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Online platforms. an fbi bomb tech, who was later consulted on this, said if one of those bombs was properly constructed well, it could have detonated. tonight a 24-year-old u.s. army soldier is accused of share bomb making instructions over facebook and talking about blowing up an unidentified major news network. according to two sources the network he named was cnn. he also talked about killing members of the far left group antifa and destroying cell towers. prosecutors say while stationed at ...

Source and an undercover employee to talk online with smith in august and september of this year. smith allegedly discussed targeting the headquarters of an undisclosed major american news network with a large vehicle bomb. an fbi bomb tech who analyzed his plan says the bomb would not have worked. smith also elaborated on his plans to build weapons from everyday materials saying making ak-47s out of expensive parts is cool, but imagine if you were going to walmart instead of a gun store to buy ...

Scare. in your experience as a special agent, a bomb tech, is there precedent for a serial bomber, if we can call it like this, to send out bombs purely to scare, ones that were not capable of exploding on contact but that the intention is simply to terrorize? >> its not likely. the only times i have ever experienced this is in extortions or bank robberies where individuals comes in with hoax devices and make a threat or an extortion, a demand just showing the device, and the device turns out to...

I heard one expert saying sloppy but im conflicted between the two. >> so is law enforcement. there are different theories and theyre running through everything. these are great points. >> let me get tony may in here. tony, what do you think of what i just threw out? >> well, brooke, let me try to unconflict you a bit here. >> okay, please. ive heard a lot of commentators today make different statements about these devices, are they functional, are they nonfunctional? im requestigoing to walk yo...

As a destructive device, which is a functioning destructive device, there are federal statute the individual can be charged with. if it is a hoax device, there are federal statutes the individual can still be charged with. it doesnt matter whether its real or not real. what does matter is how the general public reacts to this. let me take you back to the bach te -- bomb tech. hes looked at this, decided i dont need to disrupt it on site, i can move this to a location via my robot and explore it ...

How do you crack it? >> i listen to a bomb tech to tell me what these devices are all about. the american people should also be confident in how this investigation is being handled. it is handled by the joint terrorism task force and there are 102 of these task forces around the country because we have several states involved that have crime states going on. there are 4,000 members of these task forces that are state, local, and federal investigators from 55 federal agencies and 500 state and lo...

The white house is near immediate condemnation. your sense from the house intel committee perspective tonight? >> immediately i agree, condemnation on this, this is a condemnable act regardless of who the perpetrator is. the good news is the resources we have available to do go after the perpetrator or perpetrators as the case may be, and that we have a huge database. i will say this, as a former bomb tech, i know what the recording protocols are and i know the fbi has great expertise and that i...

House with immediate condemnation. your perspective tonight. >> i agree condemnation on this. regardless of who the perpetrator is. the resources we have available to go after the perpetrator or perpetrators as the case may be in that we have a huge database and i will say this as a former bomb tech i know what the reporting protocols are and the fbi has great expertise and the intelligence community has great expertise inn finding out who these people are and there is a big digital footprint th...

Then the devices inside the packages. what will happen from here is they will be sent presumably to a lab at quantico or in alabama once everything is rendered safe and then the fbi will look for forensic clues to find who is behind this. it will be interesting to see what the president has to say about this. he is expected to take the podium there in the east room momentarily. all weve heard from him so far essentially is a tweetheartedly vice president said, condemning this act. we are waiting...

That option. theyll look at the facts and seep where t see where the facts take us and hopefully bring these people to justice. >> john maxwell, thank you for the insight. john maxwell is a bomb tech for the fbi. lets go to brianna. >> this is an ongoing situation right now. we have certain facts that we are aware of, but this is something that law enforcement is still investigating and theyre not sure if there are other devices out there. >> thats right. we know there are five doo viev they hav...