The roadside. He lives with two roommates were reportedly both cooperating with officials. Conditt is believed to be linked to six bombs who killed two people and injured five others. He really did terrorize that city. There were so many Law Enforcement officials from the local state and federal level on the hunt and basically using oldfashioned police work, they were able to trap him. Kimberly its a fascinating story and our thanks and appreciation for them acting so quickly and identifying him and him eliminating himself. Outstanding forensic work and police work, being able to trace back his taps, using gps and locating devices to see where he went to these different places to mail these items. The video surveillance, all of it. Good oldfashioned police work. When you think about they juxtaposition of how they handle this here in texas compared to what we saw unfortunately occurred in florida, it really goes to show you theres a way it can and should be done right. This is a shining example of it, the way they are will to identify him right away. Dana we are awaiting a press conference that should be starting any moment now. Greg, one of the things they were able to do is to track him down based on internet searches. Greg yeah. Thats a good thing. Are we going to this . Dana we are going. Do you want me to go now . We are going to listen in. Special agent in charge of the houston field division. His name is fred milanowski. Our final speaker will be special agent in charge of the San Antonio Division of the fbi, christopher combs. Good afternoon. Thank you, every body for coming to plugerville texas. I want to thank everybody for their patients. First of all, i want to let everybody know that for the last several hours, explosive experts have been from the fbi, atf offices working to safely remove and dispose of homemade explosives located inside of a residence in plugerville, texas. That addresses 403 north Second Street. 403 north Second Street. Now, these federal agencies have been working around the clock with local and other federal agencies. Law enforcement have not left this investigation. They have left their families in order to keep our communities safe, and we are working together. I want to ensure the citizens of plugerville and those in adjoining jurisdictions that the reason we evacuated for a five block radius was for their safety to allow these lawenforcement agencies to to do their job. What we are going to do soon is we are going to shrink that perimeter a few blocks, and you will see Police Officers and barricades coming up to the railroad walnut and Second Street areas. It will take several hours to process the scene, and i know that we have asked every resident in that perimeter to leave their home. That was a difficult task, but thats how much we cared about their safety. Ladies and gentlemen, patience is going to have to work for us here. We know everybody wants to go home. We know everybody wants to eat dinner with their families, and we want that for you. But we also want to assure that you sleep safe tonight. We need to let these agencies do their job. I will ask the pflugerville residence to go to their library or their recreation center, which is open, until 9 00 tonight. If you dont have another place to go. We will help you. We anticipate several hours, i cant give you a time limit right now because this situation is fluid. We will also be putting information on our city website and updating as soon as possible can clear the perimeter and let everyone come home. And that is on pflugerville. Txtongeovatthis time timepflugervillecity hallws eddown. Com i will let the other gentleman speak. Thank you. Good afternoon. We continue to have unprecedented cooperation between Law Enforcement agencies. At the residence, they were bomb technicians from the fbi, atf. They have cleared the house of any completed devices. Now we have the Atf National Response Team processing the evidence in the house. That team has responded to every significant bombing in america for the last 40 years. They bring a wealth of information and experience. There is components in there, weve talked about, the bomb maker and his signature and how we are able to tell this to this same individual manufactured all of these devices. There is componentry in there that makes us believe, have a high degree of certainty that its the same components we have found in the other devices. There is also some potential homemade explosives and so we had to address that. Our biggest concern was to make sure nobody else gets hurt, whether its first responders, the neighbors. We apologize for any inconvenience but our whole goal here was to make sure that we have no other people hurt in this investigation. We are not done with this investigation. It will continue. Atf, fbi resources will stay in town until we have completed and turned over every rock in this investigation. We will not be leaving town. We want to make sure there is no other devices out in the public. We have a reasonable level dana you have been listening to a press conference in austin, texas, pflugerville where theyve been having this press conference. We will monitor it and bring you any breaking news. Greg, i will go to you. You have a theory. Greg not a theory but kind of its obviously terrorism. We have to admit this kind of terror as opposed to islamic terror, it is still kind of a religious fervor terror except its the media thats the religion that promises the afterlife. Why do people do this . Not