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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room. Happening now, we're learning chilling new details about the suspect in the Boulder,

Colorado attack, authorities saying he told them that he waited until after his daughter's

high school graduation to perpetrate the attack that injured 12 people.

The charges against him now include hate crimes and attempted murder.

Let's go live right now to CNN law enforcement correspondent Whitney Wilde.

She's in Boulder for all of us. Whitney. The FBI says the suspect planned this attack for a full year.

Wolf, he had actually at one point tried to get a firearm, and when he learned he couldn't

get one, that's when he decided to make these Molotov cocktails. And law enforcement

is really stressing these two things because they are pointing out this, while as horrific

as it was, could have been deadlier.

Let's talk again quickly about his attempt to get a firearm.

He went to lengths.

He took a concealed carry class.

He learned how to shoot.

He tried to buy a gun but was denied again because he was not a U.S. citizen.

That's when he decided to make these Molotov cocktails, and he said that he learned how to make those online.

He also found out about the group he eventually attacked online.

We were also learning up a lot more about how the day unfolded.

So Wolf, he came from Colorado Springs, which is 90 minutes to two hours away from Boulder.

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