okay, aid rdrienne long, tha you for the report. as soon as dzhokhar tsarnaev is medically available, he will be questioned by the federal government s elite high-value detainee interrogation group. so how do they get inside the mind of a terrorist? my next guest spent 30 years in counterterrorism and was the co-lead of the u.s.s. cole bombing investigation. joining me now in studio, robert mcfadden, former deputy assistant director for counterintelligence operations. let s go to what s happening inside that hospital room right now, this high-value detainee is being interviewed, if he can speak, which actually remains in question. what are the first things they need to find out. just going by my background and working some cases like this before, and with an acknowledgement that i m going to have to come up with some different term that we remain in speculation territory. but in a case like this, first
let s talk about the perry announcement and the impact that will have on the race. well, look, it is he s the lead let s be realistic. you and i are political reporters. we re here, yes, and ames is a co-lead for us now because we re here. but if you look from 30,000 feet, the lead is the longest serving active governor of the second largest state is announcing that he s running for president. that s a big deal. and he s arriving in iowa tomorrow. that s right. new hampshire tonight, iowa tomorrow. in fact, he s going to be in iowa for two days. it s interesting. in his release he emphasizes he s going to have a vigorous campaign in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. the romney team likes to emphasize new hampshire, downplay iowa and emphasize nevada and florida. i had a smart republican friend of mine who s sort of retired from politics these days, who said, you know, with rick perry we re going to know in two weeks. there s sharp edges about him. he s a well-defined
looking into that. widening the investigation. the fbi is at least a co-lead in all of this. san bernardino still says they are taking a lead but the fbi is getting more and more involved as the investigation goes on. megan? thank you and thank you for your caution in that name. we will treat this responsibly on this program. joining in me now is mark fuhrman, he is a former detective and fox contributor. a bizarre day in terms of the information that the police and law enforcement has shared. when you hear them talking about, still, how the third person who has been detained may or may not be connected to this, that they can t they don t know the ethnicity of the two shooters, they suspect the suspects that dead. what did you learn from that