issue, knowing where the threat is coming from. now, the threat is coming to the muslim community. once you start saying, we re going to dragnet or surveil a community, you ignore dangerous threats that are not in that community and you go after people who don t have anything to do with it. remember, we went after a community in world war ii. and the japanese internment is a national stain on our country. and we are still apologizing for it. federal authorities believe they have correctly identified the man suspected of sending letters containing poison ricin tot president, a u.s. senator, and a mississippi judge. james everett dutschke is expected to appear in court later today, charged with possessing and attempting to use ricin as a biological weapon. according to officials, the arrest took place at dutschke s home without incident. they originally arrested dutschke s online nemesis, kevin paul curtis, who s an elvis
throughout the morning, we ll be live from some of the hardest-hit locations. joe and mika will be in asbury park, new jersey, where up and down the state, the floodwaters have receded, but much of the destruction remains. and willie joins from bell harbor, new york, in the rockaways, where the coastline barely resembles what it used to be. all morning along, we ll be sitting down with the major players involved in the cleanup, including live interviews with governor chris christie, senator chuck schumer, and congressman peter king. but first, let s get to the news here at 5:30 a.m. on the east coast. we begin with the latest from syria and the growing calls for the united states to intervene in that country s two-year-old civil war. lawmakers from both parties urging the obama administration to take stronger a against the assad regime following last week s findings by the white house that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against the country s rebel fighters. c
pete williams on the case for us. thank you, sir. turning to an unexpected document and another security story. remember the investigation into ricin? that s the poison allegedly intended for the white house and roger wicker. well, the fbi apparently nabbed the wrong man. in mississippi, a federal judge released kevin paul curtis after the fbi dropped all charges against him with those letters. i respect president obama. i love my country. and would never do anything to pose a threat to him or any other u.s. official. this past week has been a nightmare for myself and my family. investigators say the fbi found no evidence in a ricin in a search of his home. so as he was being released, the fbi was searching the tupelo home of a man name jay edward
duski, an acquaintance of curtis. he says he is innocent. in moments, it began to look like a blooper reel. what are you plans right now? your immediate plans? find my dog moo cow. moo cow got away. she got loose when homeland security swarmed in on me when i went to check my mail. i haven t heard anything. i just really worried about her. i bought a fish a week before got moo cow. my brother s found moo cow. moo cow is fine. we re not making this up, folks. then there s the added fact that curtis happens to be an elvis impersonator who once performed at a party wicker was given. when senator reid was asked for his reaction of his release, he had none, but did reveal another
0 weren t, the reason. yes. the system pinged when he was leaving the united states. by the time he returned, all investigations had been, the matter had been closed. is it true that his identity document did not match his airline ticket and if so, why did tsa miss the discrepancy? there was a mismatch there. i m dumbfounded with with her answer. i was told two nights ago that in march, they got a letter from the russian intelligence services that the older brother was a radical islamist, watch out for him. now, i hear from the homeland security secretary that we did know he left the country, we just didn t know he came back. this makes no sense to me. how in the world could we have missed all of this and this is why we need a national security legal system to focus on gathering intelligence. let s bring in nbc s justice correspondent, pete williams. so, pete, i can t help the system pinged. that is a little bit of a different story about what we knew about tamerlan tsarnaev