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Scary morning, at least five suspicious packages picked up, addressed to different politicians and to cnn. Obviously, the intent was to scare. None went off. No one hurt. But a message was certainly sent as the investigation continues, so does our consideration of how to make this better. Jake tapper picks up our coverage now. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in our national lead. The fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies are trying to ...

Thank you very much. james gallano is a retired fbi special agent, analyst and areva martin is a still rights attorney and cnn legal analyst. areva, i want to dive into the last point shimon was making about -- so epsteins current attorney argued today that this is, his words, a do-over of a florida investigation more than ten years ago, right? that investigation ended with what -- the "miami herald" referred to as the deal of a lifetime, nonprosecution deal for epstein brokered by then u.s. att...

Little girls who felt like they needed to put themselves in that situation maybe to better their lives or better the lives of their families. >> yes. yes. thank you for that. areva martin and james gallano, thank you very much. >> thanks, brooke. we are following breaking news in the 2020 race. senator elizabeth warren turning in an impressive $19 million in fund-raising in the past quarter, despite turning away big corporate donors. plus, former vice president joe biden changing course again ...

Out of that mansion much and victims are finding their voices. they are coming forward and they are telling their stories, so there may be charges outside of those that were revealed today. so i think this is a great day for justice for those victims that have had the courage to come forward to talk about this horrific sex trafficking case. >> yes. maybe to shimons point, james, they feel more comfortable or better knowing he is behind bars and they feel like they can use their voices. but liste...

Newspaper julie brown has described as the deal of a lifetime. >> back on jeffrey epstein. the way in which, james, he was arrested. i mean, they knew his flight plans, they grabbed him the second his plane touched the ground. what -- why would law enforcement need to do that? >> a couple of concerns. one is, this is a man not just of some means, but of infinite means. hes a billionaire. he owns an island in st. thomas. so the concern would be if he left, he would never come back. and he would c...

Rhetoric at his rallies. i think it would be very interesting to see if he says anything about this rally hes having tonight. what the mayor said is right. you know, we need to -- and what others have said. we need to really tone down the rhetoric here. and that starts at the top. >> the only thing i was going to say is there are a lot of prominent supporters of the presidents on social media, out there saying this is all just a liberal hoax. >> well, i think thats -- thats -- that too is a sign...

Home of barack and michelle obama. joining me on the phone is the former director of national intelligence under president obama, james clapper. general clapper, thanks for joining us. what kinds of questions do you think intelligence officials are asking behind the scenes right now? what are they looking for in this investigation? >> well, i think things like, you know, who else might be a potential target. is there any international implication here? i think, you know, the nature of the weapon...

Comes out, because he is in the political sphere and says, you know, im not worried. im not scared. but we cannot have an environment where we suggest to people that its okay to commit an act of violence against anybody, including a journalist. >> yeah. and, of course, we dont know who did this. we dont know their motive. we have no idea. but it does come at a time that theres a hostile environment, and theres a lot of political violence against democrats, against republicans. james gallano, giv...

The potential shrapnel, if there was a pipe bomb or nails or any other type of metal shards that could impale you. and thirdly, the thermal effect. bombs when they explode typically set off fires and people can perish that way. once we establish the device is either inert or this was a crude device that the bomb-maker wasnt really skilled and its not lethal, now their determination has got to be who did this, who is behind this or was this a false flag operation or was this somebody literally ju...

Supervisory agent james gallano in the ground in new york. and also with me in studio is phil mudd, who spent years in the cia and fbi. james, what do you think the fbi agents assigned to this case are doing right now? >> first of all, jake, the big question is who has purview for this. back in 1998, president clinton be signed a presidential decision directive 62 that gives the fbi purview in potential acts of terror. and, again, from our perspective in law enforcement, we assume terrorism unti...