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extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there's a lot that cannot be discussed so we're leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? >> i can't tel...

according to "the new york times" but also the information that helped the cia carry out a drone strike against the top al qaeda operative. now, we don't have the name or nationality of the double agent and this of course is a highly sensitive situation. so we want to be careful about what we say, but some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. "the new york times" reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior ...

And to get other terrorists. >> bret: steve, you a transparency guy. you say it should all be out there. for someone flying between mid-april and now, should they have been alerted to this possibility? >> no. obviously, huge exception to the transparency rule is it affects ongoing intelligence operations. that is what the administration is claiming. >> bret: although the bin laden raid as charles mentioned could have affected ongoing intelligence operations at the time. >> yeah. i think if you go back to the bin laden raid, the administration had to offer some kind of a story about what happen...

bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? >> just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to be a body bomb. this was more in line with the sort of underwear bomber type of thing. look, they r...

waste of an all-star game. >> you've gotten seconds. >> it's flag football. that would be more entertaining. >> we'll see what else is coming up. state stay tight. >> we'll wait for that. all right. "starting point" this morning we're talk tath florida primary which, of course, is tomorrow. it could be a tiebreaker in the gop race for the nomination. you know there's been three contests with three different winners. santorum won iowa eventually, then it was mitt romney won new hampshire, then newt gingrich who won the state of south carolina. now florida, could end all there, couldn'...