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Scary morning, at least five suspicious packages picked up, addressed to different politicians and to cnn. obviously, the intent was to scare. none went off. no one hurt. but a message was certainly sent as the investigation continues, so does our consideration of how to make this better. jake tapper picks up our coverage now. this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to "the lead," im jake tapper. we begin with breaking news in our national lead. the fbi and other law enforcement agencies are try...

Importantly, jake, has representatives from state and local partners in all of these jurisdictions. theyre going to pool their information, their intelligence. the common thread here seems to be this common return address. there will no doubt be leads developed about how these items may have been couriered. some of them, i understand, as the reporting is coming in thus far, they were not actually mailed but may have been couriered. all of those things are going to be potential leads and im very ...

Director for president obama. john brennan does not work for cnn, john brennan has a commentating contract with nbc and msnbc. not with cnn. what would that fact mean to you as an investigator, that theyre sending this to him to a place he does not work. is this somebody whos uninformed? is this somebody whos trying to throw us off the track? >> it does show a level of unsophistication. the package was mailed to ten time-warner center, which is not the actual address, if you google it, that will...

The return addresses for the soros bomb, the obamas, the clintons, the one that came to brennan here at cnn, all of them had the same return address. that of debbie wasserman schultz, former dnc chair. officials looking at that. also the make-up of the bombs themselves to figure out and piece together who is responsible. jake? >> miguel marquez in new york, thank you so much. evan perez joins me now. evan, many of these suspicious packages had that return address of congresswoman debbie wasserma...

Themselves have the same congressm commonality. the question is now are there other officials that are now on the lookout. obviously law enforcement officials as we mentioned will be pinging other law enforcement officials, saying, look, were seeing an increased pattern here, that is the scary part about this, obviously there hasnt been a device detonated yet, but were not in the clear yet because were not sure at this point whether there are additional devices to come. >> let me bring back art ...

A suspicious package addressed to democratic congresswoman maxine waters was discovered at a congressional sorting facility in maryland, and on monday, wealthy democratic donor, george soros also received a bomb. a law enforcement official tells cnn that the initial examination of all the devices shows them to be constructed similarly, at least one of the devices appeared to contain projectiles including shards of glass. the devices are rudimentary but functional. now, whoever is sending these b...

About this more in depth, im sure. fact that all of these packages do seem to have been sent to a recipient with the return address of the office of debbie wasserman-schultz in sunrise florida. definitely shows a pattern that may be easy for investigators to put together. secret service has a long list of people that they suspect of being a potential threat against either the current president or former president. the first place theyll go is to that list in coordination with the fbi and the atf...

Again at the suspicious packages, one of them we know was a viable explosive. we dont know the details on all of them. they look like it, and they went to the former president, former secretary of state, over the weekend. the former cia director through in care of cnn, so they had it. if you take a look at the cnn suspicious package, a picture of it was addressed to john brennan, spelled wrong. we are told a courier took that to cnn and it did not go through the mail service. this one to eric ho...

Campaign trail, he took a photo of the package that arrived at the offices of cnn addressed to john brennan, former obama administration cia director. you can see on the upper left portion of the box, the return address is debbie wasserman-schultz congressional office here in florida. some reports suggest another package was sent to someone else like eric holder, the attorney general under obama. that was to a wrong address. return to sender and thats what actually arrived here this morning. dan...

As the president gets ready to speak at this opioid event, this is something lawmakers have worked, a slew of bills to attack a situation thats taken out 300,000 people as we look statistically at this drug problem we have. how does has the president been addressing this as well? >> i think he separates it and does it at the top, i expect thats what is going to do but there is a lot to talk about on the opioid issue and both parties have worked on this end we are starting to see those deaths lev...