizing. what this signals about his own campaign. and later we are live in new york as the world champion u.s. women s soccer team is about to return to the u.s. soil. all the details on the plans to celebrate their world cup win. you are watching cnn on this monday afternoon. i m brooke baldwin. back in just a moment. hi i m joan lunden.
out of that mansion much and victims are finding their voices. they are coming forward and they are telling their stories, so there may be charges outside of those that were revealed today. so i think this is a great day for justice for those victims that have had the courage to come forward to talk about this horrific sex trafficking case. yes. maybe to shimon s point, james, they feel more comfortable or better knowing he is behind bars and they feel like they can use their voices. but listen to the fbi today. they made a plea to anyone who may have been victimized by this man or any sort of scheme to come forward. do you think this is just the beginning? i do. i ve heard a number of people say smart legal heads talking and saying there are going to be more superseding indictments. brooke, we have talked before, the pursuit of justice is not always timely, not always punk you punctual but inevitable.
newspaper julie brown has described as the deal of a lifetime. back on jeffrey epstein. the way in which, james, he was arrested. i mean, they knew his flight plans, they grabbed him the second his plane touched the ground. what why would law enforcement need to do that? a couple of concerns. one is, this is a man not just of some means, but of infinite means. he s a billionaire. he owns an island in st. thomas. so the concern would be if he left, he would never come back. and he would certainly be able to live somewhere with all the riches and the wealth he s got stockpiled. the other concern is this. people say all of the time, why does the fbi or why do law enforcement send ten police officers and five other agents to go make an arrest on a white collar crime? or on a crime like this on a sexual predator who has shown no indication of violence? the problem is, sometimes these are the most dangerous folks because they have the most to lose. and in this instance, you ve got a ma