that window of time because they re not getting anything from him? that s a good question that i won t speculate on without a legal background. i ll leave that one up to the master pete williams. but i can imagine there s got to be some sort of gray area there that some lawyer could look at. on that point, though, i think it s interesting, where we ve gone now from, alex, is we ve gone from this, all right, what exactly happened, to these real sort of questions surrounding the national security of this country, and how exactly these two individuals were able to go forward with what they ultimately accomplished. so this morning, sort of around that point, talking to folks related to the house homeland security committee, they say they really want to sort of get this investigation rolling on why these two individuals seem to have slipped through the u.s. intelligence community, especially after that information reported yesterday that the russians were concerned about the older brother
under the public safety exception, however, i do believe that the fbi has a period of time to try to determine what threats are there today. we don t know if there s other devices. we don t know if there s other people. i think mirandizing him up front would be a horrible idea. so there are really a series of questions there. first, should he be treated as a criminal excuse me, as a i want to make sure i get it right, as an enemy combatant. that question we know the answer to at this point. the administration says no. should he be treated as a standard criminal defendant? that s the second question. that s issue of the miranda rights. to give you a better understanding on that, that s whether or not they should invoke this public safety exception that they are in the process of doing. but it doesn t help you very much if he can t communicate. while we ll make sure that this doesn t change the circumstances, it is expected that he would be mirandized as early as tomorrow. and th
investigation, i m joined by michael. first things first with regard to when some charges will be filed against tsarnaev and the things he ll be charged with. do you have any timeline for that? well, very good question, alex. i ve been told this morning that we could expect charges possibly as early as noon. obviously that s come and gone. my latest information is that they are hoping to file the charges today. not definite that they will. there s further work, i m told, that needs to be done relating to the investigation before they file this. this has been a moving target. we had been told yesterday that the charges might be coming yesterday afternoon, and then we had been told last night they might be coming. so at this point, i want to be a little cautious about predicting when we will see these criminal charges. i m confident we will.
there today, it worked. it was a good day, alex. that s good to hear. without incident is what we like to hear in this case. duncan golestani, thank you. right now, crime scene units are back on boylston street in boston where they re gathering all the debris and trash as they sift through evidence. this as mourners gather to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the attack, which is raising questions about the future security of such mass gatherings. over the last decade, we ve been remarkably lucky. and i don t understand and i don t think anybody really understands why this hasn t happened many, many times over the course of the last decade. because it s so easy for these people to do it. here to talk with me more about risk management and security, can you answer that question that was raised there? why is it this has not happened more frequently? well, i think it s a combination. we have been lucky. in october of 2005, there was a young man in oklahoma who but
as one. so your thoughts on that? i don t think that that s going to happen. the obama administration has been clear, they re distancing themselves from that concept. you ve got an american citizen. we don t have dzhokhar going abroad in training. his brother apparently did. but dzhokhar didn t. and dzhokhar is going to be tried as an individual on his own right. so i think the chances of this ending up as an enemy combatant are very small. but you ve heard that because of high security concerns they would like to question him for a period of time, albeit briefly, before mirandizing him and reading him his rights. how long can they do that? how far can they go with those questions? well, that s a very good question. because the longer we go, the less likely there is that there s a public security issue here. one thing that the defense will certainly raise is the remarks of the police chief of watertown in which he said these are the only two guys, we re done.