. >> okay, ron wolf, thank you very much. we're looking at more pictures of the scene immediately after the explosions that occurred here on patriots day in boston, the 117th boston marathon right near the finish line where so many people have gathered. all right. to celebrate, to send their loved ones across the finish line shattered shortly before 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. dozens injured in area hospitals being treated right now as we just heard from ron. perhaps brigham and womens hospital the worst is over. i want to go back to john karl at the white house. we've also heard of a moment of silence, john, on the floor of the house of representatives. today, the president has gathered his team to deal with this, but no other plans or specific action from the president right now? >> no specific public action from the president, but i'll tell you, this is issue number one here as you can imagine, george. the president has been on the phone with the fbi director. he has been briefed by the homeland security secretary. he has be

ron paul, did. >> i would say what he's doing, wolf, using another political word, he's triangulating.tween the libertarian supporters of his father, and tea party supporters and conservative republicans. he's trying to bring them together under the same tent. which nobody has ever done before. it may not be possible. but he's giving it a try. >> you know, he's doing all sorts of things that don't necessarily fit into standard republican banters, if you will. one thing he's doing right now, he's also apparently backing a group that supports a group called the national association for gun rights, releasing ads attacking some republicans for being not tough enough as far as guns are concerned. i'll put up a -- i'll play a little bit of a clip of one of these ads. listen to this. >> virginia congressman eric cantor says had ehas a plan to improve the republican party. but it starts with passing obama's gun control schemes. cantor wants to hurt even more gun owners into a data base registration system. eric cantor doesn't sound like a virginiaian or republican anymore. eric cantor sounds l