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Democrats or critics of the president. tom, bring us up to speed and what we've learned in the last little bit here. >> hallie, the thing is that we're up to the ten packages, as you said. they all appear to be the same or are, in fact, the same. the key thing here today with respect to this investigation is it's all about the bombs. the information that the fbi, special agent bomb technicians, sabts, they're called, they'll have an opportunity at their labs in quantity qco, virginia, look at the evidence, as far as the materials that were put into these devices, the evidence as far as how the...

The reason why they haven't gone off. we're not going to detail that here in case the person that's watching wants to get some better ideas as to how to build these. but the fact that if there's any indication that they were designed not to go off but come as close as possible, that goes to motive. often times bombs are the ends to the means. the motive is -- the motive behind sending them is an entirely kind of separate facet of the investigation, and the bomb is what completes that. in this case the fact that they haven't gone off may actually speak to motive. the evidence that's being recov...

Stage of the investigation, this is being led by the joint task force here in new york city, along with the nypd. we have had assistance from the nypd and assistance from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. so it's a group effort. once the package was discovered, emergency services was notified. they called the bomb squad, the bomb squad was able to safely remove a device contained in that package, using the total containment vessel, or in simple terms the bomb truck, that is going through our range at broadman's net, where special agent bomb technicians are working on how to get it t...

Force here in new york city. as the governor outlined, this begins on monday night with a package that was delivered to a residence in westchester county, that was responded to by the westchester county police, the bedford police, and fbi special agent bomb technicians, that package was disrupted and taken to the fbi. and there was a package delivered to the clinton residence at chappaqua, new york, that is also going to the fbi crime lab. then the secret service notified us that they had received an almost identical package at the residence of the obamas. we went the day before to the first i...

The actual package looked like, addressed to cnn and john brenan. what you have gleaned from looking closely at everything we can see on the picture of the packa package? >> i'm just looking at the package talking to former bomb technicians that have worked these things. the way it looks on the outside, the way people send these out if they're amateur, there's generally a lot of tape or strings, excessive postage. the last thing a bombmaker wants is for that to be sent back to them. the device could possibly be either pvc piping, cast iron or something like that. where bombmakers struggle is w...