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Democrats the targets of the bombs, which the fbi says were real. were covering the breaking news this hour with our correspondents, analysts and specialists. theyre all standing by. first, lets get the very latest on the breaking news. our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, is joining us. jim, were learning a lot more about this suspect. >> no question, wolf. quite a day. extremely fast-moving events. it started with two more bombs sent to senator cory booker, then to former dn...

Addressed to major democratic donor, tom steyer. and authorities are concerned that more suspicious packages could be in the mail. >> todays arrest doesnt mean were all out of the woods. there may be other packages in transpo transit now. >> reporter: earlier in the day, police had discovered three other similar suspicious packages. addressed to democratic senators, cory booker and kamala harris, as well as former director of national intelligence and cnn contributor, james clapper. that package...

You know what? for all that came out in that testimony and all that back and forth, clarence thomas was higher in polls afterwards than he was before. asha, ross, appreciate you doing this. well be talking about this again. thank you. >> good to be here. lets turn now to north korea. president trump is giving himself a big pat on the back today, saying kim jong-un has returned to his promise to get rid of the nuclear complex there and close a missile site. but that promise comes with condition...

President aside -- that any president makes, what prevents that attorney, that u.s. attorney from saying, i want to subpoena the president and find out why he fired the under secretary -- >> you have to pass legal muster. and show that -- >> what does legal muster mean under your theory? >> legal sufficiency -- >> by the way, who are you showing that legal sufficiency to? its not a court proceeding. who are you showing the legal sufficiency to? heres the problem. >> the same guy that you put in,...

President started the saber rattling and making those kinds of threats. be clear about that. lets bring in jim clapper, former director of national intelligence. he happens to be in seoul, south korea tonight. good to have you, sir. i dont even need an expert like you to make such an obvious point about what the president just said. but his sanguine take on where things stand, do you share it? >> well, i think theres certainly room for some optimism here, and a couple comments id make first havi...

Actually military action with north korea was when this president started the saber rattling and making those kinds of threats. be clear about that. lets bring in jim clapper, former director of national intelligence. he happens to be in seoul, south korea tonight. good to have you, sir. i dont even need an expert like you to make such an obvious point about what the president just said. but his sanguine take on where things stand, do you share it? >> well, i think theres certainly room for some...

Dossier. i think even if -- and i hope theyre not. i hope the department of justice and the dni will be very careful about any further redactions because, again, this has bad implications for the future. i dont think its going to cast much light from an objective factual standpoint. but of course the presidents doing this for political reasons, and hes weaponizing another tool available to him that he has authority over much like, you know, taking away clearances from people that disagree with h...

>> but if sessions were in charge of the russia probe, which certainly involves the president, and then he removed him, when it seemed that it was getting inconvenient, when it seemed that it was pressuring him, when he didnt like it, now i think you have a different question and thats where obstruction of justice comes in. >> except for one thing, one factual flaw. where are we right now? over a year into the investigation. is bob mueller still the special counsel? >> yes. >> has he been fired?...

Originally funded, and that was indicated in the originally heavily redacted version of the dossier. i think even if -- and i hope theyre not. i hope the department of justice and the dni will be very careful about any further redactions because, again, this has bad implications for the future. i dont think its going to cast much light from an objective factual standpoint. but of course the presidents doing this for political reasons, and hes weaponizing another tool available to him that he has...

Philosophically, you know, are there to do that job. and i think at a time when our institutions are being challenged, this really would be a huge blow to have this potentially tainted nomination. >> and to those republicans who believe that less is more, look at anita hill. you know, when they did the fbi investigation and that got leaked and became public and then they had the hearings, you know what? for all that came out in that testimony and all that back-and-forth, clarence thomas was high...