be stretched much, much further back. anderson? right. yeah. again, just what we were talking about, these things happen all the time. so let s just to the folks at the headquarters in atlanta, let s just dial back on going to any place where there is an evacuation because people call this stuff in all the time. it happens all the time, let s just step back from it. i lost track what time it is, but i know there is a press conference at 5:00 and that seems look a far time away, but i m pretty confident that at least there is going to be a decision made about what picture they re going to show. there might be multiple pictures. so what picture they re going to show. and then determining whether anyone has any information. i ve been saying there is a local feel to this investigation. doesn t matter where this person comes from, who his affiliates are. big decision. if you re going to put out a picture of somebody, and say, do you know this person, how sure
they do something stupid, sort of show their hand and get arrested. so this may be part of a law enforcement uses media. are you shocked? shocked. it is interesting. and kind of a delicate dance for law enforcement at this point now do you go completely public with what you have in the hopes that like they did with the unabomber, releasing his manifesto, that led to the brother of the unabomber identifying some of the nature of the writing. do you go public with all of the information you have in the hopes that that will stir the pot and alert somebody, or do you try to hold it close to your vest? it may be too soon i think it will depend on whether there is a hot trail or a cold trail. if there is a picture of someone and they have no idea, hundreds of thousands of people at the boston marathon, the trail may be cold, and they may want to go public because, as i ve been saying, this person was here from for some time. we can know that just
references with this photo, then it has really nothing to do with the pressure cooker, you identified it independently. you made the point about the arrest, though, we should take a second on. if there is an arrest, that means they found more than identification, they found probable cause for this. that s a pretty legitimate legal that s what i was saying. everyone is watching. i have enough confidence in government having served in it that there is not going to be a very public screwup and that s why i m going to stand here and be somewhat cautious about what we know in terms of a specific arrest as compared to knowing who the individual is. now, this is going to unfold in a half hour, an hour, people will know more in sort of a short time. but they could bring him in without an arrest, it could be an interview. he could have consented to it. he could have consented to t but the kinds of information that is going out is it would be let s say there is there is a performan
people are people involved here, the jttf, the fbi, the department of justice, this white house, they are not going to put someone forward and say, oh, sorry, 48 hours later. so let s just we should be cautious until we actually know there is a person in custody. why this is relevant is if there is still someone on the loose, i don t want to say this person will do something again, we ll need the public again to tell us as we have in other cases, maybe you ve seen him, maybe you saw him leaving boston, this city emptied out since monday. we have hundreds of thousands of people here during the boston marathon. a lot of people are gone. and so if that person is not here, they may be there are also people still in the hospital, still in critical condition, who may have seen something who were very close to the device when it went off. those closest to the device, those most injured, and they may be upon information down the road. it is very possible we have all this information
of the you ve been working your sources. i was one of the people first on the air when we said fran townsend had a federal source saying an arrest has been made, i had a boston source saying we got him. i m checked they as high as the attorney general of united states who would know if an arrest has been made. this law enforcement communicated with significant progress has been made, but no arrest. anyone who says an arrest is ahead of themselves. went back to the boston law enforcement sources who said got him, identification on arrest, the source says can t talk to you right now, says there is significant blowback of the leaks. more information later today. one source i was communicating with said even to say there was an specific identification was to go too far. but several boston and other sources said we have identity based on the enhanced video. they call it a significant breakthrough but there has been some significant confusion and question of an arrest. what identificatio