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Against him. that guy got killed. erin? >> that guy got killed. all right thank you very much, deb feyerick. obviously going to be some say the trial of the century in boston this summer. the search is on for teamster's boss jimmy hoffa. yes yet again because police have been searching for him since 1975. july 30th when he went missing. this time police are searching a field in oakland township north of detroit. the search this time based on information provided by alleged mobster tony zerilli. a source tells our susan candiotti that his information is highly credible. but i want to note this ...

>> if it didn't rise to that level, we certainly wouldn't be out here because a judge has to move forward on that. >> reporter: other searches were duds. last year, soil samples were taken from beneath a shed outside detroit, but searches went nowhere. in 2006, agents checked out a horse farm. in 2004, they tested floorboards for blood and no hoffa. that reportedly cost the fbi $225,000 to excavate a horse farm. compared to last year, cnn learned local police only paid $45 to replace a broken padlock. zerilli's motive is simple, he's writing a book and needs the money. >> if they find the rema...

If jimmy hoffa really is buried back there, he stands to make a lot of money from a book potentially, but if it doesn't pan out, carol, i don't think he's going to get much out of this. >> so it looks from the pictures like this is a pretty big field. is there just a contained area where the fbi is searching? >> yeah, years ago, there was a house on this property and that allegedly is where he was killed or in that vicinity. and there was also a barn. so those don't exist anymore. but what they did was they removed the concrete -- two concrete slabs, according to a couple of law enforcement so...

But i want to note this isn't the first time officials have gone digging for hoffa. last fall police used sonar equipment and took soil samples from michigan property as part of their search and that brings me to tonight's number which is $225,000. that's how much the fbi spent digging for hoffa at a michigan horse farm back in 2006. just one of the many times they went digging. this is just one price tag. according to the detroit news that number doesn't include the salary, travel costs or anything else of the fbi agents involved. it does include $160,000 to replace the barn that investigator...

This decision reached and the timing of it, what happens next and what are the complications. here with answers john king, chief international correspondent. christiane amanpour, and former george w. bush homeland security adviser fran townsend, two currently sits on the cia external advisory board. what do you make of this? >> the president came to the conclusion the alleys have come to, that chemical weapons have been used, 100 to 150 people have been killed by the assad regime. the british and french made that interview weeks ago and his doctors on the ground that told us about their tests,...