to get 72. Its to get 72 million hits on their wikipedia page. The motive is always growing your numerical significance. With technology, one angry loser can get in the record books by doing this. You had a country paralyzed. If you decide in life that life isnt worth living and that you hate everybody around you, this is the way to get there. Evil through the media provides a consistent reward. It used to be in the old days if you lived in a small town, you had a community. That provided you with your feeling of worth. For a lot of people who are isolated and they are bad people, this is very worn. Sleeping one thing we dont know yet, jesse, is motive. Do you think theres anything in his background . Has no criminal record. Not in the military. He was homeschooled by his mom. No Political Party on his voter registration. But a guy who was an electrical engineer gone bad, very bad. Jesse college dropout, lived with two roommates who they are talking to. Supposedly they are being very cooperative. Kimberly they better be. Jesse the texas Law Enforcement guys arent going to take it easy on them if they know something. There were some writings we believe came from this person. He was talking about, he was against gay marriage or something about being for the death penalty. He says hes not a political person. I guess he said he leans conservative. We dont know yet if that was the motivation, if it was political. If there is a manifesto out there. We will know more about that. We havent heard anything about that yet. Just to go back to kimberlys point, we have criticized Law Enforcement and the fbi on multiple levels for years, whether its police brutality, whether its these shootings that were botched, investigations or fisa abuse. This is one of those moments where you have to say you guys just did an amazing job. To piece together this with the speed that they did by looking at the receipts and matching the Surveillance Footage and these batteries that were ordered from asia, i believe, very exotic. To ping his phone and see his Google Search history, to do that in a short time frame and get his car entailed him until he blew himself up. We were thinking this could go on for a while. The unabomber went on for years. This guy was over in a short amount of time and Law Enforcement did an amazing job. I just want to say congratulations to you guys. To the people of awesome commit such an amazing city. I visited there several times. Beautiful people there and the great spirit. And they arent breathing a sigh of relief yet but the worst is behind us. I can think now they can take a breath. Dana they are in pflugerville, his mother, father, and sisters lived. Apparently they said they had no idea and they sent their prayers to the victims. Juan that reminder of what we saw after the vegas terror. People said they had no idea, even the girlfriend in that case, no idea. In this case, i think everyone is going to be hungry for motive, trying to understand. The larger picture to me seems we have more of these incidents, whether it is guns or bombs. People looking at this when they put it in the category of the unabomber or the olympic park bomber, something called the midwest pipe bomber. These different bombings. We see more of these outbreaks of violence, and too often, young men. Having arguments in conversations about the violence in our media, in our hollywood stories, video games and the like but also mental health. But something is going on. Its hard to get away from it and hard not to worry. Greg can i respond to that . Young men are responsible for violence but they are also responsible for a lot of things. Do you know what i mean . No, im just saying that they fight our wars. And they are also they also commit a lot of crimes. You cant just say this is a male issue. Whenever anyone is doing a story on this, the relevant point in history is the unabomber. Thats actually good news because that was 20 years ago. So this actually isnt common. Its actually rare. The fact that you have to go back and look for something that was like this, its the unabomber. You have to go back to 95 or 94 when he was caught. I think thats encouraging. We also know violence is on the decline. We know that. Jesse to your point you made before but evil and how we compare this kind of domestic terrorism to islamic terrorism in the united states, i think the islamic terrorism is more fearful on our behalf because its about an overall philosophy and ideology. Its worldwide and has goals to take over the world. Whereas this is Something Like, this is a deranged kid. He doesnt fit into a category. Theres no way to kind of put him into a category. What are you supposed to do about a person like this . I dont know. Juan thats one of the things we are starting to have to understand, that we have to be better. We have to pick up on signals more quickly. I think thats part of it. Greg, i agree, its about young men fight our wars too. I dont think theres any question. I dont see women doing this. Greg of course. If you look at prisons, how many women are in prison versus men. When you say this is a problem. Ward are white males, males in general, at a general age, high testosterone creatures. They are often involved in a lot of things. Dana our producers have been monitoring the press conference. They say they dont have a motive yet. Kimberly theres a lot of evidence left in that home, a treasure trove. They were going to be able to get a very deep picture of who he is, what mightve motivated him. The good news is we are going to learn and get some understanding from this. It was stopped at an early juncture which is critical, especially for someone who seemed so furious and frenetic in terms of trying to turn these bombs out. Dana sound for the victims and the family. Coming up, President Trump facing backlash for congratulating putin on winning reelection. The president responded. 