during this federal investigation we ll get to the bottom of the whole plot. the fbi questioned the other suspect tamerlan tsarnaev two years ago, after a trip to his homeland. so did they miss an opportunity to stop him? we are live in dagestan with the details there. and today we remember the victims as one family prepares to lay their daughter to rest. this morning we re talking to massachusetts attorney general martha coakley about the case, and what the suspect is and is not telling them. plus, police commissioner ed davis joins us with the latest on the investigation. and congressman patrick meehan of the homeland security committee with what the fbi knew prior to the bombings. it is monday, april 22nd, this special edition of starting point, from boston, begins right now. so after a week like the city and this nation has ever seen, the country and the city picking itself up, dusting itself off this morning. we ve seen some amazing sights around the city, even today
young man disillusioned with the united states, disillusioned with this friends and has become sympathetic to the jihadist cause and is trying to learn more and more and is influenced more and more. dr., doug, i want you to stand by. i want to continue this conversation with you because this is a dramatic moment right now. cnn once again, we are confirming that this well-known jihadist, an individual known as abu dujana, a video he prepared, a video the older brother, the suspect who is now dead, posted on his youtube channel. since then t has been deleted. we ll continue our conversation with doug jones, a former u.s. attorney. stay with us. our special coverage live in boston continues right after this. i ve been going around the country asking people to try on these amazing depend silhouette briefs.
particular point is potentially the first connection between one of the alleged boston bombers and some sort of extremist or militancy here in the north caucuses. it was taken down from the youtube channel, but i should point out at roughly the same time, he was sprizting his family, and mr. dujana was here, and there s no indication if they met or if he posted other videos, but we know the u.s. official is saying to us they are examining his social media for links towards any kind of extremism here in the north caucuses, and many people are still asking what was the motivation behind the boston bombing? mr. tsarnaev was one of them. lots of unanswered questions with the older brother did in those six months he spent in
atlanta. we have new information we re watching right now. we want to share with you about the boston marathon bombing investigation. cnn can exclusively reveal that the alleged bomber tamerlan tsarnaev had video of a known jihadist on his personal youtube channel. the video is of a man named abu dujana. he was killed by russian forced last december. he died in the capital of dagestan, which is in russia, where tamerlan s father currently lives and where tamerlan spent at least some time, maybe six months, if not more, in 2012. cnn cannot confirm that tamerlan and abu dujana actually met in pakistan. the video had been deleted from tamerlan s youtube account but was tracked down by cnn. here s the latest information on tamerlan s brother, the surviving 19-year-old suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev. he s hospitalized.
dzhokhar tsarnaev just a day after the bombing, and that dzhokhar actually talked about the bombing. he said he saw dzhokhar at the gym. he came up to him and he brought up the bombing, telling dzhokhar, man, can you believe what happened? i thought that stuff only happened in rairaq or afghanist with those bombs. he said dzhokhar told him something to the effect of, yeah, man, tragedies can happen anywhere in the world. he said dzhokhar seemed tired but otherwise showed no indications of anything that had happened on monday. this just gives new context to what was happening with dzhokhar tsarnaev as investigators were combing through those videos looking for their suspect. the helicopters came and left campus. s.w.a.t. teams and investigator s culling evidence from the