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Lot of things fell into place tonight. the stars lined up. we had an innocent bystander alert police to what police call "if you see something, say something." we had a mounted police officer then alert the police department and the fire department that they had a potential bomb in a car. you had officers clear the area of times square as you said of probably tens of thousands of people. and then you had the bomb skwaurd and the joint terrorist task force do what theyre paid to do, make the expl...

As trying to gather information as possible? to hope fly try to find whoever did this. >> and this new york city police department has a phenomenal crime lab. and is able to do it. and there is this fbi will be helpful. and talked about before there will be a good working relationship in new york city. and they work together daily with the joint terrorist task force which is the new york city detectives supervisors and commanding officer and the fbi agents and theyre commanding officers reportab...

Detectives and people stationed, not just responding but stationed all over the world as part of this family you have joint terrorist task force. made up of fbi, state police, and new york city police detectives and investigators. standing out at this point in time to determine what evidence they can come up with. just because it happened in new york city doesnt mean there is not another device in another city that is possibly waiting to go off what. task force and nib and police department are ...

When he was mirandizeed, law enforcement officers, fbi agents, people -- officers from the joint terrorist task force, theres an emergency exception,ics general si exception to miranda. the fact that its law enforcement officers doing these interviews and interrogations from the beginning doesnt cause us to lose anything in the effectiveness in their ability to gather high-value information from the very beginning. so this process, in my view, has been handled properly from the very beginning. j...

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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...

Specific terrorist organization, were working very closely with the f.b.i. through the joint terrorist task force on this case. >> brian: he also said that new york city police officers, investigators are now on their way to the nearby state of pennsylvania. they are going to talk to a tourist who was here in new york city and may have home video that would be helpful in this investigation. he was here at the time the incident took place. there are also dozens of surveillance cameras that are be...