reporter: a frequent chant at the president s rallies. sayoc attended one of those rallies in melbourne, florida, in 2017, and held a sign with the same message. his twitter account included memes attacking billionaire investor, george soros. one of the targets of the alleged bombings. online records show that sayoc had an extensive arrest record across two states, including grand theft, battery, fraud, drug possession, and one in miami in 2002, according to a police report he threatened to blow up a florida utility company worse than september 11th. he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year of probation. he now faces five federal charges, and up to 48 years in prison. the defendant s conduct as charged is cowardly and reprehensible and totally anathema to our democracy. reporter: but the threat may not be over. even after sayoc was arrested, another suspicious package was intercepted in california. authorities say this one was
of two of these ieds. one that was being mailed to maxine waters, the congresswoman. and another one that was being mailed to barack obama, the former president, had his dna. so they were able to match it to records they already had. they also found a fingerprint in one of the ieds being sent to maxine waters. again, they were able to compare that to fingerprints that he had from his previous arrest record. so the fact that he had a wrrap sheet a mile long was extremely helpful. as soon as they found the fingerprint on the package sent to maxine waters, they apparently had their guy pretty quickly. it was not hard to find him. shimon, what have we learned about these improvised explosive devices, as christopher wray calls them? how were they made, and were they armed? yeah, so the fbi director explained at the press conference and also in the court documents, basically, the way they re described, they re six
listed his twitter account, saying there were various posts with misspellings such as spelling hillary with one l. so you had the misspellings and the post date of october 24th, a negative post against president barack obama and george soros after the package to george soros was recovered. so this is important evidence in the investigation in terms of the why, the motive. one official i was speaking with said, if you look at the posters on his van that correspond with a lot of the targets from the mail bombs, that is essentially explaining the motive here. that s all i would need as a prosecutor to explain the motive. you see the cnn sign there with van jones, one of our colleagues, with the crosshairs. i mean, this shows you, he is partisan, as we heard from jeff sessions today. pretty amazing admission from the attorney general. that, look, this guy is partisan. clearly, this was an act of political violence, as he said in his words. and gloria, a lot of these
these components here that could someone could have been hurt. and that s what s important for people to remember here. you know, shimon, you were out front in breaking this story. every step of the way. but were you surprised how quickly it all unfolded, and the arrest of this guy occurred? well, not today, wolf. certainly. both evan and i yesterday started hearing that there was considerable movement in the investigation, that law enforcement was pretty confident that they were going to get their guy. that they were going to come to a resolution. because, as we know, they identified him yesterday off of the maxine waters package, the package sent to maxine waters. so up until really yesterday, really yesterday early yesterday evening, evan and i had this conversation. i called him, and he said, you know, i m hearing stuff is going to be happening. and so it was really everything changed yesterday, wolf. and then today, coming into this morning, i could sense, just talking to
patterns of writing on the face of the envelopes or the mailings. there are indicators of suspicious behavior that at least begins the suspicious inquiry as to what is going on here. reporter: nader says whether it is discovered on sending or receiving end, any suspicious package is quickly and carefully isolated. a key question tonight, how would some of the mail bombs this week have gone through the mail system to their destinations without cancellation marks on the stamps. nader says the cancellation marks are done by machines that are not fool proof. it may not show up at all if it goes through a machine and it is not the right dimensions. reporter: postal officials say it is not just the postal inspection police on the lookout. some 600,000 postal employees across the u.s. are now in effect investigators. are they in danger from possibly more bombs in the system? if it doesn t get identified and makes it through the system and somebody unintentionally mishandles it, the de