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At 2:50 p.m. on April 15, 2013, two explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The brazen terrorist attack killed three people, injured and maimed hundreds more, and shocked the nation. Despite being long recognized as a potential threat by law enforcement and intelligence, few Americans had considered the use of an improvised explosive device (IED) on American soil. And, due to only a few, and relatively small, attacks since 9/11, the public was not in a state of awareness.

Since 9/11, 23 terrorist plots against the U.S. have been foiled.Many of the individuals involved in these plots have been convicted and sentenced to time in prison for their participation. Americahas become a more difficult target for terrorists, but the threathas not diminished. Adjusting and strengthening U.S. securityefforts to conquer these changing threats will require Congress andDHS to work together.

Keeping a close eye on domestic and violent extremist groups, and domestic terrorist plots. and so, my first thought when i heard that these texts at the top of the department went missing was that we were going to lose a lot of evidence, that we would otherwise find about what the department was gathering in terms of information about the domestic violent extremist groups, and their attempts to storm the capital, smash our windows, assault our officers, drive the house and the senate out, go after the vice president, hang mike pence, and so on. but of course it's also possible that other thin...

Scheduled. seems the french may be keeping the americans on hold. >> o'donnell: would love to listen to that phone call. ed o'keefe, thank you. eye opening testimony today from f.b.i. director christopher wray, he told a senate committee domestic terror has exploded trip thing to 2,700 separate investigations. said the f.b.i. broke up terrorist plots in seven cities in the past few years. all right, today the governor of texas signed a bill putting more restrictions on abortion, and it comes as the state's abortion law faces its first test, a texas doctor who violated the law has now been sued...

Associates including a saudi arabian diplomat and government employee were in contact with the plane's hijackers and had other complexes to other terrorist plots against our country but the report claims it shows no clear evidence that the saudi government itself was directly complicit in the attacks but you know the families of 9/11 victims, they don't buy a word of that. alex hogan live here in new york city with the latest. alex. >> reporter: hi, eric. the white house releasing this formerly classified report yesterday afternoon two decades after 9/11. familiar his of the victims said that ...