joining me now on the phone is captain jonathan brooks from the tulsa police department. captain brooks, good morning to you. well, what can you tell us about the arrest? you've had a busy night. how did you track these guys down? >> yes, it has been a very busy night. it took a lot of work, a lot of collaboration between several different agencies, and quite frankly, a lot of help from the community helped to solve this crime. >> who do you have in custody? >> we have two subjects in custody right now. we have alvin watts, a 32-year-old white male and jake england, a 19-year-old white male that are now in our custody. >> and what led them to you? how were you able to get them? >> well, it was through the work and investigation of our detectives and agents and deputies and through the tip line that we set up, tips that the community provided to us and the information that was provided to us all collaboration and led us to the successful arrest of these two individuals. >> and have you also recovered the white pickup truck which was seen as three of the four shooting sites

tulsa police captain jonathan brooks is on the phone now from tulsa. captain brooks, give me an idea how you're concentrating this search. >> good morning, fred. well, it's been a long 30 hours for us. a shooting of this nature is a little unusual for tulsa, oklahoma. we have organized, several agencies have become involved. we have a lot of officers dedicated to this. we've formed a traffic force for this specific series of crimes, because these crimes occurred in a relatively short period of time and in a really close geographical location as well. with those things in combination, that's what's so alarming to us. on the heels of everything else, we need to make sure this is quickly addressed and resolved. >> this took place in a close geographical location. now, tell me about the circumstances of the shooting. are you saying all the victims were shot in different locations, different circumstances? what led up to them? >> yes, they were all shot in different locations. we're not absolutely sure about the circumstances as of right now. the one thing

. >> want to talk to captain jonathan brooks of the tulsa police department. captain, thank you for joining us. do you believe that these kill regulars all linked, and if so, is that through ballistics? >> well, as of right now, don, we don't have the evidence to validate the ballistic link. however, the fact that they're so close in proximity to time and location and -- and the vehicle description, you know, this white truck, it was scene at least three of the locations where this occurred by witnesses. and then one by the actual victim there. so we want -- we think they're linked, but we can't say for certain right now. >> can we talk about this targeting? because you heard the chief there saying, listen, slow down this whole hate crime thing. we don't know that now. i have -- have the local leader of the ncaa waacp saying this p would have to drive into a white neighborhood, if it is a black man, and drive quite a distance to do it. what do you make of that? the chief is saying caution, but what do you make of those assertion says? >> well, exactly what he'

and joining us live on the phone right now, captain jonathan brooks from the police department. and thank you for joining us, we wish it was under better circumstances. they took place in predominantly african-american community in that down. >> yes, they did take place in that area, kelly. it's been a long 30 hours for our investigators, we're working hard and something like this is unusual for tulsa to have so many shootings within a short time frame and relatively close proximity. because they were in residential neighborhoods up there. and the victims were all out walking, were outside. and we don't know why they were targeted right now as part of our investigation and what they're going through. >> have you heard anything what might have served as the motivation? >> we we have records of the ncaa calling or alleging that these particular shootings might have been racially motivated. i know that's a disturbing trend for tulsa, oklahoma where so many do actually try to live in unity. >> well, that's absolutely disturbing for us. we're taking it very serious. in fact, initiate

earlier when i spoke with a police captain, jonathan brooks, he talked about some of the victims were just pedestrians. take a listen to my conversation earlier. >> it appears that all the victims were just out walking or out in the yard at this hour. and this is a residential neighborhood predominantly single family dwellings in that area. except the last victim was found at a business. >> all right. so this is easter weekend, as you mentioned, mr. mayor. you know, a lot of families together. is this in any way, you know, kind of changing people's behavior, that there's so little to know about this suspected shoot are er on the loose? >> well, it's a type of activity that i believe is very random, obviously, but it should be concerning to all tulsans, because we are all in this together and we understand that some of our fellow tulsans have been very violently shot and several are not here today to enjoy the weekend with their families. so we understand the significance of what happened. we understand that we need to come together as a community to inform the police, to bring -- to b

