intentionally made, not to explode doesn t matter. they have all the elements of a bomb. they have power, they have a timer, they have an explosive material. so you have to take this very seriously. this may be the beginning or the prelude to somebody sending really functional bombs or it could be that the individual who put it together is so incompetent that he didn t put it together properly. but the fact is we have to take this very seriously because any one of these devices could explode and cause great damage. which is exactly what the officials were saying yesterday, david, that they were stunned from pamela brown s reporting, that some of them didn t explode in the multiple hands they touched before they reached the mail rooms. we know a few things. we know they were functional. we know at least one had a timer, david. we also know that at least one contained projectiles including sharms of glass. what does it tell you about whoever is behind this?
former cia director john brennan. we now know it had a powder and there was in that nevl pyrotechnic power believed to be from a pipe bomb. anything that tells you about the suspect? that s readily available. people have, you know, fireworks. they can use those in these devices. for law enforcement, that s a real problem. actually, commercially made explosives are actually more reliable and easier to deal with. in fact, the only atf employee i know ever killed in a bombing situation was killed dealing with the detonation of fireworks. so that is just basically fireworks powder? it could be. we ll have to see. that s why we ve got it, it hasn t exploded. we won t eventually have to guess about that. the laboratory will in fact know exactly the device. some fireworks, there s a small amount of gun powder.