involvement. that he is very disturbed at what is happening and he is having a hard time with the media camped out at his home in brooklyn and confirmed he was contacted by investigators on the case and he says he has conveyed messages to the family over the past three decades. mr. miller did not do this. that is why he is fully cooperating. mr. miller has been cooperating, over 30 years. he has continued to cooperate. i am going to assist him in cooperating. difficult to hear but he says his clients and will be cooperating with investigators. the f.b.i. has not confirmed he is officially a suspect or person of interest but they do say they have person of interest in this case. trace: and the heavy equipment has been coming and going. what is the latest on the search? jackhammering is done and for the past few hours the f.b.i.
combination of old information being re-examined and new leads being developed by a fresh set of eyes. and a source confirms that a cadaver dog had a hit in the basement of that building in the block behind us which is right between where etanpatz parchts still live and the bus stop where he disappeared more than 30 years ago. the exhaustive forensic work is underway. 40 members of the fbi s evidence response team just wrapping up here. they were carefully mapping, photographing, cataloging and collecting every single item in that basement room before they started jackhammering through the concrete floor late this afternoon. it is painstaking. it s methodical. we want to make sure that the area is efficiently processed and that in cases like, this when and if any evidence is found, it s preserved and maintained. the work stopped about 30 minutes ago, shep and will resume before 8:00 tomorrow morning. shepard: rick, they never charged anybody in connection
learn how you can save money and get terms and conditions at chantix.com. this morning the new york stock exchange marked the anniversary of 9/11 with a moment of silence. secretary of state hillary clinton and form mayor rudy giuliani were among those in attendance. the pause was followed by a marine corpsman singing god bless america. we are back at ground zero. i m sure you can hear the jackhammering. this is an active construction site so you ll hear that behind my words. let s talk about what happened last night with the american jobs act. it s a $447 billion plan that president obama hopes will turn around the economy. it includes $245 billion in tax
down the idea that waterboarding was used. the united states department of defense did not do waterboarding for interrogation purposes to anyone, and it is true, as i understand it, that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches in guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. but it was not harsh treatment, it was not waterboarding. joining me now is paul wolfowitz, former deputy secretary of defense for president bush and former president of the world bank. i apologize for the noise, i m at ground zero. where thankfully construction is going on all night long. so that is what the jackhammering is behind me. you said this operation rested heavily on some of the more controversial policies of the bush administration, like guantanamo. does that include what in the bush administration they used to call enhanced interrogation techniques?
happened at the time. those interrogations were conducted during the bush administration and defense secretary donald rumsfeld shot down the idea that water boarded was used. the united states department of defense did not do water boarded for interrogation purposes to anyone, and it is true, as i understand it, that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches in guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. but it was not harsh treatment, it was not waterboarding. joining me now is paul wolfowitz, former deputy secretary of defense. i apologize for the noise, i m at ground zero. so that is what the jackhammering is behind me.