the full interview with laura bush as she takes us on a walking tour of the george w. bush library. begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern. she married of age of 16 and helps her husband be a better reader and writer. she sneaks supplies to the tennessee mountain, but by the time her husband of students assumes the presidency and she is in poor health. meet elisa johnson as we continue our series on first ladies with your questions and comments, monday night on c-span and c-span [no audio3. also c-span radio and c- span.org. next, the memorial for those who lost their lives in the explosion in texas. president obama traveled to waco, where he delivered remarks. this portion is about an hour and a half. [applause] hello. i want to spend a few minutes why people you about volunteered to be a firefighter and why they continue to do t hat. during the past few days but has come to my mind and your mind and other people s minds across the country. there are many reasons people give fo
0 local muslim community at all. the islamic society of boston took pains to report that neither brother was a member or even a regular attendee of the cambridge mosque. based on what we re learning about his life leading up to the bombing tamerlan tsarnaev does not seem to have been taken in by an extremist movement. these anecdotes we do have of his interactions with the muslim community in fact tell the opposite story and paint a portrait of profound alienation from the muslim community. of an extrication from anything larger. we have a mental category for people who commit violence inspired by an extremist version of islam and that is the category of terrorist. we also have another mental category for a pair of disturbed, self-radicalizing young men who create a private world that justifies the most horrific of acts, disturbed sociopaths. as the picture of the brothers motivation slowly comes into focus it is hard not to wonder if we are seeing something more like columbine than j
0 bona fide reporting, nuggets of information which we have not had until now upon which to piece together the answer to that central question that has been bothering all of us, the question of why. nbc news is able to report tonight that dzhokhar tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, they learned to build pressure cooker bombs over the internet, and were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. now, that early reporting may prove to be wrong. it may prove that the suspect retracts those statements later or maybe he s lying or he might be confused. but there is a small but significant cornerstone to build from that was not there before. we have left the realm of pure, complete speculation inside which would be frankly irresponsible to address questions of motives in the first place. in the case of dzhokhar tsarnaev even as we learn more about him and his life leading up to the bombing and what he is telling investigato
know. it s the question everyone is asking each other over beers and in offices. and it s, in the first hours and days after the attack speculation about motive and intent was all over the place. while credible information was actually nowhere to be found. but that is slowly starting to change. now today we are finally getting bona fide reporting, nuggets of information which we have not had until now upon which to piece together the answer to that central question that has been bothering all of us, the question of why. nbc news is able to report tonight that dzhokhar tsarnaev has told investigators he and his brother acted alone, they learned to build pressure cooker bombs over the internet, and were motivated by a desire to defend islam because of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. now, that early reporting may prove to be wrong. it may prove that the suspect retracts those statements later or maybe he s lying or he might be confused. but there is a small but significant cor