the adviser of the president said that the press is treating this like they are acting like firg skating judges and i m really not as interested in what the president knew two weeks ago. i m more interested in whether or not the president or anybody working on his behalf in the white house or at the campaign had directed the targeting during the campaign. that was months ago. we shouldn t assume the answer is yes but we sure as hell shouldn t assume the answer is no. but that that is at the end of the day, though, ron. the end of the day, ron, the question did i want to pass this around the table. isn t the question whose idea was this? where did the idea come from? show us that e-mail. show us the day the policy was proposed and who proposed it. isn t that the important key in who signed off on it? it s definitely important and goes that their credibility. i think the most important thing who was it behind targeting of conservatives and was it anybody in the white house
on the street and what does that mean? reporter: that s pretty amazing, megyn, the fact that last night during when they apparently were throwing out their home made ieds as well as a pressure cooker from the car as the police were chasing them, that ordinance is still in the streets here in watertown. it s not been diffused yet. authorities are clearly focusing on the manhunt for dzhokhar as opposed to dealing with this as the area is all cordoned off. they don t believe there s any imminent danger. people are evacuated or they re staying in their homes. you can t move around on the streets at all, at any point. megyn: we have breaking news that i want to get you to, but i want to ask you quickly. is there any question in the authorities mind that the younger brother was with the older brother in the shootout last night that took the life of the older brother? reporter: right now there does not seem to be the question. there is aibility to, said one state police officer, that m
they say they were tracking your nephews overnight and they were following a vehicle they were in and they were throwing sloafs out the window. nobody said that to me. why am i not getting contacted if they want to know my opinion? give me evidence and then ask me what do you think. have you heard those reports, though? why isn t the question do you believe? if you have evidence, if fbi have evidence, why are they asking questions do i believe they could do this? if they have done this, i have to believe. i just would know that they have done it. megyn: that s the aunt asking how could they do this for the sake of what? craig albert is with me. he s an assistant professor of political science. he s an expert on chechnya, and i want to ask you, craig. that s the question on the minds of a lot of people today. they ve got links to that region of the world, and yet the
after the bombings. can you imagine? authorities are swarming the campus and there are reports that both the fbi and swat teams have been seen on the campus. a massachusetts state police armored truck arrived around 1 p.m., two helicopters were seen arriving earlier, and our own bill hemmer is live in boston. can i pick up with you where i left off with eric shawn? the gun fight that took place overnight that took the life of the older brother, is there any question at this hour whether the younger brother who is still at large was involved in that? reporter: that s not clear, and frankly, i cannot answer that. it s a working assumption that the two are working on it together. in part, based on what the eyewitness said on the carjacking of that mercedes suv, he was one of the best witnesses in all of this. what i also don t know, megyn, is what this dead security officer from mit s campus, what
have any hint of recognition? yes. we did recognize them. > megyn: really. my husband was reading the po this morning and screamed out to me, and at that point we turned on the television and saw the pictures, and we immiately recognized them. megyn: what goes through your head at that moment, emily? shock. just complete shock. i couldn t believe it. i fell on the floor, actually. megyn: wow. would you say that the older brother, tamerlan, was a leader to his younger brother there s no question. when you think about siblings just in general, the oldest has that sense about them, just in the birth order, and tamerlan s very strong, an dzhokhar has a spirlspirit about him that wanto please. he s very sweet-hearted and compassionate. it s even morehocking that he would be a part of this. megyn: wow. emily long, thanks so much for giving us your thoughts on these two young men who the f said