S. O'BRIEN: How is it possible that we're getting better intel than you're getting? We had a crew in the air. We were showing live pictures of the people outside of the Convention Center. We had a National Guardsman who was talking to us, who was telling us he estimated the crowd at 50,000 people. That was at 8:00 in the morning yesterday
BROWN: Well, we're busy doing life-saving and life-rescue efforts. We rely upon the state to give us that information. And, Soledad, I learned about it listening to the news reports.
Interesting.
Whoever told CNN to go to the convention center should have made sure that the information was passed on to the feds first. They didn't. That not being the case, CNN then should have passed the information directly to the feds. Again, that didn't happen.
To summarize;
1. Unnamed locals pass info to CNN about the convention center.
2. CNN broadcasts information about convention center.
3. Neither the unnamed local source nor CNN directly tell the Feds.
4. The Feds immediately learn about the convention center on TV.
5. CNN insinuates with its question to Brown that the Feds were at fault for not knowing about the convention center sooner.
6. Both CNN and its source could have sped that process up and they -- didn't.