jay tapper is joiping us in boston. what are you learning about what the suspect is saying. >> according to one government official and this is a preliminary investigation but dzhokhar tsarnaev is saying the following to investigators. first of all, there were no foreign terrorist groups involved. that this was two brothers acting on their own. dzhokhar, not surprisingly is saying he was following his older brother tamerlan and tamerlan was the one who was the driving force behind this. in addition, there's an indication from the interviews that the brothers were self radicalized on-line. they were getting information from videos on-line, you tube videos on-line but not from communication or e-mail the way the ft. hood shooter was but they were very much self starters, self radicalized. the older brother, it seems from preliminary investigation, to have been motivated by jihad, traditional jihad motivation and political implications that they are under attack and jihad dis need to fight back. this is from preliminary in

i'm jay tapper. >> i'm john berman. it has been a night of murder and gunfire. reports of explosions rocking the area. this all happened while you were sleeping all night long. people in or near watertown, a town just outside of boston about it a miles from here, being told to stay indoors. do not answer the door unless the people can identify themselves as really police officers right now. as we have been saying, it was a night of sheer mayhem starting with shootings on the campus of m.i.t. in cambridge. that's a shooting, about a mile from where we are standing, which is the site of the boston marathon bombing. police say there was a shooting and then a short time later a carjacking there. then a police chase with reports of explosives involved. >> it was a heroing night in nearby watertown. there a male suspect has been apprehended. take a look at this exclusive cnn video. the suspect ordered to strip naked before being taken into custody. now we are waiting to hear from investigators whether there's a connection to monday's terrorist attack to the boston mar

jay tapper. juliette kayyen. we are here in boston and have been covering all the events happening since 10:00 last night. at 10:00 last night, 10:20 p.m., there was a shooting, a campus police officer at the massachusetts institute of technology shot and killed in his car multiple gunshot wounds. then there was a carjacking. two suspects hijacking a car, keeping the men in the car with them for a short while and then there was a police chase. >> we should also note, the man was let free, amazingly, and is apparently unharmed. >> during this police chase authorities say that perhaps the suspects were throwing explosives out the window at law enforcement officials. showing you just how dangerous this situation is. then a shoot-out, suspect number one was shot and wounded. he was taken to a local area hospital where he since died. and then at this point authorities are saying suspect number two, the man who has been seen as the man in the white hat at the boston marathon finish line, suspect number two is currently

he talked to jay tapper earlier on cnn. he said. >> one thing that i consistently have done through this campaign is to acknowledge the fact that i fail back in 2009. we'll have different events in which we wish wedifferently, co have handled them better. but in fact they help us to ultimately refine our lives, make us that much better of a person, maybe walk out into the arena of politics a bit more humble than we were before. >> so does seeing sanford with his fiance and hearing him talk about being more humble make him seem more human to voters? >> you know, i think for women voters, erin, they're just going to go, yeah, now i remember why i thought he was such a douche bag. now i remember the whole story. he was he said hiking the appalachian trail and getting arrest general general tina tail. and he asked his ex-wife if she would manage his campaign. asked if she would manage his campaign! i'm thinking the woman's vote is gone. but i could be wrong. >> certainly had no shame in that request. sanford is running against

jay and beyonce for this recent trip to cuba. listen. >> never thought i'd be talking rap beef with jake tapper, but, jake, there's always a first ght up hip-hop. >> i mean clearly, but i wasn't clear whether jay carney was. let's talk jay carney. here he is. there's a reporter quoting these lyrics, talking of the trip to cu cuba. do you rb seeing that in your trips to the briefing room? >> i don't recall rap music in the briefing room. >> lyrics of any kind. >> ghoinlt that was. that sounded like queen latifah. that was some serious free-styling going on in the press room. i was very impressed. >> do you have more on this? what do you have more coming up at the top of the hour? >> first of all, jay carney had a great rejoin der of that. he said maybe he thought jay-z only said he got permission from the white house because he couldn't come up with a rhyme for treasury. that was a pretty good response from mr. carney. i have had my exchanges with him but you have to give him props for that. >> okay. props for that. >> we're going to be talking with senator joe manchin, one of two senators who came up with the bipartisan backgroun

tapper. of the politics lead. they toured havana last week. now are they starting to feel the heat? lawmakers are slamming jayor their vacation to cuba and demanding to know who pulled the strings for the power couple. the bigger issue, does it still make sense to have a ban on travel to cuba? >>> the buried lead. a reporter facing jail time for protecting her sources. why is this being ignored? >>> and the pop culture lead. the days of three martini lunches and ash trays in the office are back. everyone is talking about the return of "mad men." the cast takes us behind the scenes after last night's. >>> what better way to say i love you than violating the embargo with cuba? jay-z and beyonce spent their fifth wedding an vniversary in havana. they are facing backlash. not the power couple nor the white house are answering the question what type of trouble could they be in? i'm going to bring in our special correspondent on the jay-z/beyonce beat, erin mcpike. what's the deal with this bustup? >> there are a couple of republicans in congress from south florida very anti-castro area, and they're upset because t