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 magistrate made and was totall

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bennie thompson, ranking democrat on the house homeland security committee, congressman debbie wasserman schultz blackburn and jason chaffetz also on the house homeland security committee. here's what i'm gathering from the show today talking to folks in office and out of office observing from an expert point of view doesn't look as though there were really dots that weren't connected. it looks as though it worked even though it ended up horribly. give me all your takes, start over here, on whether -- are you troubled by anything? do you think there was basically there was not much more that could have been done? >> well, first of all, i would like to thank the men and women who collectively put the forces together to catch the men. once you look at it from an oversight standpoint, we should look at exactly what happened. but at this point trying to point fingers saying the dots weren't connected is a little bit early. let's get in, let's review it. and at some point if there are some things we need to change, let's change them. >> a few of the things that have emerged, one is that they were --

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we'll talk with dnc chair congresswoman debby wasserman schultz. what's next? a lot going on today. here some things we thought you should know. it's interesting today. president obama unveiled details of a new $100 million initiative to study our brains. the human brain. the goal is to find cures for disorders like alzheimer's, parkinson's's, and autism. >> there is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked. the brain initiative will change that by giving scientists the fools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and better understand how we think and how we learn. >> and the fbi has arrested a half dozen high ranking new york state and city politicians in an alleged scheme. all are charged in an alleged scheme to buy senator malcolm smith a spot in that race. investigators say some of the officials arrested were set to receive at least $40,000 in bribes. those are the things we just thought you should know. it's ju. ♪ the middle of this special moment and i need to run off to the bathroom. ♪ i'm fed up with always having to put my bladd

it was interesting to listen to debbie wasserman schultz. not being the enemy of the good. then we have this overheated rhetoric. the thing to do is to do these universal background checks. it's recognized by the supreme court as a reasonable restriction on the second amendment, people would go for it but some people want to continue to have the issue. mike thompson, democrat from california, recently said you know, one of the reasons we're having trouble getting conservative democrats is because of the overheated rhetoric from the left. so this is not rocket science. you have to do the doable. what's doable this week in the senate and the house are universal background checks. >> okay. kelly ann, it seems to me imminently sensible. why wouldn't there just be unanimity on a universal background check? >> you're presuming there are background checks that will work. everybody wants universal background checks that will work. >> do you? >> of course. the ones we currently have in place have been woefully, painfully executed. in 2010, it's all g

find the note they were saying, you have to give your email account and your zip code to debbie wasserman schultz. you said all right, if you are really claiming that has nothing to do with your attempts to fund-raiser or improve your data mining capabilities, why don't you say it. they did not do that. before you came out, we reached out and asked them directly whether they were prepared to do that as weanld we have not received any response. is it beyond the pale to be asking people for their email addresses if they want to send a message of support? >> i think what you want to do is tell them where they can help. all americans are saying how can we help the victims of this tragedy. we do it. the chairman does it. how they can do that direct compassion and spirit of helping neighbors. last place, how can we take advantage of it. when you click on their website, they own all this information and they have full authority to use it in the future going forth for any number of purposes. its simple thing they should do at the dnq, we made a mistake, we will not use any information for any purposes th

debbie wasserman schultz, when there is a wavering mother who's got young kids and she's sure whether she wants to run for congress or not while the kids are young, they have debbie wasserman schultz to call her and she says "armen young mother with the two twins and kept my family. back in family" if it's a different situation they might have senator kirsten gillibrand call from new york. she she had a young family, moved them down here. so they deploy different people depending on the situation, depending on what the person's question is: . most recruiters say the number one thing they do in the process is figure out what people are concerned about. if it's family, a person who has the same situation. if it's the salary, $170,000 is a lot of money. some of these people are multimillionaires. ron johnson from ohio is a u.s. senator. he is worth millions and millions of dollars. they have to figure of how to balance all those things. host: we should run through the rest of the recruiters. for the national republican congressional committee is greg walden, a republican from oregon. the

coming up, momentarily, i'll have a chance to speak with congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz.in d.c. if a few minutes. hi, everyone. good morning. developing news topping our agenda this morning, red line crossed. the obama administration treading very carefully on the global stage and in washington after revealing the mounting evidence of chemical weapons used by the syrian government. america's top diplomat, secretary of state, john kerry, spent his morning behind closed doors on capitol hill briefing members of the house and at 1:55 eastern time, president obama will host jordan's king abdullah at the white house, their second meeting in just a matter of weeks. more than 500,000 syrians have fled to jordan since the start of the civil war more than two years ago. president obama has yet to publicly comment on this new evidence of chemical weapons use, but referred to them as a game changer just months ago. >> that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. that would change my equat

debbie wasserman schultz, when there is a wavering mother who's got young kids and she's not sure whether wants to run for congress or not while the kids are young, they have debbie wasserman schultz to call her and she says "armen young mother with the two twins and kept my family. back in family" situationdifferent they might have senator kirsten gillibrand call from new york. when she had a young family, she moved them down here. so they deploy different people depending on the situation, depending on what the person's question is: . most recruiters say the number one thing they do in the process is figure out what people are concerned about. if it's family, a person who has the same situation. if it's the salary, $170,000 is a lot of money. some of these people are multimillionaires. ron johnson from ohio is a u.s. senator. he is worth millions and millions of dollars. they have to figure of how to balance all those things. host: we should run through the rest of the recruiters. for the national republican congressional committee is greg walden, a republican from oregon. the national

. >> eric: colonel, are your good friend, debbie wasserman schultz will she be able to mobilize the democratsn this? >> i don't think you can mobilize the democrats on this. what this is circular means why we go after gun ownership. what is worse, eric, this is part of the precedent and fallout from the supreme court decision about the affordable care act and individual mandate. once again we have a government that believes it can modify behavior by taxation, by mandating that you have to go to a private sector agreement or else you'll be fined. which means a tax. this is the danger of what chief justice roberts decided. we have to stand against this. where does it go next? the government will tell you you must do this or we will fine you if you don't accommodate this behavior. >> eric: you are hundred percent right. we dubbed it obamacare for guns, who knows, obamacare for internet. everything you do, they could mandate, by insurance for something or you get fined. >> think about this, if you are the insurance industry, you are leaps and bounds, you are going to create a commodity that has t