the finish line, not so much the second one that was further away. as can you see right there, erin, i m stopping it so you can get a good look at it, you can see this pock pack is really much more of a light gray or white color, whereas the one up ahead here, this is the one that is black. so erin, it s just context. it doesn t necessarily tell us a whole lot but you re absolutely right. when you say you just want to watch it and watch it again, this is what the fbi wants people to do. watch this and watch this and look at the individual pictures of these people and see if somehow in doing that, you can spot somebody or something that will help them make an arrest. erin? tom foreman, thank you. i want to bring in jeff smith, the associate director of the national center for media forensics, expert at analyzing video and counterterrorism deputy is back. good to have both of you. let me start with you, jeff smith. when you look at this video, let me ask you one of the things we ve tal
we would like to ask you will you please leave our spot. we would appreciate it. you report the real news. no. that person was causing some issues during the press conference today. i want to bring in fbi profiler john douglas in the conversation and counter-terrorism expert jeff beaty. thank you both for taking the time. jeff, i want you to take a look at the pictures again. you ve been looking at them again and again and again. what stands out about these men in particular? they are young. they re white. they re very confident. they kind of look like college kids. i hate to say it, the possibility always exist that s perhaps they re former military. we have some experience with these pressure cooker bombs because they ve been to afghanistan, et cetera. so i think it s wide open as to who exactly they are. one thing that stood out to me, i want to re-emphasize what the fbi said, i saw images with people with their hands in their pockets. it could have been a weapon they ha
in part because of the angle they had, i guess, but also the way he was wearing his baseball cap. absolutely. and you know, you mentioned earlier, erin, the comfort with which they seemed to carry these explosives. yes. slung over one shoulder. easy to put down. they re comfortable with it. that s the type of thing that a soldier now, that doesn t mean it s a u.s. soldier. that means it s someone who probably has experience, it could be a u.s. adversary, it could certainly be a foreign trained soldier or insurgent who is here to carry out such an attack. so still, we have a broad spectrum of people we still have to consider and look at. and when you look at these men, what about the fact that there s more than one? what do you take away from that? to me, i find a level of organization, they haven t told anybody there s discipline there. there s discipline. absolutely. well, you know, that is not inconsistent with the observation you made about how comfortable they are holdi