Holder: Bombing suspect lost for about an hour

Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday acknowledged the lapse in surveillance of Faisal Shahzad, who managed to get on board a flight for Dubai nearly 24 hours after authorities targeted him as the man who attempted to blow up a truck in Times Square.

Holder was grilled about the timeline on ABC’s This Week by host Jake Tapper, who repeatedly asked Holder what happened.

Holder told Tapper that authorities lost track of Shahzad “for just a bit of time,” adding that authorities “had a layered approach so that at the end of the day I think we were always confident that he would be picked up.”