Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized by the president well, take a look at whos being targeted here and thats why were doing it proactively. Reaching out to people in the city. People that do their security and making sure that the mail rooms follow proper protocol and of concern to us and reaching out to the right people. Yes . Hold on. Mayor or governor, earlier
this week, president assaulting a journalist. All sorts of threats to journalists. Do you have a particular message to President Trump in light of what happened at cnn or
and is being handled as we speak. are they related? what do you well, terrorism related, right? terrorism is an attempt to strike terror, an attempt to strike fear. obviously, these devices are an attempt to strike fear. hence terrorism. are they domestic? are they international? these are all questions that would have to be handled by the investigation. but yes. it was a terrorist attempt. it was a terrorist attack. and as you said, what s the intent? to strike fear. and when they strike fear, they win. that s when they are effective. who controls that? we control that. we control that. this is not the first time we
back and looking at the process, there s a lot of questions raised. you want to jump to conclusion since it s sent to everybody who s a democrat and this must be partisan motivation. you never start that way. you start with let s take this investigation and let it lead us where it leads us. one of the things that s been kind of confusing to me is if you have any awareness as to how institutions operate, you know that there are remote mail sorting houses. you know that the secret service is watching the thing. you send a device, the chances of actually getting through are very, very small. that s interesting. second, none of the devices went off. none of them. seven sent. none of them go? i heard information there s a particular flaw that didn t let it go off. but when you take a look at the components, these are things you can pick up at any hardware store. looking at i know you have
investigating in the mail room here at cnn what the white powder actually is. they re not clear as to whether it s just white powder or it might be a chemical substance. that s the part of the mystery. and then, of course, the concept of these coordinated devices showing up at different places is what has people really, really concerned here. we heard from the police commissioner, the fbi, the atf, the mayor, the governor and the deputy police commissioner john miller who was oh. hang on a second. the deputy commissioner who was talking about the fact that they still don t know exactly where these came from but it s early investigation. you can see some of the official police vehicles leaving now. we have got the mayor as i said here. the governor. the media is now been allowed to that point over there but this building is shut down. everybody is evacuated from it. the residents, the retailers and the investigation is still ongoing. as for cnn, stephanie, again, as you know, i worked
we could talk about mark anthony, the austin, texas, bomber this last marchment and we know he was sending explosive devices through the mails and, of course, one of the ways he was identified is notwithstanding. the surveillance cameras in the various locations where he dispose itted these items. we have so many means for the person who putt them in the mail, the individual to drop this in george soros mailbox, the surveillance cameras there. i would be amazed if we didn t have sufficient background investigation on at least potential suspects by later this week. right. so, jim, you and clint and stephanie and i have been together on the austin investigation of there and you were saying similar things, patterns that people look for, cameras all over the place, ways of dealing with this.