perpetrator that has now happened. today my office has filed a complaint against cesar sayoc, charging him with multiple federal crimes for his insidious conduct. specifically the defendant is charged in five counts that include illegally mailing and interstation tra interstate transportation of explosives and threatening the united states. president barack obama, former secretary hillary clinton, former vice president joe biden, eric holder, maxine waters, cory booker, cia director john brennan and former director of national intelligence james clapper. the defendant s actions are
randi, thanks you. let s go to rene marsh. it s my understanding we have a photo of this individual at a trump rally from 2017. right, brooke. so much we have been digging in to cesar sayoc s background and coming across his social media and within our own video archives. you are looking, it s highlighted there, this is a february 2017 rally in melbourne, florida. this is to toward the end of the rally, end of the event. what was happening in front of him was the reporters were going live from the rally and there he was holding a cnn sucks sign back in florida back in 2017.
the law enforcement profession right now in this country are extraordinary, are better than they ve ever been. it exactly what the doctor ordered for this country at this time. thank you very much. so that s a wrap on the news conference. we now know that cesar sayoc is facing five federal crimes, facing up to 58 years in prison if convicted. some more details hearing from chris wray, the fbi chief, saying these 13 bombs are not a hoax, and referring to them as i.e.d.s over and over, improvised explosive devices. we re learning more details about the fingerprints, the possible dna they were able to use to track him through previous arrests through some of these packages. it is extraordinary the work of law enforcement here. so let me bring in first
pal. jo cesar sayoc had been kicked out by his parents so he had been living in his van, according to a law enforcement official. he was initially cooperating with investigators. he s now not cooperating. he s retained an attorney, hired a lawyer or perhaps was given one. so he s no longer cooperating. he told investigators that the pipe bombs wouldn t have hurt anyone and that he didn t want to hurt anyone. what is that supposed to mean? let me repeat. he told investigators that the pipe bombs wouldn t have hurt anyone and that he didn t want to hurt anyone. well, hi, brooke. it really depends on what his state of mind was when he was talking to the investigators and how long he was talking and whether or not he thought that that would be helpful to him in some way by saying that. we don t know the state of his
we have been going through his social media. we do know that obviously authorities have been going through his social media as well, his twitter account extremely political in nature. in going through many of his tweets, it is clear that he had his eyes on his targets before he even mailed those suspicious packag packages. as you go through, there s essentially a tweet for almost every person targeted from cory booker to the clintons, to the obamas, to cnn. he has a negative comment about all of those people on his twitter feed. the criminal complaint makes the point that as recently as october 24th, cesar sayoc posted a tweet that was critical of soros. why that s an interesting piece of information is that tweet actually happened after the suspicious package was recovered from soros home.