brothers were alone, whether there was a bomb maker or whether there was training that went on when the older brother went to dagestan. just to offer one note on the conversation you were having earlier, about the stove piping, whether or not there was enough information-sharing going on. we had on my show, the lead the other day, a man named thomas mcnamara. it was a job created in 2004. post 9/11, in charge of making sure all the agencies shared information. he did not think everything worked the way it was supposed to. he thought that the fbi seemed to be holding onto their information too tightly, as had been the case pre-911. the russian intelligence, not only did they go to the fbi, they went to the cia in 2011. there was a lot of concern there. anderson? i talked to kocongressman per
like the tsarnaev brothers, that they are the new threat. one of the dangers that we now face are self-radicalized individuals who are already here in the united states. in some cases may not be part of any kind of network, but because of whatever warped, twisted ideas they may have, may decide to carry out an attack. jessica yellin joins us now. she s our chief white house correspondent. and jessica, in the back and forth with the president today, heard you press the president on some of the criticism he s been getting mostly concerning intelligence sharing before the attack here in boston, just up the street on boylston. if you would, walk me through that exchange. reporter: sure, brooke. the president effectively defended law enforcement s actions leading up to the boston attack and then forcefully defended them after the attack. he effectively accuseded critics who say intelligence was missed, because of bad signals or bad sharing. he accused them of playing politic
0 boston area. i ll be back later today, 5:00 p.m. eastern, in the situation room. we ll be focusing in on the president s news conference. he made news, a lot of it, at that news conference. we ll go in depth 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. that s it for me. i m wolf blitzer. brooke baldwin and jake tapper pick up our coverage from boston right now. i m jake tapper alongside brooke copley square for live coverage of the investigation and the fallout from the boston marathon terrorist attacks. we re standing by now for new developments concerning the boston bombing suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev. so meantime, we heard from the president. he spoke this morning, held a news conference. and he warned that lone wolves like the tsarnaev brothers, that they are the new threat. one of the dangers that we now face are self-radicalized individuals who are already here in the united states. in some cases may not be part of any kind of network, but because of whatever warped, twist
they ll join us and you can join us, as well. tonight, everything we know ant the bombing plot and that we didn t know this morning. growing calls for america to stop the slaughtering in syria. and the sports story that is much bigger than the basketball court, bigger than the lead. jason collins becoming the first athlete in big sports to announce he is gay. there are many, the big headline out of there tonight, female dna was found on one of the bomb parts, we don t yet know who it came from. that s exactly right. reporters waiting all day seeing thooz huge bags of dna, literally labeled dna sample. it s almost done for the press, done for the photo op. clearly, they ve been waiting and watching and wondering whether it was just these two boys who came up with this plot or was it somebody else? and you can see the f.b.i. and all the other investigators trying to figure out were they helped? that s really what we all want to know. do you feel the russians have been as
and the main reason for that, and i here will be very critical of the fbi, among the federal the fbi has been known for many years for being the most reluctant to share information with state and local officials. and i have in my in government spent many years talking and working on t issues and continually there were expressions of sincere frustration on the part of state and local officials because they weren t getting the information that they them in the they could take ambassador mcnamara, thanks for joining to it the. we ll have you back to talk more about what needs to be done in the wake of this tragedy. coming up after a massive explosion kills 14 people in texas, a cartoon pins the blame on the state of texas. well that doesn t-n sit well