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When we think about that, and the fact theyre saying we still need you to be vigilant, we dont know whats happened in the last 24-plus hours of this guy. those suspicious package reports are important as they track those down. >> absolutely. the ability for law enforcement to communicate with the citizenry and for folks to be able to phone in or use anonymous tip lines to communicate with law enforcement in this rear is a blessing for law enforcement. chris always yells at me to put my professor...

So how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in the lower 48 have we been seeing reports with suspicious package reports and actually enter up enveloping more resources that necessary? >> well, i think the trick is to be local. in the boston area, we want to overwhelm the police. they dont know whats going to be valuable. they want everything. in the rest of the country, its business as usual. so overwhelming the police there is going to have the same derogatory effect it had over ...

Joining me now is bruce schneider, the chief security. we have charlie pierce still with us from newton. bruce, youve written about this a lot. about the kind of ways in which weve responding to 9/11 and what we call security feeder. when something like this does happen, people are going to be more alert, right? and the authorities are telling them to report things and theres some information that we need to get out of those folks, so how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in th...

Need to get out of those folks, so how do you balance that with not overwhelming authority in the lower 48 have we been seeing reports with suspicious package reports and actually enter up enveloping more resources that necessary? >> well, i think the trick is to be local. in the boston area, we want to overwhelm the police. they dont know whats going to be valuable. they want everything. in the rest of the country, its business as usual. so overwhelming the police there is going to have the sam...

some pretty deep ties with the white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got a big contract for a drug thats not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up were going to talk with a member of the companys board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the "los angeles times" but since then have learned a lot more. investigator drew griffin is...

the big contract for a drug thats not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up, were going to talk with a member of the companys board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the "los angeles times" but since then, have learned a lot more. investigative correspondent drew griffin is keeping them honest. >> reporter: its just another good business deal for billionaire investor and big-time democrat...

white house? and why is it that the company with deep ties to the white house, the company that just got the big contract for a drug thats not been proven yet, why is it going to make an 85% profit on its government contract? coming up, were going to talk with a member of the companys board of directors, a familiar face here at cnn. we first got wind of this story in the "los angeles times" but since then, have learned a lot more. investigative correspondent drew griffin is keeping the...