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And as you look there, the service gets ready, it will be, obviously an emotional event. the president as consoler in chief has done this many times and credited with comforting a number of victims families in these situations. patti ann: yeah, it is quite sad to look back how many times he has been in this position so far and the impact on the american psyche is likely to last for some time. he also gave a brief statement concerning the fertilizer plant explosion in texas. do we expect anymore ...

What exactly is going on with the suspect, the fbi, "the new york post" ran some photographs today, the department of justice said pay no heed to them. one can safely assume the president is being brifed on this. we know the fbi is going to have having a press conference later today. your thoughts as someone who has been in the inner circle at moments like this? >> chuck, in terms of this moment for the president, hes jockeying obviously the position of consoler in chief and someone who is the h...

Brianna keilar is covering that angle for us. she joins us now from the white house. good morning, brianna. >> good morning to you, john and chris. yes, president obama was briefed overnight by his homeland security adviser, lisa monaco. she will brief him again this morning, along with attorney general holder, and fbi director robert mueller. we have learned that hes coming to boston tomorrow. he will speak during that interfaith memorial service at the cathedral of the holy cross in boston. wh...

He will attend an interfaith service for the victims of the bombings and their families. for more on the presidents plans and his visit to massachusetts, lets go to white house and our white house correspondent brianna keilar. good morning. >> reporter: president obama, we learned yesterday, will travel to boston tomorrow for this interfaith memorial service dedicated to those who were injured or killed in the boston bombings. this will be at the cathedral of the holy cross in boston. president ...

Happened on monday, then its possibly a very huge coincidence, wolf. thats why questions are being raised about the timing of this. >> the president and first lady were now told, brianna, will be coming here to boston tomorrow for this 11:00 a.m. eastern interfaith memorial service that will take place. they will honor those who killed the three individuals -- the three individuals who were killed as well as the nearly 200 who were injured, the president going ahead with plans to come to boston....

The cathedral of the holy cross. president obama will be serving in a role as consoler and chief. he reflected here in recent days. he talked about those who ran in this marathon, people who had gone through this grueling race, and even after that went to the hospital to give blood to those who were injured. we heard him touching on the tone and inspirational stories. >> all right, thank you very much brianna. when we come back, i want to show you new exclusive photos of the bomb, the investigat...

Tell us what you know, tell us what you saw. i think these are, again, all the lessons learned the hard way since 9/11 and since other terrorist incidents where the american public can actually participate in helping to solve these questions that we still have unanswered. and from the president himself, i think you do have the consoler in chief, but you also need to have the commander in chief here, too, you need to have somebody who says, we are working together. we understand what we need to k...

Last night. the president has multiple roles but two of them are commander in chief and consoler in chief. >> exactly. >> reporter: earlier you brought up one that kind of falls in the middle, which is soother in chief. its not just important to calm nerves in order to make people feel good. there is a national security reason to make people feel secure. >> right. theres a national security reason. i think people look to the president for information. people look back to the hours after 9/11, fo...

Possible in the vicinity. these particular explosives talking to intelligence officials and others here in washington were not huge. they were not massive explosives but they did cause damage and obviously three are dead. that number could rise since 17 are in critical condition. >> eric: the governor said that president obama will be visiting on boston on thursday. what do we expect to hear from him? >> its an interfaith service. i expect we will hear from the president like in other services h...

He has kind of acted as the consoler in chief, if you will. if from day one the only thing he had talked about were background checks, that disconnect would be there. but from the beginning hes talked about want all of this, the assault weapons, the magazine clips, the gun trafficking. so he has pushed all of those big ideas, understanding that the politics are a lot more complicated than that and understanding that at the end ever the day what he will get is going to be a lot smaller than what ...