eric holder's decision. we may not come to any kind of independent or at least through this suspect, knowledge of how they were able to build this bomb. fox news was reporting today that this bomb was very sophisticated and it contained details that you can not find on the web. you could not find the particular mechanisms of this bomb in the al-qaeda inspire on-line magazine where they claim they got all the information. so the question is, and how do we get this information? how did they get the details to build this bomb and did they actually have person to person bomb training and with whom? >> well, i would assume that tamerlan, when he went to russia, he got that bomb training. he certainly in his own experts, have told everybody on the news he didn't go there for six months and watch tv. he was going there for a specific reason. he was radicalized. he vocalized. he got kicked out of his mosque. he was seeking some kind of training recognition. he wanted to join and be a bigger part of jihad. you know,

who knew eric holder was so sensitive? then there's the easter egg roll, which is supposed to be just a nice, fun event with the kids. i go out on the basketball court. took 22 shots. made two of them. that's right. two hits, 20 misses. the executives at nbcsk, what's your secret? so yes, maybe i have lost a step. but some things are beyond my control. for example, this whole controversy about jay-z going to cuba. unbelievable. i got 99 problems and now jay-z is one. that's another rap reference, bill. i just wanted to let you know. of course, everybody has plenty of advice. maureen dowd said i could solve all my problems if i were just more like dougl i "the american president." and i know michael is here tonight. michael, what's your secret, man? could it be that you were an actor in an aaron sorkin liberal fanta fantasy? might that have something to do with it? i don't know. i know republicans are still sorting out what happened in 2012, but one thing they all agree on is they needed to do a better job reaching out to m

and then i wanted to just continue with some of eric holder's statement. valor of state and local police and dedication of federal law enforcement and intelligence officials and the vigilance of members of the public we've once again shown though who target innocent americans and those attempts at terrorizing our cities will not escape justice. we will hold those ponl i responsible for this heinous act accountable to the fullest extent of the law. so to the same question of death penalty and alan dershowitz, i would like you to weigh-in. is it not an extraordinarily valuable bargaining chip whether you have the -- whether you want to actually carry it out or not, just to attach the death penalty to charges in a prosecution, doesn't it carry an enormous amount of weight if you do want to seek any kind of plea deal or get information about co-conspirators? >> well, it depends on the defendant's views. if he sees himself as a martyr, if he sees himself as someone who wants to die, there were some reporting earlier on that he wrote a note in the boat saying th

we know that eric holder's department of justice. in the case of m.f. global it appears as though perhaps there's been a cover up let's go back to lanny breuer the assistant attorney general sixty minutes documented that in the two thousand and eight mortgage crisis specifically with countrywide they did not ask the appropriate wist witnesses questions there were the financial fraud investigator had significant information and that person wasn't question according to this report if you look at what's happened in m.f. global it's gotten more and more brazen. you know the law firm that lanny breuer now works at is now employed at and was the same law firm he worked at before he was at the department of justice they represent john corazon and you can make the argument that throughout this process clear evidence was in view but it wasn't invented this this process of not not investigating what is considered clear criminal fraud is damaging to the financial markets one can make the argument that if you look at how the decisions were made in the acid transfer

frauds to commit acts of criminality knowing that nobody in the justice department whether it's eric holder or lanny brower brewer will come after them because they they basically have taken the system hostage correct it's fascinating because once you start to get in the because you're starting to go down a rabbit hole and i think that this rabbit hole needs to be explored what is the current situation has appalled people there are three people on the record at the department of justice who have stood up and said that this is wrong there's a u.s. attorney who. has rumored to have significant problems with the m.f. global investigation and who after receiving a letter from regulators suddenly resigned and i think there are number of people that are deeply troubled with where this situation with m.f. global stands but understand that m.f. global is really the symptom the problem is the fact that investigations are not being robustly conducted and that people involved know this and they are acting accordingly what what needs to happen is there needs to be deterrents and there needs to be a mes

would prosecute him if eric holder wasn't in stevie cohen's pocket looking as botox he puts that money into something that's going to maintain its value i salute you stevie cohen of all the terrorists out there you are the primo to lock down the primo terrorist you're doing a fantastic job ok but i want to compare this to the american dream why it is like the dream it's called the dream rev picasso's now he was that he bought it from steve wynn the vegas casino magnate and he was due to buy a few years ago in two thousand and six for one hundred thirty nine million dollars which is sixteen million less than one hundred fifty five million isn't well what happened to that sale with steve wynn accidently elbowed the painting ruining it so he couldn't conclude that sale. when received a forty five million dollars insurance payout to fix it and now he has sold it for more now that is damaged it's not perfect he sold it for more so in america we have a broken american dream we have a broken elbow the markets have been elbowed they've been elbowed they've been elbowed and yet just like this p

