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Passes, it does, that we are not going to have the president knap say well, these restrictions are really we are looking at them again and too onerous for the people in this country. we need to assess how we implement these. there is no credibility on it. >> bill: something has got to be done. >> something, but not the wrong thing. we need to do something. start with enforcement. get it actually done. dont tie it to this so-called trigger that just never going to happen. its laughable at this po...

Are not going to have the president knap say well, these restrictions are really we are looking at them again and too onerous for the people in this country. we need to assess how we implement these. there is no credibility on it. >> bill: something has got to be done. >> something, but not the wrong thing. we need to do something. start with enforcement. get it actually done. dont tie it to this so-called trigger that just never going to happen. its laughable at this point. >> bill: you dont th...

You were there and you and your family, lucky for them, got through this whole thing. thanks for gicoming on msnbc to give us your firsthand account of this. i want to go back to clint van zandt and the significance of anyone who would set a bomb with 96 countries participating. you were the first to raise this. this guarantees this story will run in every bit of media around the world. >> yeah, it really does, chris. and, again, when we look at symbolic targets, and realize between the fbi and ...

Agencies can quickly identify is this potentially homegrown, is it potentially offshore inspired? theyll certainly be checking any threats that have been recently made relative to this event. the police commissioner of boston, ed davis, earlier in the press conference indicated they had had no previous threats made against the event, so that was based on his understanding of whats going on. >> what do you expect in terms of people taking responsibility for this attack? >> thats going to complica...

And its meant to make us look different directions saying, where is that next attack coming from? again, could be a lone wolf. could be an organization. this is why we pay the fbi, the boston police and all these other agencies to come together and realize it could be as simple as somebody seeing someone drop a backpack, or could be one of our sophisticated surveillance cameras that picks up an individual dropping off a package at one, two, now apparently three different locations. if we can sho...

Terrorists. >> well, i think you have the british experience during the ira terror bombings of the 70s and 80s how they kept going on with their lives. certainly during world war ii, an actual full-scale war. we have what israel has gone through from time to time with the heightened bombing efforts in their country against buses and restaurants and hotels. that we managed to live through it and in america, weve been very fortunate that we have had these isolated, although horrific incidents, tha...

Not look back. it was all, you know, very confusing. throughout the marathon all day, loud, people cheering, music, you know, drums playing. so, you know, youre kind of used to after four hours youre used to a lot of noise. this obviously was louder and obviously the smoke, obviously very telling, but it was all a very confusing situation for a few moments. >> did you know that they hit -- whoever set off the bombs, it may be somebody else, but looks like it was simultaneous, therefore, coordina...

Explosions. one after the other. >> hey, theres going to be people hurt out there. >> thats a chilling sound of those people and running for their lives. then to have that second one come just as they had already registered what was going on, to have that come right into them, right out of the midst of that smoke. >> its just -- i think what we heard from governor patrick and ed davis, commissioner, it shows how seriously they are taking this. even after the fact. it is very rare that we have an...

Could be dozens of miles away and make a phone call. you know, chris, that could be one of the reasons the authorities have shut down the boston airport is because they want to make sure if its an international terrorist, for example, that we dont make it easy for this person to escape by plane. the authorities are scrambling right now. they know what they have. they have at least three explosive devices. what they dont know is who planted it and what message other than one more attack on americ...

Heart of joy today. because no one down there at that finish line is there for any other reason other than to be filled with joy and happiness at the people running at watching the runners, at just being there in a joy-filled day on this city of boston thats what it was. >> you know, i was just at our own philadelphia marathon several months ago and my daughter ran. the feeling of a marathon, wherever it is, is tremendous cooperation and collaboration. people run and often times a lot further th...