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Wolf. >> they've got a lot of work to do, no doubt about that. thanks very much. much more on the boston bombing investigation. i want to turn now to syria and what president obama has repeatedly said would be a game changer in the escalating civil war. the use of chemical weapons. the president reiterated that warning today, but this time with some more conditions so is he moving that so-called red line? our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is getting new information on what's going on behind the scenes over at the pentagon. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, we've all seen the tal...

Welcome back to "starting point." i'm christine romans. overnight an apparent attack on the french embassy in libya's capital. a powerful car bomb blew out the front wall and shattered windows on other buildings in the tripoli neighborhood. two security guards and a 13-year-old girl living nearby were hurt. the french ambassador saying he will not leave that city. the tsa's plan to let passengers bring small knives on airplanes, that plan now on hold. the new policy was supposed to go into effect this thursday. but the agency now wants more input. critics, including flight attendants, say le...

Chatter or a big type of plot, we will probably pick it up. what worries are us are the types of situations like the bomber -- the times square bomber, the underwear bomber, shoe bomber, these were all under the radar, anwar al awlaki, an american in yemen, he was coordinating these types of attacks, knowing that our intelligence was sophisticated, so he would have to get people either over here or three or four people. when you coordinate that type of attack, you have to make sure to get whatever they need to make the bombs and how to set the bombs off and the situations i talked about, those...

I told adam, oh, my gosh, i'm alive. terror plot foiled. two men who wanted to carry out an attack on a passenger train between canada and the u.s. a special edition of "starting point" begins right now. welcome back to boston, everyone. just a block away, standing right now from the finish line of the boston marathon. where the attacks happened. more than one week ago. the suspect, 19-year-old so dzhokhar tsavraev is community with investigators. he is claiming and he his big brother, tamerlan, executed last week's attack at the marathon finish line and did it in defense of islam. jake tapp...

Let's remember, the first bomb that exploded was the furthest away. and the runners running toward it when it exploded would have naturally turned around and run back in the opposite direction where we know the second bomb went off. so this was a very -- while the devices are crude, the planning, the execution, and remember, you know, we've all said that why didn't they have an escape plan? well, remember what we know now is they had additional explosives, right? they used those in the watertown chase. and they may have planned follow-on attacks. so it may be they weren't planning to flee quit...