Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting 20181025 :

FOXNEWSW Shepard Smith Reporting October 25, 2018

First from the fox news deck this thursday afternoon, theres word that some of the suspicious packages came from florida. Thats according to the reporting of the wall street journal. The journals Parent Company and fox news share common ownership. The journal said an official said it looks like most of the packages went through the mail and that at least some of them came from the state of florida. The fbi confirms it is investigating more suspicious packages today. Law enforcement Officials Say todays targets were the actor and director, Robert De Niro and two packages to the former Vice President , joe biden. New York City Police say a worker found a suspicious package at the oscarwinning actors restaurant in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of tribeca. Officials in delaware say they found two packages meant for the former Vice President. Heres a look at all of the targets in the big wall. The obamas home in d. C. , president and mrs. Clintons home in the new york city suburb , in maryland, a letter to the call democratic congresswoman maxine waters. Los Angeles Police say they saw a second package addressed to waters. In south florida, package addressed to eric holder turned up at the office of the former Democratic National Committee Chair woman, congressman Debbie Wassermanschultz. Her office listed in the returned a dress. In new york city, a package sent to cnns studios addressed to the former cia john brennan. No package has exploded and nobody has been hurt. This is an image of the package the fbi found in florida. Law enforcement Officials Say all of the packages are very similar. Manilla envelopes with bubble wrap interior. On the outside, six stamps and the returned a dress of wassermanschultz. On this one you can see schultz is spelled incorrectly. President trump is condemning the attacks saying acts or threats of Political Violence have no place in the United States. We have team fox coverage throughout this hour, including an update from the new York City Police department, which is scheduled to begin live in about 25 minutes. First, lets get to the chief intelligence correspondence, Catherine Herridge live in washington d. C. Two Law Enforcement Officials Say theres a wealth of forensic evidence. A lot of investigators can narrow down and refine their focus. Were looking at florida is a region of interest. With three more packages covered today, congressman mike mccall from the House Homeland Security committee and in that job he gets regular updates. He said the postal marks were key. He wouldnt get into specifics. Its going to help investigator as great deal in terms of determining where they originated out of and narrow down the location and narrow down where the suspect is. Had they been able to nail down any mailing locations or purchasing locations based on what youve been briefed . Yes. I cant comment where but yes. Former federal investigators told us today the use of at least one courier as well as the postal system added to that when packages were delivered or intercepted, all of that data points can be plugged into an algorithm to geographically profile a suspect or a group of suspects. On the new nbc reporting, some of the devices were not capable of going off. We reported yesterday from a federal Law Enforcement service that one of the devices failed to have an initiatener the pipe bomb. Shepard katherine, were getting a first look at one of the biden packages. The biden packages were intercepted at two delaware postal facilities, this image shows the obvious similarities that has the same manilla envelope packaging, the six American Flag stamps and the same misspelling for Debbie Wassermanschultz and the center wants to be formal and official. It uses the Vice President s full name, which he rarely uses publicly. On the left, a postit note that appears to indicate additional postage was due on delivery. The official confirmed one of the packages went to new castle delaware and a second to wilmington secret service. Confirming the packages didnt reach biden and the former Vice President is no longer called a secret service protectee. That means the mail is routinely looked at. Shepard one more thing. There was a mock isis logo on one of them that seemed very familiar. So in at least one of the packages, if you recall the first image we had of the device, that was addressed to the former cia director john brennan and sent to cnn, which led to the evacuation yesterday morning, embedded on device is what looked like a sort of mock isis logo. Our contact today said this is seen by investigators as an effort to confuse. They dont see it as a real and credible link to any kind of terrorist group at this point. Shepard catherine, thank you. Youre welcome. Shepard Robert De Niro has been a critic of President Trump. Ja Jacquie Heinrich is downtown new york. An xray revealed a pipe bock in the packaging and it was similar to the other nine devices set to democratic figures. The nypd bomb squad surrounded his offices. The target recipients have shifted from political figures to outspoken critics of President Trump. This [bleep] idiot is the president. The guy is a [bleep] fool. Come on. Our government today with the prompting of our baby in chief has [bleep] chief i call him. Four of the ten total mail bombs have been found and the hunt is now on for a terrorist. Authorities are on high alert saying they dont know how long this will last. None of the explosives discovered today reached their intented targets. Several were handled by civilians. This is clearly an effort to terrorize people politically, to choose people for political purposes and attack them because of their beliefs. That is the kind