the washington polarized politics aside. he's getting help here. mitt romney his opponent in the last election will be in this room. you'll have the former democratic governor michael dukakis. also several other former massachusetts republican governs. jane swift and bill well. these are political leaders coming together. we may argue about other things, we may argue about policy, but it's time for the community to come together and heal. it's a very interesting time for the president to give a message to this community and to the untri and to the world. we don't know exactly what happened. we don't know why it happened. the president wants to say we'll get to the bottom of this. we're also going to help you. we're going to help the community heal, help the families put their lives back together. it's an interesting time in the sense that governor patrick has taken the lead more than mayor menino. the mayor has try. he had health issues recently. came out of the hospital for some of the conferences. you haven't seen him in the neighborhoods. he's a

laura sullivan is a reporter for national public radio and joins me live from washington. you have been learning about the older suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, spoke with three women who knew him in college, rule weird his then-girlfriend who became his wife. what did had he say about tamerlan tsarnaev? >> they all met freshman year. they say that katherine russell, their roommate, met him at a bar and from the very beginning, they never liked him. they thought he was very controlling. they described him as manipulative of her. and they said that he had a real violent streak that really troubled them for a long time them would say sometimes he had the ability to fly into a rage, that he would hang out with them and party and he would smoke and drink in the beginning and then all of that changed. >> the fbi interviewed him in 2011 because the russian fsb, which is the succeeding organization to the kgb, they were concerned that he might be an extremist, an islamic extremist and might have ties to a terrorist network. it doesn't sound like they really got to the bottom of it be

new york, washington, most major cities, because you don't know the extent of this. but, again, right now, it is pure speculation because we don't know the source of the explosion. but you just don't know. and, you know, and out of abundance of caution, i'm sure there are other places in boston right now, if anyone sees anything, please pick up the phone and call 911. if you see something, say something. this is not the time right now, in this day and age, anytime, wolf that if someone sees something in their gut they think it is suspicious, to pick up the phone and call 911. see something, say something, wolf. >> good advice. we are being told by the boston globe it is now reporting that the lennox hotel in boston out of an abundance of precaution, we're told, is being evacuated right now. and also out of an abundance of caution there are activities going on in new york city, alina cho is watching what's going on in new york. what are you learning? >> wolf, we're just getting a report in that counterterrorism crews are being deployed around landmarks in new york cit

i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. once again, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're watching important developments unfold here in boston in the aftermath of the bombings at the boston marathon. also, in washington suspicious letters arriving at a u.s. senators office. and now a similarly suspicious letter addressed to the president of the united states. at the same time there are evacuations up on capitol hill because of some perhaps unrelated or related activities. let me go to our white house correspondent brianna keilar. brianna, walk us through for viewers who might be tuning in just now what exactly we know about this suspicious letter addressed to the president? >> reporter: this letter, wolf, went to an offsite mail facility. as you see on capitol hill, the white house does the same thing when it comes to mail. you send a letter to the president, it doesn't go obviously directly to the white house for precaution. it goes to an offsite mail facility at an undisclosed lo

joining us now from washington is bomb expert and former military analyst a.j. clark. thank you for joining us. we learned information this morning that authorities found the lid to the pressure cooker on a rooftop. how big of a find is that? >> in bomb signature development activity, as they try to determine the time of bombmaker and what was used, this plays into that. this is one just small piece that will make up the bigger picture. >> so i want to talk to you about the pressure cooker, about the other scraps they found, bomb making materials possibly, about the possible detonator and the timer and all of that. can they track the serial numbers to find out who bought the pressure cooker and these other devices and materials? >> you have a mix of different clues and pieces of information that will be able to be tracked. but the biggest clue will be the compilation of all of the data and intelligence. and you will look for things to identify the signature of the bombmaker to see if there was other trends in law enforcement databases or military databases. so just som

