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Bomb community to render safe the bomb. so, thats -- this is exactly what you want a professional bomb squad to do. and this is what garlands doing right here. so but the second part of the equation on the case like this is really the driving intelligence, driving the intelligence on these two guys, you know, who are they? why are they there? who have they told they were going to do connected to? >> right. >> are they commune katding with others? because the bomb squard is going to be able to ha...

Over for no reason, and he is out there in the terrorist task force, and he should not be pulling the cars over in the first place, and i know that when we were riding around, and we never pulled anybody over for a motor vehicle violation and that is not what you do. this guy got involved in something really stupid and with the amount of time that this man has on the job, he should know that whatever you do at work one day is going to be on youtube. >> and the police commissioner bill bratton sa...

New york city. some of the ones specifically was the attack on union square station. the guy who was coming from denver with all the cleaning supplies was looking to blow up new york city. these are things that the joint terrorist task force, the fbi, and the nypd working in correlation with each other have stopped over the years. >> our leadership has to stop worrying about being politically correct and cow tailing to special interest groups and worrying about their responsibility which is to p...

>> we were not aware of that. >> would you have liked to have known about that? >> yes. >> joining us now from capitol hill is republican congressman michael mccaul of texas, he chairs the house homeland security committee. chairman mccaul, thank you for being on the program. >> thanks. >> joining the panel now, senior fellow at the center on budget policy and priorities and msnbc contributor, jared bernstein. something i found fascinating and watching this hearing was that the boston police had...

>> judge jeanine: they told us evacuees. they didnt have to call us once. they didnt have to call us twice. if we had any sense is of intelligence we would have is understood this guy is traveling there. he comes back and he is on the radical videos. the youtube video that he is posting for all of the world to see. >> after the fact. >> judge jeanine: and then janet napolitano comes out. do we have a full screen. she comes out and says something like when we came back the fbi alert on him was mo...

>> brian: this morning we know exactly who knew what about the boston bombers and why the information went nowhere. details i find frustrating. maybe you do, too. joining us, the man in charge of finding out what happened, former f.b.i. guy, congressman mike rogers. chairman, we found out a customs agent was alert -- did alert someone in the joint terrorist task force in the new england area that tamerlan came back from russia. but that information never got to the f.b.i why? >> well, were still...

Joining me now is michael daley whos been covering the story for daily beast and "newsweek" and michael, with a good morning to you. >> good morning. >> lets talk about the nature of these visits for both jill kelly and paula broadwell, what were they about? >> i think broadwell, kind of more legitimate. i mean she does have a background in the military. she was a military intelligence officer. she served two years in the joint terrorist task force in denver so you can see there might be a reaso...

9/11. is there anything legally, you see, that bothers you about this imam that is spearheading this? >> well, a lot of things do. first of all iran is a terrorist state they are on the list. we forbid business a lot of countries that are on those lists. there are questions as to whether any money can come in here. i think thats illegal to do. on top of that you may remember i founded and chaired for a number of years the terrorist task force in congress before september 11th. one of the things ...

When he did research for that, in new york city, he got together with a bump of war gamers, here. here is what he told me they said 18 months before the 9/11 attacks. listen to this. >> i got, i did a lot of research with the joint terrorist task force in the city. they said to me, i said what is the next target in the united states? what is the next target in america for terrorists? they said the world trade center. this was in year 2000. the world trade center had been attacked in february 199...

He put the darker one into a bag that he was carrying. this happened about a half block from where the vehicle was pulled. >> its too soon to tell who was responsible, who and what groups were responsible. so every possible examination is being done of the device but also forensics. >> act of terrorism? >> certainly looks that way. certainly looks as if it was intended to be that way. >> although we have not yet determined whether the times square car bomb is linked to any specific terrorist org...