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Going back 40 years on mail bombs. they're very good. they're inside baseball on this. then you have the fbi and the atf or at least these world class bomb experts. so it's like this collective wisdom that's all running around, that can defeat these bombers. you have a lot of personnel there. the ticket on this is going to clearly start moving toward south florida. where, you know, the fbi's joint terrorism task force right in south florida, right in miami, is going to have a lot of leads to command. that's where the joint operations are going to be happening. deeply happening there. certainly...

Alabama jurisdiction for many years. she's a professor at university of alabama law school. also joining us matt miller, former spokesman for attorney general eric holder, who was one of the targets of the mail bombs. and michelle goldberg, "the new york times" columnist. welcome to all of you. joyce vance, let's start with you and the bombs. the bomb experts tell me that the one good thing about bombs, particularly bombs sent through the mail is there's lots of evidence. there's lots of stuff to look through. there's lots of ways to figure out who is behind this. >> that's absolutely right. i...

Why two bombs if we're trying to scare you? it goes more to me that i'm really trying to get you, i really have an ire for you, a hatred, i really want to get you, maxine waters or joe biden. so that's just some ways to look at it. it's not absolute. we could very well find out there was no way to trigger the device and that's the way the bomber made it. so we made a real bomb that he didn't tend to go off. i think more likely it's his bomb making skills, steph, are lacking, you know, maybe the bottom of the bomb class he graduated in, not too good. maybe trying to be too clever by half. you h...

Service is doing what they do every day and that is paying attention to the current threat environment and adjusting as needed. obviously they are paying very close attention to all the threat intelligence that may be developing in association with what is going on today. i think it is fair to say that oftentimes in these cases we're not dealing with sane people that are behind these acts. and sometimes one act, in this case the mail bombs, may bring out others that may exhibit threatening behavior in different ways. so they are paying to all of that. as far as the physical protection goes, th...

Oh, i've been told that pete williams is on the phone, so we'll stand by before we go to pete, but again, we are waiting to hear from president trump. we expect that we will hear from the president roughly seven, eight minutes from now. there's a preplanned event that's expected to start at huffi roughly 11:45 eastern. let's talk about what we know right now, and then we'll perhaps talk about what we don't know, the questions that are still outstanding. a man in his 50s has been arrested in connection with the dozen mail bombs. this man is expected to be charged. tu at this point we do not kno...