when brave law enforcement officers did their jobs in that city so courageously, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns. reporter: so i have been following this pretty closely, mara, and the nra officials confirm to me this is the first time that the nra has raised the boston marathon bombing in connection with the gun control fight. so it s an interesting turn. if you ll remember, the two brothers had illegal guns and that m.i.t. police officer who lost his life was also carrying a gun. and lapierre s remarks generally were really aggressive, as is his trademark. he said that president obama was exploiting the newtown tragedy and that the background check legislation in the senate would not have prevented newtown. mara? all right nbc s kasie hunt in texas. thanks so much for that. just ahead with the big three, a potential deal breaker that could kill immigration reform. the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom.
certificate to us. we believe those gunshot wounds tamerlan got them during the shootout in watertown. the blunt force trauma we believe happened when his brother took the car and ran over tamerlan s body and dragged him for some time. mara? katy tur live in boston. let s bring in washington post security correspondent greg miller for more on the latest on this case. is greg with us? there he is. greg, thank you for being with us this afternoon. sure. so i want to talk about tamerlan tsarnaev s widow, katherine russell. investigators seem to be focusing on her. they took some dna from her last week. they continue to speak with her. what do we know about her role in this, if any? they have seized her computer and they have found some troubling material on that laptop, including a copy of inspire, which is allegedly the source of the recipe that the tsarnaev brothers used to make their bomb. what s unclear is whether this was material that she put on that computer or maybe he
retardant to put down some of those flames. mara? this wasn t the only fire the crews had to contend with this weekend. tell us what happened in northern california. reporter: well, there s also fires that are breaking nout northern california, and it gives you a sense of this fire season that s breaking out across the state. now, officials in northern california say there have been two fires in the past 24 hours. one in the city of san jose. that burned for about an hour. it was not very dangerous but it s certainly something they re keeping a close eye on because it is in a developed or residential part of the city. the major fire that has broken out took place in the about two hours north of sacramento. about 6,000 acres have been destroyed in that fire. that is taking place mostly in a rural area. there is no major danger to any residential buildings, but no doubt officials there also are concerned with the erratic wi7nd patterns, the dry conditions, that fire could continue
rebels is not going to stop the disintegration of syria at this point. and so i m extraordinarily reluctant to see the administration agonizing over its red line doing anything that ultimately in the end is not going to be effective. well, you mention pretty much all of the options that are on the table, and you say that none of them are really going to be effective. what do you think the u.s. can do if they want to stop this bloodshed? well, unfortunately, the only thing that is left to do is to convince the russians to stop arming the assad regime and to quarantine the borders of syria preventing arms getting in. that requires the consent of the russians. that s why senator kerry secretary of state kerry is going to russia i think over the next 24 hours, to see if he can get russian buy-in. but, look, the russians, particularly president putin, mara, have no real interest in jettisoning assad because they know what s going to happen as i know what is going to happen. there s go
strategist and former huckabee campaign manager. welcome to you both. hi, mara. thank you. chip, does the fact that israel has acted in this way put implied pressure on the u.s. to do something in this conflict? well, certainly the region is very is in trouble right now. there s lots of things going on. president obama drew a line in the sand with chemical weapons. they seem to have crossed that line. he s got to do something because this is just going to escalate and let no doubt that everybody in the region is going to be watching president obama to see what he does, especially iran. well, you say we ve got to do something. what do you think there s no good option, but what do you think the best option is? that s the problem. there is no good option. i think tough do some targeted military strikes. what we re seeing is hezbollah seems to be inching towards the assad regime by saying we and talking about them like it s a team effort to make sure they said they would st