other shrapnel into the crowds. some spoke outside the courthouse. there s nothing happy about having to take somebody s life. i m satisfied. i m grateful that they came to that conclusion, because for me, i think it was the just conclusion. but there s nothing happy about any single bit of this situation. i m sure at one time in his life he was a very lovely, caring young man. what he turned into, obviously, was we know what he turned into. he turned into a monster. there s justice now, he wanted to go to hell, and he s going to get there early. one thing that s still a mystery in the boston marathon bombings is whether catherine tsarnaev played any part. cnn s drew griffin reports. reporter: immediately after the bombings, catherine russell
tonight about the wife of the oler tsarnaev brother, tamerlan. her name is catherine russell l. she converted to islam and married tamerlan living in the family home with her daughter, their daughter, while working 80-hour weeks as a home health aide. she had a tough job. katie is a reporter for the associated press covering this story of catherine tsarnaev. this is a fascinating story of a woman who s a real worker. i mean, what a tough job taking care of people at home. bathing them, perhaps an older person they re taking care of. brutal in terms of the commitment of effort and emotions. is it feasible, in your r reporting, that she just didn t know what her husband was up to? well, it s unclear. the federal authorities have asked to interview her. catherine s lawyer said today she s doing everything she can to assist the federal authorities, but he will not confirm or deny whether or not she s actually spoken with them. yeah. what do we know about her? we know she s there sh
0 was somebody who radicalized the older brother. so let me thank you very much. reporter: that s what we know at this point. right. thanks so much, as always. michael isikoff. let s go right now, more on the emerging picture, let s two to wrong roger cressey, former white house counterterrorism official and nbc, of course, news analyst on terrorism. michael mcfadden is the former deputy assistant director at the naval criminal investigative service. he s now a senior vice president at the suffon group. let me ask you both gentlemen, first, roger, then robert. what did you make of that? do you make, when you look at this, do you see two guys, two brothers, amateurs, if you will, self-radicalized, self-experts at bomb making? no plans to escape really, just doing this on their own? not talking about it with other people, no cellmates in terms of a sleeper cell jihadist. based on what we know right now, it s unlikely there was a broader security. it s difficult to believe there