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>> jacob, thanks so much. joining us now former assistant special agent in charge of the joint fbi nypd terrorism task force, don barelli. there was heavy security around this event, including the one shot. it was that police presence that probably saved a lot of lives last night. >> absolutely. it seemed that the event organizers knew this was going to be on the list for these groups watching the potential terrorists. so you had plenty of police officers on board. and they acted properly. do yo...

Basis. we may not share everything at the same level with certain countries that we would with the brits, for example, but unless theres a reason not to share, we would likely want to share that information, particularly if it could lend some helpful information that would lead to what happened to this airplane. >> daniel, as a pilot, how important do you think this kind of radar data is? >> well, its very important for ultimately trying to verify fundamentally one of two distinct paths this inv...

Smoke without flames, which would have done that. which would have faded away. in fact, a fire in the cargo hold could have taken out those two systems. the problem with my hypothesis here is when you work your way back from the end to the beginning, you hit this thing about the transponder being turned off. and about acars being disabled. which those two things make this theory very problematic, but the same time, can we accept that those two things were turned off actively or fail for some mec...

It would be impossible for malaysia to cover that massive search area that you see there on its own. if stretches from india all the way to australia. malaysia has reached out to 25 other countries for help but there are a lot of questions about how much information is being shared between malaysia and other countries. joining me here to unpack this in the studio is don barelli and from tampa, ambassador chris hill, former veteran ambassador to poland, for instance and former assistant secretary...

The boston bombing, information that is wrong, and well have more on that in a minute, given that history, whats going on right now with this intense interest and the media being rather irresponsible about some of these matters, the fbi couldve played it safer than they did today. they could have labeled these individuals as persons of interest. they went the whole hog and are calling them suspects. they are calling them wanted. is that surprising? do we know enough about how the fbi works to kn...

>> certainly the first 24 or 48 hours, so crucial in that. thanks to drew. lets talk about what authorities can learn from this new evidence. i want to bring in the former fbi assistant director tom fuentes, and don barelli, cfo of the firm that specializes in security and counterterrorism. tom, well start with you. we obviously have these photos. how significant is that for the fbi? you see the underwriters laboratories logo on some of those, you see serial numbers. is this going to be a big de...

Some more light on that. >> all right. thank you very much. don, tom, appreciate it. don is going to be back with us later in the hour to go through some of the new pictures that we have and sort of show you on each what might really be standing out and what might provide a break in this case. still on "out front," one guest says with every hour that passes, the bomb is getting harder and harder to locate. we are more than 24 hours after this. the latest on the search and whether its getting har...

To the laboratory and the fbi laboratory, the tdac where they analyze all these bombs. theyve cataloged so much of these stuff where theyve compared it with other devices, so theyll look and see if these pellets or ball bearings match other devices. maybe they can figure out where they were manufactured, too, and then start that whole process over again. >> don barelli, thank you very much. as we said, former member of the joint terrorism task force which, of course, now has taken the lead on th...

Kind of static photos one after the other, but if theyre able to kind of put that in context with some motion, we might shed some more light on that. >> all right. thank you very much. don, tom, appreciate it. don is going to be back with us later in the hour to go through some of the new pictures that we have and sort of show you on each what might really be standing out and what might provide a break in this case. still on "out front," one guest says with every hour that passes, the bomb is ge...

Detail is revealed just to sift out the people that call in and drive law enforcement investigators crazy during an intensive, important investigation like this, so thats another issue of the type of information getting put out. >> don, let me ask you about the pictures weve been showing here of the before and after, of the light-colored bag next to a mailbox and then afterwards, weve shown the blurred picture where the bag is gone. obviously its blurred because people are injured. but one thing...