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Package that was intercepted at joint base andrews. this is just outside of washington proper if you will across the river. this is the main sorting facility for screening mail coming to secret service protectees, in other words. in the post 9/11 world after the anthrax attacks in washington they changed how they handled the mail coming into these sensitive sites and they started screening them at joint base andrews. this is where they intercepted the package coming to the white house reportedly coming to the white house and then also to former president barack obama. the other thing that has ...

Threats as these. they have highly trained men and women that staff those facilities and very well-trained to identify objects such as these pipe bombs and make sure they don't reach their final destination. i can't comment specifically on the past times that this may or may not have happened. what i can say is the secret service and other federal agencies are well-equipped to detect and deter from these types of threats. >> shepard: seems like efforts of this kind stepped up after the anthrax attacks in new york, after the attacks of 9-11. our building was one of them and the "new york post" ...

Many times through all of the history about the different devices and how they were designed, this is a run of the mill pipe bomb device and design. so why didn't it go off? it's not terribly sophisticated -- didn't have a sophisticated timer tied to a cell phone. we don't see that. the last piece is so we see a lot of similarities on the packages themselves. but there's a question out there as to how they were delivered. we assume that you take -- someone went to a mail facility. put these in. and then they were sent. we know that the united states post office doesn't screen for explosives. t...

Congressman david jolly, now declared independent. and as a republican congress canman from florida, speak to those who say, well, it has always been this way, and you heard hillary clinton thanking the secret service for protecting them as they have, and protecting the package and she said it is time to heal the deep divisions in the society. is this politics as usual or is this something different? >> it not. no, there are moments in the american history that we remember like today and we saw the anthrax attacks if you will on capitol hill about ten years ago. listen, this is still an active...

I had the privilege of working for director mueller at the fbi during two horrific attacks. the anthrax attacks and the dc sniper attacks. i've never been with atf. i've never been with postal inspection service but i know the men and women there are working every bit as hard as the men and women of the fbi to track this down. i think frank is right. i think mike leiter is right. there's lots and lots of clues left behind. there are extraordinary investigators combing through it. and i would be surprised if we didn't have this person in custody in relatively short order. >> michael balboni, le...