the fbi and sources so far in the u.s. government have been a bit say they didn t get a lot of detail from the russian fsb about what it is that the russians thought was suspicious about tsarnaev. so that s clearly a big question here. and then also, a very big question is what who did he meet with while he was in chechnya? were there radical elements, radical jihadi figures that he met with and communicated with. because we do know that as soon as he comes back from russia, he creates that youtube account that s filled with these jihadi postings and videos. so there does seem to be a a connection there. yeah, a lot of dots to be connected right now. really all over the map on that. okay, thank you so much.
what you ve seen in the past, is this something that a couple of guys, a couple of brothers would be capable of doing, or was it too sophisticated? i mean, they pulled this off. they had both bombs go off, in all likelihood, exactly as planned, and in all likelihood from some remote location. well, that s a very good question. i don t know how difficult it is to build a pressure cooker ied. i m not convinced that they have acted alone. certainly they plotted this, although it wasn t very sophisticated, it was at least coordinated. again, as i mentioned, they have lived in the area for ten years. we re now going to be exploring all their social networking, looking at their websites, their e-mails, phone conversations, anybody they talked to for an extended period of time to find out if they weren t part of a bigger plot and resourced, planning mechanisms in place for them to do what they did. i m not convinced that they ve acted alone.
dzhokhar tsarnaev. and that relates to in miranda question that you ve been talking about today. we re trying to get a better understanding of how it s impacted by what we re learning, which is the fact that he can t communicate right now because of injuries to his throat. and at this point, it s really unclear exactly what impact that hasmz it appears that after he is first able to communicate, at least the justice department would argue, they can speak to him before giving him his miranda rights. oh, peter alexander, thank you for clearing that up from there. appreciate it. chuck hagel is addressing concerns during his first trip to israel. top questions on the political radar concern whether the two suspects in the attacks, especially the older brother tamerlan, were inspired by militant groups overseas. secretary hagel took a cautious approach, citing the need for further intel on the suspects. all of the facts are not in. all of the dynamics, the intelligence is not complete.
where did they assemble the components of the bomb. how did they buy them? where did they build them? were there any practices? secondly, what happened when the brother, tamerlan, the older brother who was shot to death thursday night, what happened when he went to russia last year for six months? was he in contact with any terror groups? did he get bomb training? were there any other people working with them? did they have other plots that they planned? and i must say that it does seem fairly likely that they did, based on the number of explosives that they had in their possession when the fbi and the police encountered them on thursday night. and, you know, put it all together, you get a question of whether they did this entirely on their own or whether they were a, directed, or b, influenced by outside organization. that is really my next question. what is the likelihood that the carnage that they reaped about the city of boston was able to
now the argument from the government will be well, he wasn t informed. but, you know, that s going to be played out pretty significantly by the defense. scott, do you have any knowledge about the fact that i brought this up with one of our correspondents, luke russert. i said look, they want to be able to speak with him. but that would happen immediately. the fact is we believe him not to be able to communicate because of his injuries right now. does that push back the timeframe that they could extract information without having a lawyer present, without having him go through the typical civilian court rules? that s a very interesting question. because under the law, they have to he has to have an initial appearance within 72 hours. at that initial appearance, he will have a lawyer. so that s not an arraignment, but it s an initial appearance. it s going to be difficult. they re going to get squeezed as to whether or not they can get this in here without him already