athena jones has more from washington. >> reporter: attorney general eric holder under fire from republicans for agreeing to a judge's decision to read the boston bombing suspect his miranda rights. dzhokhar has since clammed up. valuable sfogs out of reach. speaking to cnn holder answered that for the first time at white house correspondents dinner. >> the decision to mirandize him is one that the magistrate and totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two-day period we were able to question him under the public safety exception. i think everyone was done appropriately and we got leads. >> reporter: republican party king shooting back saying investigators may never find out whether others were involved and how the brothers became radicalized. >> the fact is that the fbi was only 16 hours into an i interrogation and got buto much more was -- still not there. eric holder now is saying he approved the interrogation being stopped is disgraceful because that interrogation could have ended up saving many american lives. we don't know what full consequences will be. >> reporter: kin

frauds to commit acts of criminality knowing that nobody in the justice department whether it's eric holder or lanny brower brewer will come after them because they they basically have taken the system hostage correct it's fascinating that once you start to get in the because you're starting to go down a rabbit hole and i think that this rabbit hole needs to be explored what is the current situation has appalled people there are three people on the record at the department of justice who have stood up and said that this is wrong there's a u.s. attorney who has rumored to have significant problems with the global investigation and who after receiving a letter from regulators suddenly resigned and i think there are a number of people that are deeply troubled with where this situation with m.f. global stands but understand that i'm a flow bill is really the symptom the problem is the fact that investigations are not being robustly conducted and that people involved know this and they are acting accordingly what what needs to happen is there needs to be deterrents and there needs to be a messag

magistrate judge and he needs to have his initial appearance and i'm not going to bother to run this by eric holdero, that is above his pay grade. >> megyn: is there any -- >> that decision was made from the top. >> megyn: is there any chance that holder hol himself wouldn't have weighed in on it, on a case this big? >> i can't see how he would not have. i certainly would have in his place. >> megyn: so that means eric holder understood. if that is true, he understood filing the criminal complaint on monday would result in initial appearance at the hospital with a magistrate judge where miranda would be provided and he went ahead with the plan anyway. and according to the f.b.i. agents, nobody was asking them about whether they were done. and about whether they needed to continue their questioning, as we now learn this guy may have had another big target in his sights. >> yeah. again, the filing of the charge, didn't have to result in interruption. but i can't believe that somebody didn't tease it out, and say all right, file the charge. but do not go in until the high value interrogation group say

attorney general eric holder declined to comment on the wiretap. in addition to the terrorism charges tsarnaev faces, he could face more charges soon. a grand jury is being presented with evidence and an indictment will be presented sometime in the next few weeks. that we can expect to see tsarnaev in court. john? >> our thanks to tampa brown in massachusetts where tsarnaev is being held now. we want to go to russia right now. we have new information out of russia. nick what is the latest out of moscow? >> it is a complex chain of events here, but it leads to a village at dagestan last night where at 5:00 in the morning russian special forces killed two militants they are linked through their own investigations here, tangent links between them and tamerlan tsarnaev. tsarnaev was linked to a man off his youtube page. we don't know if they met, but tamerlan was interested in his activities. that man was killed in december, but in his group are a number of other militants. one of them was killed last night by russian special forces in dagestan. they s

eric holder says, and we got good leads. on the heels of the f.b.i.aying, valuable intelligence was left on the floor and we were shut down from per suing it! -- pursuing it! >> right, as we didn't follow up what came from russia initial complete the subsequent issues there, i think that's the problem. that's why the classification was wrong at the start of this. >> megyn: wow. >> i just disagree with that. anybody that watches tv knows about the miranda rulings. >> this isn't a made for tv show. >> the point is, jay, people know about it. what we've seen in the past is even with terrorists you get a skillful investigator. they may shut up, but they get them to talk. i think you're ignoring the past history case, jay. i think -- >> megyn: i got to run. we're coming up on a hard break. there's a lot more to discuss and we'll have you on at another time. thank you both. we appreciate it. up next, meet the new suspect charged today with sending those ricin-laced letters to president obama and others in the most bizarre story of the day >> megyn: kelly's