>> i was with the fbi's joint terrorism task force as a washington field office for six years. and was one of the team leaders with their evidence response team also, worked bombings overseas, here in the united states. one of the things they're going to do, we talked about technology, we talked about this video and all the pictures. we have seen this picture of this person, we have been looking at, deb feyerick was talking about the ben thorndike photos. what they have done, they will take this picture, any video that is along that route, and they will try to put together a timeline. going back before, during and after and what they'll do is they'll take this video, and they will send it to quantico. the fbi lab at quantico has an engineering section. i've used them on a number of my cases to help enhance video, and the technology has increased so much, you know, over the years -- >> mike. >> yes, go ahead. >> mike, i'm sorry, joe johns, we're getting word, has new information on the justice department. j joe, what are you hearing? >> again, anderson, the sum and parcel of wha

his trip canceled, tsavraev instead takes a train to washington, d.c. via new york, and says "new york looks fril afar, but zoom in and it gets real dirty." messages and photos shows tsavraev visited new york again with friends around thanksgiving. "new york is so ratchet on black friday it's ridiculous. i'm to bed soon." religion was of growing importance over the last year. tsavraev is amused that people think he's mistaken. "brothers at the mosque either think i'm a convert or that i'm from algeria or syria." he said "spent the day with this jamaican muslim convert. my religion is truth." other tweets of special interest to investigators. a few year before the bombing, he writes in knave russian "i had die young." several months later in august, he writes boston marathon isn't good place to spoke. and in january of this year, "i got those brothers that i'd take a bullet for. in the leg or the shoulder or something. nothing fatal, though." finally, a week before the attack "if you have the knowledge and the inspiration, all that's left is to take acti

cnn's national political correspondent jim acosta joins us from washington now with what's going on. a lot of frustration, a lot of what ifs, could if this boston magnificent y massacre been prevented? those are the questions that will be brought forward today. >> that's right, wolf. it will be playing out on capitol hill. the senate intelligence committee has set a hearing for 2:30 this afternoon with fbi officials, they will be the lead briefers at this hearing. i'm told from a source of that committee. lawmakers want to find out if federal investigators somehow failed to see big red flags coming from tamerlan tsavraev. as lawmakers are praising authorities for the quick work in the boston bombing case, members of congress are still calling for hearings, into the fbi's handling of dead suspect tamerlan tsavraev, who traveled back to a dangerous region of russia, just last year. >> what did he do, when he went back for six months? sit in his aunt and uncle's home for six months or doing something else? and when he came back to this country, why didn't it ring a bell with the fbi int

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the country, tough week for the president, but tomorrow night he's expected to walk on that stage in washington, tell a couple of jokes, it is the annual white house correspondents' dinner where journalists and politicians and a-listers gather really for just a great night of partying. take a look. >> i wasn't aware that this is true, i hear, when you attend a function, mr. president, that the secret service puts you through an extensive background check. you know. it is a little embarrassing, actually. turns out technically i'm still a virgin. but i went so the jefferson memorial and i was inspired because carved on the beautiful walls are really inspiring sayings. first one at the top, i have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. and then just below that, i know but one code of morality for men, whether acting singly or collectively. and then way down at the bottom, carved in marble, it says, ps, if there is ever a movie about me, please don't cast nick nolte. some people say the president is going to have a tough race in '96. some s

you were in washington. what stood out to you? >> i think that will was some great jokes some very hardq, stingers. i thought president obama did a very good job yesterday. he has the delivery down pat. and i think it was particularly funny because a lot of it was ause he was talking to a room that really knows the nuances of the political jokes. frankly, because he followed ed henry who droned on forever and ever and ever. it was great relief and very comic >> l.z., what did you think about the dinner and the jokes? president versus conan o'brien? >> you know i thought that -- i thought conan was -- starting off. i kept waiting for him to get it in with president obama. that came out later. i think the president's delivery has always been impeccable. he seems to be at ease in the public spotlight. i want to point out the fact this was a fund-raiser. $100,000 was raised scholarships for generous people like you and i, don, to help keep this profession alive. to me that's the most for part happened last a lot of young women and lot