of thing that we have seen before in this city and we reject it and we will not be intimidated by it. As Catherine Herridge touched on, investigators believe that all ten packages came from the same center. Seven packages had the return center as Debbie Wassermanschultz with the last name misspelled. Each had a small battery and packed with broken glass intended to become projectiles. Officials are warning folks all across the country that any package that has protruding waters, a strange odor or any oily stains should be reported immediately, shep. Shepard thanks, jacqui. Were waiting for an update to begin. Nypd said they should begin a live briefing in new york about 20 minutes from now. Well have live coverage of that. How do you protect people from this sort of device and track down a suspect before somebody gets gravely hurt . Well hear from a guy that spent decades with the fbi. Thats coming up on this thursday afternoon. Ne mistake. 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There should be some type of signature that each bomb maker has in making the components and putting them together. Shepard so would you Search Online properties to see who might have been suggesting one be made like that or what sort of tactics do you take . Thats one avenue to do online searches, to search, to trace online searches to see who has been looking at bombmaking material and information and guidance. And like you suggested, these components, the way theyre put together, probably some instructions, some manual out there that provides the frame work for this. Theres a lot of looking at social media, looking at databases, Law Enforcement agencies to see if theres any information that would link the language, the components, anything at all, the threats, any indications of threats by someone that would tie anything linking this case, any material to a particular person that posted something, even on social media. Shepard based on what we know, do you have a sense of your own about whether or not whoever this is trying to scare people or trying to hurt people . Thats a good question. I really dont have a good answer about that. I think its important in these investigations to keep an open mind and not upto any conclusions. Certainly theres an analysis what this person is about. Part of this, a forensic investigation and several command posts in effect. Theyre going to follow every lead they can. Also, Behavioral Analysis is a big component. Trying to get into this person or persons mind. What is making them tick. Whether they designed not to go off or were they and they didnt . We dont know that yet. All of the questions are important getting to the facts. Thats the job, determine the facts and lead to a conclusion. And we have a few facts. We know two people were sent two packages. Maxine water and joe biden. Ive heard it said today. One package would scare pretty well. Two packages could lead a reasonable mind that this is something else. Could be. Just doubly mad. Doubly mad or were not through. Watch out. There could be more. And i think theres a chance that these are not the only packages. There could be more nationwide. Not that people should be concerned, not that you know, bad enough that these situations cause a heightened sense of alert and harm, but we still need to be vigilant. Theres a chance that there would be more out there. Shepard the obvious connections, these are all critics of the president and the vast majority of these have been regular targets of the president s anger. Besides those two things that we can all see in common, what else do you note that might be of interest . I think that again, its to that Behavioral Analysis, the misspellings. Some said its to thrown things off, its not really directed to democrats or the culprit is not directing them towards democrats. Maybe in a democrat is doing that. I dont think we should got begged down in that. Shepard we did not, sir. Im not saying you did. I didnt mean to imply that. Im just saying as an investigator, its important to just follow the facts. The fact that these did go to just democrats is important. Obviously you have to consider that. Its part of the investigation, the analysis of who this could have been. Again, we go back to look at secret service files, fbi files, look at other agency files and see if theres been any indication of anybody that made any threats or any comments. You know, the fbi has command they have sources who report on a regular basis, you know, threats and things of that. So theres possible information in there that may lead to some suspect. Shepard lets home see. Thanks, dennis franks. Ahead, we go to california where the feds say they found a package for maxine waters. The second package with her name open it. 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A. This whole building had to be evacuated last night. That was a big job for the lapd, fbi and atf investigators who swarmed here to undertake. What they found was a package that we are told is fairly similar to those found on the east coast. The packaging, for instance, is very similar and inside, a similar piece of plastic piping filled with what officials here tell us is some sort of explosive material. They do not know for sure whether that explosive material could have been detonated. Either way, congressman maxine waters, the target of this device, said in an interview after it was discovered that she will not be intimidated. Listen here. I dont know whether the bombs are real or not. But we should not qualified under the bed, close the doors, not go out, be afraid to go to rallies, whatever. We have to keep doing what were doing in order to make this country right. Thats what i intend to do. As the young people say, i aint scared. And

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