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p.j. crowley.ith the obvious question is how to state at this point fit into this investigation? >> well, clearly the tsarnaev family came to the united states from kyrgyzstan, kyrgyzstan has been an ally of the united states in the connection with afghanistan over the years. so -- but looking back at the visa process, and was there anything that came to light there. but i think primarily this is about the intelligence community and going back, you know, obviously we have the russia connection to exploit. and i think one of the more remarkable things here is the -- in terms of these international connections is to compare the two brothers and what seems to be the lack of a escape plan from, say, the times square bomber where faisal shahzad was literally pulled off an airplane. he'd received some support from the pakistani taliban and was presumably heading back after planting the bomb. it will explain the russia connection but checking through those who have a perspective on jihadi networks just to

p.j. crowley, fo now a professor at george washington university.ere in new york, jonathan alter for "the bloomberg news." the nuclear plant that today announced its ground re-opening. what possible purpose would there be for reactivating that plant aside from developing a nuclear weapon? >> well, the other factor would be it's putting back on the table an operation for which it had been rewarded in the past. the moth balling, as you say, of yeongbeyong came as the united states under the bush administration took north korea off the terrorism list. so putting this plant back in play in the north korean psychology, you know, would be saying, well maybe they'll come back and offer something to turn it off again. i think we should be cautious about that. obviously former secretary of defense bob gates famously said we shouldn't buy the same horse more than once. >> indeed. john, is it possible that any of this nuclear weaponry could escape from north korea, perhaps to iran? a recent piece in the "wall street journal" observed, and i'm quoting, "north k

p.j. crowley. you're involved in the investigation with the bombing of the uss coll in yemen, the al qaeda plot. describe the scene. what are they looking at? >> these are still photographs and video they have been able to obtain from various sources, department stores, individuals, television stations, and this is figuring prominently in to the investigation. it was reported earlier today that the photographic evidence is what has led to the identification of a person. it is important now to not jump the gun. there's a lot of difference between identifying somebody in terms of -- you can see them is a male carrying a backpack versus having a name, address, social security, identification .umber, a birthday days are two different things, knowing what someone looks like an -- these are two different things, some on the site and knowing who's someone is. >> are they going through the pictures frame by frame? are they looking at a particular angle? >> this is the starting point that takes you from the

p.j. crowley. great to have you with me.ciate it. >>> the beyonce and jay-z cuban vaca crisis continues to escalate. wait until you hear this. republican senator marco rubio now wants the obama administration to explain why the couple were allowed to travel in havana for their five-year anniversary. rubio says the trip was used for propaganda purposes by the castro regime and may have been licensed by the treasury department. neither the white house nor the treasury department are answering questions about the trip or whether it's being investigated. >>> the republican house speaker john boehner says he's backing south carolina's former republican governor mark sanford in his bid against elizabeth busch in the state's congressional special election. meanwhile, busch just launched her first general election tv ad. >> i won't take any special interest pledges or follow any party line to create jobs in south carolina, we need a well-educated and skilled work force and we need to get rid of government waste. >> so on the flipsid

p.j. crowley former assistant secretary of state for public affairs had to say he tweeted this morning if the two boston suspects were from chechnya the next question is who sent them and beyond killing people what agenda. yes p.j. i know it's your job but please stop prematurely insinuating that this is some sort of global terrorism plot because again it's pure speculation but as we watch the details emerge from the case of the boston bombing it's important to think about this tragedy not only in comparison to what we've seen here in the u.s. we need to put it in a global context after all the horror this country experienced in boston is shared by many countries around the world on a daily basis take for example the deadly wave of bombings that have just hit a rock this week on monday attacks took place in at least six different provinces killing up to fifty five people and injuring three hundred more the davis. so devastating that it's now being quiet and black monday. and just today i woke up to three more tragedies strike in iraq one was an attack on a sunni mosque where moral shells

p.j. crowley he is the former united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs who resigned in after he made a critical comment about the per harsh treatment of bradley manning his comments cost him his job he recently came on our t.v. to talk about the iraq war here's part of that interview. i'm actually a firm believer. in the case against bradley manning his release of hundreds of thousands of documents some of them classified you know to wiki leaks has done serious damage to the united states national security and the national interest you know that said in a pretrial setting where anyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law i did think that his treatment was excessive three men with three different points of view on the iraq war and the collateral murder video these men certainly weren't the only ones whose lives were changed after the leak of this video but on this the anniversary of the release it's important to look at how far reaching the costs of one video really are and think about the impacts of almost a decade of war on the global community to find out

p.j. crowley former assistant secretary of state for public affairs had to say he tweeted this morning if the two boston suspects were from chechnya the next question is who sent them and beyond killing people what agenda. yes p.j. i know it's your job but please stop prematurely insinuating that this is some sort of global terrorism plot because again it's pure speculation but as we watch the details emerge from the case of the boston bombing it's important to think about this tragedy not only in comparison to what we've seen here in the u.s. we need to put it in a global context after all the horror this country experienced in boston is shared by many countries around the world on a daily basis take for example the deadly wave of bombings that have just hit a rock this week on monday attacks took place in at least six different provinces killing up to fifty five people and injuring three hundred more the davis. so devastating that it's now been calling a black monday. and just today i woke up to three more tragedies strike in iraq one was an attack on a sunni mosque where moral shells a