and the lady in the back, wonderful, so polite from washington. and they treated me like gold, but they intensely interrogated me for hours and it was nerve wracking. i can't even express my inside nerves were going to come out of

he's in washington. the latest information that has been -- that we have. all right. a law enforcement official telling us this was -- i want to make sure i put the quotes around where appropriate -- likely but not certain a timing device attached to the explosive device, not activated by a cell phone, someone could have set this up and left before it would have detonated. what can you tell us about that in. >> reporter: that's the sum and substance of it, likely but not certain there was a timing device aattached to the bomb which the reporting described apparently encased in a pressure cooker and discarded there on the street, perhaps to look like trash. and talking to more than one law enforcement source now, what we're being told is the developing picture is one of fancied up pipe bomb, if you will that was really very weak in nature by substantive terms compared to ieds all across the world but placed in this location, with so many people, it caused a lot of injuries. had it been, say, petn or a stronger explosive we would have seen more casualties. being describ

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so it is a very interesting time in washington. we're not usually telling jokes and we're not usually standing next to actors and singers and all that kind of stand-out night in the year for white house correspondents. >> understood. so the fun is passed sadly, now we have to get back to what's serious. a lot of lawmakers are talking this morning about this marathon bomber suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev having his miranda rights read to him in the hospital after 16 hours of questioning. i want to play a clip from the attorney general eric holder talking to cnn last night at the correspondents dinner and -- about his reaction and also reaction this morning from congressman peter king, the republican from new york. let's listen to both. >> the decision to mirandize him was one that the magistrate made and that totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had had a two-day period that we were able to question him under the public safety exception so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. >> the attorney gener

during the anthrax case of 2001 two postal workers in washington were culled. that's the main concern. >> absolutely. it just seems so unlikely. the first suspect under arrest was an elvis impersonator and this latest guy is a marshal arts instruct would these people know about ricin? >> that's a good question. the investigation will help determine whether they did it. did they have help or why did the material when it went through the field tests at the mail facility test positive to even start this thing in the first place. that will be determined. you're right, it's a colorful cast of characters in this case. >> that's one way to put it it. tom fuentes, thanks so much. i appreciate it. >>> how will history remember president george w. bush? we'll talk to an analyst. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] the only patch for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's disease is exelon patch. now with more treatment options, exelon patch may improve overall function and cognition. your loved one can get a free 30-day trial. and you can have access to nurs

he is in washington, d.c. and from the american college of emergency physicians is a doctor on the phone. if i could just ask you -- i hope you heard all the details. are you surprised to hear the details but not only of his arrival, but his departure and treatment in between? >> no because he is a suspect. he is very highly guarded. they have to ensure his physical safety and physical custody as well as take care of his medical issues. so, i'm not that surprised at how they handled it. >> also the transfer of this high level detainee. clearly the media was camping out 24 hours to try to get a shot of his transfer. no one was able to. the fact they used a loading dock, does that surprise you at all? >> no, because as you said they wanted to keep him sheltered from, you know, the media, any kind of pap rat zi, anything related to that. they had to have a lot of people around with him and have the medical evacuation and the transfer. they wanted it very protected because of the status of this patient. >> and tom

shortly after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax were sent to addresses in washington, new york, florida. five died from exposure to the poison. those letters were sent to a couple of u.s. senators and a few national news outlets. the lead suspect in that case committed suicide. in 2003, police in england busted a group of suspected terrorists that claimed they were making ricin. that was a case colin powell referred to as part of justification for war in iraq. and to show you how deadly this stuff is, a man nearly died after exposure to ricin in a las vegas hotel room. a man was later arrested for making the stuff. >>> turning to the boston bombing investigation, investigators spent another day at this landfill, near dzhokhar tsarnaev's dorm room is and he was spotted after the bombings. earlier this week, cnn learned they were there scouring for receipts at the landfill. this time looking for his laptop. meantime, tsarnaev is in a federal prison camp, after a week spent at the hospital as many of the victims he was accused of moving. he was moved to a facility that holds detainees that

