Something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. We should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. All right. Our justice correspondent pete William S Williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. I am going to step aside and Andrea Mitchell reports starts now. Thank you, craig. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. And we are told that florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. Has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. We will have a Press Conference at 2 30 with more details. And to today, we are told that cory booker, and James Clapper, those men joining the growing list of public figures critical of President Trump, and that
list is two former president s, and democratic officials, and democratic Law Officials and a leading democratic donor. And now, joining me is Ke
watched such great work by american patriots in the white house and throughout the interagency. president obama was newly elected. he started out and secretary state clinton, attorney general holder, all their principles were at this meeting and basically everyone came together because we did not want to see viktor bout get released. fortunately we were successful and he was brought back to face justice. as you said, he was convicted on terrorism counts, very significant terrorism counts. lisa: derek, what i worry about is the precedent that this sets. what does this mean for americans traveling abroad? well, for me i would be very concerned, you know, i would highly recommend that people are checking the state department more because putin has just establish add new tool for a corrupt leaders around the world that can hold americans hostage because they know and they will take advantage of the weakness of our policies in america.
cases if in fact he is charged with the terrorism counts, then i would think, andrea, a weapons of mass destruction charge here, but we will wait to see once we get the complaint. and of course, what he is charged with today, he could face additional charges in the days and weeks ahead as the grand jury would presumably come back with an indictment. at least today, a decent sense with what they believe they think he did, and with the evidence that the fbi says they will get against him in order to make the arrest and in order to take this van that we are looking at right now, which is i suspect on the way to the field office in miami. and so that is the lat est that we have at this point, andrea, and we will continue the develop this out a little bit. and in addition as i mentioned in the top, this person is believed to have a criminal record, and we may have a book photo from one of the prior arrests that we hope to share with you in the next few minutes. tom, thank you very much, a
while this latest threat involves inbound flights to the u.s., there could be extra security at domestic airports as well. eric. the terror threat as we all know still continues and not abated. steve centanni, thanks so much as always. remember the danger of shoe bombs came on planes to our attention after 9/11. you may remember richard reid who tried toking need explosives hidden in his shoes on the flight from paris to miami. reid is a british citizen. he admitted to being a member al qaeda n december of 2000 one he tried to light the fuse and set off bops in his shoes while the plane few over the atlantic. fortunately the passengers and crew managed to subdue him. authorities say the quick action averted the attack that could have destroyed the airplane and killed all on board. reid pled guilty to nine terrorism counts in october of 2:00. the next january he was sentenced to life without parole. he is in a supermax prison you
depending on what develops. we can expect hundreds of other assault charges. we ll expect a whole list of terrorism counts. the reason i say the federal charges are the most important is because you can seek the death penalty under federal murder and terrorism statutes. the state of massachusetts can also charge him with murder and with other counts. however, the death penalty was eliminated in massachusetts in 1984. so the chief threat to him comes from the federal government. but both jurisdictions can proceed separately with their own charges. we understand that federal public defenders will be representing tsarnaev. what is the first thing they are going to need to do? this, john, is a big thing because all weekend there s been a lot of talk about the fact that law enforcement authorities wanted to interrogate him without giving him his miranda