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yeah, it s a key question for me and for investigators as well. because it goes toward the heart of purpose mission and what s coming next. typically, these mail bombers, serial bombers, serial killers, they don t stop until they re caught. if the purpose here was simply to silence prominent democrats from speaking out, that s not working. and he sent these he or she or the group sent these packages to places where they should have known had mail screening. you re talking about former presidents of the united states. they don t open their mail initially. what was behind this, and it looks to me like this was an attempt to silence, an attempt to test the system for a next move to send a message as we approach a midterm election. that s quite likely here. i think this person was capable of making bombs that could detonate. i think they may have chosen not to do it. the mystery is why, chris. what do you make about that? ....
Right now. clearly this is all unfolding as we speak. what is happening now from the law enforcement perspective? detail it for me as far as what steps are currently being taken now. well, the first step is the examination of the devices. how are they put together? do they look like they were made by the same person or small group of persons? how were they packaged? how were they going to be detonated? then where were they mailed or delivered from? these were placed in the mail to come to the columbus circle mail screening or the white house mail screening or the clinton and obama residential screening process. where are were they mailed from? does that indicate a small group of persons or a single person? then the actual devices will be forensically examined in detail for hairs, fibers, fingerprints that can link someone later. okay, tom. pause for one second. we want to get back outside of ....
York city. it s interesting that the secret service is saying this morning that the packages were actually identified during routine mail screening. so i think at this point we don t know exactly how close to the residences the packages got. it was late last night the secret service is saying that a single package was addressed to our former first lady hillary clinton. then it was early this morning that mail screeners discovered a package to former president obama. they were intercepted at that point. neither person had received the packages at all. they were never at risk, but there is, as shimon said, a full criminal investigation now with federal, state, and local partners because they have to find out who is sending these. are they correlated? and they are treating them as an explosive device. we don t know if they ve confirmed that they are explosive devices, but they are treating them as part of this very important investigation right now. tom fuentes on the line as ....
Service, because they were doing the mail screening. so we don t know if a courier brought it, if it was routine mail. but while the investigation was going on here, hillary clinton in florida gave public remarks at a political rally about the events of the day. it is a troubling time, isn t it? and it s a time of deep divisions. and we have to do everything we can to bring our country together. reporter: now, details of this device have not become public at all. but billionaire george soros, who lives relatively close to here in bedford, new york, on monday at 3:45, a package was put in his mailbox. he, we understand, was not home, but someone was. they called authorities, and here s what we know about that. it was a small device. it was in a padded envelope. ....
Suspicious package was found and when authorities responded to this area. jake? rosa flores in sunrise, florida, outside the office of congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. thanks so much. let s go to jean casarez outside hillary clinton s house in chappaqua, new york. president clinton was home today when this went down, and hillary, of course, we reporter: that is exactly right. you know, it was late last night, and it was here in the c area. and they were doing a routine mail screening, and they found this package. the secret service is telling cnn they immediately believed it was an explosive device, so they immediately intercepted it. it never got here to the family s home. but it was the secret service that began a law enforcement criminal investigation on what this package was and who brought it to them. and we don t know exactly how it got in the hands of the secret ....