attorney general eric holder and his handling of the boston bombing suspect. athena jones joins us from the white house. >> reporter: the issue here is the timing from when this suspect was read his miranda warnings when he was advised he has the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer. that happened on monday and there are a lot of members of congress many of them republicans, who say they should have waited longer they could have don't more information from this suspect had they waited to read him those rights and that now we might not get answers to many many questions like how they were radicalized, if anyone else was involved in this. so eric holder made his first comments to our own brianna keilar last night when she had had a chance to ask him about this whole debate about the timing of the reading of those miranda rights. let's listen to what he had to say. >> the decision to mirandize him is one that the magistrate made anotally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two-day period t un

the answers he is demanding of eric holder. how did this happen? he is outraged about this interrogation being cut short and really very little accountability so far for this decision from the department of justice. they really haven't spelled out exactly how the decisions have been made and why there was not more coordination with the men and the women doing the interrogation of the nation's largest terror suspect right now. >>> in boston the massachusetts governor finds himself in the midst of a controversy after he refused to release any records of what kind of public assistance going to the boston bombing suspects. now he is changing his position slightly. hear from the governor in a second but the old are brother, he made very little money. his main focus was on boxing and highway he made no money at all. the breadwinner was the wife. katherine russell she was the one that was getting the welfare benefits. they were in her name. when she started making more money, the welfare stopped. they have confirmed that the brothers and parents were rece

frauds to commit acts of criminality knowing that nobody in the justice department whether it's eric holder or lenny brower brewer will come after them because they they basically have taken the system hostage correct it's fascinating because once you start to get in the because you're starting to go down a rabbit hole and i think that this rabbit hole needs to be explored what is the current situation has appalled will there are three people on the record at the department of justice who have stood up and said that this is wrong there's a u.s. attorney who has rumored to have significant problems with the m.f. global just a geisha and and who after receiving a letter from regulators suddenly resigned and i think there are a number of people that are deeply troubled with where this situation with m.f. global stands but i understand that i'm a flow bill is really the symptom the problem is the fact that investigations are not being robustly conducted and that people involved know this and they are acting accordingly what what needs to happen is there needs to be deterrents and there needs to

and new fbi director sean joyce though lawmakers that the agents did not call attorney-general eric holderr homeland security secretary general public, or any otr national security official and. they simply stepped away in deference to the magistrate judge in. whose decision was it to send that judge and attorneys into the room where the suspect was being interrogated in the first place? former attorney-general michael mackenzie telling it fox news million kelly earlier today, the decisio had to have come from attorney-general eric holder. >> is there any chance -- >> that decision was made from the top. >> any chance that eric holder himself would not have weighed in on a case this big? >> i cannot see how we would not i certainly would have. and. lou: the department of justice released the following statement today which does not deny that they made the decision. it pushes back and the investigators claim to being stunned. on sunday, that evening, scheduled an initial appearance from monday which had been coordinated with the prosecutors, federal defender, court reporter, u.s. marsha

eric holder is my favorite department of justice official. tom perez is my second favorite department of justice official. we are very honored today that tom perez has come from washington, dc, to give welcoming remarks here at this summit. tom perez is the assistant attorney general of the civil rights division in washington, dc, he was nominated for that position by president obama and sworn in in october of 2009 and we are all the lucky -- we are all very lucky that that happened in october of 2009. tom has spent his entire career in public service and on protecting the civil rights of our most vulnerable people. tom actually joined the civil rights division as a young lawyer and while he was there he prosecuted some of the most significant cases in the country. lawyers in the civil rights division get fanned out to places in the country to handle cases in mississippi and alabama and california and all over and tom was one of those people. he was sent to texas to handle a very significant hate crime case when he was a young lawyer that inv

do you go with eric holder on this or do you think there is cause for concern? >> no. i think the attorney general is quite right. there was never really a legal or constitutional basis to hold him as an enemy combatant. this is an american arrested on american soil for acts committed in america. that's about as far from the paradigm of a military combatant that as a foreigner caught on a foreign battlefield as you can get. you know, i think there are two things involved with miranda here. one is when there's law enforcement, how long is that public safety exception before law enforcement has to advise the suspect of their rights. and the second is how soon do they have to present the person before the magistrate, and here it looks like that second issue, the presentment issue was pressing. when the magistrate said we're arraigning him on monday, basically that was going to be the end of it. my sense is that law enforcement probably got about what they were going to get in terms of public safety and that exception which the length and dimension of is protecting the pub

