. >> stephen: yes, the royal canadian mounted police, or mounties, have thwarted an al qaeda-inspired terrorist attack, which is quite a fate considering how hard it is for them to go under cover. folk, i would like to say a word to our friends up north-- you canadians are a brave and heroic people. if i have said it once, this is the one time i said it. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers ) ladies and gentlemen, i-- i want all my maple-blood brothers to know that we would put it on the line to protect you if there was anyone who disliked you. ( laughter ) so thank you, canada. this is the greatest gift you have given our country since your years of service providing a plausible place for our nonexistent girlfriends to be from. ( laughter ). and i am not-- i am not the only newsman showing canada the proper respect, shep. >> let's get the details. in english and in french. it's how they roll. and they're still saying hole over there and they're going to say hello for a long time. they do-- you know, god love canada but they-- they-- they're not great at the television. ( laughter ). >>

. >>> the royal canadian mountain police or mounties have thwarted an al qaeda-inspired terrorist attack. you canadians are a brave and heroic people. if i have said it once this is the one time i said it. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the next step for boston marathon bombing suspect y tindict >> tsarnaev is now charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. he could also face the death penalty. terelle brown is in boss opinion continue >> reporter: as you mentioned, he was officially charged in the boston marathon bombing, in those charges, one count of using a weapon of mass destruction. tsarnaev claims that he and his brother acted alone, that he was not part of a more broad or more large foreign or domestic terror group. but investigators do believe there is evidence that the older brother, tamerlan had become increasingly radicalized, inspired by jihadi web postings. what the fbi still does not have at this point is a clear motive for the bombing but believe that the brothers picked the location because it was a nearby target and also because it's a cl

or some combination. i think the way the mounties described this yesterday was quite interesting that the two accused terroristse acting under their words, direction and control of these elements of al-qaida in iran, but without the government itself being involved. nonetheless, when you give somebody a base of operations or allow them to continue that is pretty good material assistance. >> iran isee sepbgs ale lee acquiescing? >> i think that is right. i think the question for them now and our western european allies ought to put this question to the iranian authorities as well. you better make sure that these people are not engaged in terrorist activities or else we will hold you responsible. jon: hold them responsible, how do we do more against iran than we already have? i mean the sanction -gs are in place. >> honestly we are not doing very much against iran. the sanctions are weak, beingee veiledded they are not having an effect on the iranian nuclear weapons program. they've been on our list for state sponsored terrorism for a longtime. is it the world's central pwa*fpgebanker of interest tphaeupbgt of in