washington right now? how much coordination, tom, is there from the federal government in washington and whether the justice department or other agencies in the u.s. government? >> well, wolf and erin, there would be general oversight from washington. obviously at fbi headquarters and department of justice, but much of the focus and much of the coordination is really on site in boston among all of the agencies that are part of this massive investigation. so really the main coordination is actually occurring in boston with oversight from washington. and then also you have the tactical oversight or the tactical or incident command post would be very close to where these searches are going on right now. but i'd like to add something else that would be going on in washington, at quantico and in boston is that fbi and police psychologists would be working from the beginning to try to analyze these two, look at their demeanor in the videos, the interview of family and friends and classmates to look at their psyc

barbara starr in washington, thanks to you. i should say we've been hearing from doctors at mass general hospital and brigham and women's hospital. they've been telling us what they've been finding as they've been treating patients. it may give a clue to the makeup of the bombs. a doctor at brigham and women's says he's been removing carpenter's nails, also some small metal devices a little bit bigger, he says, than bbs. what that means still remains to be seen. i'm joined by karen greenberg, the director at the center of national security at fordham university law school, also joined by tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director. tom, there's a lot of questions i have here about the bombs. two new pieces of information over the last hour, brand-new. number one, two bombs and two bombs only, just the ones that went off, no unexploded devices. what does that tell you? >> first of all, john, it tells you that without having unexploded devices they're going to have to piece together the ones that did explode. that's going to take

cnn political editor paul sustain has joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut, this from our chief white house correspondent, and the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. all the polls we've seen, including this win f

cnn political editor paul steinhauser joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit of what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut. this from our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin, and the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part of what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. all the polls we've seen,

crime and justice correspondent joe johns joins me from washington, d.c. what is the fbi telling us about their prior questioning of the older deceased suspect? we know they put out a statement saying a foreign country, which we believe to be russia, expressed an interest in him. what exactly is the fbi describing about that event? >> they say they questioned him in 2011. they looked at telephone records. they looked at travel records. they did what they could, they say. and they went back to that country who asked for questions and said we haven't found anything. can you give us some more information? no more information was forwarded to the united states, so the fbi pretty much dropped it. this is pro forma, it happens again and again and again from year to year to year. so it's not unusual for this to happen. it's not unusual for that person to walk away because the fbi says they didn't find anything. >> joe, an intelligence source told me today that while it it may not be unusual for people to do this when it comes to al qaeda, it is rare for the russi

but we're going to start this hour in a city some distance away, again, washington, d.c., because the ideas of looking backward to see whether we knew everything we could about these suspects and looking forward in terms of how we can stay safe are critically important and under discussion right now. in the nation's capital, senators discussing today whether or not this immigrant, who allegedly led his younger brother into a bombing here at the boston marathon, whether that plot, that ultimately claimed four lives and life of one of the bomber, could have been avoided. members of congress want to know what the u.s. government knew or did not know about this now deceased suspect's trip back home in 2012. tracking that for us, in some really heated testimony today, cnn's jim acosta. jim? lay out the information for us. what's being said? what is the controversy? >> reporter: well, chris, you're absolutely right, lawmakers on capitol hill are trying to get to the bottom of what was known about the older suspect who is now dead, tamerlan tsarnaev, and this trip ta hat he took to rusa last

remember shortly after 9/11, letters with anthrax sent to washington, new york and florida. five people died. those letters sent to a couple of u.s. senators and to a few national news outlets. the lead suspect committed inside. police in england police busted a group of suspected terrorist who is claimed they were making ricin. to show how deadly the stuff is, a man nearly died after exposure in a las vegas motel room. the fbi arrested him later for making the stuff. >>> we're going to burn to the boston bombings investigation. investigators spent another day at this landfill near the tsarnaev dorm room where he was spotted. cnn learned they were scouring the receipts at the landfill, this time they were looking for his laptop. meantime, tsarnaev is in a federal prison camp after a week spent in the hospital as many of the victims he is accused of wounding. he was moved to a facility holding detainees that need medical care. officials say his condition is improving and able to sit up and write. all this as his parents left their home for another part of russia. his father a

