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Kind of a hook there, maybe thats going to pull the friction and set that fuse on the other side to light and imp rovised detonator. could be a fake poison he wants to disperse. but the fact the didnt go off, doesnt mean he didnt want it to go off. so i think weve got to understand that. >> michael, last point. >> so jim makes two really good points. they werent open in many situations. so i have information the one at cnn was opened. well determine that. the second piece he said about the retur...

>> charles, cnn gets a lot of mail every day, members of congress, presidents, ex-presidents. theres a lot of stuff that goes through. its remarkable that the first package that was supposed to go to george soros was monday night and by wednesday afternoon we have seen five more. pretty efficient on the senders part and whoever has been intercepting them. is it surprising that people were able to identify them packages and get them out of system fast? >> it doesnt surprise me at all. you have we...

Were seeing a lot of movement around here. hes asked a lot of them not to come back but theyre all over here. they are all working. theyre broadcasting from over there. thats a cnn crowd youre looking at. i know malcolm is here. i love you dearly and i dont really disagree with you on stuffe stuff. we have to be thinking about both of these things at the same time. >> youre absolutely right abouw is i would like to see this bomber rolled up. thats what i think we should really focus on. tlp is--...

Were monitoring what appears to be explosive devices in what appear to be several political targets. it started monday with a suspicious package sent to the home of george soros and today a similar package sent to former democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton and of course home of her husband former president bill clinton in new york. just a short time later a similar package was intercepted addressed to former president obamas address in washington, d.c. after that another device was...

Tone he took in his comments a few moments ago. obviously, all of these targets have been folks that the president has repeatedly gone after either in these rallies, many of which ive attended or on twitter as americans and people across the globe have witnessed. will he maintain this tone. will he have a more unifying tone when we hear from president trump tonight? i think thats something we should be watching for closely. >> i want to bring garrett back in. hes nearby be obamas home in washing...

Together. >> another potential explosive was found in the mail room of the the new york offices of cnn. employees at the network were evacuated which played out live on air. >> reporter: that projectiles. -- that sound like a fire alarm here. well keep you posted. >> were going to jump in there. theres a fire alarm here. >> were going to find out what the latest is. well be right back. >> thats scary stuff. suspicious packages were sent to eric holder. a congressional mail sorting facile ity in ...

Of people in the presidents orbit who have said something about this. his son, his daughter, his wife, the vice president. i buy that. i remind you of that shooting. the guy who took a gun to that pizza parlor outside of d.c. bought he thought he was breaking up a pedophile ring and there was noune. im not suggesting this is politically motivated. im suggesting once you create an environment of some things are acceptable or you create an idea of enemies or danger, then you cant get all puzzled b...

Just happen to be at cnn. what is interesting about the presidents discussion is there was no details. hes not giving the pace of the investigation. hes not talking about any specifics. i guess hes letting his surrogates talk about that. past presidents will give some type of color to where the investigation is going and give some type of context to should everybody else be concerned or is this just the institutional targets. >> it would be helpful if you can help us understand from a security p...

Not connected. we are dealing with six packages. packages that were directed to hillary clinton and barack obama that didnt get close to them. one that went to eric holder and got sent back to the return address thats shared by all of these packages. she was not a recipient of this. we have the package here at cnn that was directed to john brenan, a republican, but a critic of the president. thats what he shares with everybody else on this list. the package that went to or was directed to maxine...

York. shortly we were told by the secret service that president obama, a package addressed to him was intercepted and shortly, i would say shortly before 10:00 a.m. we heard a package had been sent to cnn addressed to john br brennan, the former cia director who is a contributor. we have learned the reporting from my colleague pete williams that eric holder, the former attorney general package was supposed to be sent to him but it was returned to debbie wasserman schultz. they are in padded mani...