just been told about another senator who has also reportedly received a suspicious letter, again, we are working to confirm that directly with the senator s office and we will tell you the identity of that senator when we have confirmed it independently with his office. but this, again, by my count is six, at least six different lawmakers who have reportedly received or been sent a suspicious letter or package and i include the president as a lawmaker in that six in the past day. joining me now on the breaking news, michael baloni, a senior fellow at the homeland security institute. and it s reminiscent of the anthrax letters that went out after the massive terror attacks on 9/11 and now we see ricin according to the authorities mailed at least confirmed two and see several other suspicious letters reported. that could be a scare. right. right, from the lawmakers who were being extra cautious, but two we know about, one
michael, what we re told now, clarify this, originally told they were describing this person as a suspect with a bag at the second bomb site. now they ve updated that to just say a young man, so they re changed from suspect to a young man on tape, they have an image of. that changes things because you know, that doesn t tell us if they believe this is the person who did it, but clearly, they re looking into this person and now, we are hearing according to the mayor of boston s spokesperson, that they believe this surveillance tape, this image captured by surveillance tape across the street from the second bomb site if we could show the viewers the second bomb site from a lord & taylor surveillance camera and that s 2013, and sometimes we complain about from a privacy perspective are every where, in this situation like this can make the difference between solving a case and not. absolutely, you and i spoke about on the break, we have so much information now, the challenge for law enfo
for the attorney general and the department of justice and what they do, they prepare the evidence that will eventually be brought to trial which is why it s so crucial you get the evidence right. megyn: and michael, don t go away. we ve got more breaking news, don t leave. we re back in three minutes. [ male announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance in sync?
standing by for one second, michael. we re getting information from all different sources including our local fox affiliate. fox 25 in boston. they are now reporting that a source has confirmed to fox 25, investigators have identified a suspect. that is the word our local affiliate in boston is using, a suspect believed to be responsible for the boston marathon bombing and that an arrest is imminent. so, i mentioned a moment ago, some other news outlets were going with that. we did not yet have that confirmed, but our local fox affiliate, is saying it s so. and the force that spoke to fox 25 boston says authorities believe the suspect was caught on the camera at lord & taylor and investigators have made significant progress in this case. significant progress in the case, it was reported that the suspect could be seen on camera dropping a black bag. so, they have identified the person and saying an arrest is imminent. what does that tell you?