Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized by the president well, take a look at whos being targeted here and thats why were doing it proactively. Reaching out to people in the city. People that do their security and making sure that the mail rooms follow proper protocol and of concern to us and reaching out to the right people. Yes . Hold on. Mayor or governor, earlier
this week, president assaulting a journalist. All sorts of threats to journalists. Do you have a particular message to President Trump in light of what happened at cnn or
eric holder and just a little while ago new york governor confirmed he was the recipient of one of these. we are at six or seven of these devices. they had the return addresses of congresswoman wasserman-schultz. that doesn t mean anybody suspects that she sent these things and in one case going to eric holder got returned. wasn t delivered. maybe it was misaddressed but returned to her office which is why investigators are there at her office in florida. not investigating her as a target nor investigating her as the person that sent it and someone perhaps used her name because having the name of a member of congress to make it easier to get through a mail facility. in the case of cnn and like others thorough about the way it checks packages, this made it into the mail room and what the concern was and this building evacuated at cnn. the police presence is thinning out here because the device has been removed. there s still an investigation about the powder.
neck-in-neck with his top gop rivals. james carville and david are standing by. we ll talk about that. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. a new wave of fury may be about to explode in afghanistan after a u.s. soldier allegedly walked out of his base and went on a house to house shooting rampage. 16 civilians are dead, nine of them children. military authorities say the soldier acted alone and turned himself in. vowing revenge for the killings, a statement from the taliban calls u.s. forces and i m quoting, sick-minded american savages. u.s. officials are voicing deep sorrow. let me say that like many americans, i was shocked and saddened by the killings of innocent afghan villagers this weekend. we send our condolences to family who have lost their loved ones and to the people of afghanistan. this is not who we are. and the united states is committed to seeing that those responsible are held accountable. let s go straight to kabul with sara sidner stan