morning. we appreciate it. also we re asking it as our question of the day. the stunning admission from arnold schwarzenegger. we want to know what you think. what a politician does in their private life matter to their public life. e-mail us, tweet us, go to our blog, find us on facebook. so many different ways to weigh in. we will read these comments later in the program. breaking overnight, a bomb square as queen elizabeth ii arrives in ireland. irish authorities say they defused one bomb on a bus and then rushed to the scene of another suspicious device. these are live pictures you re watching of the queen s plane arriving. dublin is on lockdown. it s the first state visit by a sitting british monarch in 100 years. she s being greeted with the red carpet and pomp and circumstance. the irish say there s never been a bigger security operation in the country but certainly as zain verjee was reporting it s a historic visit. the first visit from a sitting monarch in 100 years. t
fin noll la sweeney is live for us in dublin. what s the latest on this? well, there s more than one bomb hoax. that bomb hoax you re talking about was last night when police received a tip-off and an ied on a private bus carrying 30 people into dublin. it was defused. as we speak there is another bomb alert this time north of the irish border in bell fast. it s thought that irish republican dissidents will try to disrupt the queen s visit, something like $42 million being spent on security over the next few days in the run up to president obama s visit here next monday. money well spent says the irish government because they want to boost ireland s profile amid the backdrop of a serious economic decline in recent years. on the queen s agenda when she arrives here she will go visit the irish president, go to the garden of remembrance and lay a wreath for those who died in the 1916 easter rising.
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the relations, it indicates that peace process that was put in place has been successful. but there are people out there that don t want to see a closer relationship with britain and these are the guys that are planting these bombs and making these bomb threats known as dissident republicans and they don t like the peace deal, don t want to be too close to britain and they re using this as an opportunity to grab the headlines and undermine things because they haven t, frankly, been too relevant the past few years. that s what they re trying to do. bottom line, will they disrupt her schedule or is it going on as planned? right now it is going on as planned. what they ve done is, they have had the biggest security operation ever in ireland. you ve got something like 10,000 police and army forces that are all out all over the place. downtown dublin is in total lockdown, about 30 streets or so have been closed off. you ve got air, land and sea patrols as well. you know what the price t
phoned in tip-off and the security forces basically tracked down a bus on the western side of dublin, they stopped it, they found an explosive device and then they defused that successfully. now there was also one bomb that another bomb threat that was called in, but that ended up turning out to be a hoax, and many security analysts are saying, guys, that just expect this right all day today, as well as right through the queen s four-day visit. it s going to impact any of the queen s plans and remind us why it s so significant for the queen to be going to ireland? this is a really big deal. people have called this a watershed moment, a historic moment, extraordinary, the beginning of a new era. basically, the last time a monarch went to ireland was 100 years ago. her grandfather george v went there when ireland was a british colony, right? there s been so much bad blood between britain and ireland and much of the 20th century, so this is a big deal because it indicates that solid