. >> investigating the investigators with our panel, representatives bennie thompson, marsha blackburn, debbie wasserman schultz and jason chaffetz. and the president headlines the white house correspondents' dinner. >> i've got 99 problems and now jay-z's one. >>> i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." first we want to go to the latest on the boston bombings investigation. a u.s. official says russia wiretapped a 2011 conversation between the mother of one of the accused boston bombers and someone who may have been one of her sons discussing jihad. russia turned over the information to the fbi within the last few days. meantime, the fbi has wrapped up its search of a landfill near boston. investigators were looking for a laptop supposedly used by bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. it is believed the computer could hold information about the planning of the attack. the obama administration is defending the decision to inform the surviving suspect of his miranda rights. attorney general eric holder spoke with cnn last night. >> the decision to mirandize is one that the magi

. >> let me bring in congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi and a member of the homeland security committee. congressman, good morning. i know you will be briefed today. what can you tell us right now? >> well, i think we can assure the public that congress is monitoring the situation. we're working with state and local partners to make sure we get all the evidence and i think the system worked. our responders were there. police, fire, health personnel. what we're now doing is collecting the evidence to try to get to the bottom of what really happened. >> is there any doubt in your mind at this point that this was likely an act of terror? >> well, i think before we tie it to an act of terror, it was a bad deed. whether it's a lone wolf, international terrorist related organization or what, we have to find the individuals involved. and then we can let the information we receive call what it is. so, our state, federal, local individuals doing their job. let's make sure we catch the perpetrator or perpetrators who did this dastardly deed and let the facts drive us to an assu

in our next half hour we'll talk to democratic congressman benny thompson of mississippi.y the fbi on the boston terror attack. we'll find out what he has to say. zoraida? >> thank you, john. six minutes past the hour. a story developing while you were sleeping in bangladesh. an eight story commercial building collapsing on the outskirts of the capital city of dhaka. local reports say at least 70 people have been killed. hundreds more are injured. rescue workers are now digging through the rubble, as you can see there. they are trying to find survivors who may still be trapped underneath all the rubble. >>> and the mystery surrounding who sent ricin tainted letters to president obama and two other officials deepens now, after charges are dropped against one-time suspect paul kevin curtis. the u.s. attorney handling the case says new information has come to light now. but are investigators now any closer to finding who actually sent the poison? cnn's victor blackwell is following all of these new developments for us. that is a big question. who did it, then? >> that is the

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i also want to thank chairman mccaul from homeland security and chairman -- ranking member benny thompson from homeland security to work with us to get an amendment that was very important, as you heard from jan schakowsky, that amendment basically says that the point of entry for any communication is on the civil side of our government, homeland security. and we hope to pass that amendment. i feel very strongly that we do that we will have addressed a majority of the issues that's important to this bill and to our security and to our privacy. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized because the gentleman from michigan will close. mr. ruppersberger: i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from maryland yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan is recognized for the remaining two minutes. mr. rogers: thank you. i want to quickly, madam chair, address some of the moving targets on the bill. when we move to change something in the bill, the 19 privacy amendments, people decide they don't like it for whatever reason, move the