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You would be proud to be here this evening. theres a resilience in the air as well. people are strong. they will wake up tomorrow and the sun will come back. the worst among us, whether its international or domestic terrorism, as we have alluded to all evening long since 3:00 this afternoon, the worst among us arrived this afternoon on boylston street in boston. the best among us were in the multitudes, in far greater numbers than the worst among us. you saw the human spirit today in boston as y...

And then approximately, quite close to 3:00, these two explosions occurred and have cast a pall over the day, a pall over the event which is pretty much a national holiday in the minds of many people in massachusetts. but i have to tell you, lawrence, youd be proud to be here this evening because theres a resilience in the air as well. people are strong, they will wake up tomorrow morning. the sun will come back. the worst among us, whether its international or domestic terrorism as weve alluded...

See but these are professionals. unfortunately, one of the things we perfected since 9/11 is being absolute experts in going after terrorism, finding out hot terrorists were and the boston police, fbi, all of them will do an outstanding job. >> is our apparatus better capable of dealing with international incidents than domestic incidents? >> yeah. in fact, we pretty much shut down the international terrorist attacks. thats why al qaeda has now morphed and in many ways, al qaeda is more dangerou...

Where you can nyou can never se it? >> well, you can do a lot to secure and weve done a lot about. but the lone wolf is always the most difficult to track down. the two successful terrorist attacks in america since 9/11 were carried out by lone wolves. one was nidal hasan who killed 14 people at ft. hood, the other was carlos bledsoe in little rock, arkansas. both in 2009. walked into a army recruiting station and killed a recruiter just because he had a u.s. army uniform on. but we are doing a ...

As well. people are strong. they will wake up tomorrow and the sun will come back. the worst among us, whether its international or domestic terrorism, as we have alluded to, the worst among us arrived this afternoon on boylston street in boston. the best among us were in the multitudes, in far greater numbers than the worst. you saw the human spirit today in boston as you have seen it throughout many cities where terrorist attacks have occurred both abroad and here in this country. people helpi...

To the fear and pain that people are feeling in boston and really around the nation. according to the global terrorism database, in the decades since 9/11, there were 40% fewer terrorist attacks in the united states than in the decade before 9/11. so broadly speaking, there is some sort of improvement here. and yet, you are there and youve just gone through something that will be a real tragic horror for so many of us for so long and well probably crowd out some of the broader trend, that broade...

Individuals. no one has yet claimed responsibility for these terrorist attacks. counterterrorism experts have been combing through the area in search of other explosive devices. we have cnn correspondents and analysts following the story, bringing you team coverage of every new angle as it comes in and whats going on. we have -- were watching whats going on here on this special edition of "the situation room." im wolf blitzer. welcome to our viewers around the united states and around the world....

>> basically a huge plume of gray smoke go straight up and then that was much louder explosion. then just shortly thereafter, another secondary explosion, but it was not as loud. of course, then we sat there and asked the people, well, did they shoot cannons off or something like that, cause we didnt know. and they said no. so then we just kept asking what was going on. >> lets bring in our panel tonight. steve hayes, senior writer, juan williams, and charles krauthammer. your thoughts, charles?...

And catherine herridge from washington joining us on a sunday. what does the letter say and special-ops, what message are they hoping to get out. >> harris, this letter first obtained by fox news is signed by more than 700 special operations vets and urging congress for a select committee tasked with a single mission to investigate the benghazi terrorist attacks and includes 15 questions ranging from what warnings were given to the state department, the security was unravelling on the ground, if...

And catherine herridge from washington joining us on a sunday. what does the letter say and special-ops, what message are they hoping to get out. >> harris, this letter first obtained by fox news is signed by more than 700 special operations vets and urging congress for a select committee tasked with a single mission to investigate the benghazi terrorist attacks and includes 15 questions ranging from what warnings were given to the state department, the security was unravelling on the ground, if...