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Unintentionally mishandles it, the device, improperly, designed by an amateur, and it explodes, there can be auxiliary damage to those that might be in the area. >> reporter: nader says enhanced security measures will be put in place to protect postal service employees while there still may be threats inside the system. in the meantime, he says, u.s. postal inspector police are very likely taking part in the interrogation of the suspect. brian todd, cnn, washington. for more on this cnn senior...

>> they tend to be more state level offenses and federally there are certain enhancements that can apply with a hate motivation but there is not a free-standing hate crime statute standing federally. there are in some states. the political motivations will be relevant here. it is relevant who did it, look at the van, look at who the targets were, why he did it, what we call motive, it links sayoc to the targets, it links the targets to one another. i think eventually as this case plays out in co...

Now, authorities are trying to find out if the 14 bombs they know of are the end of it. a nationwide man hunt ending with an arrest in connection to this weeks mail bomb. 56-year-old cesar sayoc facing federal charges and up to 48 years in prison. the justice department announcing they were able to track sayoc to plantation, florida, through evidence gleaned from at least one of the packages. >> they uncovered a latent fingerprint from one of the envelopes containing an i.e.d. that had been sent...

Early 1990s including a 2002 threat to blow up a utility company, suffering a fate worse than 9/11. a law enforcement official says sayoc was initially cooperative, and claimed he did not intend to harm anyone. although none of the devices actually exploded, wray insisted the bombs be taken seriously. >> these are not hoax devices. they did contain energetic material, which if subjected to the right combination of heat or shock or friction could be dangerous to the public. >> reporter: details i...

Triggers these individuals. what is it? what makes them snap? why are there long periods of time sometimes between people doing something evil. look at the bomber sayoc. 2002, he made a terroristic threat and said we burn down the florida utility company. it took 16 years to actually do something like that. i will add on to what shimon was saying. i spent 25 years in the fbi and 8 in the military, you never get used to scenes like. that it doesnt matter. you learn how to compartmentalize and how...

Things will stay the course. there is no maga as long as there is a blank infestation. you have dealt a lot with gab and this type of speech in your professional life. >> its digital threat intelligence. its looking beyond the twitters, the facebooks, the instagrams. its starting to dive into threatening statements that are made in the deep and dark web, alt web sites. when we start looking at this individual, were going to be looking at obviously his statements on gab, but beyond that. how many...

Process will begin. again, federal authorities bringing the full weight to bear here, it appears, going after the subject, who is a potentially death penalty case very serious violations, obviously. >> we talk about the audio. those officers responding are now witnesses because when they hear him making those anti-semitic comments. all of this being brought together to prosecute this individual. >> because you have also dealt a lot with this platform, gab, i wanted to highlight some of other com...

It doesnt mean those people were in on it, unless they somehow knew. it wouldnt stun me if he acted alone. >> from the law enforcement perspective, i know youre following the new york element here, are they expecting that there might be other people involved? and if there are independent copy cats, the concern for that as well. >> that is always a concern. the independent copycats. the idea that there might be others is definitely something at the forefront of investigators minds. they are defin...

But take a listen to what president trump had to say, at andrews air force base earlier this afternoon. >> this is a case where they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. so this would be a case for, if there was an armed guard, inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him, maybe there would have been nobody killed, except for him, frankly. so it is a very, very, very difficult situation. and when you look at it, you can look at it two ways. bu...

Which law enforcement moved, we want to keep all options open and dont want to get hyper focused, and the alacrity, the speed they moved in, this is hate crime and since it is a hate crime it comes in under the federal umbrella and the fbi steps in as a lead investigative agency. it doesnt mean that they are not collaborating with state and local partners but the social media is huge, we live in a society of impulse, good people who exchange idea does it, and so do evil people. the fbi will go t...