i have, i have a hunch but it is only a hunch and i could be proven wrong. it sound to me like this is not heavily orchestrated overseas. i would be surprised if this were directed internationally. i wouldn t be surprised if there were some connections between the person or persons who did this and some international organization but i would be surprised if this were orchestrated overseas because i think by now we would have collected intelligence that we could have pieced through this if this was being directed from pakistan, afghanistan or someplace in after fromca. now it still could be like major hasan, right? major hasan was domestic but major hasan was communicating internationally. major hasan was driven by jihadist theories and instincts. he was following kind of a encouragement from bin laden to do these one-offs as a way of terrorizing us. that doesn t mean it isn t connected to . bill: hasan in texas.
right. right, all around the state though are more impromptu like you said. i m sure boston will have to tonight. newton, cambridge has one planned. emerson college in a few minutes. as you reported, a bu student is now the third victim. so this is a big college community, they are coming together now too. bill: one more question about what you re receiving in return from the rest of the country. what have you heard and what do you think of the response and reaction? i think it s amazing. not only the rest of the country but all around the world. we are getting, you know, emails into the herald, and people are just coming out of the blue and saying, stay strong, boston. that is mostly what it is, stay strong. people know the marathon, it s coming back. people will run the marathon again next year. bill: it will be bigger than ever next year too i would imagine. i agree. bill: thank you, joe. appreciate your time today, thank you, sir. in a moment here we ll get you back to some o
i ve been inclined, to believe there never was but now i . bill: that is as close as you get to brotherly love, don t you? this is a tradition at fenway park and yankees shared it. you had a front row seat to a national tragedy. i am curious to get your feelings on moments like these. this is absolutely terrible time for boston and america to have to go through this, particularly the uncertainty of, what it was all about, how it happened, who did it, all of that adds to some of the collateral feelings that people have about it but the main thing is, innocent life being lost. seeing that little boy lose his life, i don t know how you can t be so angry at whoever did this and so upset about it, but the reality is this is the world we live in today. we have to deal with it. we have to deal with it effectively. i think so far everything
or you re not and you re going to lose it. getting pressure cookers is big advantage to that that. that will give them an awful lot of information about this, who was involved with this, how to trace it, what to look for it. there is a note here, pressure cooker was used by the guy that attempted the bombing on times square. so this isn t the first time they have been used. and in, al qaeda manual that is one much the ways it is described you can make a bomb have more impact, have more effect. bill: another point here too, mayor, what is your gut tell you? are they close? do they have something? do they have a lot or are they a long way away at the home? what do you think? honestly bill, i can t tell. i don t have a gut about how close they are. they could be closer than they make it seem with the appeals that they re making because they are trying to hold things closer to the vest. i actually can t tell.
doing, asking everybody to bring everything in. it will take days to go through it but they just might find something. don t exclude the fact they already found something but they re not telling us for which they are perfectly correct. you have to have a different theories aboutifferent investigations but if there is some people on the loose right now i m not sure i would want them to know how close i was to catching them. i would want them to stay fat and happy and exactly where they are rather than giving them hey, we re almost ready to catch them. maybe they it will take off. bill: almost hike you hold some cards very close to the vest. it is moving now toward day three. you say the first 24 hours are the most critical. the first 24 hours of any investigation is absolutely critical. that is why handling of a crime scene is so important. doesn t mean you have to solve it in the first 24 hours, that s where you will gather most of the evidence that will probably make the case for