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Very smart information. thats what i wanted you here tonight. i want to talk about several issues, one particular, the president has focused on, early on and that is china. and you write about and talk about a second cold war and the cold war is with china and happening now. can you explain that? >> if you think back to the first coldha war, we learned que quickly from being the allies of the soviet union were to to be in at odds with them within just a few years and why was that. it was partly ...

Think its possible that there were polices that helped the tsarnaevs build these bombs? >> there are two information gaps. one is, what did he do -- tamerlan tsarnaev do when he was in chechen? we dont know. and the other is, where were the bombs put together? that hasnt been uncovered yet. its conceivable. on the other hand, the bomb bear as resemblance to the design in the online terrorist magazine "inspire." its a variation of that. they could have conceivably came up with the variation thems...

>> counter terrorism officials i talked to over the weekend suggest the bomb very closely mirrored the gas limo project plot in london a few years ago. the man behind that is in jail. do you see connections in bomb design, if not ideology? >> well, its somewhat similar. again, i caution that the last thing we want to do is to draw premature conclusions, which may actually obscure the actual lead that we need to be following. so all leads need to be followed. they are being followed. they are bei...

Possibly aboard international flights arriving here to the united states. we now know those airline warnings were the product of heightened u.s. concerns about an al qaeda affiliate in yemen. homeland security officials say that this yemeni man ibrahim hassan may have invented a new type of bomb design that is designed to get past airport security. he is considered the best bomb-making terrorist working in the world today. he is believed to be behind the failed underwear bombing on that northwes...