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A week. a couple of i.d. prints were on the outside of the envelope. the big question is he acting alone. im sure the commanders are pressing that hard, did he buy more timers? did he buy more pipe. where is the place? the place could be in the van, or the place could be at an accomplices house or garage or storage facility he rents. theres a place, and in that place theres probably tape, pipe -- >> supplies. >> yes. >> i want to go back, especially when you bring up the d.c. snipers. i want to ...

Fully who the individual is. and that includes major case prints and also getting a dna analysis of the individual, and then beginning to work backwards. thats to take the evidence thats been collected, the forensic evidence collected and tying that individual to that evidence. then also, secondly, is also as our other guest mentioned, taking that footprint, that electronic footprint and finding out who hes been socializing with, who hes been cooperating with potentially and identifying other in...

Same time. five or six at a time. something you can really key in on. but when we talk about forensics, its not just obviously dna and prints, which are the obvious links youre looking for, but also a very close examination of the components and tracing their origin. >> people, too. what did they know? did they see anybody buy this stuff. do they know someone talking about doing this kind of thing. im sure theyre canvassing for that kind of information and would welcome it if folks out there bel...

I dont kn -- question. i dont know. >> that was a manhunt and this is a manhunt as well. this is an individual who had quite the criminal history, arrest, they had prints. now were learning they had a single fingerprint from this package that he was hoping to have it en route to maxine waters, the congresswoman. it because of the fingerprint they helped track him. >> thats fantastic. physical evidence was -- he went to great lengths to avoid leaving any kind of physical evidence. >> your impress...

>> its much better. >> much better. >> and if he was sloppy at one point putting this thing together, theres maybe some trace evidence, latent prints. they will go through that to find something like that. plus, the device itself gives you some direction on what you think the motivation of this might be on the construction of the device. >> the -- i mean, phil, obviously, one looks at all the targets, or the intended targets. it would seem obvious what this person -- what they all have in common...

Someone, sending an explosives sends a signal youre attempting to incite fear, which falls under terrorism. you are terrorizing people potentially for a political aim. we cant lose sight when hes exhibiting candor on his motivation. whether or not he wanted to kill or just simply wanting to instill fear, thats still terrorism. >> weve learned a lot here on how they got to this guy and weve seen this before in cases with fingerprints and dna. >> its amazing. >> yesterday theyre dealing with these...

The tweet reads, our bomb squad and canine unit are providing assistance at our federal partners at the opa-locka mail facility as part of the ongoing investigation into suspicious packages hoe ka s located in ot jurisdictions. joining me again are my guests. just in terms of where -- i mean, with your expertise as you look at what we know now and what we dont know, where do you see this investigation, what interests you the most? >> theres a lot of devices and a lot of potential evidence there,...

A lot of resources being put into this investigation but how quickly can investigators find out as to who was behind these bombs. there is if you dont believe it or not it does not take days or weeks that give the information what theyre going to do is theyre going to take data in terms of where the packages were mailed from theyre going to look at them its areas that were made up of the bombs there are look for senior prints and so i expect that we will probably gives a profile of the potential...

Government officials, senior government officials. we also know more information about what really was the tip or the break that helped them accelerate the case and identify the suspect cesar sayoc. that was a latent fingerprint that was identified and lifted from an envelope with the package, one of two packages sent to congresswoman maxine waters. based on what we heard from the fbi director, that was the package intercepted in maryland. that fingerprint was matched against a database that the...

People are focused in florida and certain hubs. other places to look in maryland, new york, and los angeles. where would you go? >> i think with the fbi, going and looking at this opeopenopa-locka facility, -- treasure trove of information. not only for the forensics, for the latent prints and d.n.a. but also because of all the subcomponents. it was 0 for 10 of any of these going off. all those subcomponents, looking at where they were procured, where they were acquired and breaks those down. st...