the will. it would now have to get through his committee, the senate foreign relations committee, then pass the full body of the house and senate and get to the president for his signature. this comes on the heels of reports that chemical weapons have been used in the syrian conflict, with varying degrees of certainty on the reports according to the white house, and accusations from both sides, meaning the rebels and the syrian government that the other side actually used the chemical weapons. so this is a squishy area. but the headline is, senator men anyone menendez has introduced a bill to give some vetted rebels weapons. more as we get it. norimon the investigation into the boston marathon terror attack three weeks later. the fbi confirmed that yesterday teams did search the small apartment that the older suspect shared with his then-wife. a source says both bombing suspects likely built their explosive inside the home and
rapidly developing case here involving the boston marathon bombings from two and a half weeks ago. we have correspondents covering all different angles of this breaking story. first, here is what we know. three more people now in custody of the fbi, we have photographs here of two of the three young men. you see dzhokhar tsarnaev there, second to right on your screen. here are the other two young kazakh students where we keep talking about. these are the ones who allegedly are facing federal charges, lying to officials after these bombings. in addition, they are accused of moving items, specific items, from dzhokhar tsarnaev s dorm room at umass dartmouth and throwing them into the trash can. the criminal complaint filed against them, conspiracy to obstruct justice, by conspireing to destroy, conceal, and cover up tangible objects belonging to dzhokhar tsarnaev, namely a
the charges for the third suspect, all we know at this point is that the third suspect that was arrested in connection with the boston bombing attack is a u.s. citizen. and we re hearing from one of the students attorneys, though, that that third suspect was a student at umass dartmouth. 3:30 hearing, here at the federal courthouse today, according to the u.s. attorney s office. brooke? okay, pamela brown, stand by there. again, these are federal charges, hence the federal courthouse here in boston. for more on the chronology and details and the ticktock as we see, i want to go to jake tapper who is now in washington for some new details on these developments today. and, jake, you re talking to these two government sources and i want you to specifically talk about this window when according to your sources some of these suspects apparently were contacted by dzhokhar tsarnaev after monday s boston bombings here on boylston street. that s right, brooke.
spent a lot of time together and it describes what could only be i don t mean to minimize it, but a lot of stupid activity on the part of those these two guys. they know it is dzhokhar. they re getting texts from him. they go to him his room and they re alleging they wanted to protect him. this may seem really idiotic or part of a conspiracy. one of the texts acording to the complaint, you look like the guy on tv. right. lol to finish that text. so the they then go in and dispose of material, the backpack and then later the computer, led in voluntarily by the roommate of dzhokhar, and just try to get rid of the evidence as if they re they re protecting dzhokhar. what we don t know by the allegations and don t need to know right now is whether they did that because they were involved with the planning of the boston marathon bombing. as i said earlier, this is all we need is this right now.
dumping the backpack, concealing evidence, helping out their friend as they put it, quote, to avoid trouble. i mean, there they are, in the middle of the boston marathon bombing, understanding the enormity of the damage and the personal destruction that had occurred, and they re suddenly dumping a backpack. so they could they could help out their friend. i mean, they may not have been involved in the planning of the attack as the u.s. government official tells me, but not responding and concealing evidence is an enormous crime which they re going to try and say perhaps we didn t get it, but that sort of strain s credulity here. the federal charges, false