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Shahzad? >> as you know, im an official of the government of pakistan. so first all the dots have to be ekt canned before i can say it with any certainty. >> i read today a very tough piece by a well known foreign affairs columnist, editor of at large for the the washington times -- >> mr. deborchgrave is very prescient person with a lot of understanding of pakistan. pakistan has 180 million people and weve had a problem since the 1980s, in the last two years, the government an 350e78 have start...

Crews up above as we speak maneuvering that giant containment vessel into position. they have almost got it there. trying to cap the gusher thats been poisoning land and sea for the last two weeks. now the slick from it is now drifting westward toward the mississippi delta. federal authorities today expanding the area off limit to fishing and closing the national wildlife refuge to speed cleanup operations there. another view of the oil here from just beneath the surface. this is what it looks l...

Federal authorities today expanding the area off limits to fishing and closing the national wildlife refuge to speed cleanup operations there. another view of the oil here from just beneath the surface. this is what it looks like underwater. all those dots are oil. crews have now dumped more than a quarter million gallons of dispersant to try to break up the oil. theyve laid out nearly 800,000 feet of containment booms. 256 vessels are involved in the effort, but none is more important as the ve...

Waiting tanker, is that usable oil, or is it all just wasted? >> no, it can be used, it can be refined. >> thats good news. not all is lost to some degree. thank you. >> thank you. a severe storm in missouri left residents with plenty of clean-up. the powerful storm dachblmaged least 75 homes in the town of lewiston. lets get the forecast from weather channel bill karins. good morning, bill. >> may is the peak of our tornado season. its pretty quiet and will continue to be this weekend. all th...

Being fully investigated, and there really isnt a full picture of shah ads ties -- shahzhads ties overseas as of yet. >> why are they searching for the occur exactly? >> the courier is important or the shown important because it allows them to connect the dots in terms of the paper trail. in this case, given shahzhads financial situation, the loss of his house and other events, the question is how did he have $1300, three weeks before the attack, to buy that suv for cash. now, when you look at h...

Terrorist. >> bret: can you call that person homegrown if they are tied to some organization in pakistan and perhaps planted here? >> good point. the ultimate issue of connecting the dots the overall connector is jihadist ideology and thats what connects them and makes them interlinked in the end. ideology of uniting these people. the administration will not use the word "islamist" as if it is going to incur the favor of people abroad. i think on the contrary, if you are a pakistani, now involve...

Lets get back to one of our top stories. a senior u.s. official now says there are new leads that show that the times square bomb suspect, faisal shahzad, did likely get training in pakistan. u.s. investigators there have questioned men suspected of ties to a pakistani militant group, and theyre continuing to connect the dots here in the united states. the attorney general, eric holder, says the suspect is still cooperating. lets talk about this with republican senator kit bond of missouri, hes ...

May have been missed here? lets bring in the panel. bill kristol editor of "the weekly standard". erin billings from roll call and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. what about the connecting the dots as the story continues to unfold? >> the first day it was reported that the pakistani pal stan attempted male -- taliban attempted e-mail. it was a friend of mine that i talked today, he gets up and goes down and has an e-mail from the pakistani taliban, which he forwarded to the law enforce...

Up their right to be an american citizen. >> still questions about what motivated this attack in times square. one thing that faisal shahzad told investigators, we are told, is he has been upset with u.s. attacks inside pakistan that he views as anti-islam, ant anti-muslim. lets go to the magic wall. investigators trying to verify what he says, a, that was his motivation, b, did he receive terrorist training here you see the key area, the border between pakistan and afghanistan. get closer and s...

Well as al qaeda, are training people ready to go back to the united states and perpetrate attacks, that means this problem is spreading, multiplying, growing and for pakistani and u.s. supporters making it harder to spot and stop here in pakistan, wolf. >> nic robertson on the ground for us in karachi, pakistan, nic, be careful. well check with you down the road. even as investigators connect some important dots, there is some second-guessing about the chain of events that almost allowed fais...