inspired others to act similarly. jeff, let me come back to you. who would buffalo police department be conversing with to determine if this is related to this state of mail devices in the last seven days or so? well, i m glad we re talking about the possibility of copy cats. first, we need to see who it was addressed to. that s who they talk to first. see what that person s political leanings are, and i is a tha say that, victor, not only because of copy cats but this perpetrator was motivated by what he saw as a democratic attack on republican figures, so he took retaliatory measures. we had time for someone to take retaliatory measures in the mail as a copy cat, but having a republican target. we don t know if it is a copy cat going after democrats or media targets or someone retaliating, going back against
we have got to get some sort of bilateral effort at toning down rhetoric. i hope that we will see joint resolutions from congress that say look, violence, political violence is not acceptable. and the president and leading democratic figures need to support that. jeff, thank you so much. let s put up the tweet so people understand what is the impetus for the breaking news. this is from us buffalo police department in the last few minutes here. bpd on the scene after suspicious device discovered outside of a post office in the 2000 block of south park avenue. we ll continue coverage of breaking news in a minute. jeff beady, thank you, samantha vinograd, stick around. we ll take a break and be right back.
is a divisive issue for this president. he is using it to pit democrats against republicans, he is assailing our first amendment rights, we work here at cnn, we were attacked and he blames the media. he is undercutting the law enforcement community by pedaling a conspiracy theory yesterday or the day before whether the bomb threat was in fact real. for all of those reasons, the president looks like the divider in chief rather than using this as unifying moment which signals that the russians were right that vladimir putin was a candidate or donald trump was a candidate that helped their objectives, not the objectives of unifying our country. what s so pivotal at this time is that this situation with cesar sayoc is not over. the fbi director wray said he fears there could be more potential devices out there, bombs out there that were mailed. with that said, jeff, if you were working on this investigation what would your biggest concern be right now? well, i think it is important
barack obama, hillary clinton, other top democrats. a frequent tv political analyst alerted twitter to his threats, including one made to her personally, but twitter didn t act on it. and now twitter has apologized for mishandling the threat and said it should have taken different action when it was initially reported. here with us to discuss, cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd and counterterrorism officer jeff beady. thank you for being here. let me start pretty broadly here with you, samantha. do you see here from a national security standpoint something that should change that we learned over the last week? i think what should change is the divisiveness coming straight from the white house. i will get this from a national security and global perspective. i think vladimir putin s thinking i bet on the right horse in 2016. even a terrorist attack against a president s predecessor, against the office of presidency
well, look. you ve got the specific concern of who did this and why. and how do you stop them. we ve got to get that done. the larger challenge is ever present, it seems these days, and the media has a role, as well. each of us decides how we do our job. what we decide to empower in covering it and how we decide to do that. calling out lies is important. telling people the truth is even more important. and mr. beady, you were doing that for us today. so i appreciate you doing it. thank you for your perspective. as we reported earlier, the investigations continue, but the good news is, life is going on as normal. if the goal was to scare people into some type of frozen stasis, it didn t happen. life is back to normal. people are going inside cnn. the news continues, and so does our coverage. we ll take a quick break. please, stay with cnn. proposition 11 solves two issues.