joe johns reporting from washington. meanwhile, the defense secretary chuck hagel spoke about the bombing investigation today. he said so far he has not seen any intelligence directly linking the surviving suspect and his older brother, the 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev, to any, any terrorist organization per se, but the chairman of the house intelligence committee says the older tsarnaev who was killed after the shootout with police, may have become seriously radicalized by islamic extremists when he went to russia last year. here's what the house homeland security chairman had to say today on cnn's state of the union. >> there were reports they had suicide vests on. you don't learn that overnight. i personally believe that this man received training when he was over there, and he radicalized from 2010 to the present, and nine months after he comes back from the chechen region, he pulled off the largest terror attack since 9/11. >> after a dramatic shootout with police that killed his older brother and then eluding poli

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i'm wolf blitzer in washington. some real signs of progress in housing market today. figures released for february show home prices rose faster, get this, faster than anytime since 2006. christine romans joining us from new york right now. christine, the report says home prices climbed, what, 9.3% from the same time last year? that's very impressive. what's driving the increase? >> well, very low interest rates, cash buyers, wolf from all over the world, quite frankly. there's not a lot of inventory in some places. if you want to buy a house, you have to pay up for it because there aren't a lot of choices for it. all of those things coming together. wlo look at price increases. the fastest year over year spike in home price is since 2006. we remember 2006 the peak of the bule overall. look where the biggest home prices increases are, wolf in some parts of the country, up double digits. look at san francisco, up almost 19% year over year. las vegas, up more than 17%. phoenix, home prices, wolf, from february last year to february this year, up 23%. detroit, up 15%. atl

in washington, d.c. right now, ricin, it's a poison -- a deadly poison, it's suspected of having been laced in a letter delivered to a united states senator. and now a similar letter delivered to the president of the united states. the president was never close to that letter. it was intercepted at a location where they screen all packages and letters going to the white house. very similar to the letter laced -- apparently laced with ricin at least according to preliminary tests. there will be more tests sent to roger wicker, the republican of mississippi. now they're looking at all sorts of other letters that may have been sent as well, suspicious letters. let's go to brianna keilar, our white house correspondent for an update first of all on the letter sent to the president. what can you tell us? the fbi is now in charge of this investigation, brianna. >> the fbi is now in charge of this investigation, wolf. and they are saying that at least preliminarily a letter that was sent to president obama and r

this goes from the fbi, top down, the white house, washington meeting about this the president making statements, making sure all resources on the ground to see who did this and why. we know the investigators have leeds. we know that they feel positive about the progress they are making. and we are covering it from all angles, extensive team coverage of this developing story. again two tracks. what do we know who who did this and why? a lot of that has to do with the bomb, the signature, the materials, how they could have been accessed. how it was made, what it tells us about the level of sophistication. what is on our heads and hearts this morning are the people who were hurt here, the people who lost their lives. poppy harlow, at one of the hospitals still fighting battles for the wounded. susan candiotti, latest on the investigation for us. briana keilar, at the white house with the latest response for how they are moving assets and information. and then what is the reaction to this story here in boston? the larger home of the country? the world and its markets? alison kosik at the

cnn political editor paul steinhauser joins us now from washington. paul, what do you expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> reporter: we just learned a little bit of what the president may say tomorrow in hartford, connecticut. this from our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin, the white house saying that the president will say the nation has an obligation to the children lost in newtown and the other victims of gun violence to act on these proposals. that's basically what the president is going to be doing in connecticut, just as he did in colorado last week, another state that just passed some very tough gun control legislation. he's basically going to be touting these new laws in the state and kind of putting the onus back on congress to get something done. as you mentioned, as early as this week, as early as this week, a democratic bill could start work in the full senate. this bill, of course, don, has background checks, universal background checks is part of what have this bill has. take a look at this. this is interesting. a

