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Officials ought to talk to each other, because we're on the same side of a lot of these important problems. >> right. but it seems to me the russians were trying to talk to the american authorities but weren't getting very far. mitch silva, if it isn't the case of tamerlan tsarnaev going back home to dagestan, getting into bed with messy terrorist-related people, and then coming back with his new tricks and blowing up the marathon, if it turns out that he and his brother were self radicalized right in the middle of boston, what is that going to send as a message to the american people going fo...

Novice. >> no. i mean, piers, look, you don't set off that many explosions without having tested this stuff. it's just a fact. you talk to anybody who deals with it. yes, you can make one bomb, you can blow up a toaster at home with a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. it's all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when you're you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i don't know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesn't happen. unless you've had some sort of experience, or you've been in a combat area. th...

Getting very far. mitch silva, if it isn't the case of tamerlan tsarnaev going back home to dagestan, getting into bed with messy terrorist-related people, and then coming back with his new tricks and blowing up the marathon, if it turns out that he and his brother were self radicalized right in the middle of boston, what is that going to send as a message to the american people going forward? >> i think it's a very disconcerting message. i think most americans, since 9/11, when they think of terrorism, they think of it as a threat that emerges from overseas. so the idea that two individuals m...

With a cell phone. yes. on and on and on. it's all sort of hollywood fantasy. but when you're you said fire, a running gun battle and throwing explosives out of a car, lighting them with a cigarette lighter, with i don't know how they lit them. and these things go off, it just doesn't happen. unless you've had some sort of experience, or you've been in a combat area. the special forces will tell you that most people freeze when shooting starts. these people didn't. they ran, they moved. they evaded. they held back a police pursuit. they had some sort of either ice water running through their b...

Al qaeda factor," mitch silva director for international peace and cnn contributor, bob baer. bob, let me come to you. we have talked almost every night about this. from the point of view of the fbi, perhaps, dropping the ball. now the cia appear to have also been warned about tamerlan tsarnaev. what do you read into this? has there been a fairly catastrophic intelligence failure here? >> it's systemic, absolutely. there is no other way to describe it, as a failure. immigrations didn't tell the fbi he was leaving. immigrations didn't tell the fbi that he was coming back. we don't know what the...