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Obama on Boston Marathon explosions: “We will get to the bottom of this, and we will find out who did this, we’ll find out why they did this.”
He called Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and offered federal assistance. Obama was briefed by FBI Director Bob Mueller and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
“We will find out who did this and we will hold them accountable,” Obama said.
He called Boston a tough and resilient town.
“I’m supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other and move forward as one proud city, and as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way,” he said.
Separately, Vice President Joe Biden, in a telephone conference call about proposals to tighten gun laws, offered his prayers as he reacted to images he saw on television from Boston.
“As I’m speaking here, they just turned on the television here in my office. Apparently there has been a bombing. I don’t know any of the details about what caused it, who did it. I don’t think it exists yet,” Biden said.
“But our prayers are with those people in Boston who have suffered injury. I don’t know how many of them there are. I’m still looking at it on television now,” he said.
Biden was speaking off the cuff and did not appear to have any independent knowledge of what caused the explosions.
