almost immediately. federal agents joining local law enforcement in trying to fig wrur out what happened and who did this. earlier tonight, not long ago here outside mass general i spoke with congressman bill keating. congressman keating represents the suburb south of boston. he s also a member of the house homeland security committee. he s also a former district attorney in massachusetts which gives him a good perspective on what happened here today. you are a new congressman. you are not new to massachusetts politics and to public service. and am i right that you serve on the homeland security committee? that s correct. can you shed any light from your perspective as somebody on the homeland security committee in terms of how this incident should be characterized, how we should be thinking about this investigation going forward? it s hard to separate yourself out from being someone that s represented boston before and being here. the city is just has a somberness tonight that i
it was for better or for worse. it still sparks that kind of passion here to this day, martin. michelle kosinski, thanks so much, michelle. let s bring in our panel. msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe. vp of msnbc.com. here with me in new york, msnbc political analyst, jonathan alter, a columnist for bloomberg view. richard, we ve heard lionizing of mrs. thatcher today. particularly from conservatives. her record domestically is complicated and her leadership was deeply divisive, wasn t it? complicated is the nice way to put it, martin. she was a radicalizing fig wrur for people on the left. she was obviously lionized by people on the right. and there was nothing in between at all. you know, she did break through the glass ceiling. she was a pioneer as a woman. she also brought a sensible of what the middle class wanted in britain which was to get on. for people to buy their own