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Scary morning, at least five suspicious packages picked up, addressed to different politicians and to cnn. Obviously, the intent was to scare. None went off. No one hurt. But a message was certainly sent as the investigation continues, so does our consideration of how to make this better. Jake tapper picks up our coverage now. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in our national lead. The fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies are trying to figure out who sent at least six suspicious packages to a number of highprofile targets, including f...

Equipment. that's designed to terrorize, and i think we just have to keep saying that, repeating that, a lot of the methods we're seeing employed by russian forces, torture, rape, bombing of civilian areas, leaving bombs inside dead bodies as he was saying there, that's just designed to kill, and to terrorize. there is no function beyond that. >> yeah, and that is why we hear so many accusations day in and day out about war crimes, many ukrainians calling this genocide. also interesting to hear him thank american experts there, who have been helping them throughout all of this, gives you a sen...

>> you were kind of breaking up, mike. i think your question was do we have information that his death. is that it? >> yes. that's it. >> we don't have information that suggests that, mike, but i would remind this was the leader of is is and he was a very hands-on leader. he was involved in helping direct a lot of operations. so we have no doubt that his death will have a blow on isis and their potential to conduct future operations. i do want to remind that they are still a threat and we're not -- nobody's taken a victory lap here. we're going to stay at this. they still remain a threat. they...

Specific terrorist invasion they were going to carry out. >> you were kind of breaking up. do we have information that his death has disrupted a specific attack? is that what you asked? >> yes, that's it. yes, that's it. >> i don't have information that suggests that, but this was the leader of isis, and he was a very hands-on leader. he was involved in helping direct a lot of operations. so we have no doubt that his death will have a blow on isis and their potential to conduct future operations. i do want to remind that they are still a threat. and we're not -- nobody is taking, you know, a v...

>> yeah. good question, victor. the -- right now, i think the russians are, again, time isn't on their side. as all the world, global condemnation, the sanctions, even trouble within their own population, troops getting shaky, russian troops getting shaky inside of ukraine, being staggered by the will and depth of ukrainian resistance, they need to -- they need to finish these urban fights, whether in kharkiv and kyiv. they don't have huge troop densities and i think they're trying to intimidate. they're trying to terrorize. they're trying to find a way to get the ukrainians to surrender, but ...