joe johns is joining us now from washington. a lot of people are wondering if the fbi missed something when the russians first tipped them off about tamerlan tsarnaev, the older brother. what's the latest there in washington? >> reporter: that certainly is the question right now. some of this is about the federal databases. the issue is whether tamerlan tsarnaev's movements between here and russian slipped through a security net. >> reporter: he first hit the fbi radar in 2011 when the russian government told the agency they should check him out. >> the russian fsb sent a letter to the fbi and other agencies that we think this guy has become radical. >> reporter: the fbi said it was based on information that he was a following of islam, a radical believe, he changed drastically in 2010. fbi says it checked u.s. government databases, telephone km communications and online activity. the fbi says it did not find any terrorism activities, so it gave that information to russia and ask for but did not receive additional information. >

joe joins us from washington. joe, no charges today for sure. does it have anything to do with the fact that they haven't been able to talk to him. >> that's an interesting question. you are right. it could be soon for the charges. it may be important to say that the authorities are reporting that they are not able to interview the suspect. he is in serious condition at the hospital but important also to say, don, that not is being able to interview a defendant hasn't stopped the feds from filing charges before. it could still happen. that's a pretty common practice, because sometimes defendants have lawyers who intercede and say investigators can't talk to this defendant. it is not that different a situation necessarily, don. >> we have heard about a number of different charges that could happen including federal charges, murder charges. what are some of the likely charges that he might face, joe? >> well, we've heard as recently as yesterday that authorities were contemplating a terrorism charge most likely, something related to use of a weapo

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i'm wolf blitzer in washington. some real signs of progress in housing market today. figures released for february show home prices rose faster, get this, faster than anytime since 2006. christine romans joining us from new york right now. christine, the report says home prices climbed, what, 9.3% from the same time last year? that's very impressive. what's driving the increase? >> well, very low interest rates, cash buyers, wolf from all over the world, quite frankly. there's not a lot of inventory in some places. if you want to buy a house, you have to pay up for it because there aren't a lot of choices for it. all of those things coming together. wlo look at price increases. the fastest year over year spike in home price is since 2006. we remember 2006 the peak of the bubble overall. look where the biggest home prices increases are, wolf in some parts of the country, up double digits. look at san francisco, up almost 19% year over year. las vegas, up more than 17%. phoenix, home prices, wolf, from february last year to february this year, up 23%. detroit, up 15%. a

commander in this region was scheduled to go to washington this week. he has now canceled that trip to stay in the region. >> kyung, talk to me more about the significance of china's thinly veiled warning to north korea today. how important is china in this equation? >> reporter: it's very -- you know, when you jump in on this and you hear something that doesn't seem particularly direct or strong from china, but if you cover all of this, and you see these incremental verbal changes from china, what we heard today is very, very significant. china is the key to all of this. china is the north's closest ally and that china is expre expressing in public at an economic forum a thinly veiled criticism of north korea. it is a direct message to pyongyang to dial it down. the question, though, don, is whether or not pyongyang is actually listening. >> kyung lah, thank you very much. >>> straight ahead on cnn, boxing legend mike tyson who has had legal troubles of his own is asking the president to overturn the conviction of another fighter. [now arriving: city h

law enforcement and intelligence community here in washington, now going back this morning, through every piece of intelligence they have looking for any information about these two suspects. until yesterday, until the identification came out, officials had told us they just didn't see any foreign connection. they weren't sure, but they didn't see anything. now that they have the identities on these two suspects and they have some sense of their background, they are going back through everything. that means intelligence reports, phone intercepts, chatter, jihadists' web sielts. anything and everything. they are looking at their social media postings for any connections they may have to overseas groups. now, they don't have any firm conclusions at this point. but what is so significant here is now, as of this morning, they are, indeed, looking to see if these two men had any connections to overseas groups, frankly, to overseas terrorism. no conclusion about that yet. we want to emphasize that very strongly. basically, officials tell us there are three possibilities here. a domestic terrori

