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We've seen it time and time again. this is a theory, this is not based on fact, but if he became a naturalized citizen a year ago, he has a u.s. passport, he knows that's like the gold ticket, right, then he takes off to pakistan, he's over there for five months, comes back and he plots whatever he plots, perhaps, and it is possible, and we don't know the answers to this yet, and i say this with trepidation and caution, but he could have had this in the works for years. once i got that passport, i got a green light. >> absolutely. i mean, we've known this for a long time bill. you're absolutel...

Experts seems to be fundamentally unworkable. i begin to walk through this. this is preliminary analysis. and they're still looking through this thing as of midday today, they haven't satisfied themselves on exactly how it was supposed to work. but the general concept was according to the new york city police who looked at it, you would have -- the clocks would somehow initiate a series of steps that would cause these fire crackers to go off. and the theory was that that would somehow ignite the two gasoline canisters that were sitting in the back seat. behind the back seat in the cargo area w...

Following up on right now. >> tell me about this crazy bomb equipment. go through what was in there in the vehicle that might have worked or maybe never could have worked. what do you make of this -- run through what was in there. >> i think bottom line up front, it wasn't going to work. you had several things -- you had a gas -- you had gasoline cans. you had propane canisters. you had fire crackers, m-88s, and you had a large gun box filled with nonexplosive fertilizer. and a rude goldberg-like approach to get it to light off. the closest thing this comes to is what happened in london in 200...

That this was basically a failure? >> well, first of all, we're lucky it was a failure. >> sure, of course. the vigilance of the street vendor and the quick action of the police were important in keeping people away. you never know when this thing was supposed to go off. for example, they found two clocks in the car in the back of the suv on the floor of the back seat. the two gasoline canisters were on the rear seat with this can of fire crackers between them. one of the clocks was set for midnight. we don't know what that meant. the bomb was not intended to go off until midnight? we don't kn...

The fire crackers went off and he hoped that would set the gas on fire and set the propane tank on fire. ap reports, u.s. law enforcement officials say the times square bomb suspect trained in a terror camp in pakistan. the wall street reports it and the associated press is including it in its reporting and arthur aidala is joining us, defense attorney, former prosecutor, to talk to us about what we're going to do with this guy. the man in custody is in new york and there's word he admitted to buying the truck, building the device and driving the car to times square. there's a process that goe...