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let me bring in a retired u.s. postal inspector. he was there the day ted kaczynski was arrested. paul, welcome to you. you have the insight we re all looking for. you were there, you talked to ted kaczynski after he was arrested, moved into that other cabin. i know the circumstances from then are quite different from today but, still, put yourself in the shoes of the investigators today. this guy sitting in the fbi facility in florida, how do they get him to talk? that s a really good question. ted made it known from the get-go he d talk to us about anything other than the case. so we just sat and had a conversation with him about living in the woods and that kind of thing. the suspect they have in hand today, that s a good yes.
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.
cowardly and totally anathema to our democracy. this is an ongoing and active investigation. we will not rest until these crimes are fully investigated and the defendant or defendants are brought to justice. i want to take a moment to thank our partners, the joint terrorism task force, the fbi, nypd, noew york postal inspectin service, atf, hard working career prosecutors and investigators of the terrorism unit of the southern district of new york, and i would also like to thank the extraordinary cooperation we received from the southern district of florida. thank you. good afternoon. my name is gary barksdale, deputy chief, united states postal inspection service. first off, like many of my colleagu colleagues, i d like to thank all of our federal partners,
devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax devices. these are not hoax devices. he also warned there could be more packages, for everyone to remain vigilant and while investigators obviously a lot of attention is being paid to this van. this van is just covered in stickers, including images of president trump and vice president pence, a number of stickers critical of democratic figures and certainly critical of us here at cnn. randi kaye is in plantation florida where that arrest happened earlier this morning. we have new information on how this arrest came to be. what do you know? reporter: it s so fascinating. somehow that fingerprint was tracked to right here, auto zone in plantation, florida, not far from miami, to state road 7 where the auto zone is located.