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According to foxnews.com with two law enforcement officials, however, other news outlets, some, some are also reporting that arrest has been made and some are reporting that that is not the case. here is the truth. we don t know. we need to hear from the fbi directly and we are told that they will come out at some point soon and brief the nation on where we stand now with this investigation. we just want to be transparent with you on the information that is coming in, in a breaking news situation that seems to be anything, but clear at this moment. with me now, still by phone is tom depre, assistant attorney general and i want to bring in kevin miles, a former bomb technician with the fbi and only left two months ago. and my apologies for teasing you as kevin ware, it s that kind of day. this is your business, making bombs to help the fbi, deconstructing bombs and trying to find out from the bomb fragments who was behind ....
Perhaps they should not have been. at 2:48 p.m. we don t know. all we know for sure is that the boston police directly tweeted out no arrest has been made. and listen, this is right now, marc, we re talking with about a media story. the media is all over the board on this. this is not about the media it s about somebody who unleashed hell on our citizenry and a monday afternoon trying to support their loved ones and ended up getting their legs blown off or losing their lives. and that s the story we re trying to cover and bring to the viewers and that s the story and the most important thing is whether we believe we re well-positioned to find out who did this. what we re told there was no chatter and despite our best efforts to monitor chatter we didn t hear any. even janet napolitano the homeland security secretary says they don t have any reason to believe there s a ....
Out. some are reporting, we don t have it yet, that an arrest may be imminent or already made. we don t have that yet. we have not yet confirmed that, but is this the kind of information, the authorities would release to the media because we have confirmed that they have a young man on tape who they believe may have dropped the second bomb. that they would be releasing to us before they had made an arrest? typically not. you know, in other words, you kind of if you re going to if it s a lead up to an arrest, i don t know why you wouldn t announce the arrest necessarily, but if you want the public s help to try to confirm or maybe this is part of the whole process. here is what you don t want to do and the fbi has been good about it. come out point everybody in one direction and that direction not to turn out to be a fact. you don t want any false leads and the fbi spokesperson, the head of the office has been excellent in terms of discipline saying we re not going to speculate. w ....
Claim he was a mule, paid to do that, we don t know. and again, they have something, they re investigating. what i was told is they re doing a background investigation on this particular person and they think they know who he is. that s what i heard, they think they know who he is. which means they ve not made an arrest, don t have a criminal predicate to bring to a judge, but doing everything possible to do a background check to see what he might have purchased, who else might have seen him. interview anybody around there who might have seen him and maybe he even works at lord & taylor or a nearby store and that s what they re doing now and depends on the clarity of the photo. megyn: steve, can you clarify for us, i m not asking you to reveal your source or sources. can you characterize the source or sources for us. law enforcement sources that, federal law enforcement sources that are working the case. remember, there are multiple it agencies working this case and that s why you ....
Steve emmerson they think, according to sources, they know who he is and i ll ask you guys this what you think and i ll start with you, peter newman, whether you have any doubt at this hour they re going to find the guy if they don t have him already. i don t have any doubt, but the question is, if no arrest has been made at this point to leak that kind of information would i very much hope that an arrest has been made because it would really be irresponsible to do that and not to have someone because it gives that opportunity, gives that person the opportunity to get away. so, that would be really, really irresponsible. megyn: you know, here is what happens. a news outlet will report it and then other news outlets hear it and then they call law enforcement officials that they are in contact with and say this is what s being reported. can you confirm or not? and normally, if your source can t confirm it they ll say no i can t confirm it. it appears that several confirmations were ....