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Hit by an anthrax attack, copies of the report were supposed to be locked up or shredded. instead, a cnn employee discovered those documents. joining us with more, drew griffin. it just leaves you scratching your head, drew. >> i think we were as surprised as the department of homeland security was, a cnn employee found these, erica, in the seatback pocket of a commercial airplane, 78 pages of this stuff, documents that contain the details of preparations in the event of a biological attack during last night's super bowl. they were based on two dhs exercises, that simulated an anthrax attack, ...

Be what would be deployed. could anthrax be deployed and could it work and kill a lot of people? >> yes, the soviet union did have warheads designed for biological weapons long-range missiles like the ss-18, but it's really not necessary. you could deliver an anthrax attack in miami or new york covertly and strategic impact and kill tens of thousands of people. >> reporter: it's impossible to determine because it's regime is difficult to penetrate. and they've been wrong about biological weapons in the past including in the runup to the iraq war. still, experts who study north korea point to w...

Over him. he has purged most of the ranks of the military that he inherited from his father and with the killing earlier there year of his half brother in malaysia, who was killed what appears to be an anthrax attack at the airport he's gotten rid of the one natural successor who he feared the chinese might see as somebody more pliable to put in place and still have someone within the family so he's been pretty carefully eliminating his opposition. i think one of the big questions now is once the president made the decision the other day to put them back on the state sponsor of terrorism list ...

Discovered it had live anthrax. and tonight, no estimate from the cdc when their investigation will be done. erin? >> thank you very much. i want to go straight to colonel randall larson. also outfront former fbi counter terror agent whose squad led the response to the 2001 anthrax attack. 22 times, 22 times they shipped this stuff across the united states across the world. nine different states. they did it via fedex. which means live anthrax could have been next to tens of thousands of commercial packages how does this compound the risk? >> compounds it greatly. if we look back at the 2001 c...

Who will give that order? then he lanes on -- he -- the 2016 candidates and possible contenders descending on new hampshire now. none on icrow -- gyrocopters. that it mite get them headlines. maybe hillary should get out of the scooby thing. a coverup in the fbi's investigation into the anthrax attack. it wents to all kinds of places, went to nbc one came here to our building. and remember what happened then? they said the man who did it died. and they closed the books. our next guess is the guy who vested the -- investigated the attack, and he says, better think again. hang on.