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>> brian: this morning we know exactly who knew what about the boston bombers and why the information went nowhere. details i find frustrating. maybe you do, too. joining us, the man in charge of finding out what happened, former f.b.i. guy, congressman mike rogers. chairman, we found out a customs agent was alert -- did alert someone in the joint terrorist task force in the new england area that tamerlan came back from russia. but that information never got to the f.b.i why? >> well, we're still looking at that. that information didn't get circulated, at least to the best of our knowledge tod...

Joining me now is michael daley who's been covering the story for daily beast and "newsweek" and michael, with a good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the nature of these visits for both jill kelly and paula broadwell, what were they about? >> i think broadwell, kind of more legitimate. i mean she does have a background in the military. she was a military intelligence officer. she served two years in the joint terrorist task force in denver so you can see there might be a reason for her to attend a meeting. >> she did attend meetings that were briefings about pakistan, afgh...

9/11. is there anything legally, you see, that bothers you about this imam that is spearheading this? >> well, a lot of things do. first of all iran is a terrorist state they are on the list. we forbid business a lot of countries that are on those lists. there are questions as to whether any money can come in here. i think that's illegal to do. on top of that you may remember i founded and chaired for a number of years the terrorist task force in congress before september 11th. one of the things that is critical here is that radical islamists we are still at war with al-qaeda they see this as ...

When he did research for that, in new york city, he got together with a bump of war gamers, here. here is what he told me they said 18 months before the 9/11 attacks. listen to this. >> i got, i did a lot of research with the joint terrorist task force in the city. they said to me, i said what is the next target in the united states? what is the next target in america for terrorists? they said the world trade center. this was in year 2000. the world trade center had been attacked in february 1993 with a truck bomb in the basement. they said look, they missed, and they're going to do it next ti...

He put the darker one into a bag that he was carrying. this happened about a half block from where the vehicle was pulled. >> it's too soon to tell who was responsible, who and what groups were responsible. so every possible examination is being done of the device but also forensics. >> act of terrorism? >> certainly looks that way. certainly looks as if it was intended to be that way. >> although we have not yet determined whether the times square car bomb is linked to any specific terrorist organization we worked closely with the fbi through the joint terrorist task force in this case. the b...