i asked jonathan brooks will the arrest and how they found the suspects. >> we have two subjects in custody right now. we have alvin watts, 32-year-old white male, and jake england, 19-year-old white male, now in our custody. >> and what led them to you, how were you able to get them? >> it was through the work and investigation of our detectives and agents and deputies. and through the tip line that we set up and tips that the community provided to us and the information that was provided on us all coming to collaboration and led us to the successful arrest of these two individuals. >> last hour, i spoke to tulsa's mayor about his feelings now that he's two people are in custody. >> we're very pleased that this has come to an end, at least will this portion of this whole process. but we still have to remember that three of our fellow citizens were killed and their families on easter morning are how having to deal with that. so being glad that we're caught two guys and arrested them, put them behind bars, is somewhat tempered by what they appear to have done. >> was there a sink ghgle tip t

colonel brooks, who later by the way becomes governor of our commonwealth, so he, colonel brooks' secretary, jonathan trumbull begin to play out a plan and the plan that is they will call all of these officers to together, that is the lieutenants, the captains and the majors, and speak to them directly. they must also prepare an address, a speech. several days now spent in writing what is probably the most important speech ever given in american history. all in secret because, of course, washington's already announced that he's not coming to the meeting. noon, saturday, 15th of march, about 300 officers crowd into the temple of virtue. building, by the way, reconstruction building, is there today on that historic site. general gates entered the room. everyone snapped to attention. he convenes the meeting. the officers take their seats. and then from outside comes the noise of thundering hoofs, rattle of sabers, it is general washington's bodyguard, and in a moment there standing, literally standing in the doorway, 6'2", beautifully attired, is general washington. to the utter shock of everyone. washi

jonathan is a professor of psychology at uva and a visiting professor at the nyu school of bins. often mentioned in david brooks "new york times" column and probably heard him on npr talking about his studies in moral psychology. jonathan is a popular speaker at the ted talk. and i saw a video with over a million views. his research focuses on morality, he hopes we can learn to be civil and open minded. he began his career studying negative moral emotions and then moved on to the understudy, positive moral emotions. this move got jonathan involved in positive psychology and to write his first back, finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. so i will invite him up here in a moment. there will be time for y & a, and for that we ask that you please come to the microphone in the center of the room because we are filming. and following the program we'll have book-signing in that corner, so we ask you line up along the back wall. that is it from me. if you can please join me in welcoming jonathan haidt to sixth and i. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out. my book just came out last week, and the cover was designe

he told jonathan ekin, and i have written john dean and told him it isn't true, told the prosecutors after i had total immunity, did you order brookings, i said i did not. they said you have i am upt, you're going to prison anyway, did you do it, i said no, i did not do it. but as a result, and i take full responsibility, i didn't blow the whistle on the president, didn't say that's not a good thing to do, not something you should be doing, and i should have. i also did as a result of those meetings send a letter to john ehrlichman, saying here are six candidates to run the security operation in the white house. i had six names, you will find them in the files. the bottom name was howard hunt. i think he was my last choice. it was an investigator in the senate i worked with that was first choice. in any event, came down to hunt and i never had interviews with howard, although he had come by my office a number of times, but i didn't talk to him about this. i arranged for him to go interview ehrlichman, and ehrlichman hired him. he was put in my area staff wise. he must have had -- he did have a consulting agreement. i didn't arrange th

writer and msnbc political analyst, jonathan capehart, and "washington post" opinion writer and msnbc political analyst, e.j. dionne, whose a nor fellow at the brookingstution. e.j., i want to play for you something romney said last week, echoing a bill o'reilly cheerleading thing about the war on religion, which he assigns to president obama. let's listen to that. >> well, i think, i think there is in this country a war on religion. i think there is a desire to establish a religion in america known as secularism. and i know that based upon reports, the obama administration gave this a lot of thought. a lot of discussion. >> e.j., as our senior religion analyst here, here we've moved beyond any suggestion that the president is a muslim. the only thing that polls worse among voters in terms of what makes them uncomfortable in a candidate religiously than muslim is being an atheist or an agnost agnostic, in this country where we claim to have no religious test, you must pass the religious test, that you believe in some version of religion, preferably christianity, according to all the polls. so here's romney saying that the obama administration is tryin