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Parallels are weird. they seem to have been involved in some sort of online feud, the two of them. they both claim to be members of mensa, both claim to be esteemed martial artists. is there a reason to believe these guys would do anything together? >> not from anything that i have seen. it appears their relationship was nothing but contentious. >> this is such a strange story i can hardly believe it. we're left with this very serious bottom line which is these weren't just threats about ricin. there really was deadly poison sent to the white house to a u.s. senator and to a mississippi judge....

Evidence has been found whatsoever in any of the investigations so far to the actual production of ricin, castor beans found anywhere, anything that has turned up in terms of traces of this poison? >> i haven't heard anything today. i know they were still searching as of late this afternoon and i haven't heard of anything they've turned over if they've released that yet or anything. i do know there was -- there were some situations in mr. dutchke's past that did make it appear he may have had a problem with the judge in mississippi that got the letter. >> all right. thank you for your time in ...

You talk about the elvis impersonator and you can see a bit of that in the side burn and tone of voice. you see him profess his devotion to the country and wouldn't do this but his own attorney acknowledged some of what were in the letters sent to the president, mississippi senator roger wicker and a local mississippi judge did reflect some of the comments that he had been known to make publicly. so we are in a position now where we don't know exactly what the next step is. the testing that's been done on these letters does indicate a substance toxic known as ricin which is formed from castor ...

Injection and used in 1976 to murder and assassinate an individual. to date we have not seen ricin used in a way let's taye we have anthrax or small pox, if you aerosol it and put it over a mass body of people and kind of used-- the thing about ricin, you can make it from castor beans and therefore it's easier to get and handle than say anthrax. >> megyn: if it's so easy to get and produce and potentially deadly, why do you think we haven't seen more of it. >> because i think people see a much bigger bang for the buck with anthrax. anthrax-- >> because it can go airborne and ricin can't. >> yo...

This is a picture of castor beans from castor beans comes castor oil, which has many uses, if you must know, as a laxative. when you mash the beeps to get castor isle oil, there is a number of of deadly products including ricin. you can acquire one component of one of the most famous do it yourself poisons. it is at least makeable with things that are not illegal to obtain in their initial state. with the country glued to the boston marathon, late this afternoon, news broke that a letter sent to the office of mississippi senator roger wicker was screened in an off site mail facility br it reac...