were many people that thought the unabomber manifesto was a red herring.my office saying we're wasting too much time on the you bomb -- unabomber manifesto, and we need to stick to forensics and known facts. >> most people in the fbi never even read the manifesto. the popular opinion was that it was nonsense, it was just scribbling. >> the media and the fbi are faced with a dilemma. publishing the manifesto could be seen as giving in to terrorist demands. >> the last thing we wanted to do is set a precedent that we would be blackmailed into publishing terrorist manifestos. because every terrorist could come out of the woodwork and decide, this is nice. we'll try this too. >> attorney general janet reno called us to a meeting. essentially what we said to her was the reason you should publish this is somebody out there has seen these words before and they're going to recognize him by his words. >> "the washington post" publishes the manifesto on september 19th, 1995. >> after the publication of the unabomber manifesto, we received almost 55,000 calls. we had

yet none of those people were the unabomber. until that call in the middle of february from david, he represented -- he was representing an unknown client. they wanted to talk to us about some information the client had. >> steve the u.s. attorney's office, when did you become involved in the unabomber investigation? >> i became involved in april of 1993. i had just finished a prominent arson trial with atf. i was very much associated with atf, at the time doing a lot of their cases. greg barnett brought me this case, that had long been dormant. the unabomber hadn't been heard from in six years at that point. he said take a look at this. and, the reason he brought that to me was because there is typically a five-year statute of limitations on federal offenses. the statute we had had 12 the bombings of two that point, the statute had run on all 12 of those bombs with the exception of one. there is no statute of limitations on capital murder cases. hugh was killed in sacramento in 1995. that was the one case that was still subject

i was not aware that there was such a thing as the unabomber task force. i dove in. >> did you get involved? >> yes. shortly after that i started attending task force meetings. he won fair at that. very shortly after that he mailed to bombs from sacramento. so now we are off and running again. >> the decision was made to publish the manifesto. >> i don't recall. i'm the northern district strongly in favor. it was just a 35,000 word. >> we -- i think terry r max probably notified me that we had been contacted by an attorney. if i'm not mistaken that occurred in the fall of 95. that is when we put agents in. >> it happened very fast. >> interesting how you compress time. i remembered it as occurring earlier than that. the bottom line is he said he was representing a client anonymously at that time who believed he knew who the unabomber was. this client had hired a private investigator to check it out. the private investigator had come back with the conclusion that there was a 60 percent chance that he was the unabomber, and with that information is authorize

finally, in december of 1985 unabomber had his first success with one of his bombs.s right here in sacramento, california, out here at the old century plaza strip mall, a place called red tech computer store, the owner of that store came out from the door into the back parking not -- lot one day around noon and he saw on the ground line by a cart what appeared to be a road hazard. in his mind, it was kind of a combination of two-by-fours nailed together. there was nails protruding. unbeknownst to him, inside these pieces of wood, the bomber had carved into the insides and build a bomb. when he went over to move this so it wouldn't cause problems for any harmless passerby, as soon as he reached over to break the contact between that device and the ground, it exploded. >> the next bomb was in salt lake city, and that involved our next panels, gary wright. why don't you tell us what happened. >> sure. similar to what terry was saying with the structure of the bombs. 1987, i owned a computer company in salt lake city. my family worked there with me. i had been out on cal

you you put them side by side and they are virtually identical to one's we found in the unabomber devices. one of the most important pieces of evidence we found that we all said if we want anything in the world this is what we want a typewriter. since 1992 he had used that typewriter at the fbi lab estimated at been manufactured in 1934 or 35. we were looking for very specific objects. this is the typewriter he had used to not only take the manifesto but everything that accompanied his bonds some that preceded the work device. if we found that he is is to thank you on the last day of the search we found in an ammunition canister lc smith corona typewriter manufactured in 1935 with 2.5 for spacing. that was the typewriter. >> with all the information you found you had no doubt you would be able to prove the case. >> we felt that you could parse out the evidence ten different ways and convict him ten different times. ten different times. it was not a case that we thought was lacking proof. >> the decision to prosecute is interesting. can you tell us why it came about? >> i indicated previou

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the answer according to ( laughter ) ted cruz went to harvard, just like unabomber ted kaczynski.d stop admitting dudes named ted. so throw it into cruz control, this is "the nightly show." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> larry: yeah. thank you very much. what a great crowd. welcome to "the nightly show." i'm larry wilmore. oh, man big story tonight. i can barely contain myself. this is true, you guys. i got my first gift as a late night host. >> the 2016 presidential season is now under way. freshman senator ted cruz, texas tea party star and political thorn in the side of his own republican colleagues, is first in. >> larry: thank you, thank you, thank you thank you. you guys don't understand how wonderful this is. this is a gift from the comedy god. i mean, cruz is a guy that even fellow republican john mccain called a wacko bird. ( laughter ) thanks for your service, senator mccain. ( laughter ) but any time a crazy guy enters an election you have a late night show job security for a little while longer.