washington's annual right of spring did not disappoint. the white house correspondence dinner attracted an a-list of hollywood celebrities to join president obama and a night of fun and one liners.?e check out the highlights. ♪ >> how do you like my new entrance music? i understand second term need a burst of new energy. try some new things. and my team and i talked about it. we were willing to try anything so we borrowed one of michelle's tricks. >> seriously, mr. president, your hair is so white, it could be a member of your cabinet. speaking of the cabinet, the president recently picked his new treasury secretary jack lew. gives me great joy to know if the president has to let him go he'll get to say, it's not lew, it's me. >> the media landscape is changing so rapidly. yo up with it. i mean, i remember when buzzfeed was something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. >> some people say print media is dying, but i don't believe it. and neither does my blacksmith. >> i'm also hard at work on plans for the obama library and some have sugges

this goes from the fbi, top down, the white house, washington meeting about this the president making statements, making sure all resources on the ground to see who did this and why. we know the investigators have leeds. we know that they feel positive about the progress they are making. and we are covering it from all angles, extensive team coverage of this developing story. again two tracks. what do we know who who did this and why? a lot of that has to do with the bomb, the gnature, the materials, how they could have been accessed. how it was made, what it tells us about the level of sophistication. what is on our heads and hearts this morning are the people who were hurt here, the people who lost their lives. poppy harlow, at one of the hospitals still fighting battles for the wounded. susan candiotti, latest on the investigation for us. briana keilar, at the white house with the latest response for how they are moving assets and information. and then what is the reaction to this story here in boston? the larger home of the country? the world and its markets? alison kosik at the w

for that i want to go to gloria borger in washington. gloria, what are you hearing? >> well, what we're hearing, anderson, is that the suspect in a second interrogation told authorities that he indicated he intended to use the remaining explosives that he had and detonate them in times square. you'll recall that under a first interrogation he said he was going to times square to "party" that is what we saw ray kelly, the police commissioner say yesterday. apparently there was subsequent questioning. and under subsequent questioning the suspect indicated that he did intend to use the remaining explosives in that times square vicinity. now, we do not know whether new york authorities believe that they have any reason to continue to worry about this. i mean, we're going to hear from them i presume at a press conference later, but it seems to me that this suspect changed his story from a first interrogation to a second interrogation. now, as you know, people treat with suspicion anything that is said in a hospital interrogation. but it seems that his story did shift dram

shannon is driving us from washington. what did the uncle have to say today? >> wolf, his name is ruslan tsarni. today the uncle is speaking a different tune. i started the interview asking what's your reaction to the capture of your younger nephew. take a listen. >> i'm relieved. i'm relieved that he's alive and now there's a chance to find out who was behind it. who is the mentor and how possibly he could get involved and do this harm to innocent people. second of all, i stress that there's a chance for dzhokhar to speak forgiveness. >> when the older brother was a young child, the uncle actually had him in his care for a while and i asked the uncle about how he interacted and kept up with the older son for over the years. the uncle said in 2009 he had a conversation with the older brother, the older boy, and that he noticed a change in his voice where he was becoming more extreme in terms of his religious views. i asked him what he attributed that to. take a listen at how he described that. >> i called one of the gentleman living in the area private to thei

also harsh words today for attorney general eric holder and his handling of the bombing athenaones in washington at the wte house. the republican peter king had harsh words for the attorney general. tell us about it. >> that's right, good afternoon, carol. this is all about the timing of the reading to the suspect his miranda rights. the right to remain silent, the right t an attorney. since being read those rights on monday, dzhokhar tsarnaev has clammed up. he hasn't been nearly as forthcoming with information to investigators, and republicans on capitol hill, republicans like peter king, said that was a bad move reading his rights on monday and putting potentially useful information out of reach. our own brianna keilar had a chance to ask eric holder about this last night. he was making his first comments on this topic. let's listen. >> the decision to mirandize him was one that the magistrate made, and that was totally consistent with the laws we have. we had a two-day period where we were able to question him under the public safety exception. so i think everybothing was don appropriately a

