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Agencies to help with the investigation because they have a lot of expertise in these scenes. one of the things that will be happening this morning when people can get there is they would go to the suspects house and go to the family members and talk to them about what any indications there might have been in the last few days that something like this was going to happen. they would be looking for computer records, e-mail, telephone records, to indicate who this suspect may have spoken to and if...

Least the individual that did it is still alive and may be able to say what was in his head, if its believable, what was in his head that caused him to want to do it. but the fbi will assist also in trying to get the computer records, phone records, everything, neighbor interviews, friends, classmates, relatives, to try to figure out what was on his mind and whether individuals might have been part of encouraging him, if you will, to do it, even if they didnt participate. >> i hope that young ma...

Theyll get as many records as they can about the shooter one the shooter is verified, his identiei identity is verified and theyll be looking at computer records, e-mails, phone calls, any other personal information, interviewing co-workers, family members, friends, neighbors to try to get a picture of what sparked this act of violence. theyll make a final determination of whether it was possibly politically motivated -- which, of course, would make it terrorism -- or is it just a case of some k...

That could have had act says and knowledge of that navigation system to see if theres anything that would lead investigators to think that was a deliberate, nefarious act. >> so don, walk us through that from a criminal or terror investigation approach. that you sort of have a decision tree here of each act and weighting the evidence to see whether the act was something suspicious or some sort of other benign activity. >> well, youre going to start doing a very deep background investigation star...

Make sure for certain this is the sole incident and theres not another one coming up. >> theyve gone to the residence inn where hes been staying here in washington. i understand people from cnn who have been there carrying boxes out of that hotel. >> that is a treasure trove, looking at documents, looking at computer records, looking at his house, his car. any piece of paper with a clue. >> what about his personal history? one of the disturbing things that is fascinating are the contradictions h...

Really trust. >> mike: ikn get that. lets talk about trust. can we trust the government now knowing that they had access to all of our phoneey records and computer records and everything. r i want to play a clip.an this is senator obama 2005. >> if someone wants to know why their own government has decided to go on a fishing expedition throught every personal record or private document to thea library books you read, the emails that you have sent, phone calls you made this legislation give no ri...

Jeffrey, i have a question for you, as a lawyer, my understanding is that detained suspects dont have a right to have the miranda rights read to them. they have those rights and they can choose to exercise them. i know its a little bit of parsing here, but are authorities allowed to terrorize suspects because of the public danger exception? >> he was intergalted. >> he was interrogated for 16 hours. >> we still havent gone through his e-mails, his computer records. we dont know the truth of his ...

Computer records, look at his associates, maybe travel, and see what happened in the six months hes away, the investigators will do their job. but in congress we want to see what can be done on the broader scale to make sure that the communication is there. and to make sure that were doing all we can. thats why one of my staff people in the foreign affairs committee is going to russia the end of this week. were going to talk to russian staff people there, russian officials, so that we can determ...

Us. as a political figure watching this whole thing and with your oversight what have you come up with? what were looking at here, the role of the fbi, role of the homeland security department and their stovepiping, perhaps, keeping interest separate from each other. what do you think you see here so far? >> theres been nothing in any briefing and nothing in any conversation that hasnt said the fbi hasnt done their job. they played -- they played it by the book. theres no doubt about that. the q...

That regard. he may change that story over time. well have to wait and see. immediately that is one aspect of this. >> let me ask you about that because as mike was pointing out it doesnt seem to be in his interest. it could be a red herring the fact that he is telling authorities that he and his brother acted alone and said they learned how to make bombs on the internet. isnt it naive to take that at face value and not think they could be part of a cell. this is what the department of homeland ...