TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD, coming to you live from a G.E. plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where earlier today, I had an exclusive interview with President Obama. As that interview happened, Attorney General Eric Holder made an announcement concerning one of the darkest moments of the president's time in office, the Boston terror bombings. Holder says he has decided to seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was captured in a city-wide manhunt in April after his brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed. Federal officials weighed the opinions of victims in the attack and their decisions. Survivors were asked to fill out a questionnaire about the death penalty. Let's bring in CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey, good to see you. Did you ever expect the DOJ would say that it wasn't going to seek the death penalty in this case?</s>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: You know, if the country is going to have a death penalty, as we do, it's hard to think of a crime that more qualifies for it than this one. I mean, here you have extensive premeditation, obvious intent to kill, multiple deaths, including an 8-year-old boy. I mean, this is a case that if you believe in the death penalty seems to cry out for the death penalty, even though the defendant is only 19 years old and potentially the junior partner to his late brother. But I think this is a very predictable decision.
Death Penalty Sought for Boston Bomber