( laughter ) ted cruz went to harvard, just like unabomber ted kaczynski. hey, harvard stop admitting dudes named ted. so throw it into cruz control, this is "the nightly show." captioning sponsored by comedy central ( applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> larry: yeah. thank you very much. what a great crowd. welcome to "the nightly show." i'm larry wilmore. oh, man big story tonight. i can barely contain myself. this is true, you guys. i got my first gift as a late night host. >> the 2016 presidential season is now under way. freshman senator ted cruz, texas tea party star and political thorn in the side of his own republican colleagues, is first in. >> larry: thank you, thank you, thank you thank you. you guys don't understand how wonderful this is. this is a gift from the comedy god. i mean, cruz is a guy that even fellow republican john mccain called a wacko bird. ( laughter ) thanks for your service, senator mccain. ( laughter ) but any time a crazy guy enters an election you have a late night show job security for a little while longer. ( laught

among them unabomber ted kaczynski and jared loughner, who shot 19 people, including former arizona congresswoman, gabriel giffords. the biggest question is whether tsarnaev himself will take the stand to plead for his life but a recent poll found just 27% of bostonians feel tsarnaev should be put to death. however, those people polled were not in the courtroom for the weeks of emotional testimony. scott, the trial resumes on monday with closing arguments for both sides. >> pelley: elaine quijano for us in boston. thank you, elaine. an intense manhunt ended today when an escaped inmate was recaptured in washington d.c. woosen assaye is accused of rock a dozen banks in virginia. he was being treated in a hospital after a suicide attempt when early today he overpowered a guard and took off with her gun. he was caught nine hours later as he stepped off a bus in the capitol. in switzerland, the deadline came and went today at the negotiations to stop iran from building a nuclear bomb. but all sides agreed to keep on talking, at least temporarily. margaret brennan is covering the negotiations. margare

also at that time the unabomber was still at large in 1995. in 1995 his manifesto was released. he issued his manifesto _-dash that the new york times published. and they and they did they went ahead and published in its entirety in a special a special section in the "washington post". terrorism was on the table and domestic terrorism was -- the reaction to the oklahoma city bombing was such that most people immediately initially thought that he was the work of international terrorists, middle east terrorism. in the 1st hours and days after the attack, but it really was a devastating attack. the deadliest single attack of domestic terrorism in united states history. nineteen children, many of them in a day care center in the federal building that was the target of the bomber , but it struck deep into the american heartland in a very surprising way. >> what was the biggest, you know, the result change as a result of that attack? >> well, it began to initiate restrictions and american life, preemptive restrictions, if you will, designed we will, designed to keep the terrorist atta

i know why he grew the beard he is the unabomber. , down.awful discussions i have seen. seen. you are probing and respectful and he was informing and rational and your producers davis segment for all to digest. wonderful. not with you was saying. and he says the stock has been about this for years. the best solution is to drastically cut benefits and raise taxes. no wonder that reagan took him to the woodshed. bruce in texas to but i like you end him, but i never heard a word about paying money to illegal aliens are kicking them out of our country. the president wants to make darn sure that you do because he thinks it is a good idea. he says other countries like australia that require citizens to vote do not have a fraction of the big-money issues that we have here. and another says had obama by the constitution he would realize the right to vote isn't in the constitution, voting is less so to the states. people that do not vote are voting no to each candidate. then there is mandatory voting, do we get to vote none of the above and get new c

it also includes letters from the unabomber artifacts from september 11th a rifle from the virginia jihad network, and a ku klux klan ceremonial robe. the museum says it's hoping to raise awareness and change behavior for the better. >>> 6:35 just about now. and the jury is hearing chilling new details in the trial for accused boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. prosecutors revealed he carved a second message into the boat where he hid from police. the jury also heard from a close friend of tsarnaev. the friend says he loaned his gun to tsarnaev just two months before the bombing. prosecutors say it was used to kill an m.i.t. police officer. >>> the future of university of virginia president theresa a sullivan once again in question. the board of visitors met for three hours in richmond yesterday. a university official says the sole purpose of the meeting was to evaluate sullivan's performance. the board has had a rocky relationship with sullivan since 2012 when ousted from office but reinstated after major backlash from students and teachers. >>> the culpeper county school board is asking f

