pearl was kidnapped and beheaded while in pakistan looking into the link between the shoe bomber richard reid and al qaeda. it prompted a georgetown university professor and a group of students to begin a painstaking 3 1/2 year investigation into what really happened to daniel pearl. the pearl project released its findings, and they reveal up to 27 men were involved in the kidnap and murder, and 14 of them are still free on the streets of pakistan. asran omani is the director of the pearl project, and jessica redding is a student reporter from the pearl project. they join me from washington. asra, i want to start with you. what is the pearl project? explain to all of us how it was founded, why it was started. in 2002, i left karachi, pakistan, with this question in my mind about who had actually killed danny. danny was visiting my house with