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If so how many? and do you anticipate further arrests in this country? >> well as i said the investigation is ongoing and we -- our aim is to determine who is -- who exactly was involved in this matter, to bring all these people involved to justice. i'm not aware of what the exact situation is with regard to the facts you talk about in pakistan. >> no, you're not aware of any arrests in pakistan at this point? >> i've heard reports about that i'm not in a position to confirm that? >> is that theory on the table or is that gone. >> the investigation is ongoing, i don't want to talk about that a...

>> how close were you to losing him? i think you mentioned earlier that you had identified him by saturday night, is that correct? >> no, no. >> sunday night. >> sunday night. >> attorney general holder. >> can you answer the question about how close you were to losing him? >> i'm not sure to what you're referring. >> how close were you to losing him when he was on that flight? >> no, yeah -- >> they pulled him off, they pulled the flight back, as you know to the gate. they also had the authority if the flight had actually taken off to order the plane to turn around and come back. >> yesterday...

Further. they'll clarify some situations, some information. they may talk about a variety of different aspects of the case that there is differing news reports on. the difficulty about this is that there is so much information in such a high visibility of this event that there is a whole host of different theories and ideas that sometimes are taken as fact. obviously until we see the investigation go full bore and we have some time to actually assess what is out there it's very hard to jump to conclusions as to motivation, as to what training or no training, control and no control, all those v...

>> a number of individuals have come up in this investigation, and mr. shahzad was one that we identified as someone we would like to find out more information about. during the course of the investigation from saturday night we identified him as a person that we would like to talk to. we were able to locate him, away from his house, which you saw on the news, bridgeport, connecticut there, and then we were able to provide that information, as the secretary mentioned to cbp for proper handling and other agencies in case he was stopped in another context. the bottom line was we were able to ide...

Conflicting reports. >> i focused on the fact that the plane had pulled away from the gate, that the passenger manifest which is the custom and practice of the cbp is to receive the manifest so you know who is leaving the country. the suspect's name was on it. the plane was directed to come back in and federal officials were there to take him off the plane. megyn: is it your understanding that the authorities did not know he was on this plane until customs and border patrol noticed that his name was on the manifest of a plane that was about to take off for dubai. >> that's what it eye pierce t...