the exhibit includes letters from the unabomber artifacts from september 11th a rifle confiscated from virginia jihad network, and ku klux klan ceremonial robe. the exhibit also features a runner's medal and bib from the boston marathon bombing. the museum says it is hoping to raise awareness and change behavior for the better. >>> the jury is hearing chilling new details for accused boston bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. prosecutors revealed carved second message in the boat where he hit from police. jury also heard from a close friend of tsarnaev's. the friend said he loaneded his gun to tsarnaev just two months before the bombings. prosecutors say it was used to kill an pitm.i.t. listpolice officer. >>> andre brown will go back on trial this summer. prosecutors say he sexually assaulted a student. he says the relationship was consensual. >>> mayor bowser says she has no plans to ask congress to approve the district's budget and wants a lawsuit over the issue thrown out. bowser and the d.c. council think the district has the authority to spend its own money after voters passed a budget aut

including the september 11th attacks and letters from the so-called unabomber. >>> at the boston bombingding to the capture of dzhokhar tsarnaev were the focus of testimony. and a former friend of the suspect told the court he gave tsarnaev the gun used to kill a police officer. nbc's chris pollone reports. >> reporter: that's man whose curiosity helped police locate and capture dzhokhar tsarnaev four days after bombs exploded at the finish line of the boston marathon. today the government called david henebury to the stand. he told several hours after police got into a shoot-out with dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan, he looked out at his boat in his backyard. he noticed the shrink wrap cover was torn. he got a ladder and as he climbed up saw what he described as a lot of blood. he stepped inside the boat and saw a body. i could see his boots, he said his pants, hooded sweatshirt lying on his side, no movement at all. he called police and within moments the boat was surrounded. after police perped it with gunfire, more than 100 rounds tsarnaev surrendered. the jury saw a wooden

had a number of clients she's successfully kept from receiving the death penalty and among them unabomber tes kaczenski and susan smith, the mother who downed her kids and in this situation you have one tamerlan tsarnaev who was killed. and in the case of lee boyd malvo and john allen mohammed they were still alive. what's the difference that you could see play out with dzhokhar tsarnaev actually receiving the death penalty? >> that's an interesting difference, but but for their strategy at sentencing it will make no difference. john allen mohammed did not testify at lee boyd malvo. there was mental health evidence and relative callpability for a life sentence. they didn't need mohammed. all they needed was the evidence presented at guilt/innocence and that will inform how this guilt/innocence phase will go. right now the defense is it standing out of the way of the evidence as they should in order to be credible and compassionate. i think what you'll see them doing is trying to offer the jury more evidence than the government, that is try to show the different roles of the older brother

that may -- you know that's judy clark's strategy, just to get him life in prison like she got the unabomberinto the 60th that they don't want him put to death and at that point judy clark only needs one juror for life. >> that's an interesting change though, in how the people feel. >> yeah. well you have to remember life imprisonment for him could be far worse. >> rikki klieman, thank you so much. >>> the season is off to a bumpy start at the coney island amusement park. the roller coaster got stuck on sunday. it stopped near the 85-foot summit. about 85 riders had to be rescued. no one got hurt. they were offered a free ride once it reopens. what do you think? >> i would wait until they get it worked out. >>> a battle over who owns the gem. ahead, why a foreign government is going after an emerald in the united states. they say it's worth nearly $500 million. >>> and if you're going off to work leaving your house, set your dvr. somebody told me they did that because we asked her to do so. you can watch "cbs this morning" any time. we'll be right back. no matter who you are, if you have typ

operations in afghanistan and a discussion a discussion with the lead prosecutor and investigators of the unabomber case >> you would see what we used to call a spitball set. washington he was a large man 6-foot very robust a terrific natural athlete. madison was a skinny little guy. >> this sunday on q&a on founding father james madison in the partnerships he made that aided our fledgling nation. >> 's ability to form remarkable partnerships with the great people of his era. it also alludes to his gift his talents and what he was able to do to help create the 1st self-sustaining constitutional republic. >> sunday night at 8:00 o'clock eastern and pacific on c-span q&a. [inaudible conversations] >> general john campbell testified before the house armed services committee to provide an update on the military strategy in afghanistan. topics topics included the troop drawdown strategy counterterrorism operations against the taliban and and isis and training afghan security forces. this is two hours and ten minutes. >>> committee will come to order. today the house armed services committee meets to dis

you need to do nothing further than look back at the unabomber. he tried to be part of a group.tried to have relationships and they never worked out. they always failed. he created his own group, the terrorist group. then he turned around, unleashed his 18 years of campaign against society. eric rudolph, he tried to make connections. hexç= tried to find sewocietal connections. he was the only party of the army of god, then unleashed his campaign. we are finding that to be a you can look at theçó more recent examples and see that's what's occurring. >> we are seeing cases of girls, teenage girls in the united states and western europe joining and attempting to join to become jihadi brides. really a stunning career path, i would say. where do they get this idea? where online? how are they being recruited? >> they are being recruited through social media. what is glaring is it's a relatively new phenomena. when we were dealing in the '90s and early 2000s we could tell you most of all of them were going to be males. we can't say that anymore because of organizations like isis and al