intense scrutiny. tsarnaev has stopped giving substantive information to authorities since being read his miranda rights, sources have indicated. in an exclusive interview with cnn s brianna keilar at the white house correspondents dinner saturday night, attorney general eric holder defended the decision. will you comment on the suspect being mirandized and whether that was appropriate? well, i mean, the decision to mirandize him was one that the totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two-day period that they were able to question him under the public safety exception so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. reporter: republican congressman peter king strongly disagrees, saying more time to interrogate tsarnaev could have brought forth new critical information to keep america safe. absolutely disgraceful, because that interrogation could have ended up saving many american lives. we don t know what the full consequences are going to be
of boston, bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev is living in solitude, in a 10x10 cell equipped with a steel door, and ama window where he s being observed 24 hours a day. the accommodations are bare, limited to a toilet, sink and bed. in a restricted area reserved only for high risk inmates. there s only room for 30 offenders in this special section and now tsarnaev is one of them. as investigators try to figure out how and why he allegedly carried out the attacks with his brother, later killed in a police shoot-out, the justice department s role in the investigation has come under intense scrutiny. tsarnaev has stopped giving substantive information to authorities since being read his miranda rights, sources have indicated. in an exclusive interview with cnn s brianna keilar at the white house correspondents dinner saturday night, attorney general eric holder defended the decision. will you comment on the suspect being mirandized and whether that was appropriate? well, i mean, the d
tsarnaev has been less forth coming to investigators. now critics have become increasingly vocal about the timing of when tsarnaev heard this quote you have the right under the constitution of the united states to remain silent, any statement made by you may be used against you in court and you have the right not to have your own words used you ve heard this. this is a quote from u.s. magistrate mary ann voler to tsarnaev, when investigators had only questioned tsarnaev for 16 hours prior to beingmirandized. now several lawmakers say tsarnaev heard his miranda rights too soon and important intelligence information may now be out of reach because of that. i don t know of any case law which says the magistrate has the right to come into a hospital room and stop an interrogation. i don t thethe fbi wanted to continue the interrogation. and eric holder now is said he approved that interrogation being stopped. it is absolutely disgraceful.
being mirandized and whether that was appropriate? well, i mean the decision to mirandize him was one that t the and that was totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a two-day period that we were able to question him under the public safety exception so i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. this is absolutely disgraceful, because that interrogation could have ended up saving many other american lives. we don t know what the full consequences are going to be. who else is involved. who was involved then, who could be involved in the future. we may not know because of eric holder. now, even though we know tsarnaev is now speaking and interacting with medical staff here, what we don t know is whether he s talking with investigators. prison officials won t tell us that. but now that he has representation, sources say that is highly unlikely. john? all right. pamela brown in devens, massachusetts. thanks so much, pamela. of course the invest
information seems to have stalled since suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev was read his miranda rights leading some to criticize that move. now the administration is responding to that criticism and pamela is live with that story. i know you re standing at the prison hospital where dzhokhar is being held. what is the administration saying at this hour? well, poppy, my colleague brianna keilar spoke to attorney general eric holder last night at the white house correspondents dinner in washington and he commented publicly for the first time about whether he believed miranda rights were given too soon to the suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. can you comment on the suspect being mirandized and whether that was appropriate? well, i mean, the decision to mirandize is one that the magistrate made and totally consistent with the laws that we have. we have a two-day period, we were able to question him under