shooting suspect is do to court. the person suspected of mailing out more than a dozen pipe bombs is due to make his first court appearance. kerry sanders is joining us from miami. kerry, we re learning more about how officials were able to track down this mail bomb suspect, right? reporter: it s very interesting because you know when you get an active review of the procedures that police use, you begin to understand the technology they have. we understand from the 14 package bombs that were intercepted that on one of them they were able to get a finger print. when they got the finger print off one of them, they started checking databases. remember these packages all had return addresses in florida. some of them were found at a sorting center in opaloka. they started looking at florida
the ability to come into this country is shamefully easy. we are being told by our president and the attorney general this woman of great character, who i know personally, that they re checking databases to vet these people. i can tell you as a professional investigator, there is no vetting process. it is impossible. there is no country to make inquiries of. for example, if an american citizen travels to any country abroad the host government can call their contact person, reach out to our government to the fbi, to whoever their law enforcement liason is and do a comprehensive background. who are we going to call in syria? by the way, if it s our database, the only way you can mind the data, if that person had a low profile their whole life and never did anything to get on anyone s radar, they had no database record they are completely anonymous, yet, they are 1 much% hard core trained isis killers. there is snow way to vet them
something like this? and again, that s simply we don t know one way or the other. there will be hints. there are tiny threads that they will look for to try to knit together the broader answer to those questions. tom, we know france requested fbi assistance with the investigation. what does that look like exactly? how might the fbi be able to help in this? normally that would be checking databases, here in the u.s. he did spend time in the u.s. doing flight training. so they ll want to try to investigate everything about that who he was with. who his classmates teachers who he socialized with, in contact with. and also you know, the fbi has an extensive international group of offices from many different countries. if they need additional investigation through by lateral agreements with other host countries, they could use the fbi s system for assistance in that. richard, it was interesting to hear the ceo of lufthansa today because he did not seem to
evaluating 239 people should have been done, or started day one. do you all these things in zwrae tangent. you poll the two leads with the would individuals with the pass ports. check. that s the other area. at the same time, you want to look at the two individuals, the pilot and the co-pilot, and evaluate all the rest of the passengers. that should have been done from the beginning. as far as evaluating the people, this is a tremendous says thing because you are talking about different people from different countries. for example i think in china we had about 139 passengers on the plane. that is going to the chinese government, going to the difficult governments, and asking them could you let us look into your databases? could you let us interview and interrogate the families or people to do whatever we immediate to do. this is expensive. in addition to that, they are checking databases, criminal checks. just because somebody clears a