fran townsend. also on the phone, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. the letters mention the gun control debate. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat, really? that s right, anderson. as you mentioned, that s not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they don t care about motive at the moment, they want to know who. to determine the who, they ll look for forensics, saliva, hair, fingerprints on the envelope. they ll analyze the handwriting, but all these things take time, which is why the first thing they re going to focus on is the lab analysis, you heard deb feyerick, the first field test was negative, often times they re wrong, which is why they re getting a thorough lab result. that will take a little bit of time, that will tell them something, they ll understand the strength of the compound. how competently it was mixed, analyze whether the two letters, whether it was from the same batch of mixture of the compound
control debate. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat, really? that s right, anderson. as you mentioned, that s not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they don t care about motive at the moment, they want to know who. to determine the who, they ll look for forensics, saliva, hair, fingerprints on the envelope. they ll analyze the handwriting, but all these things take time, which is why the first thing they re going to focus on is the lab analysis, you heard deb feyerick, the first field test was negative, often times they re wrong, which is why they re getting a thorough lab result. that will take a little bit of time, that will tell them something, they ll understand the strength of the compound. how competently it was mixed, analyze whether the two letters, whether it was from the same batch of mixture of the compound of ricin, all those things will help investigators lead down the path to who, and once you
homeland security adviser fran townsend sits on the cia and external advisory panels, and dr. sanjay gupta. fran, we have reports the letters mentioned the gun control debate over the joint terrorism task force investigating. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat. that s right, anderson. as you mentioned, that s not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they don t much care about motive at the moment. they want to know who. and so to determine the who, they will look for the forensics, things like saliva, hair, fingerprints on the letter or on the envelope. they ll analyze ultimately the handwriting. but all these things take time, which is why the first thing they re going to focus on is one, the lab analysis. you heard deb feyerick, the first field test was negative. the second was positive. oftentimes, these field tests are wrong, which is why they re getting a real thorough lab result. that will take a little bit of time. but tha