the fbi wanted to continue the interrogation and eric holder now said he approved that interrogation it is absolutely disgraceful. >> okay. so candy, eric holder's not exactly a popular guy among republicans anyway but is this issue of reading the suspect his miranda rights a partisan issue? >> not exactly. first of all, it's a done issue. let's start with that. is something that right away republicans were out there -- lindsey graham was out there going, i hope they don't treat this man as a criminal this man is a terrorist and we need to not mirandize him, we need to find out everything we can. and that generally has been the republican tact when a terrorist is caught. let's remember this young man now in custody is an american citizen so democrats have pushed back. it falls along party lines but it also kind of falls how people view it. but nonetheless, in the end this is a moot argument simply because it's done. he's been mirandized and as far as we know he's stop giving sort of substantive information. candy crowley, thanks so much. from "state of the union." >>> we're learning

who knew eric holder was so sensitive. yes, maybe i have lost a step.re beyond my control. for example, this whole controversy about jay-z going to cuba. it's unbelievable. i've got 99 problems and now jay-z's one. that's another rap reference. of course everybody's got plenty of advice. maureen doud said i could solve all my problems if i was more like michael douglas in "the american president." and i know michael's here tonight. michael, what's your secret, man? could it be that you are an actor and i'm liberal fantasy? might that have something to do with it? i don't know. check-in with me. maybe it's something else. anyway, i recognize that this job can take a toll on you. i understand second term, need a burst of new energy, try some new things. and my team and i talked about it, we were willing to try anything. so we borrowed one of michelle's tricks. [ laughter ] i thought this looked pretty good, but no bounce. anyway, i want to give a shout out to our headliner, conan obrien. i was just talking with ed and they were faced with the age old dile

on to these republican efforts to steal the white house last week to new york attorney general eric holder so they're part of justice will pursue legal action against state officials who attempt to rig the electoral college he said that quote recent proposed changes in our electoral votes are apportioned in specific states are blatantly partisan unfair to visit and not worthy of our nation let me be clear again we will not sit by and allow the slow unraveling of an electoral system that so many sacrificed to construct an older comments were aimed at republican officials across the united states who are currently working to change the way electoral college the way electoral college votes are counted if republicans succeed with their election rigging plans would virtually guarantee republicans winning the white house in two thousand and sixteen and beyond so let's hope attorney general eric holder stands by his word and is ready and willing to fight back against those who threaten our democracy. raese alert romania lawyer madaline chica lesko has a problem the problem is farting demons okoro

attorney general eric holder declined to comment on that wiretap. now, in addition to the terrorism charges he's already facing, tsarnaev may face more charges sometime in the next three weeks. john? >> all right, pamela brown live for us in devens, massachusetts. our thanks to pamela. the biggest development overnight might have come from russia. there was a special forces raid there, targeting a militant group that may be linked to suspected boston marathon bomber tamerlan tsarnaev, and cnn's nick paton walsh is live in moscow with the details on again what could be a really key development here, nick. >> john, let's reel back a little bit and explain to you why the pictures you're seeing of the very early morning raid yesterday in a village in dagestan, and the fact they k l killed shakhrudin askhabov relates to this whole bombing. shakhrudin askhabov we've seen him hanging out with the people in the same group run by abu dujan. abu dujan is a key militant killed in december by russian special forces. he's linked to the bombing case because a vid

this weekend attorney general eric holder addressed the controversy. take a listen. >> the decision to mirandize him was one that the magistrate made and that was totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two day period that we were able to question him under the public safety exception. so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. >> good leads versus giving him an opportunity to no longer speak. holder is therefore getting criticism from congressman peter king. sunday kick was on the attack. take a listen to what he says. >> i don't know any case law which says a imagineis straight has the right to come into a hospital room and stop ann interrogation. if the bbi fbi wanted to contine the interrogation. that could have ended up saving many lives. we don't know what the full kons he is wi consequences are going to be and we may not know. >> politics getting in the way here. want to stay focused on the purpose so we'll go to carol costello joining us from boston. these two obviously not going to see eye to eye on thi

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attorney general eric holder wasn't sure he was ready to give us part of his salary during the week. but later in the week, the justice department released a statement saying the attorney general intends to take a pay cut equivalent to the amount any justice department employee has to take as a result of the sequestration which is up to 14 days this fiscal year so that the funds can go back into the treasury. i think this is laudable. it's not going to fix the funding. by the way, the first person to say this was chuck hagel. i've had a lot of things to say about chuck hagel and was against his nomination and confirm nation. but i had to give him credit for taking a hit along with those in his department. secretary of state john kerry did the same thing. give credit where credit is due. it's not going to fix it but it's symbolic. it's symbolic that joe biden said no. he's going to keep all of his because none of his employees are affected by the sequestration. keep in mind, this is the same joe biden whose over all charitable giving was .0, .06%. but he wants to pay more taxes so tha