and random unity. a traffic sign on the way in hire is right now flashing a sign that says one boston. a lot of spontaneity and a lot of effort for healing and unity. eric: the prayers and thoughts of all mishes are with them in that city today. mike tobin, thanks. eric: coming up. we will ask: how do we stop the next one? michael mccall is the chairman of the house homeland security committee. he is calling for a federal investigation about how the government may not have protected us from tamerian tsarnaev. what he wants, what we do next, in 20 minutes. jamie: can t wait for that. marathon runners runners in lone paying tribute to their own victims. thens showed up to observe a pre-race moment of sillulence. many of the runirs in addition wore black arm bands. they wanted to show their
eric: you know, jamie, the terror of what happened in boston, you did not have to be there physically yourself to suffer some of the forgets. you know, we ve all seen the video tapes that were taken over and over again. have you suffered from this fear, from this panic, from this tor? what are the effects and how do we all deal with what we ve been going through over the past week because of t developments in boston? coming up, we ll have the doctors and sunday house call will give us the latest on how we all can cope and deal with what we ve seen. [ male announcer ] extreme power. ultimate savings.
he had talked about and had basically written about every day of his life for years. these people may very well have done something similar. eric robert are you dolphin rudd to a lot of people he knew and where he had been, the olympic bomber. in fact, you find out great deal of information from friends and associates. obviously we want to put together the evidence chain that leads to these bombings and further fix this case for trial, but we also want to try to determine if anybody else was involved in this. one more thing. critical information. what else might be on the horizon out there? has the face of terror, especially on our soil, changed given the fact that these boys, suspected terrorists, were living in a neighborhood among others? listen, it could be our neighbor, too, at this point. we have to protect america against other incidents that they may be related to or not related to based on third parties. we re up against the clock, aren t we?
russian intelligence tip that he was related to extremism. so he was on the radar. that s something my committee will be looking into. we sent a letter already to that fact. but we want to know what was came out of that interview, frankly, i would like to know what the russian intelligence had to say about this individual you have raised why didn t they put customs flags on him. eric: i am sorry to interrupt. you raised the issue with the letter to the white house, raising the issue that, what? five people who allegedly were involved in terrorist activities had been on the radar of the federal government. you raise that issue, with tamerian tsarnaev being investigated by the fbi. let me read you a quote from the father. he said they were in cambridge and fbi agents went to their house and questioned the holder son. his father said, quote, they said meaning the fbi, we know what sites you are on, we know
there. i would hope that they were monitoring him. but when he came back, he clearly plotted this and he did it successfully without being stopped. eric: finally, in terms of there was that exemption that has gotten some flack. they did not give dzhokhar tsarnaev his miranda rights with the exemption, under the lay, saying there is an immediate threat to police officers or the public, you don t have to get mirandized and they can interrogate them for 48 hours. can you explain the process? how do they get it? do they start it right away? who makes that decision? if it started 8:30 on friday night, 48 hours, we are coming up, and dzhokhar tsarnaev can t talk in the hospital, so whatever information they may have gotten from him from now, they have how does that work? what is it? the number-1 goal is to get inside his head and get whatever intelligence he has about any other operatives, particularly in the united states, to protect the homeland and protect