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she was so polite from washington. and they treated me like gold, but they intensely interrogated me for hours. and it was nerve wracking, i can't even express my inside nerves were going to come out of my ears. >> so that was just about 3 1/2 minute snippet of 25-minute interview that chris cuomo conducted. at the very end, kevin curtis started to sing, impersonated randy travis singing, go to cnn.com, see the whole thing on our website. i want to break this out here and go to two people. we have legal analyst sunny hostin and joins me on whether this guy is completely out of the woods and if even has grounds to sue. but first to you, mike brooks. my first question is, obviously if he is not the guy, there is someone out there that police and federal investigators are looking for who sent these ricin laced letters to the president, to senator wicker, to a judge. what do we know about that search underway? >> we don't know much right now, brooke. but my question is, what probable cause did they have to originally arres

he's in washington. joe. >> wolf, investigators obviously still have a lot more to learn about this case. but as you've been discussing this morning, there's already enough information for policymakers to start asking some very basic questions and the one question that is already being asked the most right now in washington is whether the fbi dropped the ball at the very start. in the search for how suspected marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev turned radical, a big part of the investigation is focused on what role a six month trip to russia played and any contact he may have had with extremists in chechnya where his family originally hails from. >> i think it's very probable that when he's in the region, it's a very dangerous region, they're known for their tactics, that he possibly could have been trained. >> reporter: when he got back from russia, tsarnaev started posting radical videos on a new youtube page with an address that bore the names of prominent militant leaders among islamist groups. and cnn

breaking news out of washington. there's an unexpected delay in the move to end the faa furloughs that have been causing long delays at airports across the country. president obama hoped o sign a bill aimed the at ending the furloughs to ease tra troubles. but the president can't do that right away because of a misspelling in the bill. someone misspelled a word. congress passed the bill this week. sent it it to the. 's desk. this all happened really fast and then there was this misspelling. hopefully they will remember to hit the spell check button this time around. then he can sign it into law. >>> more now on travel. after the recent terror attacks, security lines at airports are now longer than ever. in addition to the furloughs, there was a problem there too. it it makes some travelers very anxious. iesha has tips on how to travel stress free. >> reporter: a terror attack can make traveling more stressful. sl it's normal for people to feel anxiety. just the visibility of security at the airports is enough to get

let's check in with joe johns now in washington, d.c. joe what are you hearing? what is the latest on the investigation? >> i've been talking to investigators and others connected to all of this. and i have to tell you, series of questions out there. we have contradictory information. this is no reflection, anderson, on the law enforcement people who are trying to figure it out and trying to chase this individual down. nonetheless, i wanted to go through some of the information that seems to be conflicting a little bit and let you know what our questions are. first, anderson, you started out talking about the green honda civic that authorities are looking for, connecticut police put out a be on the lookout for that automobile. it has massachusetts license plates. now that is actually the second suspect vehicle or alleged suspect vehicle we have heard about. today, the first was a mercedes suv, that would be the vehicle that was carjacked earlier this morning. so two suspect vehicles we heard about, we also have gotten some contradictory information about the cont

it would go to the security officials in washington. that information would be shared. not a question of sending it to another agency. they all sit side by side on the jttf and have access to it. everybody has access to everything. as far as -- very common for russians and other countries for that matter to shotgun out their requests. we don't know if the one that came to the cia is the exact same one that came to the fbi or not. it's not uncommon to send it to multiple u.s. agencies, who decides to take it, who does what when they bring it over. in fairness to the cia, they are not authorized to conduct investigations in the u.s. that's the fbi and state and local law enforcement's job, not theirs. so what they would have done, they would have made an inquiry to the database, see that it was investigated by the fbi. see to the extent appropriate the name was entered into various terrorist databases. the one database has nearly 500,000 names. it does not qualify or warrant every person in that for 24/7 monitoring or to try to keep track of them into the future. >> but,