p.j. crowley doesn't mention that much it's very difficult to even comprehend how bradley manning has survivedand we must also remember how the media tries to destroy the reputations of people related to this case obviously they tried to destroy the reputation of julian assange. destroy the reputation of wiki leaks but they said bradley manning was kind of going off the rails i can understand that maybe there is something in u.s. military training because he was able to cope with that long time incarcerated and tortured by the united states government for revealing to the world what the united states has done him much more recent times to people and their abuse of the united states constitution i'm sure he believes to this day that what he did was worth it and certainly that's what confidants say about his fascinating stuff we could talk for many hours about this but thank you afshin we have run out of time that r.t. contributor afshin rattansi in london. and you can keep up with all the revelations from wiki leaks at r.t. dot com we explain why you're in the sun because it is probably the mos

p.j. crowley. thing for you that congressman peter king said this morning on morning joe. >> because this is one area of the war that we have very little intelligence because it's such a closed society. it's not even a country. an organized crime family running a territory, it's so ancillary. >> what do you think is going on over there? and if you can, put it in the context of kim jong-un who one day seems to be in appointing this reformer, somebody who seems to be open to making some deals and on the other hand has made all of these bcellicose threats. >> this is a leader whom we know as little as anyone in the world. obviously if you're a leader of the democracy, you've been in office, you've been in government before. if you're a monarchy, you've been crowned prince or you've been a minister of the interior, you've done business with the outside world. even in iran where we don't have diplomatic relations there either, most of people who lead iran, the iotola not withstanding, they have been nego

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p.j. crowley is with us.ey've done enough to stop this crisis from escalating. >> i think we understand this is tragedy and everyone wants to do something about it but the question is what can we do that will have an immediate impact on the ground. i think a red line has been crossed with these increasingly credible reports of the use of sarin gas within syria, but i think the administration should take a little bit of time, you know, to strengthen the evidence and then use that to achieve international consensus of international action within syria. >> let's talk about some of the possible courses of action. i had david on about an hour ago with reuters, and you know david and his story. >> yep. >> he mentioned that basically military -- military operation and expansive military operation isn't necessarily our only option. what else could we be looking at? i'm not sure it's a desirable observation. nobody supports boots on the ground. some talked again about a no-fly zone but that's really a different proble

p.j. crowley, former state department spokesman. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> if china is fed up with north korea, what action could it take? >> it's sent a stern public message and i'm confident they are sending private messages, china has significant influence over north korea doesn't have the same influence with kim jong-un it had with his father, kim jong-il. >> again on north korean state television, there were these threats. why do they keep on coming? if north korea isn't going to could anything? >> this morning's paper on the front page "the new york times" there is a story about swatting, these frank calls that require authorities to respond, even though it turns out an there is only an amusement factor. north korea is doing something similar. creating this crisis with a more sinister motive. this is intimgation, extortion, they want the international communicate to pay attenti community to pay attention to them, to in essence reward them for bad behavior. >> and the international community is paying a

p.j. crowley. thank you for your time. >> hello. >> john mccain and others have said we're looking at a vicious cycle. that they have fallen prey. to you have a confrontation, negotiation aide. the request for north korea to abandon its nuclear aspirations and then we live this all over again. what do you make of john mccain and others saying that? >> he is right. it is groundhog day with respect to north korea. we have gone through this before. i think john kerry did what he needed to do during his trip to the reasoning. but this is clearly a long term challenge. and what will be pivotal is to find out whether north korea further escalates through these missile launches or steps back from the brink, at least leaves the door open to some other steps. >> you heard also, john kerry. secretary kerry talk about china and the meetings happening behind the scenes. but was he using too ginger or too tender of a touch with china knowing the significance, when he was with an dree, a he said he won't talk ab

p.j. crowley and former u.s. ambassador to morocco, ambassador mark ginsberg. good morning, gentlemen.ou know there's been this back and forth going on over the legitimacy of this threat of the north's capability of a nuclear armed missile. let me play you another piece of sound from this morning, secretary kerry talking about that dia report. >> let me make it clear, and this is the pentagon's assessment that i'm giving you. it is inaccurate to suggest that the dbrk has fully tested, developed or demonstrated capabilities that are articulated in that report. >> ambassador, bottom line how do you assess the level of threat? >> well i believe the level of threat is significant because he does have the missile technology and the fact that we're getting into this zone of concern about whether he can weaponize that missile is deeply concerning. you can almost substitute the words north korea for iran here and think we'll go through the same discussion in a few months about iran. so what do you do, chris? and that raises the question over whether or not on april 15th which is the 100th anni

p.j. crowley, james reuben and nbc correspondent, i'll start with you. the white house attempting to put programs russia in a box according to kristen welker. it seem the white house itself is in a box. >> well, yes, they made this red line was something president obama put forward and declared this as the rationale to justify the use of military power. i don't think any intelligence assessment will tell us that the rebels have large quantities of sarin gas. i don't think it is really in doubt that the origin of this gas is the years i can't be regime, bashar assad. whether this happened by accident or on purpose may be one question that needs to be answered. >> that's a significant question. that would be the only thing left that i think is in doubt. and for now, i think the administration as you said is going to put some pressure on russia. but russia has not proven very amenable to responding in the past. we had months and months last year when we were downing on the russians to help resolve this and they failed. >> is it predictable that the syrian g