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President trump responding moments ago on twitter saying i called president putin of russia to congratulate him on his election victory in past, obama called him also. The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong getting along with russia and others is a good thing, not a bad thing. Jesse, what do you think . Jesse the controversy is over the leak, not the congratulations. Obama congratulated putin in 2012. He also congratulated the iranian president in 2013, the turkish president , shook hands with castro. Enough is enough. Cozying up to dictators. The problem is is that by saying congratulations to the russian leader, the media seizes on it as him being soft. The president has not been soft on russia. Just slapped new sanctions on them and just sold ukraine missiles. It is concerning because you do want to have a Good Relationship with the russians. They are our adversaries. The president is a businessman. He wants to work you and cater to you which is how he does business. In terms of the leak, think about it. The highest level of security clearance of these people were on that call. This is a very small group of people. To do that and have back stabbers at such a high level of the white house and the National Security apparatus is so dangerous and so scary, it makes me understand why the president is constantly thinking about shifting personnel because he doesnt have a Team Together that he can trust. The team surrounding him is obviously trying to undermine him to achieve their own personal motive. Sessions has not done a very good job prosecuting leakers. He made this huge thing about how he was going to go after the leakers. He had 27 active leak investigations open. I dont think one person has been charged with espionage. Reality winner. We have the flynn leak, this. Sessions need to step up and start charging people under the austin espionage act. This has to stop. Kimberly frustration and the chief of staff expressing frustration. You need people you can trust. Such a small group. Dana i would imagine if Jeff Sessions could bring a case, he would want nothing more. He needs to put some cash back in the bank, build up his account back with the president. Its hard to find them. I also think its one of those things, they seize on it. They make it into such a big deal that it does become the story about the leak and there is disloyalty in the white house. The president does have a record of being tough on russia but he doesnt talk about it. All he talks about is we are friends and its good to be friends and everybody else is stupid. And i am the best. He actually, the sanctions, the sale of missiles, liquid natural gas to poland. There is a good record and he doesnt talk about it. If hes not going to talk about it, then the media isnt going to either. Kimberly you have to have something to drive the news and give them something. Dana this is what drives it, when they get mad about the leaks. Kimberly then you do the press briefing until the narrative. Dana i can understand how its weird to get on the phone with somebody who has just won an election not say congratulations. There are other ways you could say it. You could say well, looks like we are going to Work Together for another few years. A lot on the plate, look forward to talking to you. North korea, iran, ukraine. Kimberly greg, how would you say it . Greg part of me says the reason why its wrong to congratulate putins because its not a real election. You are congratulating rosie ruiz for winning the boston marathon. At the same time, World Leaders agreed this is the formality. Trump is a sales guy. Good job, good job. We will talk about it later. The bigger issue that bothers me, why does the media and why do democrats care . They didnt care when the ussr was eight times the size of russia now. Now you are appalled . You were the useful idiots for the soviets for 40 50 years. The left cheered the soviets while they destroy peoples lives and ruined other countries like cuba. Now you are saying we have to be really hard on russia. Save it, you goofballs. Bunch of. Kimberly lets leave it at that. Juan i have a totally different take which is his own security team, trumps team sends him a memo and the top of the memo is all in caps. Do not, do not congratulate putin. Then he goes against the advice of his own people. Thats what i think is concerning. Some people say maybe he didnt even read the briefing. If you read it, why would he go against his, the advice of his own folks . That leads out of able to begin having conversations about what is going on . You hear from jesse and others, president of, and others included leaders, including putin. But in the past the russians had not interfered in our election. Kimberly they were doing it then too. Juan they had not interfered in the 2016 election and its all about the russians poisoned somebody in great britain. Greg they also poisoned people before obama. Juan this is right now. This is what you wont hear here but republicans, including john mccain, john cornyn, marco rubio. I can go on